The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-10

purasK, GouNTY. learn lint ssylffsst
General j. "a. yALKtR will sbc the first
choice OF the delegates from Pulaski cotltl.
ty. majority Of themssi vote Tor DANIEL MEL
Afterwards.
we publish the feil,wing communication
With pleasure. Certainly we did not mean mean
10 censnre Colonel HOLIDAY: lis colrss
81 conduct during the preliminary canyass
entities hinrto the esteem 81 every good y u.
Iciniap,s But We DO think that he bas reason 9
to complain, or tho snpine OF ms Irlenus.
He ought to have gone into the GonPentlo =,
with vote larger than Major DAslsL :. :.
Il NOT certain now chat he VIII On tne ls'
ballot receive as many votes ss General N a
;noy;E And al! owing to the listless,t idle,
| IN 5ianrert manner in which bis liffiends
have treated the claims of a man VINO St
seorned to take the field 10 behalf OF himself.
FRANKLIN county elected either u or q Dan.
FL saL.j delegates out Of "a. And weare assured
by a. gentleman who processes to know, that
it was because the people OF that county
had become convinced OF Colonel H OIL ].
DAYS weakness that they did not give him
a majority of the delegation We cannot
but feel that goodman has been over
slaushed as consequence OF the criminal
indifference Of his friends. This Is oil that
we meant by our reference ogthe blunder-
ing manner in which the preliminary can
yass had been conducted by Colonel HoILr-
PAYS, friends. He is praisewortby. His
admirers are blamewortby. T,s@ ,;.,I.
49,. go About Colonel Holiday sa.,T.
To the Editors, of the Dispatch:.s.a ~.
sin the Dispatch Of yesterday 18th Instant
you write as follows: .i@,. Y ~ 80.
elbow STANDS THE TALLY s-There Is one
thing to be said about the friends OF Colonel
Holiday, and this is that they do not und der
stand how to conduct preliminary can
vass. Having nquestionably, as we think,
started out with more strength than any
other candidate now before the people, he
has made rs yet but a sorry demonstration
Of popularity. The counties which ought
to have led Off in his support have many OF
them not yet appointed delegates to the
State Convention. We mean counties in
WHICH DC. one VIII pIcIcHu W UGLY AS
is the almost universal choice; OF the peo-
ple.".- ~ s.%i ~ - '5i..'' 1@t. =.
j. Upon which I remark that in these days
the candidate himself is often the source
from which his friends derive their inspira-
ton; and it has occurred to the writer, who
il in no sort OF communication with Colonel
Holiday, that perhaps his views OF the dig.
nifty OF the Office in connection with which
he has been prominently named have dc.
tered him from taking any active part, by
suggestion or otherwise, in the preliminary
canvass. - 49, .,.a.....,
p In his address before the Alumni OF the
University OF Virginia, delivered year ago,
Colonel Holiday held this language,
"VVe have ceased to regard it (thc GOV.
ernment) as high and holy thing, whose
offices are to be held in the fear OF God, and
with sense Of responsibility proportioned
to: its great purposes, and an honest aim to
the fultilment OF its vital ends. Those offices
were once held as though the incumbent
was clothed with sacred truSt-not as SC
many are now filed, for selfish
purposes" a
Again, he says:
i"The Government, with its sacred func.
tions, no longer is looked upon by many as
the embodiment OF whatever is august and
the' emother OF our peace and ioy,' but
rather as the arena for the qualification OF
ambition or avarice.'' -, 49,. ...... =.
Once again he declares 5t....,. 49,, =.
"When see the = politicians insult
ing the public taste and veXing the public
ear with petitions for office, whose duties
great statesmen once thought it an honor to
see these things OF worse,
am ready to despair. and to believe that
la I;o ohoro a md
that ichd6od may be written upon its walls"
aBut when turn from this gloomy pic
ture, and think upon the magniticence of
this heritage Of ours-a continent so varied
| in its riches, so boundless in its resources;
a people whose heroiSm is the Inheritance
OF generations, established by endurance
unsurpassed by any Of whom history tells;
l,when I think how completely their destiny
| is in their; own hands, and how willing they
are to be led by the good and true,
am filed with hope, and invoke those
| good and true to come out and fight that
battle which know win result in the dis
comfiture OF the enemies OF pure govern
maut and an elevated ciyilization."
The above are certainly vely just and
creditable sentiments, and can readily
understand how man entertaining them
would greatly prefer that SO exalted trust
as the governorship of Virginia should seek
him and not he it, that he would rather be
spared all connection with preliminary
canvass, and would resolve that the people,
who are abundantly wise for the purpose,
should say, without any Intervention of his,
whether they would have him or, some other
one to serve them as their Governor. -
+ You are right in supposing that Colonel
Holiday is very popular in his section,
where he is best known; indeed, he is
almost idolized in battle-scarred Winches-
ter and the counties round about. He pos
sesses eminent qualifications both Of head
and heart for public trust; nor is it to, his
disadvantage with your correspondent, nor
should it be with the people, that in the re-
tirenent OF his home he awaits their deci-
sion, as vas the won't Of virginigs best
sons in the 81 it,,f j; OLDEN TIME.} -
;, 1t is evident, from his repeated apologies
FOR bad spoilers, that RICHARD GRANT WHITE
E,,nitvs ii,os koyy fr smell CORRECTLY Ee,eYen