The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-14

Or. HAGEY's hpDREsS.-We have not
been cherShing as kindly feelings towards
DIR. BAGBY for the last week or two AS we
once did. but we can't deny that the ad-
dress which lie delivered 10 the Press As>o-
citation OF South Carolina the other day was
an admirable one. 1t is full OF good, sound
common->ensc. and well seasoned with HUI
NOR. 1t is worth perpetuating in print.
We have not room for it, however, in ourown
columns. The following Is the most quota
BILE passage, and will please the boys and
girls: but is nevertheless the poorest part
OF the address:
And when you get rich l want you to
come to Virginia. DO you ever think OF tue
good old State: hope so. Your brothers
sleep under her sod, and from that sod many
OF YOU that are now living have looked up
night after night to the unanSwerlnS stars,
wondering where You would he on the NOR
row. Yes, you remember Virginia; you
can never forget her. Her men are much
too prone to claim all glory for them
selves and their State. But her women
have YOU no tender recellectlonS OF them
in the hospital and the home: Well. then,
get rich quick. and come back to old
Nircinia's shore. We have got there
the preltiest and sweetest girls in the
habtakle world. This l say in q tone so
low that only the long male ears OF this au-
diepce can hear me =; but it is so. We have
got also afull line OF the most bewitchlng
widows that ever lightened mourning and
stock notice" Also, we have some females
that are not so pretty. We do nothing by
halves in Virginia, and when we set about
producing an ugly woman we put upon the
market an acute, penetrating, dihuSlVe,
pcrvaSive, acrid, and altogether ammonlacal
variety Of hideousneSs that nothing earthly
can touch. But for pretty girls and widows
you can't 60 amiSS. They are so thick In
Richmond that ii you venture on the street
with IN umbrella under YOUR arm. and turn
around suddenly, you will knock down two
or three Of them. They have been waiting
with the sweetest patience for the kings and
princes Of Europe to come over and marry
them, but the fools over there have gone TO
lighting, and am afraid their patience and
their Jew good clothes will wear out to-
gether. And when think Of their bright
ewes dimming, and the roses in their
cheeks fading in od-maidenhood, it
almost kills me. ] can't marry them all
would to goodness that could have done
all that the law allowed me to do in this
matter, and now want you to quit playing
Cottontot, get rich quick, and come to Old
Virginia and help me out in the matrimonial
line. We have fine set OF young men
growing up and already grown, plenty old
enough to marry-blooded fellows-thst
have gone to work, and like race-horseS at
the pillow, intend to break the traces, burst
their hearts, or make deep furrow III this
hard, old work-day world. They would
not object to marrying any mans rich sis
ter; but of all mems they would prefer q
South Carolinan'>. Come, then, to the Old
Dominion-a fair exchange is no robbery
and by the gods then generation or two
will see race of men compared with whom
Washington and Calhoun, Jefferson and
Pinckney, were but tectotums and humble
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