The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-28


NO should il our choice fell upon him.
However. be would scarcely accept the
place even if it were offered to him, az we
are sure it is not likely to be.
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The Virginia United States Senators.
Since writing our reply to the questions
or the Eno,lrer (Which reply appears else
where in this days issue of the D'spdtcH)
we have received the Baltimore Sun OF yes
tcrday, ard find in it the following speciai
telegram from Washington
rrr rxyTED STATES SENATORS FROM viRGI-
SIA-w1SIIEs OF PRESIDENT GRANT1fo"EkS
or THE VIRGINIA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
TIoNS, ETC
or Int IN relation TO the attitude OF the ire
sdcnt on the Virginia senatorship ana ne ,r.enp
of General Robert Williams nave ci ine,on Of thai
"fcer as against all other candidates The foilo"-
ING statement, prepared By Mcssrs AleXhnn .,r
Rives and James G. Paxton. SHOWS ln.t VII VII
I;ar9s his preferences are For his brotler-in-aw;
Dr. Alexander Sharpe, At present the MaI S,r o %
the District of Columbia. The card bciow WAS
voluntarily given for publication:
a JTus.ing'on September IS, 1859. Its perhaps,
Que to tic nbcto correct remark Ina. iis nc.,
attributed tn the President, indicating Scnc,1'
Willirms MS bis choice for senator from VIRGINIA
u have inst had a conversation with the fresi-
dent on this pci.t and beg leave 10 report 50 i"''
.t = S PRESIDENT said friend of General Will
liams told him that the Genera was LecelT t
many letters from Sirginia Soic h sod not y" be
', candidate without he knew 1t would be IA
vorahiv received or not objected TO Dy h!li'
The es Gent eP Mnnd h be- rad to s CODA
man as General Williams selected. But II j. n2l
true that he declared General Williams TO DC nj
1,g NrnC
no Ind perfect confidence and there might be
aters unknown to him having lc Sh hn T,..
ner for him to express any choice at all ne would
certainly rot have done 80 to the prejudice o. any
W;ckbann mn and others. also DR.. Sharpe, whom be
had long known, and whose Loyalty was persPicm-
ous displayed IN the hostile sC Tf IN
mo highest terms of his honesty and sincerity anG
thought them superior to all the temptations OF
private Interest, &c. hLEA. ny ~. ~
Attorney General Hoar has been applied 70 ior an
prinion as 20 The power under the constitution q.
he ncwly-eectcd Legislature Of SlrE1nla TO ciGct
md nri0r 70 tie admission Of The state by Con-
rcss. This opinion is requested by the c0nserT s
70 take any steps which might ieopardize the In
lcrests Of he state without first consulting Tie pro-
Der Law officer.
It will be seen that Messrs. PAXTON and
R1vEs, for some purpose or other,-"e know
not what-have made public conversation
recently held between them and Generai
GRANT. Perhaps Judge RIvEs thinks he
is one of those "other persons" TO whose
election General GRANT would not object;
md our friend GARDNER PAXTON, it Is pos
siblc. would consent to represent flrg1nli!
IN the national councils. However this may
be, we suspect that there is something
hidden which shall yet he revealed" III re-
card to the object ofthis telegram. One thing
is certain. Whilst General GRANT "would
he clad to see rs good man as General
WILLIAMS selected" and would also like to
sec DR.. SHARPE "and General WIcKHAM
and Others" chosen, there can be but two
senators elected. This famous telegram is
not likely to accomplish the object for which
it was Overwhelmingly. to influence the
Legislature to choose two of the WELLS
party for senator's, or offend General Grant;
Tor General GRANT had the good sense to
preclude the WellsitcS from threatening Us
with his displcasure by prefxing his re-
marks with the declaration that he "rould
"be glcdto see so good a man as General Va
.Uan.s elected" and by disclaiming any
right to choice in the matter, rs we'll as by
ntimating that there were others than DR..
SHARPE and General WILLIAMS whose cleo
ton would be acceptable to him. We
ire not sorry that the Radicals have
shown their hand at this early stage
If the game. We now see that they
would fain produce an antagonism
between General GRANT and the WALKER
men-betwecn the President of the United
States and the Legislature of Virginia. 1t
will be the duty of the Legislature to pre-
vent such Il result by clecting to the Senate
not DR.. SHARPE, nor Judge RIvEs, nor GARD
SER PAXTON, (nor General WICKHAM if he Is
engaged in this plot, rs we do not believe
he is nor any other WELLS man, but two
such men rs W. L. OWEN, JOHN f. LEWIS,
Gen. WILLIAMS, LEWIS MCKENZIE, FRANK
LIN STEARNs, DR.. 7. j. PRETLow, JOSEPH
SEGAR, General MILLsoN, and others of the
WALKER party. We repeat that we are not
the partisans of any man. We wish to see
Virginia returned to her place in the Go
ycrnment; and we do not wish to see any
BODY elected to the Senate who would
prove an impeachment in her road.
We are not anxious to send to the Senate
men whose election would crafty the ma
iority of Congress, but to send men whose
election would not displease them nor
ltlord them 4 prctcxt for veNing the State
with still further conditions precedent "
30 her representation in Congress.