The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-17
aooaMIrTER ON ADDRESS,

Mr. Burgess to inform him Of his nomina.
|tion. sas -
ooaMITTER on ADDRESS.
Il The following committee on address was
Iappointed 2 Messrs. Splitter, Cox, and Caps
ton. They promptly retired for consultation
Mr.: BROOKS, or ,k1cnMosD.s ~
The Convention having again Insisted upon
hearing from Ill. A. p. Brooks, of Richmond
he came upon the platform, and made q
Il speech laudatery of Burgess and denuncia'
tory Of Gnyernor Walker. he regarded
Il Governor Walker as ga beautiful failure 2
Il and the best exponent the Conservatives
could have possibly selected to represent
their e4er4cbang1 g1Bg, always and con-
tinnally time-serying policy. He believed he
i Governor WaIker) WAS the weakest man thai
the Conservatives could have nominated.
| The speaker, seeing the committee escorting
Mr. Burgess into the hall, brought his re-
marks to an abrupt conclusion and took his
seat. + s 81 ssss.3l'f.ti5
1iesi0s THE SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE. ..s5lla1;
Mr. Burgess was introduced By aMr.
Shield the. chairman, who declared that oil
the, character and qualifications he thought
necessary for their cal, e-were embodied
in the nominees sf Applause ,il Isl q. -.
Mr.. Burgess, 10 acknO Owledging the high
compliment paid him, said fsf.5s ~ 4;
Nr. Chairman and Gentlemen of The Con
uenffon I appear in response to an invita-.
tion from you through your committee, who
have informed me that it has been your plea.
sure to honor me with the nomination OF
the Republican party, that Imay represent
this the Metropolitan districto the Old Do,
miuion in the Forty fourth, Congress of the
United States. For the high honor you have
thus conferred upon me tender yon my
most profound thanks. / do not feel that
you have assigned to me avery pleasant task,
however easy Of aceopp lishment.i may be,
because, gentlemen, no one can stand before
the people Of this day and=seReratien as
party candidate, or as an exponent of the
| principles Of any one party, without being
Of the opposition. Yet you have designated
me as your standard. bearer in this contest,
and IIpledge ,you5 that your cause shall re-
ceive my most earnest support; and If we
| fail, the blame shall not rest at my door. I III
Lam elected by the peopie of this district,
and am permitted to take my seat in the
councils OF the nation, shall endeayor to
do alLjB my power to subserye otIonly the
best interests of the partYito which belong,
but that Of the whole people. -.
| / would look to the interests of the peo.
pie of the Third Congressional district of
| Virginia. I know of no way our people
can be aided so much as by the General Gov
ernment extending that assistance the State
SO much needs in developing her natural re-
sources, by the opening up of navigation to
that rich store of mineral wealth now hid
den along the line Of the James river and
| Kanawba canal from this beautiful city to
the Ohio river. When the General Govern
ment shall have appropriated sum sufi4
cient for the accomplishment Of that great
work then old Virginia may be enabled TO
see her. way out OF debt, notwithstanding
the funding bill and the evils Of other bad
(legislation.E The duties OF a member of Con-
gress are tbree-fold in their character !:
First. To look to the interests of his district
second, bis State and third, his country.
| Under the head Of National &ques:
tions comes the currency, the tariff,
public lands, taxes, and 'civil-rights.
/ Upon the first have decided opinion.
| By the late conflict the people of the South
were Impoverished, and at the end of the
war, with no currency, land with little to sell
| to secure it.. Z, Our friends OF the North were
more fortunate, and under the national bank
| ing system possessed and controlled the
entire money capital OF the country. values
|
the war have been at high values. To at
tempt at this time a contraction in the cur
rency, to adopt measures looking to return
to specie basis, would literally bankrupt, not
only our own good old State, but the whole
South. Therefore, am opposed to any con-
I!traction, inasmuch as the national bahk-noteS
Iunder present laws can only be obtained for
banking purposes, by deposit of United
States bonds; those bonds above par, and
the right of the depositer or banker
limited to an issue of ninety per cent. only
on the face-yalue of such bonds deposited.
THUS the high value of bonds and the small
sum allowed for issue is q practical embargo
on national banking in the South at legal
|rates of Interest, and our people are the VIC
| Tins of this, condition of things. Some
other basis for the currency is necessary to
our welfare, and would favor law which
would allow us to hypo.hecate; our real
| estate at the valuation Of commissioners,
and upon it receive national bank.notes as
banking capital. This is southern interest,
but not northern. The capitalists there
want contraction "a reduction of the volume
of currency-because there lis money in it
for them-a job in their interests-and am
surprised to see or hear of any man who has
an interest in old Virginia favoring
them, especially a candidate for Con-
press in the Metropolitan i, district,
as does G. C.. Walker. But we need not be
surprised. for be has ever been the tool of
northern stockjobbers, and to them sold out
the State of his adoption in the infamous
Funding Bill. Thus we see him, wherever
there is d Job, found in the interest OF tie
jobbers.s ButWe may congratulate ourselves
that the party that he so much desires 10 re-
present do not fully endorse bis hard money
policy. = -
AS to the tariff, this district, as well,as the
State. is in interest identical with the great
and powerful State of Pennsylvania We
have iron and manufacturing interests that
can only be profitable to the owners and em.
ployes BY tariff that will protect. Yet our
Democratic friends are free-.raders, and
would vote to open the American markets
to the iron of England, manufactured by 10.
borers receiving few cents per day, and
living in simplicity-degrees lower than our
lowest. I would place a tariff-rate SO high
/ upon foreign manufactured articles and pro.
| ducts of every description, except those we
have not and cannot produce to satisfy our
home demand, as would prevent all competi.
/ ton between the laboring classes of thlsand
| foreign countries, and at the same time give
ample protection to American capitalists.
| Our national internal tax laws should be
amended SO that the burden would be more
! equally distributed between the people Oft the
North and the South.
! I know that the income tax was and Is
looked upon as inquisitorial, therefore otgec.
tionable. That / do not doubt. But that 1t
-. ;,,,t and eouttah!p- r1n Dr1p c3n s0plV,