Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-20

HS9 IL ilotuinS J0uFnai yesterday
published remarkably good telegraphic
dispatch, headed "Reports of North
Carolina Banks. An abstract of re.
ports of North Carolina banks shows ar
aggregate of $2,6O0,0O0. The specie
in the banks amounts to $4,000, 0O0.'
That's mighty small aggregate to a
tremendous pile of specie. Such bank
ing is singular, to say the least.
PORTRAIT OF GOV. WALKER.
Editor of the Norfolk DAY Book:
heard in the Piedmont country, in
tee late canvass, several Of the speeches
Of the Hon. Joseph Segar, from one o.
which | noted down his portrait of our
candidate for Governor, Col. Walker
and having first submitted my notes to
Mr.. S. himself, used them freely and
advantageously in the canvass of nv
county by repeated public reading OF
them to small gatherings of the people,
The exhibition of this fine portrait of
our man may increase the ill-humor of
our defeated and lachrymose friends,
but If you choose to make the inAiction
by publishing it, it is at your service.
Hurrah ! for our candidate and Cover
>nor elect Hard to beat Is he not z?
NJ NJ A
If, unfortunately, you should fail to
elect good Legislature, you have yet
another reliance. Elect good Cover
nor and you are safe The remarkable
men who framed this most remarkable
Constitution, either Intentionally or by
accident, did do some wise things.
They conferred on the Governor the
veto power; so that if bad Legislature
should pass bad and oppressive law it
can be struck down by Executive pros
hibition. But, can you elect good
Governor With perfect ease, if you
so will Register to man, and vote
to a man, and the thing is done. You
will have then 10000 majority to be-
gin with. But who is the man? You
have in Gilbert @. Walker, of Norfolk,
the very man we need, the very man
for the crisis, Why, if you could but
eco him your liking for him would start
at once; for be is one of the finest
specimens of mortality you ever looked
upon. He stands full six feet two in
his stockings, with all the developments
of a splendid manhood, and face that
instantly ignores all guile you see no.
bility in him at a glance, We often
see nobility in the physique and appear
ance OF men. No one ever saw Henry
Clay that he did not at once discover
mobility in him his lordly presence,
and almost God-like aspect, at once be-
spoke him one of natures noblemen-
and SO with Col. Walker Had | him
here to-day to show you, you would at
once say 4" Well, we can safely vote
for that man; we like his looks he
looks the man" And he has other
qualities which are unerring evidences
of genuine merit. He is modest man.
We used to read in Murray's grammer
in our schoo-boy days, " Modesty is
quality that highly adorns a woman"
but it is no less true that it as much
adorns a man as woman; and neither
You nor | have rarely known modest
man who was not a man of worth.
Col. Walker, ] assure you-for | know
him WELLS particularly a modest man.
of the gentlest and most unaffected
nlodesty, with no swell of pretension
no swaggerer, but deferential and re-
firing more distrustful, far, of his own
merits than others are for him. Take
truly modest man for Your Governor
and you can't miss it. He does not, in
any way, belong to that miserable, ex-
ecrable and execrated class, the carpet
baggers, who wera too worthless at
their native homes to command there
the very lowest offices, or the lowest
grade ofrespect, and who, utterly worth
less at home, come down here among us |
to cheat the poor negro of his small |
change and of his vote, and to get
places among us which their own ma
tive fellow-citzens would scorn to en-
trust them with; bnt he is man of
one OF the solid men" (as !
Mr.. Webster would say of the land of
bis adoption, towhich he has brought
a most ample capital and invested in
our Industries, employing our citizens
and 'aborers, giving meat and bread
and raiment to hundreds of our de-
pendent poor, buying fuel, coal, iron
and other supplies from our farmers
and merchants, and swelling the vol
ume of our industry, and prosperity.
and recuperation He has his money
employed in our banking institutions,
in extensive iron works, aud in real es-
tate, SO that his interest is our interest.
and he cannot harm property holder
in Virginia without harminc himself
and his. He is one of us and for us
no kin at all to carpet baggers, and I
think we can tie to such a stake. Be-
sides, he Is that ''Eoblest work of God
IN honest man." No breath of suspicion
las sullied the mirror of his fair fame.
Is is we'll known to his fellow citizens
If Norfolk, in whose midst he has lived
ince his advent to the State of his
.doption l repeat, he is emphatically
IN honest man. You may 90 to SLEEP
my night and wake up in the morning
With the undoubting assurance that
our public works remain to you un- {
old to foreign and dangerous rivals
nd that the nativeborn people of Vir, S
I.