The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-14
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TO the Voters of the Seventh Con
gresSf0naa District OF yfsMinsa.

gressional District OF Virginia.
Itaks the liberty Of Offering myself az n
candidate to represent you in the Congress-
Of the United States. You all knoE nv
strenuous opposition to the secession Of Viz
siria, and the oifcsnatatses under which
Was driven from my home in Culpeper In
the beginning Of the war, and under which
Gil my perishable property there was de-
stroyed in the course Of the eontest.
throughout the war devoted myself to
the aid Of the Union cause. nv services
IN behalf OF that cause have been tho
roughly recognized by every man connected
with the Government from Abraham Lin
coin down. No other sooner recognized the
soundness Of Mr.. Lincoln's policy of gene
raj emancipation, or did rore to secure it q
triumph before the people of the United
States that shall last az long as the Govern
ment and civilization itself may last. Nor
has any one else more steadily and effec-
lively sustained all the measures for the
intellectual and industrial improvement of
the colored race, and the security to that
race Of entire civil and political equality
as just and necessary auxiliary to their
altered circumstances. I did this in the
conscientious belief that such privileges
and blessings were not only their rights as
rreemen, but that all the true interests of
white men will be best secured by the
speedy improvement, enfranchiscment, and
advancement of labor, without distinction
OF color, throughout the land. Since Lees
surrender l have labored necessarily and
ardentiy to restore harmony to the country
on the basis of universal amnesty and uni
versal suffrage. Since December LIST last
my efforts have been principally directed
to the purpose Of comprising the enactment
OF the bill, just become law, authorizing
the people Of Virginia to vote on the con-
shtution, about to be submitted to them as q
whole. and with the right to reject the
State disfranchising and county organiza-
ton clauses. To the labors of no other
man with Congress are my fellow-citizens
of Virginia 30 much indebted ss to mine
for the final passage of this measure of vital
Importance to Virginis's future. l am in
favor of voting out of the constitution the
clauses refer to above.
| sincerely believe that If elected to the
United States Congress from the seventh dis
triot of this State can do more for all the
interests of the people thereof, without dis
tinction Of race or former position with refer
ence to the rebellion question, than any
one else can mplish-through my long
experience with national public affairs, and
my well-known energy and industry, my
thorough Identification with the Republican
party and its advanced policy; and last,
though not least, through my equally tho
rough Identification with all the people of my
native State of Virginia, their rights and
their interests. In the discharge of the high
duty Of sympathy with them in their pre-
sent misfortunes know no party or political
distinctions. Iii enough for me to know that
they are Virginians, crushed by the events
and exigences of the war, to feel it incum-
bent on me to do all can for them without
remembering that thousands were my Bit
ter enemies and enemies Of the Union
cause during the war. The war having
ended, hold it to be the duty of the Co.
vernment, as well as its Wisest possible
policy, to treat all men alike who obey the
laws and otherwise discharge all duties of
citizenship of the United States.
l shall shortly take occasion to canvass
the district, speaking daily to the people of
some county and precinct thereof until the
election comes off. W.D WALLACH,
of Culpeper county.
April 10. 1869.