The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-10

the intelligence, the experience, and the
moral worth, of the State Of Virginia.
Adopt the Underwood constitution, and
instead Of Virginia taking a fresh
departure in her career of glory and
| prosperity, ruin and prostration will
follow, and her fair fields be transferred into
a howling wilderness. This is no oyerdrawn
picture, for with the power of taxation
almost unlimited, what can they not do?
You need, then, hope nothing from immi-
grafton, for what northern or European
cnligrant would settle among you with
heavy taxation staring him in the face!
The idea, then, that the white people, with
10000 majority, will supinely and crimi-
nally suffer themselves to be thus controlled
and ruined, is not to be tolerated tor mo-
mcnt 1t seems that every man with the
brain of calf ought to be able to under
stand his duty and ready to perform it.
He scathingly reviewed the course Of his
| opponent in regard to the constitution and
the separate clauses, and showed how he is
not to be trusted in anything he may pro-
mise concerning it. In conclusion, he said
he hoped he had brain and heart enough to
| take in the whole state, and, if elected its
Governor, would endeayor to do equal and
exact justice to all. He would be the Go
vernon of no city, town, or section, but Of
the whole State. Colonel Walker retired
amid enthusiastic cheers, and before he left
the stand was presented with beautiful
| bouquet, arranged by one Of the fair daugh-
tiers Of Woodstock. ..s..
! This sourcnsr of our visit to the metro
| politan town of Shenandoah now graceS the
| parlor of the hospitable mansion of General
Meem, whose guest we will be until our re-
| turn tomorrow to Harrisonburg. .- ..- -..
In the meanwhile may as well state that
this afternoon and tonight Colonel Walker
and Mr.. Lewis will address the people at
New Market and Mount jackson, in this
county.
YOUR CORRESPONDENT PRESSED INTO SERVICE.
! Colonel Baldwin, who was designated by
| the State Central Committee to speak here
to-day, being absent in New York city on
important business in connection with the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, the chairman
Of the meeting unanimously pressed your
correspondent into service, and his efforts,
if deficient in other respects, was at least
characterized by an earnest zeal in behalf Of
our candidates and the cause.
REMARKS OF J. II. WILLIAMS.
j. Fl. Williams, Esq, native of the
county, and now resident of Winchester.
next addressed the people. He is the idol
of the citizens Of shenandoah, who seem to
regard him with an affection which a com
munity rarely bestows upon an individual,
! however talented and worthy. He deserves
| it, however, for he is a gallant scion of Il
noble sire, and every inch u Nirginian. His
speech was marked by much practical wis
dom, but was brief, as he has been desig-
mated to meet the little Michigan whitfet,
who speaks at Woodstock Wednesday, and
wished to reserve his ammunition for that
occasion. He urged the people, however,
/ to do their whole duty, and advised them to
| give the Walker ticket 4 hearty support,
even as he is doing. He wanted to save
| something TO Virginia from the ruin which
has beiallcn her. His contrast Of Walker
and Wells could not have been happier, de-
! signaling the former as "the White Swan"
and the latter as "the Black Crook"
| SPEECH OF JOHN II. LEWIS.
! Mr.. Lewis was next introduced, and said
, he was Il candidate for Lieutenant-Governor
on the Walker ticket, and cordially en-
dorsed it. lie would vote for Walker and
| Taylor. Extreme men say there is no
choice between Walker and Wells, but
! there is Il choice, and every man must see
! it. The election of Wells will bring ruin to
| the material interests Of the state, will bind
| fcttcrS OF disfranchiscmcnt upon large and
! influential class of our white people, and
will result in the inevitable downfall and
destruction of the colored race. The cleo
ton Of Walker involves no such dire conse-
qucnccs. In Il contest so 1nomentous no
man can he ncutral-no man can afford TO
remain from the polls.
The man who stands idle in 4 crisis like
| this is rs criminal as he who stands by with
| folded arms and secs his neiShbor's house
! burned without making IN effort TO arrest
the flames because, torSooth, their plan for
their cXtin@uiShmcnt Is not adopted. Our
government may not be one OF your choice,
,l,y1y.s IL
mcnt, and il is your patriotic duty to ald In
having ii 50 administered that it may be
honorcd ut home and feared and respected
abroad. He wanted all acknowledgements
and tcst-oathS abolished, and the people OF
Virginia left free to select those of their
choice, State or Federal.
His denuncation of the carpet-baggers
was as earnest, and his advice to the colored
people rs sound, as we have yet heard from
the stump during the pending canvass. ne
told them why he had right to their contl-
dcnce, and said that he never made false
statement to Il white man or black man III
! his life.
He also stated that he was candidate for
| Congress, but if his candidacy, in the judg-
mcnt of the State Central Committee and
his friends, would endangcr in any degree
the success Of the State ticket, he would at
once retire, as its success with HIM was
above all honor and above all office. His
reason for announcing himself was that
Judge Harris, the other candidate, has not
yet had his disabilities removed, and his
| friends thought a man ought to be elected
| who can take the tcst-oath. He called upon
Judge Harris, who was present, to reply
to state whether, as represented, he had
promised his influence to Wells, and Whe-
ther he was going for Walker.
REMARKS OF JUDGE HARRIS.
Judge Harris, in reply, announced HIM
| self now, as heretofore, for the walker
ticket. lie did this n month ago at Harrl-
sonbtlrg. He denied having promised his
| influence to Wells, and read from Cranes
paper at Winchester statement that That
worthy regarded all the candidates for Con-
rress in this district rs Walker men. He
| read from the Code to show that MIR. Lewis
| could not be Lieutenant-Governor and men,
ber of Congress at the same time, and gave
reasons why he is very certain that Con
cress will at its next session remove his dis
abilities. If he had known that Mr.. Lewis
wanted to be a candidate for Congress lie
would not have declared himself one.
DELEGATES APPOINTED, &C.
Delegates were appointed toa senatorial
convention to be held at--Winchester after
which the meeting closed.
The most intelligent and reliable citizens
of the county say we will without shadow
| of doubt carry Shenandoah by an old
| fashioned majority. Everybody seems TO
be preparingto 90 to work right away with
the zeal which the great emergency de-
mandS.
There will be speaking by Colonel Walker
and Mr.. Lewis tomorrow at 4 O'Clock at
New Market, and at s O'Clock IN the eve