The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-21

TAE audience at the City Han Thursday night
was nothing If not good hinnored. They spared !
neither friend nor foe, and when a adistingui he'd |
an asdrsss eIe,sinsa bs uy there 70 MAKE
IL, by his having to friend in the neighbour
hood, he was chaffed as much as any one-Dis- /
patch |
The Dispatch, we think, colors its
account Of the Thursday night meeting
with more of the rose than it would have
done had Colonel Cameron been the recipi-
emit Of the "good humor" which spared
neither friend nor foe,' and virtual
ly broke up the meeting for the even
ing. It certainly mistakes when il says
that "a distinguished Confederate General
was chafed as much as any ones" for
General Imboden commanded the attention
Of the audience from the moment he
took the stand, and was listened to with
the highest Difference and respect to the
end of his remarks. The only noticeable
interruption came from one whom the
General recognized as an old friend and
time honored citizen in the crowd, and the
speaker was in no way disconnected by
it.iWe assert that General Imboden was
neither chafed nor badgered by any one in
the audience, if we accept the somewhat
caustic yet playful remark that came from
his "old friend;" or else we were 50
intent onahearing what he said, that the
good humor," which the Dispatch refers
to, entirely escaped our notice. ls.a
In characterizing the conduct Of those
who went there to break up the meeting
as dastardly rowdyism, 1--WE used terms
such as the Dispatch itself would have
used had the shoe pinched ON the other foot.
For it refers to the STATE JOURNAL as
"the organ Of a party which in Virginia
has nineteen-twentieths Of unreasoning
brutes." This language is little obscure,
and may either mean that we have nine
teen-twentieths Of 1.-THE 80 uureasoning
brutes " in the State, or that nineteen
twentieths Of the party consists of :" I'M
reasoning brutes." But unreasoning and
brutal as they may be, they have had the
good sense and decency MOTTO disturb Con.
seryatye IN ceilings in the present canvass.
But the D.spatch says to the contrary:
| The organ trefsyring TO the SrArg JorRNAL) OF
ciousiy every mam Of their own Color, who at,
tempts to address them In opposition to their
| views, who in Smy tn county in this State only
last week attempted the life OF a colorsd Greeley
| speaker, pursuing him to the railroad train with
pistols and bludgsons can well afford to look over
| the lang Enable, but certainly uuwiSe and unfair,
Interruptions OF one Of tts speakers.
L
Owe know nothing about the alleged oc.
currance in Smyth county except the h'ghly
colored account given Of it by the Dis
patch !; but it seems highly, incredible to us
that colored Greeley speaker should have
been thus roughly handled at the county
seat Of a county in which nine.tenths Of the
population is white, and nine-tenths o.
the whites are Conservatives, as has been
claimed. I'd Hv,g tshi SIS s9His 7grg
Either its story is greatly exaggerated, OF
else the white people Of that county have
become fearfully demoralized as Yirginians
4 byJtheir support of Mr.. Greeley. We
4 doubtthe truth of the occurrence, not only
| from what we have seen of the colored
1 people here, but from what we know O
the spirit and temper of the white people
OF the State. y aaHsa4 3l5cicygaET III
We know that we would h:ve been nc
| idle spectator to such a disgraceful scene
but would have stood by the i" colored
Greeley speaker, and defended his right
as our own. And we here inform the
Dispatch that IL any 20 colored Greeley