Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-28
THE DAY BOOK.
MONDAY MORNING, June 20, 1869
EContinued from First page j
MR.. M'KENzIE' REMARKS .

their solicitations because he did
not intend to be the means of
imposing Whittlesey upon the
district.
When it became known, how
ever, that Mr.. Shackleford
would not run he became a can
didate. He was very much
gratifed to find Col. Mosby for
him. When he met him at
/ Loudoun the other day, for the
first time, he was surprised that
instead of being a ferocious
looking, he found him to be such
a smiling, nice looking young
man.. Laughter.) He said he
would carry nine out of the
twelve counties of the district
and beat his opponent clean out
of sight. His majority in Lou
/ doun he estimated at 800.
GOVERNOR SMITH s SPEECH.
The old war-horse next came
forward and was warmly cheer
ed by his friends and neighbors,
who had heard him on so many
eventful occasions, but never on
one when the issues dividing
the parties struggling for the
supremacy in the State were of
such vital moments as those to
be decided at the polls on the
9th Of July. Abiding to the
extraordinary state of events,
the Governor said there had
never been witnessed in the
world a more cruel attempt to
enslave white men than is made
in this canvass, through the
adoption of the Underwood Con-
stitution to enslave the white
people of Virginia. He re-
viewed the political situation in
the State since the adoption of
the proposed Constitution, by
the Constitutional Convention
with the action it necessiated
on the part of the Conservative
party. A year ago this con-
stitution was to be accepted or
rejected as a whole. Now, OBJ
iectionable clauses are to be
voted upon separately. This
circumstance has changed the
character of the contest. He
took up the test-oath and dis
franchising clauses land showed
the colored people present the
effect of their adoption-asking
them is it fair that they should
have voice in controlling the
Government while he who gave
them daily employment was to
be denied the privilege.
He drew graphic pictures of
the carpet-baggers and scala
| wags, and laid bare to their de-
luded followers their selfish
purposes in arraying the blacks
| against the white people Of the
State, who want to live in
peace and harmony with them.
He advised the colored peo-
| pie to assert at once their indie
pendence of the Leagues and
act according to their conscien-
ces and judgment, and not lon
ger in obedience to the slavish
dictation of the managers OF
these infamous oath-bound or
CARNATIONS There are, said
he, seven hundred and fifty
thousand white people in Vir-
ginia and only five five hundred
thousand colored people, and
then asked how they expected
to gain the mastery, even with
| the aid of the carpet-baggers
and scalawags, with such odds
against them. He had no fears
as to the result in so unequal a
contest, but his kin d regard for
the colored man melted him to
use every effort to induce him to
live on terms of peace and
friendship with his white en-
ployers. Can it be possible,
| said the Governor, that you
colored men intend, as you go
to the polls on the 9th Of July,
to draw the sword against the
white people among whom you
were born and rear ed, and
throw the scabbard away. =
Think we'll before you take the
fatal step which is to separate
| you from those who cherish for
you naught but feelings Of the
kindest regard. Gov. Smith,
with his accustomed earnestness
and power, appealed to every
white man to let nothing pre-
uo,+ b:,, fro,,, ror,ctarinU and