The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-28
THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION
I ORDERED BIZ coEoREssTo
FRAME A STATE INSTITUTION
sIxty.second Day.
THURSDAY, February y, 1868. Z

THURSDAY, fepEudEy I3 ASVoo' -
The Convention met at IL O'Clock.
= PRAYER by Rev. Sterling Harris lneg'oI.
A clerk was granted the Committee ON
Public Institutions upon, request Oh mr.
JAMES. . ~ oo
m;ttee appointed toinyestigate the charges
against the Chairman of the COMMITTEE On
Printing.
The ordinance increasing the compen-
sation Of clerks, pages, and the Janitor,
was unanimously adopted.
Mr.. H1NE offered the following:
/" Resolved, That the general debate on
the suffrage question be closed to-day.
Mr.. MCLAUGHLIN moved to amend Dy
fixing to- morrow at o'clock.
Mr.. CLEMENTS offered the following:
"Resolued, That the debate or the ques-
ton of franchise close at half-past O'CLOCK
on Friday next" Lost-ayes, 38; noes'
As.
Mr., CARR asked that he be allowed a
leave of absence for week or ten days
while this debate was going on.
Mr.. GIBSON said that he hoped the leave
would do no good, as he could see no gooo
in casting pearls before swine.
FRANCHISE.
The hour for the order of the day having
arrived, the franchise question was TAKEN
up. H.
Mr.. MARYE having the floor, spoke au-
ring his allotted time with his usual ability
and eloquence, producing striking algu-
! ments in telling language. DE was at'en-
lively listened to by members on Doth
| sides. .ho
At the conclusion of his remarks the
Convention took recess, the hour having
"lii' AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention met at 4 o'clock.
HODGES spoke on the franchise queStlon.
He gave an account OF the negro ieoo
from the time Of its Inception. He ~
formed his hearers dat Queen Sneoa was q
black woman, and that Solomon was pieaseo
with her on dat account more than VIII any
other woman he had ever met Win. he
favored the removal of desaDlilties from
everybody iu the South IN 1870, not ex-
cen'n Jeff. Davis and Robert Lee. Fer
oinia was good enough place for him; it
was Heaven enough, an he didn't want to
omit it intel Christ come. He gave q
foolish chapter on dogs, and said that the
blind dog was de Conservative party, de
def dog was de secession party, and de
dead dog was de Confederacy, and he want
fraid Of mar one of 'em.
Thar was men in the State Of Ferginny
who didn't want nothin but bottle of
whiskey and yit desc men said dey was
de black mems friend. De devil might as
we'll say he was God Almighty's friend.
Once thar was aman, and he was named
Nose, and his wife was named Mary. One
day Nose and her fell out, and Mary got
Nose down and got hold on brickbat,
and Nose followed, cob, Mary, don't hit
me wild dat brickbat u; and Mary say: 81
won't hit you eff you don't do so no
more"; and when she let Nose up, he
token knock her down wild de brickbat,
and she say "Mose, don't hit me wild dat
brick; I didn't hit you when you was
down." But Nose say Yes, but got
de brick now" And OATS de way wild de
Conservative party. We got de whip, and
you ak us not to whip you; but we got de
whip, and we Amt gwine to truss you wild
it, neither.
He said, in concluding his remarks, that
God had told him to speak, and he gave
the glory to Him.
LEWIS LINDSEY followed in a staving
effort in favor of universal suffrage, and
the disfranchisement of all Conclusions
whar was in de late rebellion.
LEWIS read his speech from manuscript,
but occasionally few off the track. In one
of his flights be said "Tell US de black
man amt got no history, when de Coffee
genians made Rome trimmed, when Sesore-
tus made de world trimmed !; and who can
say dey was white 7"
LEWIS gave description of the battle of
New Orleans, history of the Checops
and "hygliffis" of Ethiopia; and gave the
black man Othello as specimen of the
negro race. He would be an example eff
it hadn't bin dat he was fooled wild pocket
handkerchief. He, for one, want gwine to
be fooled by no pocket-handkerchief.
De mountains Of Gibberalter were also
spoken of; and in this connection he said
that if de yaller gals was colonized at de
foot of de Gibberalter mountains de white
men would look down on 'em, and scale de
mountains to git whar de was.
De niger is natyrly Republican, and
all he wants is de right of way and de bal
lot. Some on 'em may fool you, and make
out'en like dey is Conservatives, and git
money to start barber-shop, but dey amt
no Conservatives. Eff you can git niger
to say he is in favor of de vaggrant acts
you better git your chickens to rost high,
because he'll soon be arter them.
After LEWIS had gotten through the
Convention adjourned.
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