The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-30

- Tt~""9t, S'ittaiN.
For the Dispatch.
| convention and Republican Mass
Meeting AT Louisa Courthouse.
The Republicans held Il mass meeting
| tu-day--nut in the courthouse or the town
| hall, hut in the basement of the First African
! church. It WAS 4 most tremendous assem-
| blaze aud ronvocaton of the colorcd sovcr-
,ignS of this county, iutcrsIGrscd with
| about six whifrS. The whole multitude in
round numbers, | suppose, would, il very
| accurately counted. amount TO about forty
| culoycd and the aforesaid SIch$.
| The writer did not get in this meeting I'M
| ill late. not OH account of hcing pressed and
| thrunmrd, but ice tiiSc it had been c0nvOkcd
| and had convened so quietly that very few
persons not interested therein had heard Of
| il. II had been. doubtless, regularly organ
| lied. hrC,,i>c Fountain Perkins. late dele
| cate from Louisa TO the Legislature of
| virginia. WAS in the chair, and he is too
| nllch Of 4 pariamrntarian not to have things
| done in right style. The secretary of this
| meeting WAS William G. Dunn. late Esquire
| Of Louisa and Il member of the old County
! Court The squire seemed to O!liciatc to the
| satisfaction of the entire a>>cmhlagc. 50 far
| rs Your reporter knows. because he never
heard any complaints against him, and !
reckon he made ont very well. The only
,hin- noticeable done lay him was the count
inc of the ballots. in which only one mistake
was made. and the vote thereby had to be
taken over. and instead of Il tie vote this
| time between Il colcrcd and white man
tor delegate TO the August meeting in
| Richmond vote OF twelve in the
whites favor against the crc'.cd"ntcd colorcd
| WAS the result of this mistake and second bal
| lnillw The next business performed by
! this secretary WAS the reading of some rcSO-
| buttons ratiiying the Philadelphia nomina-
liens. which WAS entirely too rcntrlIoqucnt
for This large meeting 10 hear half. but they
| rbrrrrd nevertheless. The next thing in
order ,rvoving upon said secretary was the
r,.atliu:. of Il commission under the great
seal OF Mr.. Mills. appontin" Mr.. Hccklcy
. uitcd States Internal RCrrnllc Assessor iol
this district. superintendent OF most aH TIN"
counties in this congressional district, to
preside over the Grant and Wilson clubs TO
nc organized in every township of said colnl-
ties: hut this secretary. >ll$lcctlnS it arathcr
difficult task. politely declined; and there
upon this honor was delegated TO our youn"
and promising coIorcd townSrMln "Polk
Daniel" who voci'rruu>y and properly dis.
. |
p. tenn.
II seems that Mr.. J. Amber Smith WAS the
shining star of this meeting. who is an ;l>pi-
rant Ia Congress from this district. and who.
think. has taken Il turn til some of our
Rirhm"nd candidates by not giving them an
opportunity of being present here on this
occasion. After the appointment of the dele.
oates the meeting WAS addressed hy Mr.
smith for about three or four minutes, en-
cl>im~ hnl,rliby saying he was to leave on the
> O'Clock train (Which WAS due inabout thirty
or forty minutes them. During this time ht
truk occasion IL tell the meeting that he WI,
always Taught IL accord equal rights 10 MI
lnru G.inrc he lIN. and advised thru to Nut,
Iur GraIt and Wil~"u luud and continued
HppIIm:rl. shock lie hand; ~ his colurrd
,rrud>. Whispered in tlnir ears. and bowed
himself out.
After tlir breaking up of this mccting and
later i'll Tn" AFTERNOON, the remnant Of the
, col"rrd pcupIc WAS called to the courthouse
, steps by Il Mr.. Sergeant (whitcl. and
., speeches g. we've made hy Fountain Perkins
ut L"lIi>;l, and - jackson (colurcd). OF
III Chesterfield. in the interest OF Mr.. j. Am.
r., hlc: smith for Congress, and Grant and
Wilson for the Presidency. Poor old Horace
fell into bad hands when the said Perkins
and jackson undertook him. They gave
him Il terrible cirlSli,rncmt in their peculiar
: way. and actually charged him with bcin.
: the father of RrpuhlClni>m that he brought
: on the war. and WAS the indirect cause q
T. emancipation. and went heavily into tn,
n past war and lis horrors; talking about
= yolcanorS--thc rich mans war and tn,
=, poor man'> fight. and sch like. jackson i
/. Il haidhcadrd muIlttn and is stupid Il StIlmI
orator is the cuIorrd Republicans OF Louis;
have listened To for sometime. He boosted o
Il his Willingness often in his rambling claI'
+ trap to "Cidc" dc time rid 0ny Tirgnynld1
y who might desire To 'Sc"SS the merits O
q. Grant and the dement's of Greeley. Oh
:. he fairly fnalncd and ilmcd and Sliurtctl
t but unfortunately Tor him he made som,
= reflection upon the southern females in hi
rantin%> for which he had TO "pollogiSc.'
He ran against Il "wlla!c.' who took hin
10 task sharply and made him feel Il littl,
smaller than Il mountain. But he mounted
the block again and still wanted to eide d,
time rid some lHgnny man. Upon tn,
whole. ne made Il bad showing here. liz
WAS actually publicly di>owncd by his con
ircrr>. who skunk away from him. saying he
, was not authorized 10 make speeches in he
half of the rarity. Did you ever: En- pas
!, Sant among the six whites who participated
in this meeting the most intelligent an,
i, rarnc>t-lookin@ one was remarkably cross
eyed. ~"