The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-26
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Aou,e Of our conse!npo commit an
arnusing mistake when they regard the
little comedy recently played BY MI.
WEISS stock company Of carpet-baggers
81 marking the disintegration OF the grea.
political party which elected Governor
WAIxxx. The recent performers In Juase
UNpxxwoop's courtroom were, WIN IL"
excsDtions. the same dilapidated ana uh-
ncnn,ar actors who for five years nave
heen Alline our people with contempt anu
dislike. Every year they appear, anu essn
exhibition is more unpopular than the pre-,
y,ous extravaganza. Few OF WEISS ora
seocf company seem to die, and few no"
members appear. It consists Of CHANDLER
LINDSEY, PoxrER, WELLS, BOND, JESkISs'
and Rrvrs, one year, and OF LINDSEY sls',,
wa,ss. PoarEa, JEsKzSs, CHASpLER' anu
porp. the next. To these are added occa-
Jonallv BOILING, BOOKER, and FIELDS
Coox, who seem merely to I'LL the places
LEFT vacant by the retiring to private life Of
BArSx, WARpwKLL, and JOE Cox.
Neither are there any indications Of In
creasing prosperity to be discerned in MIR.
Wuls's old stock company. The costumes
and DISCUSSES arc each year becoming more
and more dilapidated and unsightly, and
their ".new pieces" are more wretchedly
acted than those with which they first en-
tertained US. Indeed, they have "stooped
to Conquer" 80 often without doing 80 that
they can now play no part successfully.
These performers can never become more
popular than they were last year, when,
With all the advantages Of military backing
and congressional aid, they were ignomi-
niously beaten. Their repeated failures
have shaken even the confidence Of the
freedmen In their ability to conduct q
canvass with any chance Of success. No
yirginiar OF political weight win venture
TO unite his fortunes with adventurous who
are 10 universally execrsted by the people
OF, this State as are WELLS, CHANDLER,
BoND, JxNK1Ns, UNDERWOOD, and PORTER.
These men have been Identified with the
advocacy of almost every measure OF pro
scription with which we have been threat
enedfor FIVE years. They will ever be associa-.
tedin the minds Of the outraged and insulted
people Of this State with bitter Memories
Of the loathsome carnival ~ 1.-THE Black
sos = u the worst features OF the
Bayne- Underwood Constitution-with the
atrocious ISLANDERS Of our people before the
Reconstruction Committees-with the judi
eisl outrages Of UNDERWOOD and the forma-
ticn OF midnight leagues, for poisoning
the minds Of the freedmen against their best
friends.
Hence it happens that whenever these
malignant prosecutors of our people ap-
pear upon the war-path they arouse our ap-
prehensions as much as marauding bands OF
Indians do the frontiersmen Of the far West.
We know that they do not want scalps and
horse-Aesh, but they are never actuated oy
higher motives than political spoils and
pillage. Come In what guise they may, the
body-gusrd Of WELLS can never win our
confidence. Whether they advocate uniyer-
sal Acknowledgement or universal amnesty,
our instincts Of self.preseryation teach us to
keep sleepless watch upon their move
ments. Like tho old hunters OF the plains,
we are not to be deceived by the DISCUSSES
OF OR radical Foxes and Camanches.
Itistherefore idle to suppose that because,
In their recent performance in the custom
house, WELLS, BOND, CHANDLER, JENKINS,
LINDSAY, and PORTER, exhibited LEWIS
NcKENzIy and sTEARNs as unhappy cap
tives, that they have "disintegrated the
Conservative party. The loss Of these I'M
happy victims will no more effect the
strength OF the Conservative party than
would the capture Of handful of scouts
disturb the power of great and we'll
organized army.
Indeed, 30 far as the capture Of Senator
LEWIS by WELLS Is concerned, we are
tempted to quote certain lines OF ROBERT
BuRas as to the fate Of an exciseman
s.The dali cam, adding through the town,
And danced ava VII the exctseman,
1i.S you luck Of the prize, mont
And many Draw thanks to the old black dell
That danced ava WI the exciseman."
And now that THH CONFERENCE COMEDY OF
WINES performers Is over, and the curtain
has dropped upon that most impudent farce
of q handful Of deserters denouncing Co.
vernon WALKER because he would not be-
tray Virginia into the hands Of her worst
enemies, who believes that the Conserva-
tive party has been weakened by the deser-
fion Of LEWIS & Co., who does not feel that
the great party which triumphed last sum-
mer Is not more united and stronger than 1t
was before TIE CONFERENCE did Its work of
defamation and SANDER! ..f. s.. .
And now, when we know that the most
INSCRIPTIONS, envenomed, and merciless
ndTenturers who ever preyed upon peo-
pie have organized for another raid, our
party will at once prepare for action. No
sentinel will sleep upon his outpost when