The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-24

rd political Meeting NJ Goochland
Courthouse.

r,-rcspondcnce OF tiic ttlcn'nono dispatch.
MASAKlN; June %, 1869.
Yesterday being court-day, q large num-
Il the citizens of the county assembled
:, tbc Courthouse for the purpose of hold
~ meeting to nominate candidates for
40 Senate and House of Delegates. lr.
The Conservative county committee met
. an early hour, and, after discreet and
D. ,,nrc dclibcration, nominated General
Wis I. Stone as n candidate to represent
,h;s senatorial district, composed of Flu
~, Powhatan, and Goochland, in the
.1 General Assembly of Virginia.
rsrtain 4. c. Page was nominated rs the
..n3;iate to represent the county of Gooch-
t"nj in the House of Delegates.
The county committee adopted the Walker
s,a.n ticket. and recommended the same to
II The counties of the State of Virginia.
Alter the Adjournment of the committee
no honorable county court, )" which had
,brn been upon the bench an hour or two,
.jienrncd for the people to hold q mass
.,rrtinC and listen to the distinguished
-o,,Icmcn who had been invited to address
he citizens Of the county on this occasion.
The meeting was called to order by the SUI
rcr;ntcndcnt of the county committee, and
mon notion, John Woodsoh, ESQ.,, was
s'cricd chairman and your correspondent
,ho,cn secretary of the meeting.
Iron the motion of 4. h. Lcake, ESQ,
the nomination of General Charles ?. Stone
VA, declared by reclamation.
Your able, worthy, and distinguished
tovnsmau Alexander R. Holiday, ESQ.,,
was introduced TO the audience. His manly
srucarance. his intellectual brow, his unaf-
tcc;cl manner, and his soul-stirring scnti-
mcpts, bespoke for him the true Virginian,
interrupted and incorruptiblc. He com
mcnccd by saying that the times which are
mon us, and the circumstances which envi-
r5a us, call upon every Virginlau for
'sc,ion. snd he bclivcd that every true Fir-
-inian would nobly and cffcctually respond
70 the cal. He depicted in classic terms
fire miserable gloom that would spread
orsr this and future generations if Wells,
tic tcs;-oath and DISTINGUISHING clauses,
we're forced upon us; that the people
Of Virginia possessed the ample means
o., turning aside from the beloved land of
their birth go dire q calamity. He declared
that the TEXTURES which were sought to be
y,pursutcd were unknown to the organic
Inv Of any civilized people; that they were
the very essence Of tyranny and oppression
such as the Russian Government never
dreamed Of. His scathing remarks on test
oath men and scalawags fell with pondrous,
crushing weight. He closed by urging
every man to register, vote, and win the
lay, Oh the eth Of July.
Walter y. LcaSc, Esq, the champion Of
the white mans rights, was next called to
the stand. He said the cry to Yirginia's
sons to fall into line came from every quar-
ter Of this renowned old State, and well it
might. Danger Was ahead, and the stran-
ccr coming upon the soil of Virginia would
he struck with the times that the carpet
bagrcrs, evil and designing men, had come
among us to stir up the colored population
against the white man; that they arc now
seeking to tie the hands and hush to silence
the voices of Eirginia's native sons, that
they may FIJI their Golfers with the peoples
nancy, and this now seemed to be the
colorcd mans political platform that the
distinguished politician who represented
the county of Goochiand in the Convention
made u speech few days ago upon the
court-crccn, in which he said old masters
hands must he tied, DISTINGUISHING and
ie,t-oath clauses retained that the white
man must be put down and kept down.
Dir. Lcakc told the colored men that they
had aaintcd Lincoln that they had &C
counted their freedom unto Abraham for
righteousness. In this connection, he read
from a speech of Lincoln to show that
he was not friend to negro SUI
rsgc: that he did not believe in
il; and that the colorcd people had
NJ occasion longer TO cHtol the praises
Of Abraham on that score. Mr.. Lcake seems
10 be peculiarly fitted for holding up carpet
baggcrs before n Virginia audience; and
Wells is the man he hates above all the car
Vet-bag crew. He looks upon him as the
arch demon Of the carpct-bag nation; and
made to the people Of Goochland so wonder
ful an crpoSa of his abominable traits Of
character that time will never efface it from
memory. He paid n handsome tribute tc
Colonel Walker, telling the people that t.
vote for him was the path to peace and
prosperity.
Colonel John II. Guy, of the city of Rich,
mond, was next called TO the stand. Spoke
Of the many ties that fastened him to the
beloved old county OF Goochland, the warm
friends and the familiar faces that greeted
him, the undying importance of the coming
election, the great responsibility, and the
imperative duties that were incumbent
upon this hearted and patriotic peo-
pie; that the great West was calling upon
every Gcochland son to rally to the
standard of Walker and liberty that he
had heard that some Of his personal
friends were doubtful about the course they
ought TO pursue in the coming contest
Was gricvcd that they could be doubtful
when the path of duty appeared SO plain
that tue cry of liberty and civil rights was
sounding from the eastern valleys to the
mountain gorgcs, and reyerberating back
from mountain cayerns to the seaboard,
funmoning every Virginia son to rise III
the majesty of popular right, and inscr1be
upon Nirginias bosom the white man
government H.
J. W. Iunnicutt was occupying the
stand when your correspondent Lett the
courthouse, had planted himself upon the
Walker platform, and VAS heaping up his
venom upon Wells, Bond, Dudley, Wash
burne, Iortcr, and company.
The white voters of the county of Gooch-
land are thoroughly aroused, and are, like
men, in the language of Colonel Gilbert Z:
Walker, battling for the emancipation OF
the white men Of Virginia and the restora-
ton Of the Commonwealth to peace and
prosperity. }. 5. ;.
1t Alexandria up to 2 o'clock Tuesday
there were registered, whites, 523; blacks,
POS. \ gain of 3l8 i'll the city alone. The
negro majority was 600 in the city and
county al the last registration. Subtracting
TIE above and the hundreds Of NEGROES