The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-10
Lynchburg on the Question.

There was Il very large meeting of the citi-
zens of Lynchhirg held in Dudley Hall, i'll
that city, on Friday night. The Hon. THOMAS
s. BococS presided. He explained the OBJ
tjcct of the meeting to lie to send delegates TO
the Conservative Convention to be held in
this city on the 9TH. and counseled calm
and dispassionate action and the sending rs
delegates men who fully POSSESS Tie CONT
dcncc of the people. " ''l..t'
The following preamble and resolutions
were moved by Mr.. G. w. Burton and
unanimously adopted :: s. -<., g.
Whereas we, the citizens of Lynchburg,
assembled in mass meeting to appoint dele
gates to the Convention of the Conservative
party to be assembled in Richmond on the
9th instant, which Convention will be en-
powered to choose delegates to represent the
Conservatives Of this State in the National
Democratic Convention called to meet in
Baltimore on the 9th of J,ily: and whereas
we deem it proper I'd give an expression oil
our views Respecting the course which sound
policy and the true interests of our country
but those of our own State and section espe-
ciallv--iudicate as that which ought to be
adopted in the present eNigency of public Of.
fairs and whereas we hold that the chief de-
sire aid 6heet Of all patriotic iiieii should be to
procure the defeat of tlfe faction that has
shaped the policy and sustained with super
scrYiceable zeal the present lawless and COR
rIpt Adn)instratien In It's disregard of the
compromises of the Constitution, but chiefly
in its ruthless violation Of the spirit and let.
ter Of that sacred writ which Is the ONLY safe
guard and pledge OF individual and public
liberty; and whereas we believe that by a
union of all the conservative clements of the
country under one leader this PARTY, which
sets at naught the rights of the States and
seems DESTROYS to convert the Government
which our fathers framed, with its weli-aG-
!iusted system of checks and balances, into
a centralized deSpotism, can be over
borne and driven from power and
whereas the Cincinnati Convention of
Liberal Republicans eiilintiated system OF
political doctrines which, in the altered con-
ditiOn of our country, we can ut least az
cept, if not heartily endorse; and where's
the candidate nominated by that party for
the Office of Chief Magistrate has in his let,
ter Of acceptance avoWed bis willingness to
be governed thereby, and g casting behind
him the wreck and rubbish of WORKOUT con-
tentious and :by-gone feuds," promises
to respect the "needs and aspirations
of to-day" assuring us that under
his administration "the civil authority
shall be supreme over the military; that
the writ of habeas corpus shall be jeal-
orlsly upheld as the safeguard of personal
freedom; that the individual citizen shall en-
joy the largest liberty consistent with puE..
lie order; and that there shall be no Federal
supervision Of the internal polity of theseye-
raj States and municipalities, bnt that eaeh
shall be left free to enforce the rights and
promote the weltbeing Of its Inhabitants by
such means rs the judgment of its own peo-i
pie shall prescribe - therefore be itresolyed,.
|. That, in the judgment of this meeting,
it would be impolitic for the opponents OF
the dominant lnrty TO divide under the lead
o. opposing candidates, aud thereby incur