The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-29

Dretenc2 TO be Inc leaQer OF the - hellel -
party, he gave most amusing and vivid de-
scription OF the bankrupt MILL" through
which the poor bankrupt has to go-the toll
of which is not regulated by laU-and the
miers of which (Hughcs II Coy are accus-
toned to take as toll not 0ne-etghh, 6ut
eight-cights Of the grist.
In speaking of Hughes's eXalting the negro
at the expense of the honest white laborer
he said that Hughes had better cultivate the
friendship of those sturdy Irishmen whom
he has insulted, for they were very handy
fellows at handling the shovel, and most eX-
cclent araUe-di9gers; and he would most
certainly need some Of that class after the
4M Of N0Uemher.
He said that he would also need a stone
cutter to give him head-piece, ard as Mr..
Hughes was the friend Of his youth he
would. without charge, give the following
for his epitaph:
Here lies poor Hughes,
A political qimck;
He led such miserable life here,
He will never want TO come back"
He paid q most eloquent tribute to edu-
Gated labor drew most vivid contrast be-
tween the real immigrant and the carpet
bagger, and made some capital hits at
Hughes and his party, who seem to be
{" "atraid of the old rebels yet"
His contrast between kcmper and With
ers. the gallant soldiers, and Hughes, who,
from his bomb-proof in the editorial rooms
of the Examiner, advocated the raising Of
the black fag and fired paper pellets and
clIaw-wads in the rear, was very fine. He
took his seat amid loud applause.
HON. JOHN T. HARRIS,
of Rockingham, was next introduced, and
contented himself with short, stirring
speecb, which abounded in anecdotes, had
some good hits. and excited considerable
enthusiasm in the crowd. He brought
words of cheer from the grand Valley Of
Virginia, where the clans are rallying and
marching to a grand victory. He retired
amidst loud cries of "Go on! Go on!' and
loud applause.
HON. z. B. VANCE
was now introduced, and greeted with
cheers and an enthusiasm seldom wit
messed.
Beginning with an excellent anecdote, he
said that be would greet this vast crowd
with 81 am glad to see you. / am always
glad to greet Virginians." In 1862 he had
marched down this very street at the head
of twelve hundred gallant sons Of North
Carolina to defend this beautiful city, this
grand old State, and the true principles of
constitutional liberty for the whole South.
He came on the same mission tonight.
As then, so now Virginia is the border-land,
and upon the result of the battle here hangs
the destinies of the whole South.
He paid most eloquent tribute to our
gallant standard-bearers, and said that be
was here in response to the bugle-call of the
| I" lord of the marches" to contribute his
mite to the grand victory that awaits us.
There was no need of argument. AS q
Temperance lecturer once carried along n
miserable, ragged drunkard not to speak,
! but as "frightful example," SO he came not
as that example, but to tell of his own noble
State, that ,DdS most frightful example OF
| what Radicalism has done where it has had
the power.
| Virginia was too smart to be caught in the
Radical trap, and be came to tell her what
she had escaped. -. ,
In vivid but brief sketch Of the history
of the country under the old parties he was
led to allude to the speech here the other night
of Mr.. Maynard, Of Tennessee {whom he
described as ga sort of cross between an
Andalusian jackass and Il sand-hill crane),'
and his claim that the Republican party was
the successor of the old Whis party. This.
he most Indignantly denied, and illustrated
by the story of the two negroes who went
! fishing together, and how, when Jake inge'
niously stole Pete's large catfish and substl'
tuted a small one for it, the latter, after
much reflection, said, Dis must be my cat:
he lest where left hilD, and he strung jess
like mine; but lar sakes, amt he s,runk.'
And so he would say Of this succession. he
disowned and repudiated it.
He then proceeded to compare the relgr
OF the old parties and the condition OF the
country under them with the thirteen years
of Radical rule with which we have beer
cursed. He drew vivid and amusing con-
trast between the promises and the acts o.
the Radicals; showed how they bad pileC
Iup our national debt until he could posi-
lively hardly count it; and gave the figures
to show how they had run up the debts o
the southern States, and yet had nothing &C
show how the money had gone. In Nortf
Carolina they had built three miles and
half of railroad, and bad not paid for ever
that, the money teing all stolen. They bae
established no schools in the South, and th'
people now had less education and of fal
| inferior quality to what they had in 1860.
But they had piled on the taxes and minet
the credit of the States until now you coult
buy North Carolina bonds at fifty cents ;
basketrtlll. Business of every kind hat
stagnated, and wreck and ruin reignet
throughout the States where they had con
troll. Now, what is the remedy? The Radi
calls say more radicalism but as well So.
that If rattlesnake bites you on one leg tn
proper remedy is to get another to bite yol
on the other leg.
He then drew mos vivid and amusing
picture of the corruption OF the Radica
narty at the South--of their brazen stealin
If public funds they confessed to the steal
ing of twenty millions of the internal revt
nne in one year, and il they confessed ina
there is no computing the real amount) an
the promotion of the rogues. They wer