The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-07

pink I can adyIsedly say tnat that gallant
80 ch,vairnus elector Oh the July ticket (;
fsnIonel Robert M. Mayo. Of whom can !
sav a,tho,snh we differ In politics. that l
kpow no blayer and more dashing soldier,
and whose talents and orstory are OK the
lIrst order. will resign, too, II The contin-
rency arises; and believe the other elect
ors Will follow the lead OF the FIRST district.
The p,au involves no surrender the one
To the other, no recautation OF convictions
or prjuc!ples, but IL only an offensive ana
defensive alliance against common enemy
/ cannot 70 over to them because they have
adopted State platform instead OF stand
ing on the Cincinnati platform, and never
take oleomargarine when i can get butter
They will mot come to us. The mountains
cannot 90 TO Mabomet, and Mahomet WIN
not come To- the mountains.
We have seen that IN the recent RepuDli-
can conference In New York, the Hon. Jonn
Cessna, chairman Republican Comnitlee IN
Pennsylvania, Hon. James Blaine, aud Hon.
John Sherman, urged aggressive warfare
against The solid South In order 10 break II,
and after October elections will commence
a vigorous fight i'm Virginia. They may pay
ca pitatlon tag or may not. The Chicago
Times says not, but suppose they dor Last
year there were $1,000 black voters with
capitation tax paid. As there were nocoun-
~ elections this year, the number With head
tax paid will fall far short OF $4,000, pre-
sumo. But there may be contingency in
which Virginia, with $4,000 Democratic
majority divided, might be lost. I" Eternal
vigilance is the price OF liberty" and Ito
| be forewarned is to be forearmed." are true
as they are trite. 1t Is no insignificant TACT
that Gorbam is pleasantly spending bis time
at Orkney Springs while weare quarreIling.
Even Tennessee and Arkansas, with State
debt agitation, are units. New YORK Deals
her troubles when the :" hour and the man
| come" Virginia is no longer unit IN the
"soIid South" Virginians are potential
pacifcators OF their neighbors' difficulties,
but are perfectly efiele and helpless in
settling their own family quarres.
Then adopt this plan and vote for eleven
electors thus chosen without distinction
who have previously pledged for Hancock,
and Virginia will cast her $4,000 Democratic
majority for him. II the ReSdiusters' CON-
mittee reject the proposal there will be no
more degradation OF defeat, no more de.
generacy OF action, no more chagrin and
modification of disappointment, no more
officiating or crow-eating than there was
after the invitation was heralded through
our Executive Committee and county feso-
lutions TO meet us in the May Convention.
III they slam the door in our face in this the
time OF supreme danger il will disarm them
OF the cry OF prescription and social ostra-
cism, il Will unmask their selfish greed, IL
will lay bare the nudity and mOckery OF
their patriotism, and instead OF initiating
against the morale Of our ticket will give 1t
the prestige Of success and huri back IN
dismay and disintegration the July ticket.
No casual observer OF history and the logic
of events can fail TO desire this blessed con-
summation.
How we all applaud the utterances OF
Governor Hubbard, OF Texas, and drink
in with almost a spirit OF romance the sem
timents which well up in our hearts in be-
half of Tammany delegates in the Cincin-
natl Convention, wien, with the minority
report, he asked the Convention "to pause
before they struck full IN the face the soye-
reign queen whose credentials we bear upon
this floor" We come with the olive
branch, forgetting the memories OF the
past, burying discords in a common grave
alike honorable to both, invoking the spirit
OF compromise. For we are not in the hey
day OF our power that we may throw away
votes by the thousands or tens OF thOu-ands
as busks before the swine. The time may
come before the ides Of November when
the great Democratic press OF this country
and our people from mountain to scaboard
may cry out as the contest thickens, "Oh,
for Butcher! Oh, for night; and the $4,000
votes OF New York may be that Butcher"
We, as Vircinans, feel pride that John
Kelly is in full fellowship with the reunited
Democracy OF New York.
Wade Hampton, under the inspiration OF
the occasion, and Knowing the genius OF
the times, In tones like bugle blast and q
siiver.voiced trumpet, at StauntOn July 26th
said 81 appeal to you in the name OF the
great men OF Virginia. i knew that both
sides are sincere in this local fight. know
there are honest men ard true 10 both your
factions; but whether you be Readiuster or
Funder, whether you be Greenbacker or
Hard-Money man, adiure you, In Gods
name, remember that you are Virginians."
The Democratic press outside OF Virginia
unite in the sublime invocation for harmO-
ny, and we stand IN sullen indifference.
and, with the obduracy of a petuant child
that should be spanked, we heed 1t not.
The leaders who shape the policy and hold
the fortunes of Virginia, not too indifferent
to their own political fortunes. have turned
Virginia over TO manifest Destiny" or
have been turned into stone by some tabled
Medusa. when the mailed hand OF usurpa-
ton with colossal grip is about 10 snatch
away the liberties Of the people.
On the other hand. when Virginians hear
the New York Tribune and the blatant Nd
tionat Republican breathing seductive whls-
pers into the ears OF the Debt-Payers to
maintain the public credit and pay the
bondholders OF the North, OF whom they
are the representatives, and then see them
urging the Readiusters to widen the chasm
and broaden the schism under the gossamer
covering of turning over Virginia in chains
to the Republicans, will they not arrest
their madness and pause? We have the
warning. The $4,000 votes 10 Virginia may
be the Butcher. Il. X. b. WRIGHT.
Toppahannock, Va. September 3, 1880.
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore SUM-