The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-30
Suffolk COnventiOn-Lively Times
among the Radicals-A Readable
ondence of the Richmond Dispatch.


= Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
EE16 SUFFOLK, April 2S, 1868.
The Republican Convention of the Second
Congressional District assembled in this
town at 10 o'clock this morning. Twenty
six delegates were in attendance, repre-
senting carpet baggers, scallawags, Yankee
exotics, and last, but best among the crowd,
negroes "to the manor born" The meet
ing was called to order by Colonel John
Burke, who was elected temporary chair
man, and stated the object of the meeting
70 be the nomination Of q suitable person to
represent this district in the. Congress of the
United States. -
II was moved that the |" Call. of the
Republican Executive Committee" under
which the Convention had assembled, be
read. Many and loud objections were made
to this, but a venerable darby of the
.Huncle Ned stamp contended " Ii der
was q call, it was certingly in order to call
for de reading Of de CALL" Such logic was
irresistible, and the call was read by the
secretary Ia negro from Petersburg named
Fayerman) with much afectation and more
bad pronunciation.
,I:sOn motion, the Chair appointed com
imittee on credentials and pending their
report the Convention took recess for an
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During this recess loud calls were made
for the following speakers /. i 4 ~
L. II. Chandler, of Norfolk, who COM
menced in a spread-eagle " style, throw
ing out bits of g Fourth Reader" poetry
and eloquence.a He alluded to the war as n
great crime, and said the secession actors
therein had been treated most leniently.
In this connection he introduced filthy an
ecdote, and throughout his harangue in
terspersed vulgar illusions suited to the
cultivated taste of his refined audience.
He advocated the negroes right to suffrage
and to hold Office, and passed upon his
ebony proteges o glowing eulogy for their
conduct since the war, which had surpassed
that Of the whites in obedience to law, sc.
He was in favor of adopting what he called
the 1Constitooshun." The "social equal
ity" Of which the Conservatives prated SO
much was all g fabdabb le." The rebels
were as cantankerous now. as ever, and
only yielded to the Government because
their flesh was weak, while their spirit was
still willing to resist. He gave some excel
lent advice to the negro about the necessity
Of good morals and education. He con-
tended that the poor white man should rer
joice at the abolition Of slavery, since that
system admade labor degrading. He ap-
proved the 6 homestead clauses, because it
gave protection to woman, and prevented
her being stripped Of her home BY the i'm
prudence or vices Of her husband. The
whole speech WAS the ingenious utterance
OF -demagoguism, we'll calculated to mis-
!, lead his ignorant audience.
= Colonel job, Burke, of PETERSBURG e. said
s S &c &c the Convention was assembled ON one of
the most n,onnerstuotts events that ever yrana-
pised.'. He proclaimed himself Radical
tothe backbone, and no back down" The
g negroes had rights, secret . and !" awful. p
Liberty came to them Ike a 4 desolating
simoom of the desert, and swept of their
Chains" Very bad rhetoric but q very
Irae and appropriate metaphor.) They had
proved their right to suffrage BY fhs intel
agent manner in which they iiad already
exercised it. Certain RepaGI isans wanted
.ne negroes TO do the yotint siis thew held
an the Offices. Herr Sssaot Of that class
ne WOULD give sgff5cNsfo ali who WE'VE ,,,,aI;