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have already held representative meetings.
Manchester and Chesterfield endorses Joseph
Walker as the eft and proper man to take
the field against his excellency Gilbert C.
Walker, in the approaching Congressional
contest" .a
1t was not the extremists of the Republican
party, as some of the Washington journals
think, who are anxious to defeat Mr.. John
A. Smith, but it Is the great overwhelming
Republican majority which voted for him that
will not nominate him again, and much less
will they vote for him, even though he should
consent to run. ....
The Democratic party Of Virginia never
were more mixed in their political affairs here
than now. Much remains to be learned be.
fore the destiny of either party can fully be
decided upon,
s. r. FOSTER.
BRUNSWICK Co., LAURENsvILLE. Va,
July %. 1874.
To the Editor ofthe Neao National Era:
Our fall campaign has begun in earnest.
A large meeting was held at this place, the
county seat, yesterday. Speeches were made
by Hon. w. H. H. Stowell, Mr.. Mark r.
DeMortie, James p. Goodwin, ESQ.,, Robert
Whitaker, ESQ.,, members of the Legislature,
one Chizzell. from Petersburg, George M.
Arnold, and Osborne WINFIELD, Esq. ...
MFR. Stowell is the present member of Con-
gress from this District, Mr.. NJ. r. DeMortie
aspires to be the next, and is basing his
claims on the ground of being a Virginian.
His friend Whitaker, in his speech yesterday
said that the time had come when the black
man should assert his rights. This county, he
sad, 'cas black mans county, and he ,cas in
faror Of sending black man to CONGRESS-.
MIR. Whitaker, colored member of the Lee
gislature, then went into TRADE of abuse
against Mr.. Stowell. He abused Mr.. Stowell
because he was Northern man, and was
not rich. His speech throughout was one
of abuse and denunciation of Northern men,
and an appeal to the passions of his hearers,
especially the Conservatives.
Mr.. Whitaker was followed by Mr.. Good
win, Mr.. Chissell, and a man named Osborne
WINFIELD, in the interest of Mr.. DeMortie
All Uf them took occasion to belttle the
Northern Republican as much as they could,
and to demand that their friend, Mr.. De-
Mortie, be placed in nomination, because he
was colored man, and the District had a
voting majority of colorcd men, etc., etc.
The meeting did not seem to take much
stock in the inflammatory appeals made by
the colored speakers; but, on the other hand,
the cool, quiet, and intelligent speech of Mr..
Stowell was highly approved of, and his
course in the Forty-third Congress endorsed.
On Tuesday, the 2sth, mass meeting
was held in Petersburg by the friends of the
present Congressman, Mr.. Stowell. The
meeting was called for the purpose of hearing
certain friends of the present incumbent,
who were visiting the city at the time. At
eight o'clock Mr.. John T. Chissell and Ex-
Lieut.. Albert Parker, Of the police force,
appeared in the hall not only in beastly
state Of intoxication, but so disorderly and
disgraceful that even Mr.. DeMortie himself,
for whom these two pets were working, had
to hide his head in his hands, and exclaimed
"Deliver me from my friends" Poor Chiz-
zell, poor Carter-alas! alas alas!
These two worthless, and few others, full
Of Petersburg's very worst whisky, tried for
one long hour, with Mr.. May, Hungarian,
at their back, to break up the meeting, but
twas no go; the loyal and true Republican
voters, white and colored, stood their ground
and listened with rapt attention to the elo-
quence and truth as it came from the lips Of
Mr.. Stowell, Mr.. Pernald, Mr.. Senator Allen,
Hon. Mr.. Evans, and other true friends of
the cause of Republlcanism.
The meeting was grand success for Mr..
Stowell, and much, if not all, the honors Of
the evening are accorded to DR.. Jos. Jorgen-
son, the able and efficient manager of the
party here, who knows all about getting up
a regular Republican mass meeting. The
Doctor is postmaster Of Petersburg, a Repub-
lican by nature and being. Not only does
he preach the doctrine, but he practices it in
full, especially in the appointments at his
Office.
Mr.. Stowell Is supported by all the leading
and thinking colored men now in Petersburg,
and they mean to have him succeed in the
Forty-fourth Congress.
The nominating convention meets in Sep.
TENDER.
Our people are progressing in this section
in all things material and otherwise.
The representation of colored men in Gov.
eminent positions is better than in any Other
district in the State there are more men in
positions under the Federal Government in
Petersburg than there is in the whole State
of North Carolina.
Mr.. Stowell and Mr.. Plat, the oslv two
Republicans from Virginia, have made prom
ises and fulfilled them; they have divided
the offices respectively between their white
and colored constituency.
There are twelve colored men holding
Federal positions in this city, which is goot
evidence of Mr.. Stowell's unadulterated Re
publicanism. This, coupled with his action
on the civil rights bill, and his position il
regard to the late election have already, a
Mr.. Joe Evans says, elected him. ISIS ri
PIEDMONT.
RICHMOND, VA, July q, 1874.
To the Editor of the Ns,e National Era:
The dizziness characteristic of this season
of the year is greatly relieved by the conten
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