The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-05
WhRnESToS, VA, juno ., 1859.
Editors Of The Richmond Dispatch

70 say NOT opculy. nominated by tic Convcn.
tion. I am compelled to admit that have looked
Ea.I In the FIRST place tho Convention acts with
ont living reason an argument Tor us course.
IL his the time for honorable men TO hold their
tongues for fear OF saying something which might
offend whom arc left to conjecture, but never
~ Having a large available majority which
could have been used to the certain election of dnu
mod men qualified TO hold Office under tho four
i Isniars m"ihtr FOR nor Gg@in es nor Jar nor
d90insf Walker. or 10 do anything but hold thcr
tongues except upon the question OF the OBNOXIOUS
ic.l Asa thoroughly southern man, willing and
anxious to do only that which Will cnnrc I" the gooo
Of my state ask YOU an honest man, AZ ono
looking al this question through glasses colorcd
,'by the hope Of reward or the fear Of punish
s mGm, policy Which is t"tcndcd for no other
purpose than that OF In1tttn going over 10 tn'
Ad,nntstratton Re%,bra pmrty w% %a ,,
be who are not In favor ut the White House,
and now and forever acknowledging that recon-
sfructIon per SC right that the fest oath =
Though We may vote for It's being stricken out al
The state constitution. rs applicable to Federal
offices. VIC will recognize and act upon: and that
We viii withhold our support from amy man,
though hc may be able 10 hold Office under the four
tccnth amendment unless he he Of a ccrtan-nilk-
and water class that takes care never 10 have sli
cicntly wcl-defncd and expressed opinions as 10
make them obnoxious 10 the powers that bc In
Washington.
Youwili, no doubt. reply that the consequences
Of The voting for Walker and his associates will
not DC what have declared only call your al
tention to the class Of that has hccn in nearly
every instance, nominated for Congress In the
state and for almost every State office to be filled
at Tho approaching election. IL would all do very
well If You could get The good pcoplc-thc true
mcr-who have always been open and bold 10 their
,.osiions--to tamciy submit To this line Of policy.
They may do it-ana think 1t only probable they
villas matter of necessity 1T this e!ccion h,'t
what becomes OF us a1tcr ihS We VIII NOT We
cannot, he called upon 10 repeat this sad, almost
dsgraccfnl conduct; and when. ut the first opror-
tunity, demand that the men tricSt TO the stale,
II GIIil l1
our choice, the result viii he that 1T least on.thrd
OF the white people Of Virginia will 20 with the
never again control the state. / know poor, weak
man too well. The desire To DC on the strong Sldc
VIII control too many IN their choice of parties.
Had the couvcutiou--pardun me for suggesting
my "pini"n--hccn bold enough To have stated that
VIC would. matter Of necessity. support the
Walker ticket, but that we In doing so wished il to
be distinctly understood that ii WAS for no such
purpose aS that of joining ourselves 70 those men
who claimed 10 he administration RepuhicnnS,
and that did not desire nor did We ask, to hc
considered by them In any ri the word aS
members 81 their aartp, but, on the other baud,
acted upon by that party an free 10 confess that
VIC could have given Walker Our support.
they nc, are afraid IT, declare their honest scnti-
mcuts, we are compclleGlo one OF two conclusions,
either that they arc TOO polite 10 DC trus tied with
the execution ofthcm, or are only 10" anx ious AMI
ready To sacrifice them upon the altar OF gain.
tc.} II could believe that the consequences OF
supporting and clccing Walker would not hc what
have pointed out, then would support him. But
a,hering to the old ruIc that II is wrong to do evil
that good may follow. | say | am now, rs !
have ever been, in favor Of making the issue al
his time : that we call upon NireinianS 10 take
those men. and those only who, bcing qualified
under the fourteenth amendment 10 hold Office, are
of us with us, and for us about whom there can
hc no shadow of doubt, and whose election will lc
no compromise with Raiicaii$m.
believe II Is better In make the iSsuc now than
later and that II will have 10 nc mndc, am rs Ger
tain IA that the sun shine, to-day.
AN ENEMY or TIE REPUBLICAN, IARTi.
COMMENTS.
(n0 The Convention did not advise the
people TO vote either for or against WALKER
because there were in the Convention Il
number Of gentlemen who. like our CORE
spondcnt, could not he persuaded to con-
sent TO making such Il recommendation. 1t
was expected, however, that all such per-
sons would vote for WALKER. As to the
constitution, the Convention did not intend
to advise the voters to ratify it. Many
Conservatives were then, as they are now.
opposed to ratiiying it. That is IN open
question. Let every man vote aS he plcaScS.
The constitution will certainly be ratified
10y not less than fifty thousand majority, we
think and it is useless TO worry the Con-
scrvatiycs about it. Let every man turn
out and vote first for WALKER and the best
candidates for the Legislature, and against
the tcst-oath and the DISTINGUISHING proyi-
sions, and then if he chooses to vote against
the constitution let him do so. He will pro-
badly feel somewhat relieved, and will GER
tainly not offend us nor defeat the constitu-
ton.
o. That Large available majority" eN-
lists only i'll the imagination of such men as
our correspondent. If we elect our candi-
dates and get rid of the test-oath. &C., with
the aid of the conservative Republicans,
we shall be content. Our correspondent,
like the Petersburg Express, is misled by Il
mere name. There are say 100000 white
voters and 10, 600 black voters in the State.
He assumes that all the whites are opposed
to the constitution, and could therefore
vote it down and elect Il Democratic candi-
date for Governor; whereas the fact is that,
i'll addition to all the negroes, ut least $4,000
OF the whites are in favor of the constitu-
tion--the latter, of course, desiring it to be
cXpurgated-and will vote for its ratilica-
ton. TO assume first that the whites have
$4,000 majority in Virginia; then that ail
the whites are Conservatives; and finally
that all Conservatives are opposed TO the
cNpurgated constitution and to argue
from such premises that Colonel WITHERs
could have been elected and the con-
Stitution voted down, IS easy. But
1t will not satisfy thinking men; for
If there should happen to be, rs there
possibly are, thirty thousand of these
white men who are either WELLS men or
original WALKER men, either Radicals or
moderate Republicans, either scalawags and
carpct-bag@crs OF GRANT men, and ten
thousand others Of them should not turn
out ut the election (onc-ttteeuth OF the
voters almost always absent themselves from
the polls,) the calculation would fail. But
rs TO the constitution, the assumptions are
utterly ineXcuSablc; for with 100, COO negro
votes and ut the lowest estimate $4,000
white votes for ratification, the attempt to
rally the Conservatives on the policy Of OPP
position to the constitution would expose
as to the contempt Of all men. 1t would
be 10 court defeat. In reply I'd this. WE
shall be told that 40, 900 whites Eould GER
tainly outyote 10000 blacks. But the fact
Is that $4,000 Of these whites don't dcStrc
to outc0te them on this issue. They are de-
cidedly IN Jaoor Of the erpuryated constttu-
ton.
(c.) We might answer this question en-
phatcally, No. We are as much OPP
posed as our correspondent to milk-and
water men. We wish the truest men
to be nomnuled for all Offices i'm the