The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-02
Grenius Stats Su,srnaL
REPUBLICAN, SPEAKING
YESTERDAY IN CHAR
LOTTESVILLE.
CROWDS OF PEOPLE PRESENT
FINE EFFECT OF THE SPEAKING
R w. HUGHES, l.. II. CHANDLER AND
OTHERS MAKE ADDRESSES.

Attehueu ny IlOIl. IA. IL. Cnanuitr, CdiiNaS
ser at large, were at Charlottesville yester
day to fulfill the appointment which ha
been announced for them. At little befor
two o'clock the courthouse was sur
rendered to them by the courtesy o
Judge John Cochran, and the building wa
Immediately packed by an immense
throng of people, embracing in large pro
portion the most intelligent and respectable
classes in Albemarle, the audience, owinl
to the time Of day, consisting in larg
majority of whites.
Mr.. Hughes commenced the speaking il
an address of two hours, which was lis
tened 10 with earnest attention and marked
respect by the whole audience. We arr
able to append hurried sketch of his re
marks. He was followed in speech o
an hour aud a half by Mr.. Chandler, ir
one of his happiest efforts, characterized
by fine reasoning, liberal craftsmanship
classical illusions and telling mother-wit
which enchained the audience to the close
The speeches were so acceptable and had
so fine an effect, that a request was made
that there should be second meeting at
night.
This latter meeting was also largely and
respectfully attended and was addressed, in
their happiest veins of eloquence, humor
and argument, by Messrs. Simms and
Chandler. The meeting broke up late in
the night, and our gallant standard-bearers
took the train for Norfolk, where they will
address q mass meeting tonight.
The following is condensed sketch of
MR.. HUGHES SPEECH.
Geatlenen and FeIlo,o- citizens:
Within view of Monticello and of the
noble seminary of learning founded by
Thomas Jefferson, | come to reassert the
principles Of the American Declaration Of
Independence all men are born free
and equal-and that they have the right to
voice in their own government.
preach no revolutionary evangel; |
proclaim no mvidous dogma of race or
class but l plant myself on that
principle on which our American hbe, ties
were fought for and won, of equal rights,
tQudi laws auu Ctu'ti iiocttico ioi ail tilc
people.
Our great government is built upon the
two foundation rocks of justice and equal
ity and has its stability in the consent of
its people. 1t differs herein from all the
are based upon brute poioer alone, and are
upheld by armies and naves.
Planted as our government is upon JUS
arI ,al 4
any feature in conflict with these funda-
mental conditions, it could not fail sooner
or later to suffer from the incongruity. 1t
might indeed go along successfully for fifty
or seventy-fve years; but the wrong it was
perpetrating was sure in the end to rise up
and curse it.
Our fathers, from dictates possibly of
wlsdom, probably of necessity, certainly
great principles of American polity--
those of equal rights under the law,
and consent from the governed-to be
violated in respect to class which grew
into population of nearly five millions of
souls. This enormous evasion of justice,
this palpable violation of its own rule of
right, could not fail at some time to end
in convulsion and bloodshed. And the
sad occurrences of our national history
from 1860 to 1865 were the penalty which
we paid for the violence which we had
done to the principles In which our. gov
ernment originated, and on which it was
founded.
Let MS thank God that we have so well
escaped the penalties of our dereliction,
and rejoice that now the Republic which
Jefferson spoke and Washington fought
iato existence is at last, in all its length
and breadth, in its structure and its genius,
government of Justice and consent as to
all races and classes-of equal rights,
liberties and laws for all.
Standing oa the classical soil of Abe
marie, near the hallowed tomb of the apos-
tie of American liberty and liberation, can
it be possible that offend the prejudices
'Of any man, when | invoke your
condemnation upon the politicians
of this state, who are calling upon the
people to prescribe those of their fellow
citizens whose nativity and color differ
from their own? Surely can uphold the
cause of that party, here, which, in the
three amendments it has made part of the
national constitution, has ordained, first,
that no man shall be enslayed in America
second, that citizenship shall be as
universal as freedom; and third, that no
state shall have power to abridge the
rights appertaining to this citizenship.
Virginia IL not pent-up Utica. She
cannot isolate herself in opinion or interest
from the great commonwealth of American
states. She is geographically, CONNER
,cially, politically and socially part of a
isystem of states; she having common inter
ess in them, and they in her. She cannot
embark in policy of prescription
towards .aDy class within her borders
without prejudice and offense to sister
classes in all other states.
This was proved in respect to slavery.
In 1861 the time had arrived when that in
stitution, which had estranged her from the
Union founded by her own statesmen, and
for the protection of which she had invented
her school of state-rights politics, had
come in conflict with the vital interests of
the great producing classes of the conti-
.nent, and had TO go down.
The dominant class in this Union is the
men acho aoork Dith their oion hands That
class rules the politics of the northern
states. ana that class must of logical neces-
isity rule the politics of the southern states.
III any class ought TO rule in this country,
it is the class in the fields, workshops and
mines, who work with their own hands and
produce the material values OF this coun-