The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-19

lullOllti HDCTllcS, IL ulu UoG sweep Iue: uoi
many others, into the vortex of Radcalism
aud injusticc-but it left me standing with
you, amid the wreck and timbers of our
old God-given rights.
/ share with you to-day the common
dangers and common hopes OF our unfortu-
nate position. u > :. -.
AS to the present and the future. know
of no difierence-I recognize no difference
I am with you and Of you. say these things
to you now thus frankly that you may feel
assured that you may depend upon me with
perfect security and with the utmost conf
dence, and because we have willy and un-
scrupulous foe to Geal with.
And now, eentlemen-and l am sorry to
say it, fear there is too much apathy in
our midst, too much encouragement in re-
gard to the fight We are about to commence.
Why is thisy Who are these faint-hearted
ones? Are you afraid to meet thousand
Radical majority in this district? Aye, if
it were twice thousand, would you be
willing to admit that it was beyond your
power. Why, gentlemen, what have you
not to incite you? "
Have you not a man opposed to you re-
pugnant to every sentiment ofyour souls?
Inimical to every interest of your lives?
llave you not a party arrayed against you
that has deprived you of every right
robbed you of every privilege, and op-
pressed you in every way? Have you not
everything possible to. excite you in this
desperate struggle about to commence?
This is no hopeless contest. tell you
iplainly, gentlemen, that if you will but
awake, strain every nerve, throw off all
depression and apathy, this boasted Radi-
cal majority will bc overcome-it will dis
appear like chaff before q Whirlwind. Let
us have an uprising ofthc people-a ground
swell that shall sweep everything before it..
There is but little time for the contest.
Too little for me, [ fear, even if | were a
public speaker, to personally canvass every
county. Most of my work, however, will
be silent work, and it rests with you to
create that enthusiasm in your district
which will awake the people to their inter-
ests and organize them for victory.
Sec 40 it, my friends, that we have no
party dtIcrcnce>--let all be united for the
great conflict. See to it that every regis
tered Conservative voter is polled, and all
will be well.
Above all, what is finally important to
win IL the victory, bend all your energies
to convince the colorcd voters that neither
their interests nor their opinions should
permit them to vote for our adversary.
, You have so many weapons of argument
and influence to use with them that it is
unnecessary for me to specify.
do not make this appeal for mysel!-far
: from it | make it for the good and the sue
cess of our great Conservative party. Ce.
! mcnt il. foster it, strengthen it, organize it;
Cor tell YOU, gentlemen, there is more in il
than You have yet drpamt Of. IforcSec that
this same organization will yet give TO Yir-
ginia the balance of power in the political
councils Of tie n9tion-that it will lie the
nucleus of the greatest and most powerful
party ever yet organized in the county
h,f ,I,o,,
the time comes we shall not have to choose
which Of the two present parties we shall
Join. but that YOU will lind all the honest,
lust. and l;neTal-Ininued men OF both par.
ties tiockinm 10 our own standard. which
shall then be uui'ulcd for the restoration OF
all the safeguards aud rights OF the old Con
stitution.
Again, gentlemen. | thank you for The
honor yolt have conferred upon me, and,
in conclusion. cin only say that l shall
spare no effort 10 bear aloit our standard,
and >liaIl depend upon YOUR hearty support
TO sustain me in the fight.
ADJOURNED.
| After vote Of thanks 10 Col. CarringtOn
70. the use of his roOEl>, the Convention
adjourned in the greatest harmony and good
feeling. Every one seemed animated with
the earnest intention to ID everything that
was honest and honorable to defeat the
Radical candidate, and TO leave no stone
unturncd in their efforts to aid the gallant
Grdway III hcaiing aiUit the standard OF
conservation, and planting them in triumph
upon the di>mantled ranparts OF pOrlcriSm.
SKETCH or THE NOMINEE.
Col. Albert Urdway, the chosen Standard
bearer OF ihc Conservatives OF the third
congressional district, is well and 1ayOrably
known 10 every citizen cf Richmond and
to Il majority OF the voters Of the district
as All accomplished gentleman, OF business
capacity and experience, and Withal II
thorough-goi Conservative. lie was
born in Boston February "A, 1S4l, and is
therefore only twenty-nine years of age.
He was educated ut the Lawrence Scientific
school OF s:arvard University, under Proi.
LOUIS AgassiZ. He had just graduated
when the war broke out, and soon after
wards entered the United States army as a
lieutenant in the 2ith massachusetts volun-
tecrs. Many OF the Richmond l.. /. Blues
retain kindly lecolections of his friendly
services to them when they fell into the
hands of his regiment at Roanoke Island,
and those who were then his prisoners
have been perhaps the most urgent advo-
Gates of his claims as q candidate for Con-
greSs.
i Colonel Ordway served during most OF
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appointed to succeed General Patrick as
Provost Marshal General of Virginia. In
this capacity he made himself very popular
WS.h the people of this state and with the
more conservative Federal officers, and pro-
uortionately obnoxious to the authorities
ut Washington, to whom he was reported
by certain Radicals for allowing the farmers
to retain the horses left them by the raider
Sheridan. The war over, he determined TO
l., r.{r In
Richmond his place Of residence. In April,
1866. he married Il Virginia lady, 4 daughter
OF Colonel Shimuel Goodwin, long 4 member
of the Virginia Senate and House of Dele
gates from Isle of Wight. We may add,
perhaps without indelicacy, that the wife
of his choice is Of the strongest kind OF
southern procliyities.
Colonel Ordway's course rs citizen Of
Virginia has been such as to win the un-
qualified endorsement of every one who has
the welfare of the State at heart. POlitl-
cally he has never hesitated to avoW himself
a Conservative, and to lend his means and
Influence for the success of the party in op-
position to Radicalism, by whatever name
it might be called. In the City Council
appointed by General Schoticld he stood a
head and shoulders above his associates,
and originated many measures for the inn
provement of the city, the wisdom of which
time has fully demonstrated. Governor
Walker endorsed his course in that body
by making him member of the Enabling
Act Council, and the people put the stamp
of their approval upon his conduct by re-
turning him by Il large majority at the gem
eral election last May. Afterwards. belley-
inc it his duty to resi- en- his seat in the Coun-
cil' he was chosen by the Chamber of Com
merce as a member of the joint committee
on the Improvement of the james river, and
subsequently, was made the chairman of
that committee. He is largely interested