The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-12
King and Queen.

Editors Dispatch: No Legislature ever
assembled in Virginia, not excepting The
recoustructing, Radical, negro, scalawag,
and carpet-bag Legislature, that inflicted
such damaging and humiliating blows upon
our dear old mother OF States as the pres
ent. The former were aliens aud not her
sons; but the latter profess to claim her rs
their mother. An honest and faithful lu-
dietary has been Displaced because hey be-
lieved the State should faithfully observe
its contracts and pay IFS honest debt. In
my Judgment no man Is lit To Ill The JUDI
cial chair who will advocate the violation
OF contracts and the reputation OF an
honest debt, no matter what may be MS
legal attainmentS. am unwilling TO trust
him. The newly-appOintcd judiciary
has not the confidence Of the community.
They are not the choice OF the people. They
are thrust upon Us by negroes and Road
iustcrs. As a Consequence OF this piilful
partisan vIndictiyeness the people Will be
doubly taxed by appeals from incompetent
tribunal, TO our higher courts. This viii
be productive Of rich harvest h The law
yers. but the wronged people will have TO
pay the price. Oar h0n0red and popular
Judge. j. II. c. Jones, though the choice OF
four fifIhs OF The two counties over which
mi s.reDrescniaiiyts. Bulm1n and CannOn).
must be sacrificed bccau-e be judged it IiSht
that an honest debt should be paid. \
hieher-'onod Christian gentleman, purcr
and ADLER Judge, never graCed the
bench; ana no nan, plaintiff or
defendant, could say he had rot done
him Justice, and not single decision Of his
was ever reversed by our Cour OF Appeals.
Yet these political mI>cegcniStS could not
tolerate such Il man and >uch Il Judge; nav,
he could not be the offspring Of such
unIon. He is no gambler, nor does he keep
''lizard." Late i'm my teens. I'm 1880, |
stood in that same legislative hall and gazed
with reverence upon the venerable Mon
roe, Madison, Marshall. Randolph. Giles,
TaZewell, &c, &c. Their like re shall see
no more. Again. in the d1ys Of our humlia-
ton | saw those seats filled with negroes
and aliens, from whom we expected no.
thing; still. they did better by our good old
State and were more jealous OF lis honor
than the Legislature OF 1850. composed If
RCadjusters and negroes. who have done
more TO iarnish the honor and damage the
peace and prosperity OF cur State Tran all
others combined.
We have bad recently an ATTEMPT 1T
strike among the negroes in The Walkerton
vnd Burlington neIghbOrh0OdS. They held
secret meetings and established prices, and
started out armed TO visit the farms and
wOOd-yards TO notify llbOrers that they
should not work Tor less than their e>tab-
lisbed prices. If so. they should receive
thlrty-nine stripes. Fortunate for them
that their move was so secret and so soon
abandoned. TINS move on their part is
viewed by the community Is the result OF
The late canvass, when every appeal was
made TO arouse the passions and embiiter
the feelings Of the negroes against the
whites. and TO convince them that the Re-
adiuster party was the Moses TO deliver them
from their political bondage. MANY prom
Uses were made them which were never to
be redeemed. THESE unworthy appeals
were deplored at the time by the prudent
and Thoughtful aS fraugbt with mischief
both to the negro and white population.
But j. g. Cannon, the Rcadiusier candI-
date for the Senate. considered this mode Of
conducting the campaign as the surest road
TO his election, but, / can assure him, not TO
the esteem and res Get Of the community In
which il is their misfortune he resides.
Truly the times are perilOuS. As David
said In his day, 50 may we say now
"WDen the wicked are exalted the vileSt
men walk on every side" May we be saved
from these political wreckels
A SUBSCRIBER.