Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-09-17
Campaign Document No. L,
ISSUED BY THE
GREELEY AND BROWN CENTRAL
COMMITTEE!
ORGANIZE FOR VICTORY

ORGANIZE FOR VICTORY!
TO the Conservative and Liberal Hoters of Nr
gsnsa:
The committee appointed, by the Centra
Committee of Greeley and Brown Campaign
Clubs, to prepare an address to the Conserva
tive and Liberal Republican Voters of Virginia
have prepared the following, which is publish
ed by request of the General Committee:
Rooms CLUB CENTRAL COMMITTEE, !
RICHMOND, September l, 1872. !
The Greeley and Brown Clubs of the city O
Richmond have organized Central Club Com
mittee, consisting Of delegates from each Club
which shall be charged with the duty ofextend
ing the Club organization, through the State
procuring cooperation among the friends Of tht
Liberal Democratic candidates therein, supply
ing Clubs with documents and speakers, diffus
ing and collecting political information, and
generally aiding the Conservative party to pre-
serve its organization, and 10 throw its vote
intact, at the coming election for our candidates
presidential and congressional.
The plan Of organization. hereto appended
will explain the mode by which it is proposed
to operate. We ask you at once to form Club
in your vicinity, to put it in correspondence
with US, and procure it to elect delegates to
this committee.
This Club organization may be made the most
efficient auxiliary to the regular Conservative
organization in the State. w bile that is com
posed of regulars, who have charge Of party
discipline and party matters generally, the
Clubs will gather together and organize the
enthusiasm, the zeal, and the energy of all those
who are willing to volunteer for the short can
vass, from now to the election. 1t will espe
cially attract the young, ardent, and active
spirits, who are burning for an opportunity tG
go to work. The Radical party in this State is
thoroughly organized. Il has paid canvassers
In the counties, enrolling the negroes In secret
oath boucd leagues, and long before the elec.
ton, will have bound its voters. by compact
organizations. to come out en- naasse and vote
for the Radical candidates. We propose to
meet this secret sworn organization, by open
avowed, frank action by enrolling our friends
and 30 enlisting their interest, by argument anc
reason. as to secure their perfect cooperation
To Virginia, the country looks to great ex
tent, for vindication of this Liberal movement
She promptly threw the weight of her mora
support on the side of Mr. Greeley, immediate
ly after the Cincinnati Convention, without
doubt or q moments hesitation, and her exam
pie consolidated the opposition to Grant, tt
such an extent, that the Baltimore indorsemen
became necessity. She indorsed Greeley, be-
cause Greeley was the representative of hel
own movement of 1869. And after all her trials
and sufferings, at this supreme hour of peril tt
public liberty-when the powers Of local self
government are almost entirely absorbed by the
Federal authority-when the rights of the peo
pie seem to be about to be taken possession O.
by the central power-when constitutional lib
erty appears to have passed away-she agaiI
steps forward to lead In the attack for the re
covery of rights, inherited from generations O
free ancestors. Virginia has done this before
When centralsm, under John Adams, had OBJ
tanned control of the Federal power, when th'
alien and sedition laws had given the Presiden
absolute power over free speech and free press
then, also, she stood forward to protect th,
rights of the people, and taking control of tn,
Government, so impressed her principles on it
administration, that they controlled it, for sxt.
years of peace and prosperity. She stands nov
to-day, in theyery front of all the defenders ant
protectors of the rights of the people. W.
ask you to aid in making her voice in Novem
ber, so pronounced, that there may be no mis-
understanding it.
BRADLEY T. JOHNSON,
PEYToN WISE,
W. ID. CHESTERMAN,
Committee.
Rooms OF THE CLUB CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Richmond, Ea., Sept. I'd, 1872
A meeting of delegates, appointed to consti
tnte Central Committee of the 'Greeley ant
Brown" Clubs of the State, and to utilize NOR
perfectly the efforts and effects of such clubs
was held in this city, on Friday evening, th
3Oth ult., at which the following clubs wer
represented, all of this city, to wit:
Young Mems Central Greeley Club, Gen. B
T. johnson, President.
Metropolitan Greeley Club, Franklin Stearns
President.
National Greeley Club. N. M. Lee, President
Old Dominion No. Greeley Club, Gen. B
T. johnson, President.
Marshall Ward No. Greeley Club, w.
NJ. Kellman. President.
Marshall Ward No. 2 Greeley Club, Geo.
Donnelly, President.
Virginia Greeley Club, W. j. Epps, Presi
dent.
German Greeley Club, George Klein, Presi
dent.
Liberal Republican Club, W. W. Putnam
President.
Stonewall Greeley Club, A. H. Lynneman
President.
Old Dominion Club, Of Jefferson Ward, E
B. Cook, President.
A temporary organization was effected by tn
appointment of VIM. B. Isaacs, Chairman, ant
Geo. G. Wilde, Secretary, whereupon Genera
Bradley I. johnson offered the following plal
of organization, which was unanimously adopt
ed:
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
I. Each club in this State, formed for tn
promotion of the election of Greeley and Brown
shall elect five delegates. of which its Presi
dent shall be one, to committee to be know
as ''the Club Central Committee.
IL This Committee shall have It's headquar
ters in Richmond, and shall have President
two Vice-Presidents, two Secretaries, Trea
surer, and an Executive Committee of seven.
LII. It shall procure list Of speakers VIII
are willing to attend meetings, and speak il
any part of the State, under the direction Q