The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-11-27
nafore the Others had formally done SO, /

before the others haC FORMALLY uohe 30, Y
/ refusing to vote when his nHne was caii Gu,
! Colonel Witcher moved reconsideration
| OF the vote to appoint the committee, 70 ~
| to allow others to say = few words OH 'h'
! subject. ,.;o-,..
Judge Shumallcr wished to give his view
! on the question. The Convention, III nIt
! opinion, had assembled to adjust and adapt
! the partv to the eXigencies oil the h0ur. re
| denied that the party was ueieateu ~ p n,le
| last election. Men were defeated, p'tI Ef-
| publican principles were Ii.ulIll,li'n..,
cd WINS Republican in all lis features: lie
, further claimed that majority of the Legs
i,f,rc was thoroughly Republican, and
their acts demonstrated IT. Iney hao
. adoDtcd The amendments and elected TWO
| Renublicans a. senator's to congress. ne
was utterly unable to see anything but re
publcanism in either OF them. Inc GOV
| ernor. TOO, hes pledged himself to carry out
the measures Of Congress and the Pfesl-
dent: and with all this, what more can we
ask for? WHY not come together and say
that we will stand by them SO long as they
carry out those principles? lie was lln-
willing to say that the assemblage Whlch
met in Metropolitan Hall represented the
party.
man of the State Central Committee as
when he first held the position. The peo-
pie Of the State, by an overwhelming ma
| iority. want the State admitted; ana IL Is
| cruel and unjust to ask Congress TO delay
| it. As Republican, he said that men VINO
| stood like him had more right to be con-
sidcrcd Republicans, because they were so
| in spite of their party. Congress and the
President will examine all these PROPOSE
tionS. and give us all the guarantees we de-
sire with these views and Tor these reasons
he did not believe that they ought to delay.
| We are the Coayention of the Republican
payiV. and our action is legal and just. :,
Mr.. Wood. of Danvile, said that he had
not expected TO take any part IN these coun-
ellis, but he claimed the privilege OF dlsa-
greeing with the last speaker. lie dld not
believe that the Legislature was Republl-
ran. lie did not believe that his constitu-
ents thought so, and he wished 10 protest
against 1t.
Mr.. Rush Burgess said that, though not
delegate, he still considered himself
member. of the State Central Committee, Tor
he did not intend TO be kicked out by any
such meeting as that at metropolitan Hall.
If Governor Walker were n Republican he
did not express it in his speech IT Danville.
The members of the Legislature swallowed
the amendments rs we would dose OF
phvsic. He wished to God that the first
convention that ever met In Virginia had
split, and then respectable men would nave
been chosen to guide its collnclls, ana IL
would not have been controlled by Buttz,
old Bavnc, and others of that KIND.
Some Of those same men were here the
other day. The men who remained last
night were as anti-Republican as ever
William l.. Yancey was. They can't Whlp
out Congress and the Administrator, as
they are trying to do. ii men are allowed
to pack conventions, it is about time Tor us
t. give uD. Name your committee, and go
before Congress with the minority report,
and tell them the truth. Then they Will
Mr.. Y. A. Whether, of Tazewell, an
nouncch that ut the late election nc was a
candidate on the Republican ticket for the
Legislature. and was defeated. If this adj
dress were successful with Congress he
would be awarded the seat as the eligible
onpancut who received the next highest
vote, but he denounced the address as
fraud and deception on Congress and an
outrage and falsehood on the people of Nir-
einia. He agreed with two Of the speakers
that the Legislature OF Virginia was not Re-
publican: but this was not the way TO make
il so. If tho majority report were adopted,
and every man, woman. ana chlld, IN ms
county were TO ask him to take scat IN
the Legislature, lie NONitl mo- w ~
The Chair announced the following men,
bers to comprise the
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
For the State at Largc-General Williams c.
Wicliham. c,,,.-
First District--R. S. Aver and W.P Gidd!nGss.
Second Dislrict-L. II. Chandler and James NJ.
Donnan. =, ,,,
Third Distrct-A. Washburn and r. NJ. Manly.
FouIth Distr!ct-George Tucker and {. y.
Thomas. r,,
Sixth District--Colonel John W. jenkins and
John ii. FrccDlan. ~
Seventh DisIrlct-O. +. Hines and Charles Whit
tlcscy. c-,
Eighth District-G. G. Goodell and Colonel '.
i. Whether.
On motion of Colonel Jenkins the COM
mittee was instructed to prepare an address
and appoint from their own number Il sub
committee to visit Washington and repre-
sent before that body the interests OF the
Republicans Of the State.
The Convention then adjourned sine die.