The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-30


BERKELEY, GooDE, AND TUCKER SPEAK.
BLACKS AND WHITES, !
September 27, 1879.
Dear Dispatch To-day has been bright
and glorious one for this thrifty and grow
ing town, and her future. annallist VIII make
Il long note OF it. To-day r. b. Berkeley,
the brave, the gallant, and eloquent; j.
Ran. Tucker, at whose voice hoary-headed
senator's hush their whispers and the ma
tons OF earth give attention; and John
Goode, Jr., the beloved OF his people OF
Eastern Virginia for bis thousand virtues
OF head and heart, have been here.
and have spoken to this people. Pursuant
to notice published by DR.. Z. q. Booth.
county superintendent, in your widcly-read
paper, and by handbills posted throughout
the county the meeting was called to order
BY Dr.. Booth in few words happily suited
to he occasion. MIR. james T. Epes intro
duced the first speaker,
R. b. BERKELEY, ESQ,
as the gallant and eloquent young South
side Virgnian, who, though yet young IN
comparison with the eminent gentlemen
who would follow him, gave promise now
that when, in the changes OF time, they
should be called away from their present
spheres OF usefulness and honor, we would
not be left without worthy and lifting sue
ccssor to them. Mr.. Berkeley said he was
sure he did not deserve the kind words that
had been spoken OF him: that he came not
TO speak but to listen and TO learn ut the
feet OF the hoLored fathers who would fol-
low him. But since called up he remem-
bered that one who was first in War-onc
who, though gone, yet lives and will forever
live, enShrined in the hearts and memories Of
his people (the immortal II. J. Jackson), had
said there is no word so sublime as duty:
and on this occasion he would feel rccreant
to his duty il he failed to respondL 10 the call
for his sentiments upon the question now
agitating the public mind. He was brief
but at times very eloquent, and was several
times stopped by the applause which greet
ed him. The
HON. JOHN GOODE, JR., AND J. Ran. TUCKER
were scverally subsequently introduced,
and extensively discussed the claims and
conduct Of the Mozart faction. They show
ed concIu>iyely that the compl,int Of Ma
hone, Massey, and Paul of being read out
Of the party was fudgc-Was pcrver>lon
OF truth, and no more than an unfair at
tempt to get excuse and make apology Tor
attempting to break up the Conservative
party. They showed that before the Nc.
Culloch bill saw the light the leaders OF No
Fart disassociatcd thrmSeyc, from the Con-
servative party, and went OF - themselves
and formed 4 ncw party and arranged their
whole system OF organization i'll the State
separate from the Conservative organizl-
ton; and now, when they s"c they made Il
mistake, aud that things don't work alto
ycther lovely for them, by Wrigglin@ and
| twisting they try to make honest people be-
llcvc that they have been badly treated.
They next addressed themselves 10 snow
ing that we owe the debt, that the creditors
have been liberal in compromising with ~.
and that the present settlement should
stand without the futile effort ri repeal, be-
cause it is fair and within the revenues OF
the State They showed that while taxes
may be heavy and hard to bear, the burden
was not heavy because OF the State debt.
The debt is small item. Taxes per an
mum, State and county, are about 81 on
the one hundred dollars OF property. OF
this fifty cents on the one hundred dollars
OF property was county levy, the other nifty
cents goes TO the State. OF this fifty cents
for State purposes fifteen cents only Is re-
quired TO meet the demands OF the McCul-
locl bill and pay full interest on the public
debt, while the thirty-tiye cents remaining
goes another way. And OF the whole tax
OF one dollar IN the hundred dollars Of pro-
perty for State and county taxes, eighty
five cents is for schools and ordinary eX-
penses OF government, and only fifteen
cents is required to pay the interest on the
public debt. And they showed cOnclu-
sively that the camor OF the Regulators
might more properly be against the eighty
five cents than against the small sum OF llf-
teen cents. But / cannot follow the
speeches. They were exhaustive, they We're
unanswcrablc and convincing. and would
that they could be made by the same able
gentlemen in every town and hamlet in |Ir-
ginia. No Rcadiu>ter was present to reply
to them, and for bis own personal comfort
am glad none was. For I'll indeed would
it have been fer him, and sure indeed II Is
If be had been present lie had wished nc
had never been born.
ONE LITTLE INCIDENT