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Civil Rights bill he was of opinion that IL would
meet with some favor from his delegation.
THE VIRGINIA LIBERALS.
The Southerners En- Route for the Queen City
The North Carolina and Virginia Men to the
Front-Personnel Of the Delegations

several or the Southern delegations for CINCINNATI
passed here en- route for that point to-day, among
them that from North Carolina, under the leader
ship of Harde Hogan Helper, an inveterate antag
onist OF the administration in that State. He is
chiefly supported and accompanied by leading
liberal republicans from the State and 1t is gener
ally understood they, with all the other Southern
delegations, will claim a place on the national
ticket to be nominated at Cincinnati for some
prominent liberal republicans from the South The
Virginia delegation which will be the most numer-
GUS from any State In the South, and consequently
the most influential, is composed OF both republi-
cans and conservatives who are OF the same class
OF men that brought out Gilbert G. walker for the
Governorship of Virginia in 1869.
THE VIRGINIA DELEGATION
This delegation will number about forty, nom the
cities of Petersburg, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Lynch
burg, Alexandria and this city. They will claim
that Walker, not Gratz Brown, Inaugural ted the
liberal republican movement, which first succeeded
IN Virginia and was afterwards carried out in Ten
nessee and Missouri, and which made Virginia
the only prosperous and peaceful State in the
South. The Virginia delegation have secured
rooms at ia South Fourth street, Cincinnati which
will be principally the headquarters of all the South
ern delegations The character and political record
ofthe delegates from this State make them more in
fuential than otherwise; six of them are pure,
unadulterated negroes, who have taken prom
nent position in the politics of the State since their
emancipation and subsequent acknowledgements.
NEGROES AS REPRESENTATIVES.
Whether they can influence their race in ma
tiona contest remains to be seen but it is certain
that the majority Of the white delegates from this
State cannot strictly be cassed AZ out and out
democrats. They are rather of the type of
liberal republicans, and, perhaps, the best
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who were the first to elect liberal
republican in 1869. J. w. Lewellyn who published
the first republican paper in Richmond after the
evacuation, is the leader Of the Virginia delegation
and this he did at time when 1t required more
moral courage than to face a battery in the field.
He one Of the original projectors OF the Walker
movement, and has great strength with the con-
servative republican element in the State. Next in
Importance comes George Rye, late State Treasurer
and who, In the days OF Hunncutt was leader OF
the republicans from the Shenandoah Valley. He
was Secretary of the Underwood Constitutional
Convention in 1S67-6S and had
MADE HIMSELF VERY OBNOXIOUS
to the extreme secession element here but he, too
led Off in the movement, which resulted in the cleo
ton of Walker and the redemption OF the State from
negro rule under Weles. His name Is now a power,
both among republicans and conservatives, in the
! State. H. J. Smith, the Sheriff OF this, the metro
politan county of Virginia, is an old and staunch
Union man, who, although elected to his present
position by both conservatives and negroes, has at
all times fearlessly proclaimed his republican sent
ments. G. Baker Rane and W. II. Gentry, of
Petersburg, are OF similar record to those
above mentioned, and it is useless to disparage
their influence in the politics of the State, to
deny the fact that they true representatives of
liberal republicanism In Virginia, who believe that
the real solution of political difficulties lies in
general amnesty, and the removal OF all disqualified
TONS and the restoration OF the good feeling exist
ing In the country anterior to the war.
FRANKLIN STEARNS, THE REPUBLICAN MILLIONAIRE
OF Virginia., also goes to Cincinnati. He was
another engineer OF the Walker movement, but
subsequently taking umbrage at Walkers course,
he again became strong administration man.
The character OF Grants appointments, however,
In this State gave him great offence and his
advice being on all occasions disregarded, he
became very much embittered against the
President. He now goes to Cincinnati
Grant, and will In all probability be opposed to the
| Cincinnati nominees. There is not the possibility
of a doubt that the Southern delegates will make
themselves felt In the Convention, and should any
attempt be made to treat them with Indifference or
| disregard their claims, the entire South will make
their cause its own, and accept 1t studied and
deliberate rebuff to the entire liberal and cOnserva-
tive constituency which would result in a clamor-
GUS demand for n democratic convention.
THE GEORGIA LIBERAL REPUBLICANS FOR
CINCINNATI
ATLANTA, Ca, April 81, 1872.
The Georgia delegation of liberal republicans
leave tonight for Cincinnati