The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-05
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER ., 1870
THE CIRCULATION OF. THE D1sPATCF
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CULATIoN OF ALI THE OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
TO the Conservatives Of the Eighth
Conversational District.

NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
To the Conservatives Of the Eighth
Congressional District.
The State Conservative Committee deem
+ It In the line of their duty to address you
briefly on the somewhat anomalous 'condi-
ton in which you are placed in regard to
the candidacy for Congress in your dis
trict. - nr
The plan of this committee for making
Conservative nominations for Congress was
not adopted in the eighth district. and this,
it was feared by some, would endanger tue
unanimity Of the Conservative party in the
approaching election. We are happy to
have received, however, the most gratify-'
ing assurances that springing
from this source have been in a great de-
gree diSpelled.
A convention was. held at Marion, in
which it appears that fifteen out of eighteen
counties which compose the district were
represented by delegates chosen in open
meetings by the people of the counties re-
spectively; and no disapproyal Of the con-
yention nor dissent from its proceedings
has been expressed by the counties which
failed to send delegates. From several dis
tinguished gentlemen before it the conven-
ton selected General William Terry as the
Conservative candidate, and he has ever
| since been engaged in an active and able
canvass of the district. This mode ofnom-
| nation, it is well understood, was con-
ceived in no spirit of hostility to the plan of
the committee, for the Marion convention
was called before that plan had been made
| known generally, and before its features
! had become familiar to the people, and as
the choice of the convention fell upon O
sound Conservative, who is acceptable to
the party aud has been generally received
| as its representative, the district members
Of this committee Ito whom the supervision
of the canvass is intrusted,l doubtless
deemed it unwise to undo what had been
| already well done, and to order new NOM
| nation merely in difference to the plan of
| organization recommended by the commit
/ tee. In this view the committee entirely
concur. and they invoke for General Terry
| the warm and cordial support Of the Con-
servative party. = s
Here;we might close; but it may be per-
mitted to the zeal which anmates us in the
sacred cause of the State to add q word Of
caution: and. eXhortation. The numerous
and intelligent population Of your district,
the devotion Of its people to the cause of
good government, and the preponderating
| Conservative vote which that devotion has
ensured, entitle 1t TO compete with the fore
1 WOSb dS .CLG UEIluCis utotil fOlstuC ,kOO6iCs
CONSERVATIVES outside of the district watch
twhat you are doing with sympathizing
personal interest. They do not doubt your
success in adding q sound Conservative to
| the swelling ranks Of opposition in Con-
greSs, but feel anxious that no over.conf-
| dence, or want of circrImspe pection. shall
| imperil the permanent ascendancy Of Con-
servatisln in the district. This can only be
layoided by avoiding divisions among your
| selves. 7Ez ::sa
Two candidates ere before you seeking
| the, Conservative vote, but on grounds
which Me dissimilar, and now it is said a
/ Radical enters the field to profit by your
I supposed -dissenSions. Let this be the Sig
nal for an instant closing up of the Conser-
yative ranks and cutting off of all stragglers
and desertcrs. Even should the Radical de-
cline, your policy should be the same. The
enemy will in that event seek to hold the
balance of power and turn the scale in favor
! of the candidate least acceptable to the
| Conservative majority. Party demorali-
| Zation follows as a constant experience
on the success of such experiments.
| Therefore we cntreat you to keep the
party ranks firm and its discipline intact.
A candidate who once professed allegiance
to the Conservative cause and received It's
honorS now claims your votes on grounds
which are inconsistent with your existence
rs party, because he is OF was Il national
Democrat! Thus why may not the other
candidate set up for a national Whg? But
while you are settling that controversy
what will become of that Conservative
party which, sinking old party names and
party dissensions in the presence of great
common danger, banded together last yeaE
to rescue the half-lost franchises Of free
men, and now stands together to defend
and secure what was thus redeemed? !? The
perils which then beset us are not passed
The character and attitude of parties in the
State are now Just what they were then,
except in the degree that the dissentions
then existing in the Radical party have
been composed and healed. Wells heads
the organization now rs he headed it then
no spirit Us rcsolute, its material un.
changed, and its purpose the same-to Sc.
cure TO Il horde of foreign adyenturers con-
troll and domination over the white race,
In Il word, to make Virginia another South
Carolina !.
If there was need then, there is need
now, to sink past creedS and questions and
future party combinations in the absorbing
duties Of the hour. Preserve the State in
Conservative hands. Make that the test in
all elections, local or national. That makes
our party unit, and alone can keep il
so and no mans wisdom, however great
can be allowed to invent for it new tests OF
doctrines or affiliations. A good blow
struck in your beautiful Southwest is q
good blow struck for your brethren, less
happily placed elsewhere, who are strug
Cling against oVerpoWering majorities fol
social life, and who claim at your hant
prestige, the moral aid, the State iI1a
ence, of n great. unanimous SonthWf t.tl. /.
Conservative party. Cali out your; a.isf;
! strong men into the canvass, who hi HI
right to stay at home as if it concer1ev. v.5 v;..1
the candidate and is no affair of theirs. II
is the cause Of us all-and rely on it; that j,
our heartfelt wishes can avail 1t aught,
you shall have them all
| BY order Of the Committee.
4 R. T.DANIEL, Chairman.