Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-28

IleWel In us neau, contains
some germs of good that may
be developed to useful purposes
and thus,
From the nettle danger we pluck tn
flower safely.
| [ shall also vote for it because
believe that it is the most gen.
erous offer that will ever b.
made to us, and that if rejected
the oppression we have already
endured will be but
The murmuring prelude to the rudel
gale
So much then for the Consti-
tuition.
| Two Northern men are ask
ling your suffrages to make
them Governor of Virginia.
Time does not permit nor does
the occasion require that !
should enter into any minute
examination of their records.
Their profiles are SO distinct
upon the canvas that you in
stinctively recognize them as
the representatives Of two
principles which have long
been struggling for supremacy
lin the government. Now |
happen to know something
about Wells. He was provost
marshal Of Alexandria during
the time when | was conduct
ing military operations in this
county. And I tell you that
he never once showed his face
outside the stockades. If he
had, [ would have saved our
people all the trouble they
have had with him as Cover
nor of Virginia. He sports
the rank of brevet-brigadier,
but he never won it in con
Aict with armed men in the
front, but by the spoliation and
oppression of old men, women,
and children, whom the for
tunes of war placed in his
power. [ will give you one
example to illustrate the ma
lignant character of the man.
At one time in Alexandria he,
issued an order requiring
everybody to take the oath I'm
der penalty Of being banished
from their homes. 1t included
all ages and sexes. A steamer
was at the wharf ready to con-
vey the weeping exiles from
their homes, when through the
intercession with the govern
ment Of a prominent Union
citizen of Alexandria, Lewis
Mckenzie, the order was re-
voked. A cool, astute, calcu-
lating villain, the guiding
maxim of his life has been that
of the honest lago,
'Put money in thy purse!'
Instead then of Virginians
responding to Wells appeal to
make him their Governor, they
will rather vote Ito put whip
into every honest hand to lash
the rascal naked round the
world
OF Col. Walker Col. Mosby
then spoke in terms of high
praise and compliment. He
said | heard a Virginia scala
wag q few days ago say that
Walker was as much a carpet,
Dagger, as Wells. | replied,
that | wished we had in Vir-
ginia a hundred thousand such
carpet baggers as Walker, and
that we would most gladly ex-
change Virginia scalawags for
them. care not, said Col.
Mosby, from what cline he
comes, on what altar he has
worshipped, or under what
constellation he was born, if
he be the means under Provi-
dence Of lifting my bleeding
country from the dust, | will
gratefully accept and recognize
the service. | call then upon
all Virginians as they value
their dearest rights, to give
him not a hesitating, but a
cordial and hearty support.
But especially do | call upon
the surviving remnants of the
Army of Northern Virginia
the SCARED veterans OF Lee
the men of whom their great
commander said when he babe
them q last adieu-Fthat they
would carry with them to their
homes the satisfaction that
proceeds from the consciousness