The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-30
conservative Meeting and speeches In
Allegheny Comfy.
CovIYGToN, VA, August =, 1910

CovrsaToN, Va, August q, 1875.
To the Editors of the Dispatch:
herewith send you proceedings OF a
grand mass.meeting held here to-day 10 Ian-
fy the nomination Of General hemper, H. IT,
Withers, and X. T. Daniel. Never was thefe
such unanimity of feeling. EVERYBODY IS
delighted with our ticket, and 1t Is oound 10
win. Allegheny will give larger Conser-
yutiye vote in the coming election than ever
before. The people are aroused Governor
Letcher gave us one Of his stirring speeches,
In which be gave "'scalawags and carpet
haggers "perfect fits" Atthe CONCLUSION OF
Governor Letcher's speech, Colonel +: rem
dleton was introduced by General Skeep,
and made a most telling speech, which was
received with much applause. :,
Allegheny claims that she Will be the pan
ner county for the Conservatives in the com
ne, .o,tas, ... f.
Ala large and respectable meeting of the
citizens of Allegheny held on the 9TH DAY
of August, 1878, at the courthouse (during
the session of the Circuit Court James
Burk, ESQ, was called to the chair, and An
drew Fudge appointed secretary.
The following resolutions were uhali-
mously adopted: -.
Rcsolped, That we heartily approve the
nominations made by the Conservative con,
yention at Richmond on the 9Th instant, anu
that we will give Kemper, Wlthers, anu
Daniel united and undivided vote.
That at an hour like this Virginia has a
right to "expect every man to do bis duty,
and the duty Allegheny owes to God and
her country shall be discharged at the NO
vember election.
That we send back in answer to the voice
proceeding from the black cloud at Lynch
burg. as embodied in tue speech OF the
nominee of the Radical Convention, the
answer of the Athenians to the ambassador
of greater king than Hughes " While the
SIM continues to hold bis course Athens
will mover come to terms with HerxeS."
That we have waged no war upon the col
ored people +: that we have sacredly respected
their rights-have treated them with kind
ness. consideration, and justice; that. we
have wared no war upon the administration
of General Grant; so far from it, we have at
all times commended him when right, and as
freemen condemned his actions only when
he was wrong; that we would be glad TO see
him always right, to the end that we might
approye bis administration. Still, whenever
a black flag is raised, whether by Grant OF
carpet-baggers and scalawags-.-by men gene
raiiy in no more danger of becoming con-
taminatcd by the most intimate social and
political association with negroes than the
negroes are of becoming tanned by hot
southern sun---we will, with the voice ana
courage of freemen, meet it, and lifting on
high the "S,c Semper" Of Virginia, stand
I" the hazard of the die
That Aleg lany being the only county in
the State which furnished double the num-
Der of its voters to the ranks of the armies
of the ConIederacy, she will in the COM
ing election poll the whole vote of the
county for the men who carried the flag so
rloriollsly through tho shock, the shout,
the groan of war;; and thereby become the
banner county in the coming election in pre-
serving the liberty, the honor, and the glory
of Virginia.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the chairman and sec
rotary and published in the Richmond pa
pers.
The meeting was addressed with great
eloquence and power by Governor Letcher,
of itockbridse, and Colonel E. Pcndleton, of
Botetourt. Their speeches were received
with great pleasure and applause.
JAMES BURK, Chairman.
Andrew Fudge, Secretary.
Allegheny is so. X"