The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-08-24
CANNlDATE FOR COW
ERNOR OF Virginia. ..i,5.,,'

1
delegates composing the Democratic
State Convention of Virginia n"'n'"at-
s.l Cot. r. NJ. w. Holiday for Cover
nor. An exchange furnishes the fol-
lowing sketch Of Col. Holidays career;
Col. Holiday is II gentleman Of Abil,
tty and high character, ani cnIlfeay
worthy OF the honor cOnterrtsi oPo"
him ,v the Conservatives of Virginia:
upOn the debt questions he eN presses"
himself as opposed to repuiiatAon. IN
this connection he used the toiiow'"s
| language: ui. 80 te s't -'f. It's,E,'
.sl would no more have sucha stigma
upon my State than would upon my
private fame. But, while l asn t""s
ouuosesl to reputation, for the same
reason am in favor Of some speedy
i settlement Of the leht--hOl'orshle ~
our State and satisfactory to the cretst-
tors. L have not sought the high office
of Governor with, at this tin'e,' tts trt.-
men,lons responsibilities. My trlen.ss
have done me Il great honor Ivy think
ing mo worthy Of it; bttt II the people
of Virginia are now resolved to go
back ulnDn n renOwn hitherto untar.
ntshei by the rpudiatiOn OF her
, pljrhtesl faith, they must hnd some
= other than myself I" do their bidding.
/ The following short sketch will show
!. that in her selection for Governor-sor
i his nomination Is cluivasent 20 y"
j. Observation-Disclosures has chosen wisely
After graduating with high honors al
% the university of Virginia, Col. Holt
n div entered the bar, and was soOt
~ made states Attorney for the countle
M Of Frederick and Winchester. At th'
- first sound of the late conflict he as'an
nr ,loned everything, and went with III
~ first troops to lIarper's Ferry. He WA
N afterwards II Captain III the SD VI.
10 ginia. Col. Cummings "Stonewall'
st Brigade. At tht, reorganization OF IN
ct army, in 1862, he was made II te'd on.
"a Ger: and after going through the bat
~ ties or Winchester, Port Republic AM
:, around Richmond, he lost his arm a
Cedar Mountain, never having misses
y l,nttl., or been absent IL day from III
w command. -
o. He was held in the highest estin,s
u tion bv Stonewall jackson, who otiere
IL him n position on his staff, and desire
10 to make him u brigadier, but he W.
", o suualitied for service by his wound
~. After the war he resumed his pro'e
"y sion, but he has always taken ",det
ny and active interest in politics, ana HI
by re,n,nt..tly been urged to accept II tloi
he inmtion for Congress, but has nlwa
Us declined all political ,ndVance'net
His canvass during the last campa'i
'' wns very brilliant aud elective
much 80, indeed, AS to provoke col
'' puris,ol with that Of Gov. Wise dnrl
,a the Know Nothing campaign belt
- the war. -U' ... 't-t.
The capitalists of the North
ent determined to have pence, let the e.
an's stitution say what it pleases, but pa
tied ,h.., ,n,,s, have ON the GrOtitls II
ems BeII,1,. principle, in time Of peace =
vile pare for war They will ais'iil Cong'
are with Imperative demands for Il Ia
3 IN standing army, not any longer 10
ives tect our frontiers, oar Larbors, our Ia
ger. our arsenals, but to protect the MOI
or chests. of Wall street stock j"bbers.
u to Their plans embrace II Veritnbie u
rest ;,arv 6. Gordon" around each veal
or metropolis with an additional fly
most column to run over the mining
ot Il manufacturing districts and teach ol
aid, ,,tives to live on bread and water
fort thc ,,nctuous wretch Iseecller says l.
ven should.
EN- 1t is sad to contemplate to
more strnights the boastsd social s'clene
Ions our Eastern brothers has driven tn
II OF after less than ono poor century's G
slish t.,nce, throw themselves into tho
thaI Of Il military oligarchy.
" Will these Hre;iL ;nVoH'NeS VI ~
his schools tell us where the present Ke
ldus- alton have sucked in their inte
only, notions? Have they not, by the
enty less introduction of mental ieart
uncoupled with moral training,
teusitit,l the natural tendency to"
lana, evil which turks in every II
lsome nature? There can be no doubt,
man their speeches, proclamations,ad ,add'
II tells and the systematic organization oi
10 has bands, that tho late strikers arc
bridal endowed with u full share OF "r
lrents, school" instruction--not cducn'
rieans. aud yet we have seen them co
Ithern excesses which would put II sav'
'rehc" the blush. .,
erican Now, to counteract these evi'
grace denotes, we, on the other SIDE, "
;, and the rutIipcretl mini0ns of the In,
leIph'" world call in the agony "f the'r
for the support of the armed p0'
vay up the nation, and invoke tiro han I
would and fire on the heads of the owl
ket-o'- letarian."
1t must he admitted that our ;
eru and Eastern brothers have !
Court, ed faster on the road to social hei
ked by any other nntion before, an"
800 for most co,,snling thought to kno'
Of S3- the, agricultural South has only