Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-02
Virginia Convention.

house was found present. Several motions to
adiouro we're lost. A motion that committee
be appointed to look up the sergeant-at-arms
and second and third door-keepers; who were
slso absent, was made. Great confusion pre-
vailed for some minutes, which partially sub
sided, aud the motion was laid on the table.
Another motion to adjourn was lost by a vote
of Is ayes to Al noes.
Mr. Walton was entitled to the floor on the
pending question:. but being unwel Mr.. Mad
dox moved that he be permitted to have the
floor at morning session tomorrow. A mo-
ton to lay this motion on the table, was lost
Bayne, got the floor, and opposed the mo-
ton made by Maddox. If any Conservative
member got sick and couldn't speak, he thank
ed God for it and would be glad II they we're
not to make any more speeches. They were
a willy and dangerous set; and if Radicals ddn' t
take care they would fool them some day, and
either catch the house thin, and buy up lot
of Radicals and do something they would be
sorry for.
The ayes and noes we're called on Maddox S
motion. the vote stood-ayes, 80; noes, Is.
The motion was adopted. Burwell Toler, took
the floor in favor universal suffrage, tho major
iorty report of the committee and almost every
thing else. In the course of his remarks the
reverend gentleman said:
Il don't believe in church people, for I've
seen NOR rascas and rogues and thieves in the
church than outside of it, He also said:
"Taint worth while to talk about black man
bein' as good as white man. Who ever heard
wife? But white man run off any time with
black mans wife seed it yistiddy. 'Spose
in Old times old marster sent negro gal to dc
spring for bucket of water, and she drink
out'en it, white folks made her throw it out,
and 90 back and totch anoder bucket full ; and
den when de cook make up de bread wild her
black hands it was all right but if de gal dat
brought it to de table eat a little piece on it,
dey made her car it back and de cook had to
cook sum more"
Burwel said his race ''hadn't got across de
Red sea yit, and ut dey didn't take care, dey
would git swallowed up yit" He exhorted
his hearers to look ito de domestical circle,
and work DER salvation wid fear and tremhn." "
Burwell said he had case in Hanover court
last tall, and went dere To tend to it. When
he got dere he heard lawyer dat he had
employed to do something for him, defending
two young men dat had deceived young lady,
and he didn't like what dey said. He took his
yer is you to talk SOP" and the lawyer said
Cd d-m it, don't you know we plead for
money" The Rev. Mr.. Toer continued
at some length in the strain indicated by the
quotations given above.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Joe Cox
took the floor and said he wished to address
himself TO his own side of the house. particu-
larly He said he had heard talk enough about
suffrage and all he had to say was woe be un-
to you If we don't get the right to vote" lie
had noticed that when white men took de floor
they were treated respectfully but when color
ed men got up to speak nearly every one lett
the house.
The Convention then rned.-Ric7t. En-.
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. During the war
we made common cause, and submitted to
every form of sacrifice, whether the privileges
Of property or of life, for what we regarded as
the common good. This community of feeling,
this mutual regard and sympathy, is as neces:
sary now as it was then. The public good re-
quires it as much The debtor and creditor
classes should come to some kindly compro-
mise among themselves Indeed 1t IS difficult
to discriminate these classes, since almost every
man who is creditor is also debtor. If one
man owes him, he owes another man, aud
there is sort OF double chain of indebtedness
on the one hand, and credit on the other,
connecting US all, so that if an example of re-
entless exaction and raraclty be set, it will
not only act, but react, and the man who
makes victim of his debtor to-day will be
made the victim of his own creditor to-mor.
row. The machinery of persecution would
have many edges and would cut in all dlrec;
tons. Everything in the community would
become unsettled, our property would all be
confused, and all the arrangements tor labor,
and all the means and appliances tor produc
ton would be dslocated and disorganized.
We must devise some kindly, gentle, gene,
rous and equitable system of compromise
among ourselves, or experience perdltlon
more complete than that of the war. 1t mus
be voluntary in it's beginning, cheap, simple
and convenient in its machinery, and of lega
ethcacy in its DEGREES.
We venture to suggest that if VIM. T.. Suth
erin of Danvie, John G. Meem of Lynch
burg, James Shefey of Smythe, A. H. H
Stuart of Staunton, Robert Y. Conrad of Win
chester, John S. Barbour, of Alexandria, A
X. Phillips of Fredericksburg, William Pan
NIL of Petersburg, Gilbert q. Walker Of Nor
iiolk, Isaac Davenport, A. +. Harvey and viii
liam II. Macfarland, Richmond, and any halt
oozen such men, would get together, the.
could in forty eight hours devise plan which
might be adopted by the people of the Statt
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