The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-07
i've an Imaginary victorious rooster on the
I'd OF November, 1880, and couidn't wait for

ticIeerln2, nut NJ once commenced Growing,
and kept it mp so continuously that before he
bad consumed two thirds OF his time 1t was
very evident that his vocal organs would
soon have to not only battle with straight
out Democracy and the lnyiolabiity OF con-
tracts, but also with harassiDg case OF
hoarseness. Vim--too much, however. for
the voice that was to give expression to it.
irreIevancy OF the topic tReadj usterism),
forming, as II did, the almost exclusive basis
OF his speech to the issues at stake, and
an entirely assumed seif-abnegation, which
Is unguesionably part Of the very unde.
sirsbe commodity known as the "nine
points OF Masseyism," distinguished bis eff
fort. First he would curl, next cringe
mpimentariy at the feet OF his God, Ma
hone, then cbide Mr.. Goode about handling
the Republican side OF the matter under
discussion so delicately as TO ask the ne
groes II they were gong TO vote the una
dulterated Republican ticket, and finally
caress carefully and very tenderly the Co
lored caravan" by throwing out to them
tafry in the form OF what the Readiusters
dd last winter to keep the negro from
helping to support the public free schools
by the repeal Gas far as their action could
then eXtend) OF the capitation tax bill.
strenuous advocates OF that very hll? Yes.
What did you say Judge, two or three
years ago in the Conservative caucus, in the
most powerful, uncompromising appeal
YOU could make, when the plan for reds.
iricting the State for members OF the Legis-
lature was being devised by that body,
about giving james City, York. Elizabeth
City, and Warwick counties. with popu-
lation OF twenty-three thousand. only one
member OF the House oi Delegates,
and Charles City and New Kent counties,
with population OF $4,000, one member OF
the same branch OF the Legislature, opposing
thereby equality OF representation, which
you and your party so much clamor for
now (for an Interior purpose, Of cOurse),
urging stoutly that Charles City aud New
Kent should not have another one OF the
Peninsula counties attached TO them, as IL
would upayoidably result in a Republican
being sert from that district TO the Legisla-
ture? But will cease to interrogate you.
Some questions do bother some people so
much sometimes, pertinent though they be.
| NAV as well close my sketch OF the Judges
speech, the delivery OF which, together with
the getting off OF the others he may part
company with in this month and October,
somebody says, caused him TO yacate the
bench for said two months, by remarking
that he grew very pathetic and "circled "
considerably when he was handling his
hypothetical Confederate private" MEM
Der OF the FifIy-third Virginia regiment OF
infantry, Picketps division QSn't it a won
der he didn't put him in Mahone's bril-
gade y, who, in gaining the crest OF Gene
ferry Ridge, went as far north as the
Confederate tide OF battle rolled during
the late civil conflict" Qhe Confederate cav
airy fought north OF there,) and who at the
close OF the war returned home with no.
thing but the hOnorS OF brave soldier, set
about building up the aste.places, after
the rolling away OF many years was denied
the rights Of a freeman by the odlOus
captation-taX bill, which the Judge was
very conspicuous in helping 10 pass, II not
TO frame, and who, when the dilemma
arose as TO whether he i'm his pOyeItyand
rags should take the only dollar he had 10
buy food for his starving wife and children
or pay bis "pol.taX," lost his "ireeman-
ship" by choosing the first alternative.
Oh, Judge, you had no sympathy for that
Imam Of straw" unit, YOU had sore need
OF the negro vote to assist you Re-
adjuSteTs in destroying our State credit.
The Judge hoarsely limited TO his cOlored
auditors bow their race in Richmond was
gOaded and prosecuted promiScuou>Iy by
the white Funder controllers OF her city
government, but touched the subject very
lightly, owing doubtless to his inability to
make out even the flnseSt case Of the kind
against his white brethren there.
THE REJOINDER OF Mr.. GOODR
was like Hancock's bearing" superb"
He reminded his hearers that Judge Lacy
had raised no objection, to his (Mr. Goode's)
record in Congress; that he had offered no
reason why Mr.. GOOde should be suppanted
by himself; that his only excuse for advi-
sing the people 10 do such thing at the
polls was that he (Mr. GOOde) had advocated
last fall the settlement at once OF the debt
question as called for by the McCull0ch
bill that he held that the terms OF this con-
tract entered into by the peoples reprcsen-
tatives chosen for that especial purpose
were fair and honorable to all parties con-
cerned; that he conceded to those who en-
tertained views respecting the debt question
the opposite 10 his honesty OF conviction,
but that il by his course on that question
he bad in the eyes OF such committed an un-
pardonabe sin, why, then, they might make
the most of 1t. Mr.. GOode was, as he al
ways j., singuIarly, nimitably happy in his
relation OF pertinent. hitting anecdotes both
in his opening and closing speeches. They
were sent like so many explosives with tell
ing terror right into the magazine OF bis po-
litical adversary. He was appauded time
upon time 10 the echo, and the cheers which
greeted the peroration Of his last speech were
many, repeatedly given. and such only as
those that reach from heart to heart.
heard both Debt-Payers and Readjusters
say that his speeches were tirst-cass. | do
not deny that Judge Lacy is a right good
debaer but do say that he can't begin TO
hold any position when his assaiIant is Mr.. |
Goode. Besides, the Judge rides a hobby |
that capers too much for steady, consecn- |
tive. Opp0rtune work. He was cheered |
some, but not more than 1.-THE As much and |
heartily as was Mr.. GOode. There IL large
number Of Readjusters in this county, but
ii IS thought that the Debt.Payers largely
Certain IL is that have
heard many parties who voted the Read
ulster ticket last November in the last
month pledge themselves TO vote on Noyem-
Der ., 1880. the regular Democratic ticket.
Victory VIII not assuredly perch on our
State banner two months hence, however,
Il we do not work Systematically and un-
ceasngly.
John L. Dtzendori, Esq, mounted with
ilacrity the platform, on its being vacated
BY Judge Lacy and Mr.. GOode, and ha-
rangued the large gathering of negroes and
'ome whites, myself among the latter, for an
hour or more. The negroes seemed TO never
ire OF cheering his audation OF Garfield and
Republican acts. They are solidly for the
y dark horse" and the unmiXed Republican
ticket. OBSERVER.
All the Lynchburg papers attest that the
domination az MIR Frazier for ConOFcsS