Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-07
Probate Judgc-J. H. MCDANIEL.
iSherf-JoHN w. WALKER.
Clerk of Court-W. McC. CHAMBERS.
THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION.

The editor of the Charlottesville Chronicle, who
was himself a member of the body, furnishes the
following racy ''pen and ink sketch" of several o.
the members of the Virginia Convention
We do not suppose such collection Of vaga
bonds was ever assembled before-not including
among them, of course, the Conservatives and the
niggers There was greater variety Of rascality
than we could have conceived in the same ROOM
At the penitentiary and at Newgate the convicts
are, for the most part, confined separately but il
the Convention there was congregation of villain
GUS aspects-a blaze of sinister physiognomy-
which made an uncomfortable impression like the
glow of the Tartarus-ke furnaces of the Tredegal
Iron Works.
Tho whole scene looked like nightmare an
assemblage of imps, and ghouls, and sharpers
making Constitution. Underwood was horrible
to look at-resembling a great sallow toad that
the centre of the hall you see Bayne- "a thorough
niger. Indeed, we know that if we had met
Bayne in the tropics up in cocoanut tree, we
should have stated without hesitation that we had
seen an ape. He rises to speak on the judiciary
question. The heavy, red-faced man with that
sinister diabolica grin on his countenance is Bow:
den. ofNorolk. BE gets up toa "pint Of order. u
Joe Mayse (of Bath remarked of old Bowden that
she never rose except to pint of order, and never
left the hall except for apiat of aoIsaskey." He
was accurate. Bowden is very bad man-an un-
Gle of the little attorney general. He is unce-in.
law to the biggest rascal perhaps in the body
that is Porter Of Norfolk Representing Chester;
feld). Both of these creatures voted for mixed
public schools; both for the test oath. They hate
each other-all of the Radicals hate each other
Porter is the author of the homestead provision.
When he speaks, he reminds you of a force-pump,
with very little water in the well: He has some
smartness, knows little law, is intensely vulgar,
and has determined to go the whole figure. He
aspires to the bench of the Court of Appeals, to
Congress, to the Attorney Generalship, and to the
gubernatorial chair.
That little vagabond right under the President
chair Ito the lefty is Hine-a Yankee, Of course.
Hine is as smart as steel trap. When he speaks
he does not move at all-he stands like pump,
and the words flow monotonously through his nose.
He has not a particle Of feeling He would bring
in proposition tomorrow, if he thought it would
pass, in the same cold, imperturbabe, nasal tone,
to cut of the thumbs and great toes of all the males
in the State under sixty, unless they could take
the iron-clad oath j; and reserying the chance to
prosecute them for perjury if they swore falsely.
On the right of the main aisle, just after you
enter the hall, is Hawxhurst the favorite of the
Albemarle negroes for Governor. He speaks
through his nose like Hine, and gives sort Of
trumpeting groan at the close Of every two or three
sentences combined progeny of the Quaker
preacher and the Long Island Yankee. He is a
man, however, of first-rate sense Radical on
system-an earnest knave- unlike Porter in this.
He is large man, with gray hair, and dish face,
lives in Alexandria, and ran saw-mill until he
turned statesman.
That little read-headed fellow way over to the
right, who has just gotten up, and is rocking and
making the curve with his right hand, is Maddox.
They say he has never settled in the State. He
was elected from Chesterfield. They call him ''the
litter" Kennerley, of Warren, gave him that
name. He said he reminded him Of one Of these
little sand-pipers one sees on the margin of pond
fitting up and down. He is not more than twenty
six.
Lewis Lindsey sits to the left of the Chair. He
has the voice of trumpet; and the Conservatives
are delighted when he rises, maugre his insolence
You can hear him mile, and as he is q great fool,
and uses words utterly at random, the effect is ir-
resistible. See how Scott laughs noW-Lewis has
just exploded some terrible thought, and, taking
his seat rocks himself about thirty seconds in o
spirit of universal grandeur, like the settling Of
coil of wire that somebody has trod on.
Right by him is Jones (negro), Of Greensvile
He wants nine-and- thirty. He is UP all the time
explaining his vote, and complaining generally.
The most elegant niger in the Convention is
Bland, of Prince Edward He really speaks with
considerable correctness has an excellent manner,
and good voice. He is about twenty-six, and
has the assurance of Bayne, with decidedly less
sense.
9 Hunnicutt is not in his seat. When in the Con-
yention he has no special influence, but speaks
better than most of his side. ..-. o.. 70. ..- g.