The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-03
TO the COIared Voters of the Third
Congressional District.

FellO,c- CittaenS THE white and colofed
Conservatives of this Congressional district,
in convention assembled. where all ware
fairly and fullyrepresented, have nominated
rs candidate for Congress Colonel Albert
Ordway and we here. in his behalf, ana
in behalf of the people whom we repre-
sent. earnestly solicit your suifrages for
him. In doing this we claim right to
your attention and favor from the fact that
Il is IN some measure to cOnciliate your pre-
judices that the Conservatives have put for
ward a gentleman who, while fully accept
able to them in character and ability ana
well-known political sentiments, commences
himself to your confidence because ne was
a Union man in the late VA; snitr toelsIn' 0r
! ,tho ,ajhrwi1tn achieved your emancipation.
This record might induce you 10 give MIN
an impartial hearing.
This much frankly avowed, for we Know
that in political, as in other affairs, honesty
is the best policy. Now, we ask you II you
cannot and will not meet your ConserYa-
tive fellow-citizenS half way in this prof
fcrcd compromise? You talk of our preju
dices, but how bitter and unreaSoning you
must be if YOU refuse to join us in electlng
Colonel Ordway simply because he is the
Conservative nominee, when you know that
by birth, education, association, record,
and principle, he is committed to the plat
form of equal rights. Moreoyer, you have
but tn know him to find. rs we have found,
that he is an honest man, 4 good man, and
one in whom we have the utmost conf
dence.
We have nothing to say against Hon,
Charles Fl. Porter, for gou knoac him quite
as we'll as we do. His loud professions
please you: but yOn kno'n him, we repeat.
It may he proper. however, to ask what
has he done for you or lis that we
should again send him to Congress? Has
his career reflected honor on himself, or OH
ANYBODY, or on anything? Has he done
ANYTHING for anybody's rights but his own,
rs in the Pat Woods case? and whose
prosperity has he increased, except bis
own? In point OF fact he has added to our
burdens, has lessened o,lr common liber-
ties, and has brought us all into contempt.
We need, and you more especially neea, q
man like Colonel Ordway to redeem this
district from the injury, wrong, and re-
proach which have been brought upon 1t
by MIR. Porter. You may, if you can, ac-
cord the best intentions to Mr.. Porter but
the truth is plain that he is powerlesS for
good, and only brings evil on those whom
he represents.
In Colonel Ordway we will all have re-
preventative pledged to do us all impartial
Justice, whose character will command re-.
spect everywhere whose labors will be un-
ceasing, not for himself, but for his con-
stituents whose abilities will prove equal
to any task we may set him, and whose in
tegrity is above suspicion. He knows the
wants of Richmond, of this district, and of
the whole State ; and he is a practical man,
who can devise the ways and means to sup
oily those wants.
In conclusion, we beg of every colored
man who values his liberty and personal in
dependence to shake off that political bond
age which is attempted to be fastened upon
them, and at this election vote regardless of
threats or promises, and be freemen not
only in name, but in ACTION.
Respectfully,
joseph LOUIS, Abrham Hall, Jno. Cooley,
Meade Cooper, John Jackson, Frederick
c. Coles, Richard Chiles. VIM. Young,
r. c. Hobson, D. W. Fraysher, Jr.,
Horace johnson, jas. Fl. Clarke, Dawson
Gardner, Robert Cooper, Walker How
ard, Robert hamilton, William Mundy,
Richard Jackson, Joseph B. Mason, JAS.
Storrs, Samuel Harris.