The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-27

The REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE AND GENE
RAL SToNEaAN-THE TRUrH ToLD.-TEe
Richmond organ OF Governor Wells gives
place to the following resolutions passed by
the Republican State Executive Committee
-stIa late meeting s1'a1S s'sfA' 7d' afiH'Sl
s1 g yResolued, That the. Republican State
Executive Committee Of Virginia utterly
'repudiate the statement made BY the Rich
rmond Dispatch of the 10th instant, In which
it says the Republican State Executive
Committee passed resolution asking Gene.
raj Grant to- retain General tStoneman in
command in Virginia. And inssmuch as o
newspaper is supposed to desire facts for
public; consumption, sandg ifg reliable and
worthy Of trust, ever readyto correct mig
statements, the committee is surprised to
know that prompt denial was made by the
secretary Of the committee officially, but
the Dispatch, avoiding correction of its
misstatements, declined to publish the fact
/" Rssolved further, That there was no
such resolution passed by any minority Of
the committee, as published by the Journal
Of the same day." = - ,A@a1o
The statement of therDispatch was true
in every particular, these resolutions to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
There were three several attempts to get
q quorum of the committee, At first,
Lemue1 J. Bowden, Rush Burgess, J. A.
Smith, and &c, W. sButtz fthe two latter
being pro1ies) were present. These were
a quorum and the resolutions in, regard to
General Stoneman were about to be intro
duced lit being known that q majority was
strongly in favor Of them, when Rush Bur-
CESS, the only member in opposition,
abruptly left the room, thus destroying the
quorum. Twice afterward the members
were called together; but Burgess would
not "'come to- time." Finally, those who
were present unanimously agreed to send
the resolutions to President Grant, with a
statement of the circumstances attending
their passage.,S ozA @%E ~ i>'t''.-f
The. members present on this occasion
were Lemuel J. Bowden, E. W. Massey,
and J.A. Smith, proxy for D. NJ. Norton,
either of whom will make affidavit to the
facts substantially as stated, ---
We append copy Of the resolutions as
agreed upon :: = = s .t.' zT,'s'4 ass
/" ReSolued, That this committee deem it;
of great Importance to the interest of Vir-
ginia that Msjor-Genersl Stoneman be not.
relieved from the command Of this military.
district. CIT
"Resolued, That the secretary be di-
rected to toward copy Of this resolution
to the President of the United States"
And as to the communication of the se-
cretary &. M. iHumphreys) denying our
statement, we have only to say that We did
not publish it Immediately for three rea-
sonsi First-Because we were unwilling to
take the word of Mr.. Humphreys in pre-
ference to that of our informant, whom we
know to be reliable Second-Because we
know that MIR. Humphreys was not in
Richmond, but in Washington, when the
action referred to was taken by the commit
tee. And third-Because we wished to lay
all the facts before our readers at the same
time with Humphreys rather impertinent
communication. s-.E.y aars,g + ~
This much we have thought proper to
say in reply to the imputationf that the
Dispatch has misstated facts and declined
to make correction. As the second resolu-
tion, referring to what was published by
the organ Of the committee, THAT Edgar
Allan took the resolutions to Washington,)
we concur with the majority of the COM
mittee in saying that q part of that state
ment was without foundation. 1t never ap-
peared in the columns of the Dispatch.
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