Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-09

On Friday last Col. Wake
filled his appointment at Lex
ington. We copy from TIN
Richmond papers of Monday.
| THE SPEAKING.
| Twelve o'clock came, and a.
intelligent and representative {
lVirginian audience as [ evel
saw assembled in the cour
house yard to hear the views o
lColonel Walker and those who
|were to speak with him.
| AS Broken brough arose tt
Introduce our Gubernatoria
candidate ] could not help ad
miring the tableux. There
Istood courtly, high bred, in
telligent Virginian, who is SEN
sitive of his States honor as he
lis of his own, and who would
no sooner consent to anything
that would degrade her than
he would submit without re-
sentiment to personal affront.
| And beside him sat him whom
the people have made their
leader, who, though not born
among us, is yet in heart and
sympathy with us. Upon his
manly brow Nature had set a
seal which she never places
upon any save the true, the
honest, and the good. And the
crowd seemed not less impress
| ed with their appearance than
myself.
JUDGE BRocKENBRoUGH $ SPEECH.
Judge Brockenbrough said
it gave him great pleasure to
introduce Col. Walker to his
fellow citizens Of Rockbridge,
and in an earnest and eloquent
speech Of more than twenty
minutes proceeded to show them
why, as Virginians, they ought
to give him a hearty and enthu-
sistic support. His effort was
pronounced by everybody who
heard it as worthy of the head
and heart of one of the ablest
and purest judges that has in
our day worn the ermine in
Virginia. For myself, | felt
proud that his honored name
has still so worthy a represen-
tative in these days of degene-
racy. He himself would OPP
pose the constitution il he had
a vote, but it was not regarded
as a practical question by the
Central Committee, who make
mo recommendation as to the
duty of Conservatives in regard
to it.
At the close of his remarks
he was heartily cheered, and it
was evident that he is regarded
as a wise counsellor by his
friends and neighbors, and oc-
cupies a high position in their
affection and esteem. We re-
greet that time is only afforded
us to give this meagre and
unsatisfactory synopsis of
Judge Brockenbrough's admi-
rable speech.
COLONEL WALKER s SPEECH.
l would do injustice to my
self, fellow citizens, if | did not
tell you in the beginning that
l have no carefully prepared
speech to make you. And yet.
in the town of Lexington-the
seat of Washington College and
the Virginia Military Institute
it is but proper that one
who undertakes to address the
public should be careful to have
his ideas we'll connected and
clothed in the purest Eng
fish.
Hurried as | was into the
canvass without previous warn
ing, and by no seeking of my
own, | had no time to prepare
such an address and if J. had
| don't know that in a crisis
like this I ought to have deliv-
cred it. The times require that
one occupying my position
should let the people know the
views and opinions that gush
spontaneously from his heart
not those which ara carefully
weighed in the scales of policy
and dressed in becoming garb by
the midnight lamp. The issues
lin this canvass are few in numb.
er, but in their results reach fal
4 down the stream of time. Wher
I came to Virginia it was moi
lin search of office and my can
llustrious sons T did not eX