The New York herald., 1879-12-12
SURE OF NEGROES AND REPUBLICANS.
A Conservative Boom for Him Improbable
bayard or Seymour Wanted.
WOULD SUIT SOME AS EMPEROR.
The Solid South Would Vote lIlden--
Was He Sold Out?
GENERAL GARYS GRAVE CHARGE.

RICHMOND, Dec 10. 1879.
The colored republicans in virginia-as far as
have learned in the course of careful inquiry-are
almost unanimously in favor of General Grant for
President. SO the handful Of white republican
voters save the federal oce-holders and their local
satellites. Of the twenty-seven republicans in the
new Legislature seventeen colored and ten are
white General Malone reported to have said
to an official in Richmond that il these republican
members would turn in and help him to elect the
Speaker and the State officers OF his choice. thus
facilitating his alleged ambition he would In
his turn throw the whole strength OF the
readjusters for Grant in Virginia. in case
Grant should be nominated. When asked General
Malone if this report correct he said 1t was
not. There was need of such bargain; nobody
had a right to make it. and he had not even sug-
gested it. The statement is positively reiterated by
gentleman VIII, says the man to whom General
Malone made it now regrets his indiscretion in
peating 1t much that he is prepared to deny it
himself! However this may be, it is clear that 1T
would take larger vote than the republican vote Of
vrgna--though every black and white republican
should go to the polls year hence-to give the State
to Grant. The total vote Of the State in the
best test election since the war-the Presidential
election of lS6was 235 228 OF this vote it is esti
mated that 10000 ballots were cast by white men
and $4,000 by negroes. On all sides it is conceded
publican voters in the Commonwealth. of whom the
pick are government office holders. The negro
Iervatives rated at about one thousand by their
opponents, though some conservative leaders claim
that there are good many more Of them.
CONSERVATIVE VOTES NECESSARY.
Grart to carry Virginia, would have to carry it
with conservative votes and in view Of the discus
sion OF his candidacy in various parts Of the South
have taken extraordinary pains to elicit in
sations and through letters and dispatches public
opinion in Virginia these two points,
J. In Of Grants nomination republican
candidate would he. in any contingency. be sup
ported by controlling number of conservatives
the usual synonym here for democrats-in Virginia?
2 In the event of Grants nomination inde-
pendent conservative candidate, through the in
iuence OF Southern delegates in the Democratic
National Convention, what then. would be his sup
port in Virginia?
Grant carried the State when he ran against Gree
ley in 1922 yet probably nobody else but Greeley
would have failed to carry it against Grant. The
vote at that time insignificant. The
conservative voters all the State stayed home
They wouldn't vote for Greeley and they
wouldn't vote Tor Grant. the republican nomi-
nee. So the Grant republicans had cleo
ton day pretty much to themselves; and
from present signs they would be conceded the
same monopoly of it if Mr.. Tilden some equally
unpopular candidate were to procure next years
democratic nomination. Native yirginians
proud ever and their local affairs Of tar
Interest to them at present than even SO weighty
matter the Presidency.
BAYARD Oh SEYMOUR WANTED.
The only thing that could arouse the white popu-
ation of the Commonwealth to any sort of ardor in
the next Presidential campaign would be the nomi-
nation of Bayard or. next to him. Seymour. All
Old Viroin in ia m for Bava
Virginia is wild for him. Yet old virginians dare
not blazon. and young virginians kept from
shouting. their preference for fear OF injuring the
favorites cause at the North Granted democratic
candidate like Bayard Seymour, opposed to Grant
a republican candidate. and the number of con-
servative cast for the latter Virginia might
be counted one mans fingers and toes. Either
Bayards or seymour's name at the head of the DEM
ocratc ticket would be talisman, and the election
of either would do to obliterate the line sur
veyed between 1868 and 1767 by Mason and Dixon
than almost any other conceivable event. Not a
virgnian with whom have conversed twhite
black. who reads the newspapers and has opinion
including storekeepers merchants. lawyers, editors
and club men generality much from the
view that any conservative leader who. with ticket
headed by Bayard or Seymour before him. should
try to turn the State to Grant, would find him.
self next to deserted long before election day. More
over. such an attempt would renew the old conflict
between whites and blacks. to the inevitable grief
of the latter part of the population In 1872 General
Mosby did not succeed carrying for Grant twenty
conservative votss to the polls
pEMocRArIc CANDIDATE.
When the TAR different proposition advocated by
some Southern newspapers outside Of Virginia Is
consdered-namely. to support General Grant
Southern candidate in the next democratic conven-
ton, or as an independent candidate in somewise
sundered from the stalwart republican party and
platforms set of calculations arises. II those
conservatives in other Southern States who have
started the Southern Grapt talk" should in
developing widespread popular sentiment in his
favor-onc denoting the Willingness OF large body
OF Southerners to accept him a compromise
didate. who. IL elected would presumably carry tho
Appomattox policy to its logical demo nouemcnt-doubt-
less many naughty Virginia heads would bow.
Most of the kotowing might not be done by the
hane noJLesse though there is no telling what
people who are in such state of uncertainty
and non-convlcton would consent to in
sn emergency. The question would DO decided
probably by Vrginans who hayo taken an active
part in post-bciIlya politics; yet no matter how
tive the most popular men among them might bc,
they would IND IT uphill work to keep General
Grants vote. even il he were q democratic candi-
date. from being comparatively smaller in Virginia
than in many other southern States. This opinion
expressed with emphasis by several disting uishcd
gentlemen. is left to stand by reason of a curious
timidity, without the support of their names. some
Of the most conspicuous in Virginia refuse at
this time to speak to representative otherwise
than impersonally for fear. apparently. of some
thing in the future they know not what An cd
tor even. renowned here and through the South for
athird OF century declines to father by name his
application to the proposed Grant expcdient OF the
familiar couplet:-
Imperial Caesar dead turned 10 clay.
Might stop hole 10 keep the wind away
NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATIVES NOT FOR
oRANT-scARcELY SENTIMENT ON THE
SUBJECT.
RALEIGH, Dec. z, 1870
Taking together the facts in North Carolina politics
,ganed in acaroful series interviews with her lead