Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-11-10
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TIE ELECTION.

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TEE ELECTION.
THE MEETING PRECEDING THE VICTO-
RY-sPEECHEs BY BEN JOHNSON BAR
BOUR, HUGH w. SHEFFEY OF VIRGINIA
AND HENRY S. WALKER OF WEST YIR-
GINA.
&C., &C.,, sc.
The preliminary to the grand victory was
found in meeting at Grange Hall, Mon
day night which ia its character and en-
thusiaSim was prophetic of triumph. Not
withstanding the rain was falling heavily
the ladies turned cut to the number of sew
eral hundred, and when o'clock arrived
there fully one thousand people in the hall
a large number being without seats, and
standing patiently all the evening. The
Stonewall Band always at the front in q
patriotic cause was present and gave the
occasion the benefit OF some beautiful
music. On the platform were James Bum
gardner, Jr., Chairman of the County Con-
Servative Committee. r. W. Burke, Pres
ident of the LIST Ward Club, VIM. L. Bum
gardner, President of the I'd Ward club
Mayor VIM. L. Balthis, President A. III.
Fultz of the City Council, and a number
Of other prominent gentlemen.
THE SPEAKING.
Hon. B. johnson Barbour was first in
troduced to the assembly, and welcomed
with cheers. He said that up to the night
before, he had cot determined upon COM
ing to Staunton but passing through the
Capital Square at Richmond in company
with Gen. Echols that gentleman pressed
upon him to accept the invitation here,
and looking at the statue Of StOneWalI
Jackson there, he saw that the hero was
pointing to the west as the place Of duty
and he determined to come. 1t was COM
pliment a man might be proud Of, to be in
vited to address an audience of this grand
old county iu this grand hall. He came
to bring words Of good cheer Of coming
victory (cheers). The morrow would wit
ness grand civic spectacle, that Of seven
millions of freemen choosing President.
A country stretching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific would choose q man to the po-
sition Of ruler. It was a position worth
fighting for. He who is closing term in
it, missed the greatest pportunitysever Of
fered to man-greater than that given
George Washington, for Washington had
but to guide an united people, while to
Grants hands fell the greater work Of uni
| ting d discordant people. How he had
done it the people well knew. His was
that order OF craftsmanship which said to
| every complaint Of the people, ''Shoo fly
don't bother me-" (great laughter.) That
order OF which the speaker had occasion
recently to think on q visit to Indepen-
dence Hall in Philadelphia. While in that
hall he had his patriotic love Of country
| stirred by recollections OF the fathers of
the Republic but when lie came away and
| and thought by whom their places W ere
filled when he thought that instead Of
Benjamin Franklin, we new have Benja-
min Franklin Butter; that instead of
| Roger Sherman we haYe John Sherman
| in the Senate, and that instead Of the Faith
er OF his Country, we have had Thaddeus
Stevens, the Father Of the Republican
! party, those impulses almost died within
him; but the people had now determined
| to turn this Dead Sea once more
into the Garden OF the Lord. Cheers. J
This party, whose candidate for
Vice President, Wheeler, had said that
the South needed the civilization Of
| 1 he North, was about to be repudiated.
The South was not yet prepared to find its
model OF Honesty in Belknap, nor Purity
in Morton, nor to have its women taught
Modesty from Brooklyn Heights. (Great
cheering.) The people were about to set
up different models. They were about to
say that Samuel J. Tilden, who had been
faithful in few things, that he should be
Lord soyer many eCheers). And by that
time tomorrow night, he would be Presi-
dent Of the United States
TILDEN's CONFIDENCE.
Of this fact the speaker had not the
slightest doubt. He had been talking with
Ex-Gov. Walker in Richmond, who had
just returned from New York and who had
not the slightest doubt OF the result. He
asked Gov. Walker what Tilden thought
about it. He said that Napoleon never had
greater faith in his star OF destiny that
Samuei j. Tilden had in his, and he was
satisfied that he WAS to be the next Presi-
dent OF the United States. {Cheers.)
TILDEN's CALCULATION.
"What do you count the vote at 90
asked Gov. Walker OF MI. Barbour. Mr..
Barbour said that being d modest man and
knowing that 1855 was the majority Of 500,
he suggested that Tilden would get-say
1877. No." said Gov. Walker, s'the cal
culation is that he will get 211.'' (Great
Applause.)
JUDGE II. w. sHEFFEY
was then introduced. He said the very
name Of Barbour (Cheers) reminded him
OF the former days Of the Republic. When
he thought Of James Barbour, OF the
County Of Orange, (Applause), he also
thought of Henry Clay, and Webster, and
Preston, and Benton, who lived in a day
when if such d thing as Grantism, and
whiskey rings, and military despotism had
existed, millions Of freemen would have
sprung to their feet to wipe the disgrace
from the country. (Applause.) What
affected him this night more than any other
thought OF the canvass, was that of poor
South Carolina held III the graphing irons
of military power, and his heart yearned
towards that God-sent man, W ade Hamp-
ton, in his effort to redeem his State. wild
cheering), and while our eyes are looking
out for the lights Of victory everywhere
our fondest vision is turned to South Caro-
lima, were we see the white plume of that