National Republican., 1873-10-02
rnB VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN.
PuhIlc spenkirR in Accomnc County,

PUseorkAour. Va, September 60 is7a
~ hs Edftov ot hs Safioaai Rspsbiisar.
Yesterday was q notable day for Drumond-
town, the county seat Of Accomac county.
A Large coueourse of the citizens had coll
lected together TO hear addresses, which had
been announced In the press, from Colonel
Hughes, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, and Hon. L. II. Chandler, the Repub-
lican canyasser at large Of Virginia. At 12
o'clock these gentlemen arrived, accompa-
nicd by Hon. ]. B. sener, Representative In
Congress from the First district of Virginia,
and J. II. Clements, esq, of Portsmouth.
The speaking began with an address Of an
hour and quarter from Col. Hughes, which
was listened TO throughout with tho deepest
attention. Col. Hughes was most handsomely
presented to the people OF Accomac by Hon.
Z. X. Snead. Col. Hughes said that he
stood for the first time In his life on
THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA.
Though born and reared on the south side,
and though living far away across the Blue
Ridge and the Alleghanies, In the southwest,
near the lines Of kentucky, Tennessee and
North Carolina, he had always felt the deep
est interest in the Eastern Shore. lie was
gratifed to be In the county which had given
SO Tany great names to Virginia; the county
Another name very dear to him had or'gl-
mated here; and had passed early In the
colonial history to the Indian settlements
under the Blue Ridge, and thence across the
Alleghanies-the name Of the Floyds. This
county would slways be conspicuous In the
annals OF Virginia by Its association with
Henry A. WISE whose long aud eminent pub
lie services, whose varied Information, whose
versatile genius, and whose superb powers O.:
oratory had made his name conspicuous 10
the annals of the State, where II world re-
main to he remembered and honored as long
as Virginia should have history.
Col. Hughes said that the Monday before
he had spoken In Grayson county, four hun
dred miles west, and half a mile up In the
air, between the clouds and the sky. lie had
spoken two days afterwards In the hne county,
for tobacco and cereals, of Amelia; on Thurs
day In the bold Piedmont county Of Madison;
on Friday In Richmond, seated on her seven
hills, the Joy and pride of our State. And
now he was speaking on the savannahs OF the
Eastern shore, to population more purely
Of the old English stock, OF less admixture
and clearer blood than any English popula-
tion now on the globe.
He had been more and more impressed
each week Of this arduous, but on his part
agreeable, ,canvass-ag agreeable from the respect
which was everywhere shown him by the
pcople-with the value of
THE RESOURCES OF OUR GREAT STATE,
and Its capacity for the development of even
q greater wealth and prosperity than were
enjoyed by the most fortunate States Of the
Union. Her mountains were everywhere
filed with minerals; her climate was unri.
vailed; her soil presented all the conditions
| favorable TO q prosperous agricultural devel-
opmcnt. And this morning, In making his
way to this shore, over the waters OF tho
Chesapeake, he had ueen occupied In his
mind with the inquiry whether these noble
commercial roadsteads of the East were
more valuable to our Commonwealth than
the material wealth which lay slumbering In
her mountains.
He asked why 1t was that with all her
treasures and advantages of mountain, field
water and climate, Virginia had sunk from
her original rank OF the first State In the
Union down TO the thirteenth; why 1t was
that the waters of the Chesapeake were not
plowed by as many whlte-winged mcssen-
gers Of trade as those Of this Delaware, Of
East river and the Hudson; why 1t was that
this
sPLENDIDLY SITUATED PENINSULA,
which broke off the bolsterous Atlantic from
the grandest inland sea of the world, was not
dotted everywhere with prosperous villages,
lined from end to end with wharycs, and oc-
cupied as Its site by o greater city than that
which covered the peninsula of Manhattan.
II was sad to think that there was not yet
arailroad penetrating hispeninsula, although
situated at the centre Of the American At
lantic seaboard.
Col. Hughes said that this startling con-
trast between the condition of Virginia and
OF those States contiguous to her on the
north was owing, among other things, to one
leading cause: Virginia had begun her career
In this Union as national State and after a
few years had become sectional State. She
had founded the Union. Her great states
men had been tho principal agents In organ
izing aud establishing II. Such was their
sense of the value OF the Union that they
had induced her TO give away 1853, 600, 900
| acres of land northwest Of the Ohio river to
secure 1t. They knew that, centrally as she
| was situated on the Eastern seaboard of the
Union, tho commerce of the great West
would centre upon her waters, and that, as
Union State, she would participate In the
prosperity Of every section of the Union
which she founded.
The change OF politics to which he had
alluded had been
TIE ILIAD OF HER WOES.
After Jacksou's Administration the politics Of
Virginia had become more and more Sec
tional, more and more hostile to the Union.
Her people had learned no longer to cherish
the Union according to theprecepts of Wash
ington's farewell address, but to hate II, and
1t. The cause Of this alienation was the in
stitution Of slavery. She had invented her
sectional or State rights system OF politics
for the protection OF slavery, and In the pur-
suit Of that politics had become more and
more estranged from the Union, until finally
she had taken up arms for secession and sep
aration. But that institution which she had
thus boldly and manfully staked on the issue
of battle, had fallen by the arbitrament Of
arms; and now, most fortunately, there was
no longer any cause for her remaining at
war In her feelings and at enmity in her poll
tics with the Union, which her own WASH
ington, Madison, Jefferson and Monroe had
founded for the benefit OF themselves and
their posterity forevq. Colonel Hughes said
that the
OBJECT AND AIM OF TIE BRKPuBLIcAN PARTY
In the present canvass and election was TO
restorc Virginia again TO the Union In her
feelings and her politics. He went on TO
show The strength Of that party, and lts COM