The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-25
Renuts,icau Party i'm VIRGINIA.

A coLoRED MAN ON THE siTUATIoN-WHAT THE
PARTY NEEDS "A LEADER wANTED-FoRGIvE
AND FORGET.
NORFOLK, VA, December %, 1875.
Editors of The Dispatch:
There being no Republican organ in this
State, and the Dispatch being metropolitan
journal, baving larger circulation among
the people of Virginia than any other paper,
ask q space in its columns for the purpose
Of saving word or two to the Republicans
Of our State.
The conference at Richmond the other day
was grand failure-a political abortion
and so will all such conferences be. There is
but one way-only one way-to organize for
service and make substantial the party in this
State, and that is by taking such steps as will
draw unto it more of the respectable native
element. I have nothing to say against
northern mep, or "carpet.baggers," but I
mean business when I say that unless the
party can &c. aCceSsionS to its ranks from the
native Virginans-not old fogies or played
out party bacSs--young men Of vigor.
courage, talent, and spiri:-we are gone up.
This is the only cure. How to do this !;
Well the most efrctual way that / can sug.
gest is to invite natives TO come, and make it
copgenial for them when they do come.
The party did a good thing last fall by de.
seatng Frank Moss of Buckingham, Clark
of Halifax, and several other noisy, Ignorant,
stupid would be leaders. If anybody ex.
poets to add white votes to party that recog-
nizes Frank Moss as leader in Virginia pol
itics that body entirely fails to understand
the nature of Virginian. Ignorance, ST..
perstition, and that other thing, "color line,"
has had its day in our State, and now to win
the party has got to show leader equal in
all things to the leader of the Democracy,
whoever that is.
II we can get leader to take hold that
can show q clear record-wbo is brave,
courageous, talented, and full of spirlt-then
we can get the car Of the President. Make
the changes necessary in the offices (Federal),
and be fully equipped and thoroughly or
SaniZad by spring. AS we are to-day, it is
all nonsense to talk Of making a fight in the
presidential election. A leader and more
native accessions is what we need. We want
to start out with generous policy Of forgive
and forget, and If our leader shall be one
that has been baptized in blood as rebel all
The better. If he is without arm or leg,
having lost them in the southern cause, that's
the man we want. To talk Of Judge Morton
| or any northern man leading the party in
this State with SUCCESS is all mere moonshine.
Why, the fact is that the people who gave
you and me the ballot : the northern people
are in great measure wishing that we would
stop quarrellpg with our sold owners "
about the war and make up.
Listen, colored voters the Yankee and the
rebel are daily shaking hands, drawing nearer
to each other. See how the Yankee" pa.
pers speak Of the Jackson statue. Northern
men of known Republican sentiments are
subscribing 10 fund to be used in erecting
a monument to General r. +. Lee. Every
day the white people that the Potomac di.
vides are drawing nearer and closer to each
other, and as they look 10 each others faces
and their warm hands feel each others
pulses there is but one void or two said
"Let the dead past bury it's dead.
J ask you not 70 let the people shake hands