The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-22
The Campaign Opened III tie alley.
VIRGINIA AND coNSECT1cItr ON TiaE
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the whole populations OF Rockingham county.
Va, male and female, commenced moving
towards Taylor Springs, where Che first mass
| meeting of the Conservative party and the
| formal opening of tie campaign in the great
| Valley Of Virginia was to take place. by 0
| o'clock a. NJ. the whole road, four miles in
length, was crowded with carriages, pIIGtons,
buggics. hacks, omnibuses, wagons, carts. and
| pedestrians. From every section Of Rock
| insham county they poured in to take part in
| the grand opening. At 0 O'Clock special
| train arrived, crowded with enthusiastic
Grcelcyites from Shenandoah county, who
brought with them full brass band They
were received at the der0t by the Greeley
| Club and escorted to the Springs. A CORE
| sppndent Of the Baltimore Sun writes:
At the Springs the immense crowd that
| went through lfarrisonburg were met by an
other outpnuring of the people from the
eastern section Of this and Augusta coln-
| ties. and the immense grove was thronscd
| with the sturdy ycomanry of the Valley, who
| had LETT their pIoughs and farms to give this
on, day To the great cause of political re-
| form.
Al II o'clock the proceedings were com
mcnccd 10y Charles 4. Ianccy. Esq, presi-
dent Of th" Greeley Club, calling the crowd
! to order.
Judge 4. j. Cochran, of Virginia. was the
first speaker introduced. Judge Cochran
| had not come here f. make Il speech. but was
| ALWAYS ready Ia say or ,lo something for the
cuI~c in which Virginia aud the whole South
| nj, ~, 4
r,rricd hy the Radical party 1t will be placed
in the same dcplorable condition of the
states south of lis. who are now under Radi-
cal rllc--hurdencd with debt her treasury
cmpticd Ivy lght-n@crcd carpct-ba"gcrS and
ScalawayS, and even our charitable institl-
lions he compelled to empty their inmates
out upon the world for the want of means
to support them. Virginia would he in the
SINE condition to-day but for the Walker
movement of 1869. which put the State into
the hands OF her own people, and we must,
to complete the work then commenced, give
the State TO Greeley and Brown by Il ro,I>-
in" majority.
Ihc people were warned against the
"<Ira"ht-oIt>." They arc the indirect SER
wants ui the Grant party. and the Louisville
Convention would he willingly operated and
paid Tor hy the Administration. Greeley,
though always IN aboliioni>,. has done
more to develop the southern country and
aid the southern people than any other one
: man in the country. He had not only pllr-
chased property in the South himself. but
had been the means OF many of or citizens
{ ,ining capital with which TO conduct
= their business. The speaker was personally
. ru%nizaml of these facts. The Judge con-
rluAcd with al eloquent and powerful ap-
4 peal to Nir"inInnS not To grow weary in the
work unlil after the election in November.
when Greeley and Brown would be placed
in power, and the liberty of the southern
people once more insured.
At the close .! the speech IN artillery >a-
late was fired. and three cheers were given
' for Greeley and Brown.
Il Hon. W. l.. Brewer. Of Connecticut, was
y next introduced, and WAS received with pro.
' longcd cheering. He said he was here !,
y guest at the Springs. and as he had lIccn
y healed hy their lilc-yivIn~ waters he hoped
y the stream of pure political waters started
Z here to-day would flow on until ihc whole
. country WAS healed of the corruption that
g diseased and diSyraccd every department OF
the Government. Uudcr the law General
Grant could have declared martial law in
Virginia and in Connecticut, and could also
in New York, but he dare not do il. and be
had wished that power to be continued in
t his hands. The Democrats Of the North
: were in earnest III this matter. Horace Gree
ley was not their first choice. They would
have liked some other mau who had affiliated
, more closely with them than Greeley, but
like true patriots. when the question of the
good 81 the country WAS presented, they pre-.
, irrIcd an honest man, 10 matter what his
! party, ana in November Connecticut would.
l hc believed. give Il majority Tor Greeley and
i Brown, and New Hampshire would follow in
the same road. judge Brewer occupied only
about fifteen minutes. and closed amid Iullcll
: cheering and another round Of artillery.
- Dir. :. Ii. Muilctt, one Of the delegates to
;, the Baltimore Convention from this district
- WAS next introduced. He said he WAS an old
- tim" IcntIl-L'ginn Democrat, and rcioiccd
= III III" opportunity OF appearing here to-day
= to proclaim his prncp lCs and to do his work
6 Surprise was expressed that he, an ultra pro.
u slavery Democrat, could support Horace
, Greeley; but. tlltuk God, he can support
Horace Greeley in preference to Il man who
:, u-Cd the Presidency Us II perqu>itc. Tie
:, past WAS dead. and we had nothing to do
- with dead ISSUES or dead men. The present
i the all-mportant time, and the issues OF
, tn" iiour are the ones we have 10 meet and
i | u'lti llliUc. Nun!WCllCUt ana virginia .
u was the wutchword tu-dav-a union of all
: honest men. let them come from what section
V or party they may, With Greeley us Presi
: dent, let us have peace" will Dc IL reality
I Thank God that here to-day Virginia car
shake hands with Connecticut across the
bloody clrSm." Here the people rose tc
their feet and made the woods and hills ring
: with their shoutS.l The speaker concluded
with: II see before me old Wings and OLD
Democrats, but they arc all animated 10y tn,
> same cause aud the same purpose. We art
: all Wings, all Democrats, all Greeley men
4 with country before party, and right ano
:, Justice before corruption and ncpoti>m.'
! Hon. u. b. Borst, president of the Mar
r row-Gauye railroad, was next introduced
, He said some old Democrats say they can't
take Horace Greeley but they must take
him. II was for their good. and they would
he made to swallow him. Horace Greeley
will operate upon the country US a dose OF
suits or blue pill upon sick Wtent--plTge
. it of all lis disease and corruption, and
, especially purge the South of the cslrpet-bay
thieves. Maryland understood the situation
At the close of the war, and she rode i'm all
right upon the Swami marlow-gaugc. Tho
whole South must do the same. We cannot
urge our likes and di>likcs now.
At 3 o'clock =. NJ. Ex-Governor Smith
Extra Billy" us our people love to: call
him-look the stand. 1t would be impossi-
bic TO describe the scene that eBSleu Young