The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-04
Governor w els.


Governor WELLS. who has been repudi-
atcd by nine out of ten of all the white
voters of Virginia, and who knows that he
holds his Office and draws his salary i'll VIC
lation of the propricties Of life and contrary
to the will Of the people whom the bayonct
enables him to rule, has returned to Rich
mond, and is spoken Of by n Washington
correspondent Of the New York Herald in
the following language:
Governor Wells reached Richmond to-
day, having been absent since the result OF
the election became positively known. He
has been travelling in the North both on
pleasure and business, and is accompanied
back by bis son, recently graduate OF
Hamilton College, New York, who is now to
be appointed aid to his father, with salary
Of 81, 900 per annum, much to the chagrin OF
quite number of his faithful carpct-bag as
pirants. The Governor was waited upon by
few of his Radical friends, to whose inquiries
as to whether there was anything to be hoped
for from the action of the President or
Congress he returned rather gloomy and
Respondent answers. He said he had
not seen the President, nor had he been to
Washington, but that the general tendency
of opinion among Republicans in the North
was unfavorablc to the recognition OF the
Walker party. He considers that the solu-
ton of pending questions IN relation to
Virginia would be arrived at by refusal
on the part of General Candy to issue his
proclamation declaring the result Of the
election until the meeting of Congress. He
expressed the hope that Congress would
then delay action until too late in the ses-
sion, and that the reconstruction of the
State under the Walker auspices would
therefore be thrown over into the next SEES
sion, and thereby the present officials Of
the State government would be continued
i'll control of affairs. The Governor thus
figures out Oh a rather too liberal scale his
own official safety and that of his particular
friends. He did not, however, appear to be
either enthusiastic or quite as hopeful as
his language seemed to indicate. This pro-
grammc is now the only reliance of the
defeated carpct-bag aspirants, and they
will make every effort to have it carried out
to the letter"
This is a beautiful programme, but it will
not he carried out. Governor WELLS is
y
II dead cock in the pit-a beaten racer-no-
body cares for him. His power is gone.
lie may as well hang up his fiddle. He
will soon leave the gubcrnatorial mansion.
4" The places that now know him will soon
know him no more" Congress will pay no
attention to his wishes. SENTER will soon
DC elected Governor Of Tennessee, DENT
Governor of Mississippi, and HAMILTON
Governor of Texas-and all on the WALKER
platform. This accomplished, the members
of Congress con see for themselves that
Radicalism is as dead as WELLS, and true
liberal Republcanism in the ascendant. AS
goes Virginia i'll the next Presidential cleo
ton so will go all the southern States and
enough of the northern to elect the Prcsi-
dent. ave will play 'em up n tune called
"the sober, second thought, and the Radi-
"cals will find that the people can't be
bought" We shall repeat the recent
Virginia election on Il larger scale. We
shall probably nominate and elect General
GRANT President ON the "True Republi-
can" or WALKER platform. SUMNER, Oh
Boutwell,, or whoever the Radical candi-
date may be, will be beaten in the Union as
badly as WELLS was in Virginia. Now, all
this will be patent to all men by the time
that Congress shall assemble in December
next; and WALKER will consequently have
as large majority in that body, in proper
ton to the number Of its members, as he
had at the recent election in Virginia. In
fact, WELLS is, we repeat it again and
again, nobody at all. He is as harmless as
Il rattlesnakc whose fangs have been ex-
tracted. Let him hiss. lie can do no more.