The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-06
NorToWAY COUNTY.
NOTTDsyAY COURTHOUSE,
nntoher3. 1879.

October 3, 1879. J
Editors Dsspdtch " estegday being our
| regular court-day, the people assembled 10
| large numbers to hear another discussion OIL
! the State debt. a division Of stlne was
agreed on, which was Colonel berkeley 10
topen m aspeecH '5f- an hour, McNulhh 70
| follow In q speech of an hour ana maui
and Pageto close in speech OF one aio q
quarter hours. aw
r." ~ "''t" COLONEL BERKELEY 49,
commenced his speech, and in lucid ana
able manner was explaining to the people
the way and purposes OF the creation VI sn n
debt, &C., when loud yell was Talseu W
THE outside OF The crowd OF : hhllela
| g Harvey I" and rush was MAGE itol oui
crowd TO that OF the negroes, Wnlcil car Id
away from Us about twenty Whites Oh"
about as many negroes. .sa,,, 70
| The plot looked likes deep scheme TO
break up our meeting, but. thanks 10 klno
Providence. il failed. Colonel Berkeley con,
tinued bis speech, and dwelt with fear1ul
effect upon the position occupied by Tue
rrav.baired old man, ut one time the bosom
friend OF his father, and pictured 10 INC
crowd the depths OF misery and shame 10
which such course was. Carrying souho
people. Colonel Berkeley's speech was one
| Tor us all to be proud OF, ana we were anu
! are. .s... -.-.s.- ...l
| After Colonel Berkeley come ID,
ST. ... HON. FAEETTE N'MULLIN,
who Iabored for an hour and bali to sho"
! tho neopie what McMullin had d0ue Tor the
past half century, and how mueh more ne
could have done but for President JEFFERSON
| Davis mot sending bimto Fort Monroe, ana
but for the people who had for the last sew
eral years kept him out OF ONCE. ne sald
the people ought not to pay the debt, ana
That the bondholders must get tnelr pay
| from the United States. HIS speech Was
only noted for three things: First, praise OF
McMulin; second, abuse and vllllhcatlon
OF the preachers who had dared to sign that
| letter. and whom lie denounced in the most
| bitter terms / have ever listened to rs ap-
| nlied to the pulpit, calling some Of tue
preachers by name and saying they were
neither til to pray nor preach, and he wanted
none such either to pray for him or preach his
funeral: third, his continual and unparlia-
mentary denunciation Of the lawyers as
class. which filed up his whole speech,
| falling many anecdotes OF the lawyers and
otbers-aIl tending to show how base ana
worthless lawyers were TO every commu-
nity. In one he, lkened them to devils;
and he told another OF q young lady IN
Western Virginia, who made wish that
she could only die between two lawyers,
but here he was to-day speaking against
| two, while they were playing the game OF
| Two pluck one: and ne told OF debating
society Of negroes up in Southwest VII
! oinia who once had up for discussion De-
| fore them the question, Which Is the more
| beneficial to society, lawyers or DuzzarGs
who, after long discussion, decided tnat
| buZzards were the most useful to mankind.
| During his speech he stated that he had
heard Senator Johnston on the ears ask
MIR. Page to skin him (1lcMullin). and that
Page promised Senator Johnston TO do 1t:
buf. said he, I'm not afraid; Eve been
skinned many times in my life, and l can
skin some, too.
When he closed, DR.. Booth. our superln-
tendent. arose, and said that he had the
pleasure OF introducing
MIR, SAM. PAGE, OF MANCHESTER,
who needed no introduction 10 Nottoway
audience, and turning to McMullin he SAID,
" Sit down, Governor; he is going 10 burst
cap
Mr.. Page commenced by saying that he
had tough subject to deal with, but having
promised to skin him be should proceed
with the job by saying that when the old
man got back home he could tell that young
lady tbat he had died the blissful death she
crayed between two lawyers down in MOTTO
way; and to the crowd he said: 10 you,
nv friends, l intend to prove how far the
negro debating society were erroneous IN
their decision Of the subject before them;
for, said he, by the time get through with
pickine this old buzzard I'll make him think
that LAWYERS are useful for that purpose II
none other, as I shall send him back home
to abuse the negroes for having gotten tie
| idea into bis head that he was more uSeiul
than 4 lawyer. Mr.. Page continued Tor
some time in this way until he came 10 NC,
| Mullins denunciation OF the preachers, ana
then he was on the old man simply terrible.
He told him that 4 man who could occupy
such position before the people as he had
done today in denouncing the pulpit ana
advising the negroes to repudiatc the debt
OF Virginia, because they had no hand IN
making it, was unworthy either chris.
tian's PRAYER OF 4 Christians burial, ana
should have no one to preach 1llneral over
him. Messrs. Editors. | am not very
Young man, but have never heard such
crushing, burning Remuneration OF 4 SPEAK
or or his creed rs Page administered 10 'he
old man, who bad gone step beyond any
thing we had heard from speaker III this
canvass. ,,.,,,,,,;., ,,
He told the people that McMulhn ana
Harvey accused the conservatives vi Dciis
ructires, and said the party mad de-
stroyed everything they touched; but, said
page, there are two things they have not
destroyed, although it would be doing good
service to destroy them, and that was Fay
cite McMullin and Lewis Harvey: for, said
he, my friends, as long as there is an office
to till nothing but lightning will destroy
either of them. | could not give you even
an outline OF Mr.. Pages speech, for that Is
impossible, but in closing he said: " Now,
gentlemen, have / skinned him, or shall |
try again?" when voice from the crowd
answered: eyes, but you have ruined the
hide" and then Page said, "1ou can
send that to the Salt-works."
Messrs. Editors, if you could have listened
to Mr.. Sam. Page yesterday and heard the
applause that echoed his sound argument
and telling satire you would urge bis being
sent wherever there lisa speaker to be found
who is not with Us in this question Of honor
and fair-dcaing. Send him after Massey.
Yours very truly, CIyIs.