The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-25

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ant, game journal of the true Conservative
stripe:
HThe Right Reverend j. j. Lamkin, of
pi,ssyivania county, not receiving nomina.
ton BY the Conservative Convention. has an
nounced himself an independent candidate
for the House OF Delegates. He was metn.
Der Of the last Legislature, and served WITH
such great satisfaction to himself That ne
don't see how the State will get along Win
OUT his services In the next House. 1pe
Lynchburg Meas thus compliments MIN
I" An Independent candidate, ne cars
himself, and so In truth be is, for ne seems
to be altogether independent Oh the visits
OF the Nominating Convention, Ieoepeaa
emit of the will Of the people, ana 'ihuer
nenden., OF the requirements of honor, OF
truth, and OF common decency.
Very complimentary, considering that the
object of it is political parson. There are
two Of this stripe in Virginia now trimmings as
Independents" and, what is worse, as re-
pudiators-self-styled servants OF God war.
ring upon honesty. We never hear OF po-
Htical parson without sympathy for his
peighbors. Primo facie, parson turned
politician All enthusiastically man,
and those who have dealings with him
should beware. They will find that the skin
of the sheep is pieced out with the tail OF the
fox, or sometimes the wolf.
Indeed, there is too much "surface piety"
In this raid OF the self.styled Independents.
Their war here took the form OF a moral war.
The engineer of the reconnaissance, conduct
ed by very small force, was an ingenious
maker of false lights and noisy explosives,
and the few disciples at the beginning OF tne
crusade were men who bad very highly
tainted records, and who really had not as
mpch Conservatism in the whole party as
SAM. MAccUBBM pares from his toe-nails on
sny Sunday morning. Indeed, their real mo-
tive was covered up under the garb OF
hypocrisy, and they succeeded in "foollng ~
some very excitable but very good people.
"Piety" became popular, and 1ndepend-
epts were brought into the neld 10 save US
from terrible consequences. MIR. STARKE
would save the city from the doom OF
Sodom and the Conservative party, as 1t
were from He'll itself, by going to the State Sc
nate to serve virtue and oblige US! Did ne not
saw that the Conservative party WAS :" on the
verge of present rupture and final ruin3 !"
And he said it as though he knew, and there
was no knowledge 10 any man to the con"
trary. So, kind man. be offered to snatch
the poor party from the Internal regions
and to keep it straight hereafter, Wasn't 1t
good of him? 1t would indeed be impudent
to ask him if his acts did not help to impair
the unity Of that party.
But Mr.. KNIGHT, gentle and decorous gen.
tleman, did be not also become sfflcted with
"pious" ipfirmity and offer to save US from
rings and "frauds" by taking seat in the
STATE Senate and six dollars per diem, which
the Conservative party had refused to nomi-
nate him for? Alas! for the dull percep-
tons of that party, how wonderful it is that
they could not see in Colonel KNIGHT the su.
preme merits and excellence, moral and po'
Iilical, which he so fully understands and
appreciates himself! He tells the people of
Richmond, as he ought to do with his modest
estimate of bis own merits, that they may
"abandon" him if they will, but if they do
SO "the consequences must rest upon"
them. "rurn, sinners, turn; why will you
die?'
II is consoling in these days of piety and
virtue that we have such Independents as
MASSEY and LAMKIN (precious lamb y and
SrApKE and KNIGHT. Why shall not virtue
be shielded with such heroes to protect 1t?
1t is a subject of congratulaton to the peo-
pie OF this day that they live in such times.
Oh. virtue! oh, purity and sincerity How
torluous and devious are the ways Of the
wicked III your presence?