Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-12-19
VIRGINIA PotfT1 os.

HOW THE COUNTY JUDGESHIPS ARE
LOOKED AT BY READJUsTERs-sPEE
OF NEGRO READJUsTER SENATOR ON
THE CRIPPLED HEROES OF TIE CON-
FEDERATE ARMY-MIscELLANEO
ITEMS,
&C., &C., &C.
The county papers are filed with notices
of names in connection with their county
judgships. In Bedford, NJ P. Rucker 10
named; for Henrico, Edward Waddell,
VIM. Taylor and Jacob Cohn; for Loudon
J. B. McCabe; for Rockbridge, Mr..
Patton; for franklin, Thomas D.
Claiborne; for Henry, James s. Redd; for
Pittsylvania, Horatio Davis. How similar
to the carpet bag view which prevailed
in the State in Reconstruction times, is
the feeling now, is illustrated in the fol-
lowing letter made public in the Alexan-
dria "Gazette:"
LEEsBURa, Loudoun county. Va.
December 9th, 1879.
Honorable and Dear Sir-I am son IT the late
than 60 years an active aborer In the Presbyterian
I am = candidate for the ONCE Of Corporation
Immediately go there to reside
There but one at that bar OF our party
guess hardly be candidate after that:
For reference a IS to fitness, Sc, &c, refer to
though we are as wide apart in politics as the poles
If It is impossible to give, me the Judgeship Of
and put me in for County Judgeship OF some good
county.
Be pleasedto confer with Mr. Paul in regard to it.
w. C. BALCH,
Attorney at Law, Leesburg, Va.
SPEECH OF NEGRO READJUsTER sENA-
TOR ON ONE-LEGGED CONFED-
ERATE SOLDIERS.
Mr.. Davis (colOred) seconded the nomi-
nation of Mr.. BIokenbrOugh, and, refer
ring to the remarks of Mr.. Hurt about
Colonel Harrison's being one-legged
Confederate, said he had heard the name
''Confederate'' mentioned very often of
late in connection with certain nominal
tiOns, and he was heartily tired Of it. 1t
i. was the duty Of the Senate to remove these
officers. To the victors belong the spoils.
This is not the place to reward the Con-
federate soldier who has one leg or one
arm, nor to try and touch the sympathies
of the YictOrS SO as to reward them. He
was sorry that the name Confederate had
been used so often here. They belong to
the Lost Cause, and have no part in these
spoils. They have no right to them.
When one-legged and one-armed COnfed-
crate soldiers are put up at this late day
to prey on the sympathies Of the victors
to reward them. be thought it was nom
sensical. He hoped it would be the pleas
ure Of the Senate that that name shall not
even be mentioned here-"COnfederate
Confederate one-armed, One-legged sol
dier." One might be brought in here and
he would stand no chance unless he was
Readjuster. He had sympathy for him.
but he would spurn the last one of them
for p0licy's sake and for the party's sake.
The Funders said a good deal the other
day about one-legged man for doorkeep-
er. There nothing more right or just
than that he should have been defeated.
Had he not fought in the Confederate
army he probably would have now two
arms and two legs, but he made mistake
in going into the wrong party, and lost all
claim on the people of the country. They
should be glad to have that name silenced,
and that forever. He hoped senators
would refrain from these references. They
1.-THE COnfederates) had been defeated, and
since acknowledged that they we're wrong.
1t were better to let them 60 down in the
world, so far as political issues are COLI
cerned, He would vote for such resolu-
ton here if necessary.
4AAD ACSIO dlIoA WdIuS duuIcoocu Ill
apolegetic letter to the Richmond dis
patch" which concludes thus:
But when spoke of silencing the name
Of 0ne-legged and one-armed Confederate
soldiers l had reference exclusively to
within the halls of this Senate chamber
for the purpose of warping the judgment
of senators by sympathetical appeals.
Respectfully,
C. r. DAVIS