The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-02

measures for that. He was the high court
az anneals before which all proud Sifsi.
vin;ans who sought to DO set Tree nu0.
| kneel. 49, ~ - on
In this worthy occupation was the NAV
holding the title Of Governor OF Virginia
! chiefly engaged. BE varied his "olyiapi'
reyels" by occasional flights to Washing
ton, where he poisoned the minds OF 'ne
rulers Of the nation with reports adverse -
the people Of Virginia, to keep t,gnt 'ne
cords which bound them and permitted inc
invaders of their fields and store-houSes
successfully to pursue their WORK OF aP-
preparation and spoliation. This washing
ton influence he's been grand feature IN
the campaign Of the carpet-baggers, OF
which Governor WELLS is the generalissimo.
No sooner had the committee of nine gone
to Washington to make statement con-
corning those injured people so long mis-
represented by the arch-plotter and his
colleagues in deviltry than he and they
hurried on to oppose them and they occu-
pied three fourths Of the time awarded oy
the Committee Of Reconstruction to Virginia
affairs. Coolly sat the Head Centre before
that committee and uttered that unblush-
ing falsehood that the people OF Virginia
were not to be trusted with their own Of
fairs, and that if they were unbound ana
allowed TO participate in their own govern
ment they would be untrue to the Onlon'
and loyal citizens would be unsafe IN per-
son and property! AS coolly did he lay
".-e the committee the yillainous club
ooi..- :, o.. State, framed for perpetua-
s s ,he disfranohisen;ccuts C. she people:
It was no compliment to the CONT '''I ho, y,
poconstrnction that he made these oolt
ovovals.-for it was an assumption tn "
that abhorrent organization would meet it's
annroysl! Indeed, he urged Congress to
relieve no one who had not passed this or
deal, It was like cool development oy
a chief Of bandits Of the discipline esta-
bl;shed in his camp, before court OF JUS
tice!
The achievements of this General WELLS
are all in the ways of tyranny, intrigue,
and cunning. He has kept milaeWeo
ear" in Washington he has ma,nsaineo
in Virginia state Of dish'uss ana apr
bension at once annoying and seriously IN
furious to the welfare of the people, a
man 30 occupied with schemes for his own
personal advantage necessarily enters il''o
variety Of intrigues with all sorts OF per-
sons. One day he is sohemlng Tor some
grand speculation, and though 1t be fatai
to the welfare of the State over which No
alas presides, what is it to him hfs'
who is pronounced honest at home,-~nicn,
we understand, is more than can; be said or
the gentleman from Michigan-charges him
with having directly offered to sell out IN
terests to sell which would be fetal to the
State.
Dealing in these great affairs one day,
the next he is in altercation about letteS
which has never reached the person to
whom it was addressed, which contained
party developments, it is said, of some i'm
portance to himself, and which reached his
hands by some strange way which he has
never yet explained. The writer and the
man to whom the letter was addressed
called on him for it, and inquired how he
came by it; but he refused to answer fur
Their than that they could not find out
Like "J1MMY Tw1TcHER," though the
stolen property was traced to his door, ne
only said, "Vell, and vot of it ?"
The attempt to ventilate the matter in
commissioners court WAS defeated by the
most remarkable act of its dismissal by
the prosecuting attorney This same prose-
cutting attorney declined to permit the
counsel employed by the accusers to assist
him in the case-an act unparalleled
in the history of judicial proceedings in
this State!
Thus we have this gentleman occupying
the famous Gubernatorial mansion of Vlr-
ginia from one stage to another in many
phases of the arts and tricks of the unscru'
| lous and designing to acquire for themselves
what they could not obtain in any fair o,
meritorious way--tricks and devices which
have disguised q large portion of the party
to which he belongs to degree that has
caused it's dismemberment, the larger and
more respectable part having Withdrawn
and renowned him
1t is not in our power to predict wha'
will be done with General WELLS. If the
ear OF Washington be not fatally mildewed
his career cannot be much prolonged. If il
should be, why we must only wait for the
deliverance that must assuredly come. W.
have stood 30 much we are very much har
dened, and can endure even WELLS unit
that blessed day.