The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-11
The Republican State Nominating
Concentration nations for State
Offfcea


Characterization nations for State
Offices.
PETERSBURG, March 1O.-In the after
noon session to- day there was more excite
ment. A colored sergeant-at-arms was ap-
pointed, against whom white man levelled
his pistol while attempting to make an ar
rest. He was taken charge of by the police.
A motion to ask the Mayor to withdraw the
police force was defeated, but that officer
shortly after withdrew the force from the
hall.
The nominations were then gone into,
and resulted as follows: .4rs.
For Governor. ...................H. II. Wells.
For Lieutenant Governor. DR.. J. u. Harris.*
For Attorney General. .Thos. r. Bowden.
For Congressman at large. ....A. M. Crane.
Negro.
Resolutions were adopted favoring
the early restoration of Virginia under the
new Constitution, without change or amend
ment, and an early election, without which
there is danger of final disaster.
Second. That the election of General
| Grant has awakened confidence in, and
given new guarantee for, the principles Of
the Republican party, and made sublime
the truth that call men are free and
equal" and entitled to all the privileges of
citizens.
Third. Hailing with gratitude General
Grants inaugural, and thanking him for
declaring that until there is universal suf-
frage there cannot be peace.
Fourth. Expresses the hope that hereaf-
ter no State can deny the right to citizens
to vote and be voted for.
Fifth. Thanking the President for re-
storing Sheridan and Reynolds to COM
mands from which they had been removed
for the faithful discharge of their duties,
and also pledging the President the support
of Virginia.
Sixth. Asserting equality Of rights for
all citizens, and urging provision for the
education of people in all public schools,
which shall be open to all; more equal
system of taxation reasonable provision
to preserve house exempt from levy and
sale; the payment of the honest debts of
the State to secure an impartial jury trial
by opening the jury-box to all male citi-
zens without regard to race or color.
Seventh. Asserting the right of the real
Republican party Of reconstruction to de-
termine the manner as well as the consti-
tuition and laws under which the State shall
be restored.
Eighth. Asserting that no republican form
of government can exist or be wisely ad-
ministered where considerable portion of
the people are disfranchised, and that the
Republican party of the State are not in
favor of the creation of permanent disa-
biities, but pledges its efforts and influence
to secure the removal of the disabilities of
those who accept in good faith the results
of the war and cooperate in the earnest
efforts for the restoration of the State un-
der the reconstruction laws, but such re-
moyals should be claimed on superior
claims for amnesty, which are not pos
sessed by the great body of disfranchised
persons. -T
Ninth. Asserting that the Republican
party is the real party Of reconstruction,
and that there can be no permanent restora-
ton Of the State except through it's instru-
mentality. "
After reorganizing the State Central Com
mittee, the Convention adjourned.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
| z1 PETERSBURG, March 10, 1869.
The State Central Committee is composed
Of the following members:
First District.-D. NJ. Norton (mulatto), E
| w Massey, L. G.. Bowden.
| Second District H. NJ. Bowden, Rush Bur.
CESS, Peter r. Jones lnegro).
Third District.-J. NJ. Humphreys, William
Isham fnegro), Thomas Hewlett (negrol.
Fourth District.-George Tucker, w. L. Fer.
rand, G. w Graham. +.
Fffth District G. G.. Curtiss, Samuel Kelsc
! tnecro) Alvin Warner.
! Strth District.-G. w. Jenkins, A. T. Mau.
pin, Ell. Wessler. sa
Stuenh District Josiah Willard, +. M. Per
kins fnegro), Peter Couse.
/ Eighth Distrid.-G. w. Smith, Hardy Jane
son (negrol, James Oulyert son. EFg 81
At Large.-O.E E. Hlne.