The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-11

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was there. by some providential interfer.
ence no doubt, on the ground at tho right
time to electiopeer. General McCausland
told me that major, whose name / cannot
now recolIect, who was quartermas-
ter, and not bound to go out, vol
unteered and went with him, and
was shot through the body in the fight that
ensued; that Newman, finding the danger
that was on them, got on an engine OF a
train about to start in The direction OF Rich
mond; that he (3lcCausland) told him to
come on and 90 out with the boys and take
part in the fight that was about to take place,
buGthat Newman would not hear OF it. and,
as McCausland said. showing as much terror
as any man he ever saw, kept urging the
engineer to start his engine for Gods sake.
Caesar and Casar's fortunes were on that
engine. and he got of before the fight took
| place, and saved his carcass while many bet
ter men were killed.
You all constantly hear him called Colonel
Newman, and this district has been flooded
by him with printed speech, with Colo
MEL NEWMAN printed in large capitals at the
head Of it. He was never in the army q
day, and has no more right to be called
Colonel than have, who was in the army
from the beginning Of the war to the end
OF it, and never got TO be even a corporal.
He said Mt meeting ct Davis's Store, in
Henrico county, where myself and Mr.
Macon met him, when we wercpressing him
about not being in the army, that at the
beginning OF the war he was offered q
commission rs colonel Of a regiment that
had been raised in his part OF the country,
| but that the leading men in his section came
to him and begged him not to take it. They
insisted that he must remain where he was,
to represent them. They said, said New
man, 90 Y You must not take the command OF
that regiment; you might get captured. and
then what would become OF us?" Some
one in the crowd called out, "Thcy were
not afraid you would get killed." When |
told General blcCausland Of this he said 81
was appointed lieutenant colonel ut the be-
ginning OF the war and sent 10 organ
| ize the volunteers in the kanawha Val
levy. 1t was my duty to recommend all the
officers that were commissioned to command
the soldiers from that section. [ never
recommended Newman for commission,
and, having known him all my lie, would
never have thought OF doing so, for the rca-
son that did not think he had the courage
REQUISITE to command men, and that he was
generally utterly unfit for such position"
Mr.. Royal said that he adopted these
| statements OF General McCausland rs his
! own.
MAJOR DON p. HALsEY.
! General Walker. the chairman, said {:
You have listened to one OF the very few
remaining privates OF the Army OF North
ern Virginia. I'll now introduce to you one
| of the maiors-Maior Don p. [Ialscy."
! [ApDau>e.l
Here there were some calls for Newman,
but he was not forthcoming.
Major IaIsey, though quite unwell, came
forward and made a good speech. He eu-
| logiZed General Johnston, and declared
that he had nothing offensive to say
| OF Colonel Newman, and his words
were chcered. He compared the claims OF
| General Johnston and Colonel Newman.
| The latte might be Il very good man, but he
was not such q one rs the people would
naturally select toreprcsent them. lie was
aware that some estimabe voters proposed
| to support Colonel Newman, but it was not
because or his personal claims, but because
of the great popular igniS tatunS-Grecn-
| backism. Major UalseV conceded that the
country was in Il suffering condition. he
suffered III common with his hearers Tor
want of this much-talked-of money. Ii he
knew OF any specific for this i'll he would
| let it be known ut once. But it Is qneS-
ton OF political finance, and we are not
the only people who have been AZ
fected in this way. Major Halscy heard
! Colonel Newman at the Westham House,
though Colonel Newman's friends would
not hear him (IIaSey). He was not inn
pressed with Colonel Newman's ability rs 4
political tinancier. He is in great love with
rreenbacks. He offers them as cure for
all our ills. We all want grcenbacks, and
many OF them. The difficulty is we have so
few OF them. How to get them is the qu"s-
ton. Now it is proposed by these people
that the National Government shall issue
unlimited greenbacks, and that every man
shall have all he wants. How they are to
be distributed is not clearly explained.
Major ualsey claimed that irredoemahlc
or fiat money was an invention OF the Chi
ncsc, and that q thousand years ago it was
tried bv them. They found out that us Il
financial system it was failure, and two
hundred years ago they passed an edict
aea1nst it. Other nations had tried il with
no better success. The history OF the French
assignats, so full OF warning TO the Green
backer<. was presented by the Major with
concisencSs and ability. To-day the cur
rcncy OF France is one OF the soundeSt of
any country on the globe, and she is one OF
the most prosperous OF nations.
Major Halsev next addressed himself to
the currency question as it affected the Ia
boring men. lie declared that certainly
they could not be benefited by unsound in
flation. The promises held out to them
were delusiye and unSubStantal. There
never was time when the wages OF labor
ing men rose in proportion to the de1recia-
ton OF the currency. He quoted ln-
disputable figures OF English statis-
ticiaus on this point, going TO show
that the laborers were always the
victims Of an inflated currency. This was
notably true in Confederate times. The
private soldiers pay was never raised,
though flour got beyond 5000 barrel. No
man can point to an instance where the
wages OF a laboring-man were during the
war increased to $50 day. Even il he did
get 500 day, it would have taken twelve
days labor to purchase barrel Of flour
Compare that with flour at S5 4 barrel and
the present pay Of laboriug-men.
Major HalseY concluded with an appeal
TO the voters to support General Johnston,
claiming that he was personally better enti-
tied to their sutfragcs than Colonel New
man, and that he could do better for them
in Congress than his competitor.
ABOUT COLONEL NEWMAN.
Calls were now made for Colonel New
man. General Walker annouHced that Colo
mel Newman was not present, but that his
friend. MIR. J. M. Gregory, was, and would
speak for him.
Dir. Gregory stated that he had Just re-
ccived message from Colonel Newman.
informing him that he had applied for d.
vision OF time, and that it had been denied
him, and that after making this statement
he would have nothing more to say than