The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-13
NEW KENT COUNTY.
NEW KENT COURTHOUSE,

october lU, 1919.
Editors Dispatch We had magnificent
speech here to-day from Major Daniel, ana
the outlook for the friends OF the debt-set-
Element is decidedly better \ number or
sober-minded people who have been report
ed as favorable to the Mozarters were out
spoken and earnest in their approval OF the
settlement.
John z. Pierce, Esq, opened the discus
sion for the opponents of the bill in
speech OF forty-tiye minutes. Major Dan
icl replied, and spoke an hour and forty
minutes. Judge 3. ". Lacy, RcAdiusters'
candidate for the House OF Delegates. re-
piled to him in an hour, and Colonei John
l.. Walker, Conservative candidate for the
House, replied to him in speech OF ten or
fifteen minutes, he having given bis time to
Major Daniel. During the short time he
spoke be was imprisoned and eloquent, and
received the hcartiest applause Of the au-
dience.
Dr.. L. A. Slater then spoke forty-tive
minutes for the RepealelS, and DR.. Robert
Power, Of York, Conservative candidate
for the Senate, in 4 short but singu'arly APP
propriate speech, defined his position and
asked the suffrages Of the people.
A ';lookcr-on in Nienra,' we interested
oursclf to see il we could discover in all
the speeches OF the Repcalcrs one single
statement or suggestion calculated to con-
vince thinking man that he ought to vote
to repeal the bill, but we heard none. There
was literally nothing in all OF 1t but the
widest defamation.
Major Daniels argument from the figures
made a decided impression upon the au-
dience, and his discussion of the value OF
tie negroes in their new state particularly
impressed them. Many OF tbcm were out
spoken in favor OF the bill. We heard two
colored men trying to impress upon white
man that it was easier to pay 3 per cent.
than 6. ooh! but" said the white man,
eve amt going TO pay any. "Weil,'
said the colored man, IF that's the way
you're talking I amt got no more to say to
you' CTS true, and pity tits, 'tis true
there are a good many Repcalers in
New Kent, but they are growing fewer
every day. The reaction has set In, and
even now number OF the best people have
not "bowed their knee to Bael." There is
no place where the grand speech OF Major
Daniel could have fallen with better results.
We would write more about the speech,
but what's the use? Everybody knows
what matchless orator be IS. To us who
never heard him before bis eloquence was
simply sublime, and this fully equalled by
the power OF his argument. We remember
one thing especially as setting the audience
wild with enthusiasm:
Mr.. Pierce had talked good deal about
equalizing losses. "Ah.' said Major Dan
lei, in reply, "woulda't that have been a
good thing for me? came out OF the war
with an old gray Confederate jacket, an
old cavalry horse, and my sword. Sir; L
was In good plight then TO equalze losses
with some man who slept quietly at home
while the storm ragged"
You ought to have beard hin,-the people
Of Virginia ought to have heard hin-aS,
with voice solemn, tremulous, filled with
patriotic rage, and swelling above the
thrilled audience like trumpet-call to
arms, and his eye flashing unutterable fire,
be said, ''Mv sword"
Virginia may be poor, but she is rich in
her statesmen and orators, who illustrate
her honor before the world. c.