The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-03

The committee appointed by the Central
Committee of Greeley nnd Brown Campaign
Clubs to prepare an address to the Conscrrn-
tive and Liberal Republican voters Of Fir-
ginia have prepared the following, which is
published by request of tue General Com
mittec:
Rooms CLUB CENTRAL COMMITTEE
"RIcHMoNp, September I, 1872.
"Thc Greeley and Brown Clubs of the
city Of Richmond have organized a Central
Club Committee. consisting of five delegates
from each Club. which shall be charged with
the duty of extending the Club organiza-
tion through the State. procuring coGpeya-
ton among the friends of the Lihcral-Dcmo-
cratic candidates therein. supplying Clubs
with documents and speakers. diffusDg and
collecting political Information, and generally
aiding the Conservative larty to preserve
Il. organization and tn throw its vote Intact
III the coming election for our candidates,
rrtSI Itihhtlu| and congressional:
:"Tbe plan of organization hereto appended
will explain the mode by which 1t il pro:
posed to operate: We ask you at once to
torn a Club in your vicinity. to put it in cor.
rc>pondcncn with us. and procure it t. elect
delegates to this committee.
This Club organization may be made the
most efficient auxiliary to the regular Con-
srrvatiye organization in the State. While
that is composed of regulars, who have charge
of party discipline and PARTY matters gen
orally, the Clubs will gather together and or
EiniZe the enthusiasm, the zeal. and the en-
crgy of all those who are willing to volIn-
teer for the short canvass from now to the
election. 1t will especially attract Tie Young,
ardent. and active spirits who are burning
for an opportunity to SO to work. The
Radical party In this State is thoroughly or
ganiZed. Ii has paid c;lnvas>ers in the coun.
ties enrolling the negroes in secret oath
bound leagues, and long before the election
will have bound its voters. by compact Or
ganization, to come out en o,nssc ind vote
for the Radical candidates. We propose 10
oJen. avowed. frank action, by enrolling
our friends. and 40 enl>tug their interest
by argument and reason rs to secure their
perfect cooperation:
Ito Virginia the country looks to a great
extent for vindication of this Liberal move
mcnt. She promptly threw The weight oi
her moral support on the side of Mr.. Gree
ley Immediately utter the Cincinnati Conrcn-
ton without Il doubt or a moments hcsita.
ton, and her example consolidated tho
ppifiSilOi w Nilailb W SuSii S.NtNht
the Baltimore Endorsement became q neces.
sity. She indcrscd Greeley because Gree,
ley was the representative of her own move
ment of 1869. And after all her trials and
slltleringS, at This supreme hour Of peril tC
public Iibcrty.-whcn the powers Of loca
selt-yoyernmcmt are almost entirely absorbed
Iy the Federal authority--w the rights
Of the people seem to I've about 10 he tukcr
possession Of by the central power--whci
constitutional liberty appears to have i'aaseJ
aWav-sic again steps forward &c
lead in the attack for the recovery Of right,
inherited from generations o! free ancestors
Virginia has done this before. When cen
tralism. under John Adams, had obtained
control OF the Federal power, when til,
alien and scdtion laws had given the Presi
dent absolute power over free speech and ;
free press, then, also, she stood forward tf
protect the rights of the people, and takin!
contro, of the Government. 50 impressed he
principles in its administration that The.
controlled it for sixty years OF peace ant
prosperity She stands now to-day in th'
very front of all the defenders and protector
of the rights of the people. We ask YOU f.
aid in making her voice in November so pro
noilncc,l that there may lie 10 misullder>tand
ing it. BRADLEY j. JOHNSON,
"PEyTOS WISE,
"W. ID. CHEsTERNAN.
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