The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-26

while the bloody Gains mark shines fresh
red from their foreheads and none Of them
even could say, "Am / the keeper Of my
brothcr3" for indeed that they were, and
had even by force made themselves such.
Whose fault is Virginia's backward condi-
ton? you ask. Why, certainly yours alone.
Secondly, the nobodies' State that love and
respect for labor Is their most precious in
| heritance from the Old Country, and by that
| they wanted to restore the prosperity ofthc
State, but were prevented from doing SO by
| the Conservatives, who, rs they say would
not readily submit to the shameful conditions
OF the victorious power. They blame the
Conservative citizens for that, saying that
! the shame Of those conditions did not attach
itself to the conquered, but to those who
imposed them.
Eow, in the first instance, we see what
| truth there is in their professed love
and respect for labor, when, we find
that those nobodies mostly left work
ness and decentralization of freedmen's
bureaus, and thus making their own
living out of them in some official capacity.
And, as to the sincerity of what they say
about their Conservative fellow-citizens,
| and of what they say in regard to the shame
that rests upon the party of military des-
potism, they prove themselves false by still
| adherins and advocating that very same
| shame-cotered party.
Thirdly, they make the following asser.
| tion The most encouraging invitations
having been made for emigrants and capital
| to come; they calfle but hardly had straH-
ger set his foot upon the soil of the State
than he found himself prescribed as a mean
and vile Yankee and catpetlbagger; so that
especially those who had the moral courage
to express opinions contrary to those of
the old residents in many instances imme-
diately returned by the next train home
ward-bound. =,
| Now I feel certain all of you, fel1ow-citi-
zens, know that this broad and unqualified
assertion is absolutely untrue, and [ can
add my own personal experience, which
dates back to the summer Of '66. Most all
cessively. Emigrants and investing ca
pitalists I have met frequently. All |
have seen and heard of were received
r,ost cordially by tha old residents in social
Intercourse, and In business transactions
We're treated farly; and with the evident
purpose to assist and etc6ilraks them to
make Virginia pleasant to them, and to in
duce others to follow their example. But
I have also found aniong those newcomers
| SOME really n}cari,, and vile fellows; and
carpet-baggers. THEY Haf5 been; Indeed;
| treated as such. although by far not so Sc
yerely as they deserved, and as such cha
racters would have been treated anyWher-
| else. AS for those knights of moral courage
who came, expressed contrary views, and
rushed home again--well; we may pass
| them in silence: Like those courageous no
bodies; they amt of much account, and the
State need not regret their departure.
After that the pam Ephlet breaks out in the
| following lamentation
mn yo
| eources again. FlrJaWanS must rule pfr-
gifut'. FT5n' thdt, gracious Oo@ may SAGE
u.s."
Fcllow-citizcns, believe there is 10. !"
single one among you, native or adopted;
who having here in Virginia his home does
| 'ot t,raR from, bis very heart, that Virginia
never stiai =, i,v i,,!c{. aga'n BY my oile else
but Virguians and as the true Rcpuhiicai$; ;
we must add that no other state or land bc
ruled by any one else but by its own cltl-
Zens. ijut For here pre our nobodics
they want to rule this State; .:ht ohFecf'ng
to the rule Of NirginianS, they OF course
feel and declare themselves not to be Nir-
gnians. Neither are they German citizens,
Tr Germany honors Herman, who de-
liyertd IL OF The rula of the Romans. Ii
| boI,ors old BlticI}Cri %,''o ,drQrc Napoleon
and the French from tie Eati'eratld: The
German rcopIc applaud the words, " Italia
Glra da Sc" 1T sympathizcs with every one
who sIid-s'es FOR independence. asIinst
oppression. How can Gtrr.ans! therefore,
bear to see degcncrated nobodies, claiming
to be Germans, object here that flrTnlans
shall trtas vireinta Object to the relying
on the immensely rlcn rcsT":rccss ot rhe
State ? do not advocate the gone-by errors
of Known Nothingism, which, parting ON
first ideas and motives,-perhaps true, no.
ble, ard gcod-afterwards degenerated mt
intnterrncs end oppression ard died
! throt;tf ssntl3hrt W it's FORMER friends
But we can readily he recoisciicd to tic iris
r,1ided Know Nothing, who, as Jealous
Champion of sclt-govcrnment, was carried
away to false sequelS, and returned us Il!
los. so;1 = tka hoftse Of his father, and can
feel great Joy over his 1ettrL "flle' on
the other hand. one can only despise those
creatures on the opposition ticket VINO, iof-
merly Know-Nothings, now tight against
Yirglnians ruling Virginia.
if atpSfrs TO G'e that no sensible Con-
servatiye man wants hat OILY fre nat111,e
and to the manor-born shall rule the StaIe.
Facts near at hand prove sufficiently the
proper appreciation of virtue IN adopte!a
citizens. and most consplcuously proves II
;i,...f s~hhfIent Goy6rnar.
Nav therefore rule Iii fiTg1-la the Eng
lish system of constitutional self-SoVerE--
ment, the German proverbial industry and
economy as we'll as the German profound
learning, meditation, and tolerance; let
there rule French courtesy, taste, and
rrarnfujriess let the Italian refined sense
for arts rulc in Virginia, and all that which
can be brought FROM atty foreign land
| fFo,I9h IT. be good and desirable only, after
the citiseils OF Virginia fs7e learted to;ag
preciate the, same and have niaSe It tfefr
own; and let never anything; any system,
or any tyrant, foreign or domestic, be I'M
nosed' upon the people against their own
| wish and viii. ,
having become adopted Virginians, / am
sure You feel, as would If it had been my
lot to become citizen here-none but IT.
ginians shall rule you.
Let that be your sign and countersl9n TO-
morrow. In hoe signo pinces! Here Id thl'
beautiful and hard-tried city, here where
the noblest monument in America, on Capl
fol Hill. represents before yotlr eyes the
nroud history of Virginia, the mother Of Ere
sidents: here in this hall, dedicated to Ger
man public and social life, with its emo ping
surroundings of music and music art; mere
| in this Monticello Hall, which fills our mnds
and elevates our hearts with remembrance
of jefferson and Independence. let ever.
man here tonight feel himself flfglnlai
only. Let every man pledge his sacred
honor to use every lawful effort to de-
feat the nobodies in their scheme to enslaye : v
vour State, so that tomorrow, like that be-
nighted English rsllrper, they may: terror
stricken, believe against them ten klch'
monds in the field. H.,
And when, then, night comes on tnere
will in IFS darkness sink forever that party
of violence, of usilrpation, and of military
desnotism and there let it, with the Cha
hoon case, and with Chahoon himself, bt
buried from the sight of men under thoss IS,