National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-24
THE OAMPAIqN LN KIRGLNIA.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

ms OO4NShLDo1OENAL Nv.
LANCASTER c. H., VA, Sept p, 1874
Correspondence Of the National Republican
Hon. ]. B. Sener, the Republican nominee Of
the First district Of Virginia, and the 'Irst fam
fly" candidate Of the Conservatives, Major b. B.
Douglas, met in discussion at this place today
1t was the general verdict that Sener completely
used up his opponent. Sener is gaining additional
strength every day; the people are determined to
reward q faithful and efficient servant The
friends of the "MattApeng'' orator are very much
disappointed; he does not I'LL "the order" M.
SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
AMHERST G. H, VA, Sept 2, 1874.
Correspondence Of the National Republican. j
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, Conservative candi-
date for Congress from this district, spoke here
yesterday to large audience. The speaker be-
longs to that class of original secessionIsts who
have failed to profit by the events and results Of
the past and are still blatant in their denuncis-
tons Of the General Government and the North
ern people, assuming to lead and control public
sentiment. In this, however, they are frequently
mistaken, as was the speaker yesterday In a
three hours speech he gave vent to continual ex-
pressions Of the most malignant hate and CON-
tempt for the Administration and declaring bis
unchanged opinions Of the righteousness Of the
"lost cause" 1t is gratifying to be able to say
that his hearers were generally disappointed at
his speech, and some Of thom deeply chaRrined
AASg SApSSSSu sOASbhAnB pIhCllCal and con-
ciliatory; but still large audience sat for more
than three hours and listened with intense inter-
est to all his vituperation and spleen.
have story that illustrates the condition Of
the people here: "a young gentleman not far
from here procured the services of an organ
grinder to serenade his sweetheart for a consld-
GRAFTON Of IS. The twain with the music box re-
paired to the dwelling of the beautiful dreamer
and the organ grinder opened with Yankee
Tar hon -
prietor to change his tune the young lover sug-
gested that variation would be desirable, but
unfortunately the box only contained one tune,
and a change was out Of the question. We'll
said the gentleman, give us five dollars worth Of
Yankee Doodle, them and he continued all
night with the patriotic strains"
So with the people here-their public speakers
are mostly Of the type of Mr.. Tucker, and though
they would prefer something different, will listen
to such as they can get.
MT. Tucker will doubtless be elected to Con-
gress, though he was not the choice of the voters
of his party, but was nominated by the conYen-
tion as q compromise candidate. He will not
rightly represent his constituents unless his
course in the House is different from that on the
stump. Moreover he cannot accomplish for them
what his predecessor, Mr.. Whitehead, has and
would accomplish, although the latter is Con-
Sentative, and truly laboring for what he con-
ceives to be the interests Of the South.
Several Northern Democrats who listened to
this speech went away utterly disguised, and
outspoken in their condemnation of Mr.. fuckers
course. This, so far as can learn is the only re-
suit of the three hours labor. You can we'll
imagine what speech would be that would dis
gust Northern Democracy.
lit is to be regretted that the South is full of
such men as Mr.. Tucker, who will never learn
anything from the past or consent to any but
their own ultra and impracticabIe views. K