The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-18
Correspondence" 81 III" Richmond Dispatch.
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LOUISA COURTHOUSE, VA,


June II, 1850
To-day large crowd assembled ut about
| hall-pa>t twelve in the hotel yard. Mr.. L.
| i. Davis, being called 10 the chair, intro
duccd Mr.. Charles Hcrnd0n, of FrcderIckS'
| burg. who is = candidate for the senate III
this district
Mr.. Urrnd0n. for about an hour, kept the
attention Of :; large audience, composed OF
white and black, and argued very concill-
>ivcly to show what were the dutlc'
of the hour. Your correspondent has
not space TO rive IN outline OF the
speech Of MIR. IIcrndon. He spoke nobiy
for Walker and for cXpurgating the con>tl-
tuition. and in conclusion he made III el9-
| 0ucnt appeal to the young man III the tull
vieor of youth, to the middlc-age man now
bearing the burthers, and TO the old man
with SiIycrv locks, and who had adorned
Virginia in her palmicst days, to come for
ward III one solid phalanN and save Virginia
from the impending danger which cnvironS
her.
Colonel Marmadukc Johnson, of your
city. was then introduced, and COM
mcnccd by alludin" to the fact that
he appeared before the people OF Louisa
about ten Years ago, but under tar
different circumstances from those which
brought him here to-day. 1t was in those
good old days of Whig@cry and Democracy
DAYS we fear that have departed never TO
come again. Colonel J. then briefly but
elodlently Skctched our struggle down to
the Approximations. and he said that it made
him feel sad to-day when asking after no.
bic comrades that had fought with him
from the heights of Gettysburg to the Roa-
noke. to receive the almost universal answer
Of "dead.' He came then to the subject
before the people, and showed them the
cnormticS Of the Underwood constitution,
and what dreadful results would follow by
its adoption as whole and the election OF
Wells. After speaking to the whites some
time he turned to the blacks and asked
them what could they expect if they voted
to diStranchise ninety per cent. of the very
men whom they depended upon for their
support. Colonel J.'s remarks TO the ne
crocs had Il cogency of meaning in them.
were truly practicable, and were so clear
that they must have been understood by
every one
He contraSted the two candidates now III
the field, showing what Il ticnd, and how
overlooking with catholicism was that man
II. II. Wells; and on the other hand he
paid a glowing tribute to Gilbert G. Walker
as Il man who had come in our midst &c
live quiet, pcaceablc citizen, and of the
two no man should for one moment hesitate
which to choose.
Colonel Johnson's pcroration was one OF
the most beautiful things we ever listened
to. 1t was marked by that high-flOWn el0-
duence SO characteristic of him. Every
eve was bent upon him. Every man
seemed to stand almost brcathcss rs he
pictured in noble strains our reSto-
ration once more to the Union, when there
should be "a State for every star. not star
for every State" and when Virginia should
be, what she was in days of yorc. 1.-the
brightest star in the galaxy of States" We
have hardly given an outline of speech
marked by the mighty power of logic and
true touches Of oratory. Sufficient to say
that it was one of the Coloners happiest
efforts, and in it he almost surpassed him.
self.
Colonel John Fl. Guy then came forward,
and ny many it was thought made the
speech of the occasion. Your correspon-
dent regrets tina. he has neither the time
nor the space TO give you synopsis of this
speech. His contrast OF Wells and Walker
was one Of the most striking of the occasion.
He handled the "mssine letter" in an adj
mirable manner, and said that il it was not
SO, 1t looked mighty suspicious, and that il
proud old Rome refused Caesar because his
wife was suspicious, why should not Virginia
though cast down rs she is, but still having
the splrlt that ever animated her, refuse
Wells with n cloud of suspicion hanging
around him!