The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-30
HENRY COUNTY.
AN OBsERvAHT MANS OPINION.

MARTINsvILLE, VA, September 2G, 1879.
Editors Dispatch: Having just returned
from a two-wceEs' trip in Southwest Nlr
rinia. have thought that it may be Of in
lerest to your readers TO give them The re-
sult OF nv observations. The first place al
which stopped was UilsriIIc, the county
seat Of Carroll, on Monday the 18th uliimo.
court day. An able speech was made by
s. G. wHITTLE,
of this county, Of about one and hall
hours in length. In it he traced the history
OF the internal-improvemen policy OF the
state; showed how the debt bad been con.
tracied. and that it was created BY the men
whom the people Of the State had delighted
| to honor in the past, who were representa-
tive men OF their day; That we had
now before us the result OF their
labors in tile great lines OF railroad:
that now penetrate every portion oil
the country, turnpikes, dc. Without
money these works would never have been
built, and they never could have gotten the
money without borrowing it on the faith Of
The State. This was the irst speech he de-
liyered in the canvass, and was listened Ia
by large audience and had Il marked effect
upon the people. After Mr.. Whittle had
concluded feeble call was made for the
REV. P. l.. SHULER,
of Grayson, who had been bushwhacking
in this senatorial district for the nominal
ton, who responded, and from the portion
OF his speech that | heard he only display ed
his ignorance OF the subject be undertook
to discuss. Amongst many foolish things, he
said THAT he did not mind beng called a
MoZarter; he never expected to be ashamed
of the name OF Moses while he lived"
From Carroll went to Pulaski. This
county rs well as Carroll is all right on the
debt question.
IN PULASKI
was informed by undouDted authority that
out OF thirty-bve men whose taxable pro-
perry was assessed at over $4,000 thirty
four were in favor of the late adjustment.
Our friends are very confident in
wYTHE
Of carrying the county by large majority.
On Saturday night, the Goth, there was a
meeting in WytheviIle, and speeches mode
by S. &. Whitlle, Hon. Thomas ). Bocock,
and others, to Il very respectable audience,
and from The demonstrations made l think
that we are there on safe ground. y ride
over very rough and disagreeaDle road or
thirty-four miles found Us on Monday The
22d at Independence,
GRAYsoN COUNTY.
n had been previously arranged that s.
G. Whittc and the Hon. Thomas S. Bocock
should speak. They and their friends were
willing to divide time with any champion
that the Readiusters might bring into the
field. But this they declined or failed TO do,
and the court having adjourned for the
purpose, the courtroom was taken posses
sion Of by the Readiusters to hold con-
vention to nominate candidate for the
Legislature, and they managed to consume
the time until O'Clock in the evening.
when they gave away to Mr.. Bocock, who
was introduced by Hon. A. ii. Davis in 4
neat and eloquent speech of about ten
minutes.
Mr.. BOcock came forward and made one
OF tue most eloquent speeches that I have
listened to for many years. | have heard
bin IN the prime OF manhood, when he
was the honOred representative in Congress
from this district, and l never knew him 10
aeauit himself better. [ have in my life
heard some OF the great men OF the nation
in the halls Of Congress and elsewhere. but
have never heard more finished orator
than MIR. Bocock. Profound attention was
paid him by crowded courtroom when
he in a mastery man2er explained to the
people the real question at issue. He traced
the history Of the debt since the war, and
went into the details OF the recent set
tlemeEt made by the Legislature, and
showed beyond doubt that it was the
best we could do, and that the debt was
within the means OF the people to pay with
outcadditional taxation, and that the free
school system could be made effective and
sinking fund sufficient to retire the prin-
cipal within the thirty years that it bore
The and the per cent; That it would be