The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-29
Senator DoolittIe. Governor Walker
and W. II. Seward. Jr.. Gone
to hRrI0fte.
THE OLD NORTH STATE FAIRLY KOUnEn
Special telegram to the Dispatch.

Special telegram to the Dispatch
GREENSBORO, n. c., July 27.-Senator
Schurz has at last spoken in North Carolina.
His presence had been so frequently prom
ised before without his making his appear
ance that the crowd which gathered to hear
him to-day, though great, was not so large
by several hundreds as it would have been
had there been certainty of his coming.
The interest in the matter was shown,
however. not alone by the arrivals of per-
sons from distant parts of the State on the
faith of the announcement in the papers, but
also by the tclcgrlms received here from all
points inquring his whereabouts. Unfor-
tunatcy, the tidings that he was actually en-
route did not come until late this morning,
and the anxious crowds in Raleigh, VIII
mington, and elsewhere could not get here
in time. Is 1t Wh5, though, his audience
was numbered hy thousands, and embraced
representatives ofall shades of political opil!-
ion and all classes Of the populrtion.
Considerable disappointment was felt at
the non-arriyal Of Governor Walker, whom
everybody is anxious to hear; but he, with
schurz, Colonel Mcclure. Governor Vance,
Mr. Doolsttlc. and Mr.. O'Connor of South
Carolina, will speak to IN imnclIse audience
at Charlotte OH Monday:
ARRIVAL or THE DISTINGUISHED aIsSorRIAS.
Senator Schurz arrived on the $3.50 train.
having left New York yesterday afternoon.
He w;,s met ut Eeidsvile by Mayor Sl"an
and il committee of citizens, and when he
stepped from the cars to the dcr0t platform
he was greeted hya large ccncour>c OF per-
sons. The band played inspiring airs, and
there was a general enthusiasm. General
Schurz was placed in Il carriage and driven
ral!dls TO The Benbow House, where he
dncd, and few minutes afterwards met the
crowd assembled in grove on the outskirts
of the town to hear him speak.
His reception here also was most enthusi-
astic. lie was introduced by Col. John A.
Gimcr. who complIncntrd him AS one of :hc
foremost champions of the right, Of man.
General Schurz commenced by saying that
he had hardly ever appeared before an ALL
dicncc with greater consciousness Of being
unable to fulfil its expectations, wearicd as
he was by four days Of travel, with hardly Il
moments rest and hardly able to stand or TO
think. He felt unusually embarrassed.
What he had to say WAS to he spoken with
out preparation. s1vca few notes made while
at dinner few niniltts ago;
lie then SPOKE substantially as follows:
Ills POLITICAL AHTECEDENTs.
| belong, iellow-ctiZcnS, to that political
school which most Of you knew, but did not
love, before the war Us anti->Iavery men.
started out with the Republican party, and
my political life has leen wholly devoted to
the advocacy Of its principles. Ali my cncI-
gies have bccn given to the work OF carry
ing its leading idc;ls into practical lille; Tor
have sincerely desired that all slavery should
disappear from our beloved land--the land
Of my adoption--and that all persons should
enjoy to the fullest extent the blessings of i
republican form Of government. In the ser
vice of these ideas have stood, so far, in the
ranks Of the Republican party, and these are
my principles to-day. 1t am not fighting
in their ranks ii is their fault, not mine.
1t is my ardent wish that crtry man should
breathe the free air Of Heaven lis Il freeman,
and because this is my desire | stand here
to-day arrayed against many Of my old COM
rades. The Republican party was organ-
izcd, must remind you, i'll the first place,
to prevent the extension of slavery in the
Territories of the United States. That ac-
colnplished, the war began, and the standard
was raised higher. 1t was demanded that
slavery should be abolished. The war
closed, slavery was abolished, and. i'll order
to protect the cmancipated race in the enjoy
ment of their new rights, as Il logical neces-
sity the right of suffrage was given them.
The support of all these measures was with
the Republican purity, and | went further.
! endorsed the reconstruction policy of the
Republican party on the ground that revo-
lutionary measures are necessary in rcyoltI-
tionary times. But these things accom-
plished, and the logical results of the war
being incorporated in the Constitution of the
United States, new questions arose.
The political eye sweeping larger horizon
sought to compass the means by which we
might be made reiinited nation. We had
delivered the blacks, and it remained with
lis to effect the highest dcliveance for the
whitcs--eyen those who were lately in re-
belion. We thought the time had come
when every man North and South should
feel himself full citizen of this Republic,
and look upon the Stars and Stripes not as
. symbol Of dsslsee and conquest, but Of