Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-05
Address to the Conservatives and Lib
erals of Virgini:l

The Subcommittee Of the Central Commit,
tees of Greeley and Brown Clubs, Richmond,
appointed to issue an address to the CouSerya-
tive and Liberal Republican voters of the
State, have prepared the following:
Rooms CLUB CENTRAL COMMITTEE
RICHMOND, September =, 1872
The Greeley aud 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 du.
ty of extending the club organization through
the State, procuring cooperation among the
friends of the Liberal Democratic candidates
therein, supplying clubs with documents aud
speakers, ditfusng and collecting political in
formation, and generally aiding the Conserva-
tive party to preserve its organization and to
throw its vote intact at the coming election for
our candidates, presidential and congressional
The plan Of organization hereto appended
will explain the mode which it is proposed to
operate. We ask you at once to form a club
II 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 Conser-
vativc organization III the State. While that
is composed 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
canvass from now to the election. 1t will es-
pecially attrac, the young, ardent, and active
spirits who are burning for au opportunity to
go to work. The Radical party 10 this State
is thoroughly organized. 1t has paid canvas
sers in the counties enrolling the negroes 10
secret oath.bound leagues, and long before
the election will have bound its voters, by cum
pact organization, to come out en- massc and
vote for the Radical candidates We propose
to meet this secret sworn organization by open,
avowcd, frank action by enrolling our friends,
and so enlising their perfect cooperation.
10 Virginia the country looks 20 a great cX.
tcut for vlndlction Of this Liberal movement.
She promptly threw the weight Of her moral
support on the side of Mr. Greeley immediately
after the Cincinnati Convention without doubt
or moment hesitation, and her example con
soldated the opposition to Grant to such an
extent that the Baltimore endorsement became
necessity She endorsed Greeley because
Greeley was the reprcSrntivc OF her own move.
ment of 1869. Aud after all her trials and
suffrrngS, at this supreme hour OF peril TO pub
liz lherby-when the power Of local self. govera
ultut are G!HloSt cullIelJ dUsol Ucu Wy tiC lcuc-
raj authority the rights of the people
secm to be about to be taken possession
of by the central powcr-when cons'itu-
tioua liberty appears to have passed away
she again steps forward to lead in the
attack for recovery CT rights inherited
from generations Of free ancestors. |ir
GINA has done this before. When central.
ism under John Adams, had obtained control
of the Federal power, W hen the alien and scdl-
ton laws had given the President absolute pow
er over free speech and a free press then also,
she stood forward to protect tho rights of the
people, and taking control Of the government,
50 impressed her principles in its administration
that they controlled it for sixty years of peace
and prosperity. She stands now to-day in the
very front Of all the defenders and protectors Of
the rights of the people. We ask you to aid in
making her voice in November so pronounced
that there may be no misunderstanding it.
BRADLEY T. JOHNSON.
PEYTON WISE
W. ID. t!IEsrER>i,S,
Committee