The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-12
DANVILLr.

| LIAM WILLIE
lMAJOR JOHN W. DANIEL, WITH LAURELs FRos
/ KNEES MOUNTAIN FRESH on HIS BROW
WINS GREAT VICTORY IN DANvILLE-
SKETCH OF HIS SPEECH AND ACCOUNT Ol
HIS RECEPTION.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatcb.l
OCTOBER II. 1880.
A procession Of the members OF the Han
lcock and English Club and other citizens
1 IN all about four hundred-with music. Ian
lterns, and transparencies, escorted Major
Daniel to the Opera-House on Saturday
night. When all in the house were seated
/ il was found that about one thousand per-
sous were present. The stage bad been
decorated with United States flags and
lhangings OF red, white. and blue, and
amongst them large steel-portralis OF The
democratic candidates, and near by nor
Itrait Of Garfield, too, and near to him q
Transparency. Oh which was written
l"320." Back OF the stage was a tri'
color curtain, on which was written
"George &. Cabell." To the front, and
over the stage, was tri-color curtain, on
which was written " Hancock and English
C. e.. 1885," Ga the stage along with the
orator of the occasion were Colonel Cabetl,
Colonel Flournoy, the officers OF the Han
fathers, and Captain Mckinney, OF Farm
vile. President Il. l.. Brown, OF the Han
cock and English Club, requested Colonel
Flournoy to introduce Major Daniel, and
Colonel Flournoy complied, prefacing the
introduction with congratulations on'a re-
yival OF the love of liberty and OF DISPOSE
tion to drive from power party which for
twenty years had exercised despotism over
the country. "This year," said he, "re-
minds me of 1910. Then Maine fired the
| first gun, and the men for whom Maine fired
won the victory"
Major Daniel said that the Depocratic
party had exhibited the rarest spectacle ever
| seen. Year after year it had been beaten ;
year after year, though defeated, it had
been found ready for battle. AT last 1t
seemed assured OF victory. In 1874 it had
gained Democratic House; in 1876 1t had
shown that it could elect President; in
1878 it had gained the Senate. First Demo-
cracy had-stood by his war horse next he
had got his foot into the stirrup, and now
he was ready to leap into the saddle, and
next we shall hear him cry, ave have met
the black. horse warrior. his visor down,
and he is ours"
| The next step was an arraignment OF
the Republican party as the currupt
party. "It had wearied indignation"
All parties at their origin have some
thing of good in tbem-mouDtains OF
virtue, valleys OF sin; but this party has
evelled every mountain, and now there
was only one wide waste aud wilderness OF
sin and transgression, with nothing pleas
ant for the eye 10 rest upon or the mind to
contemplate. The Republican party was
also arraigned for its sectionalism. In its
platform ard in its policy-in its measures
especially OF taxation and patronage-it bad
been extremely sectional. The South. in
deed. had been made solid by the policy OF
the Republican party, but the policy OF the
South could not be called sectional. Here
Major Daniel quoted from speech OF GEN
eral Banks in which he opposed the Demo.
cratic party purely on sectional grounds.
eyes, Banks shall furnish ammunition for
the Stonewall jackson Of the North just as
| he once furnished rations foi the Stonewall
| jackson OF the South. He must have suf-
fered from nightmare and dreamed that he
was again going Down the Valley, and that
another Jackson was after him." Here
Major Daniel quoted by contrast from Han
cock to show that his policy was neither
| that of solid North ner solid South, but
consolidation of the people OF both src-
tions-from Hancock, "the soldier from
PENNSYLVANIA and the statesman from Lou
lsiana."
The Republican party was also arraigned
as the party OF tyranny. A shoddy aristo-
cracy received a blow here. The northern
party sought to propagate its principles
and doctrines and establish its policy and
its power, not by the Jeffersonian processes,
but by money and war. See Louisiana and
its Legislature; see South Carolina and its
State. House. .'Sir Christopher Wren bad
no monument over his tomb, but on the
slab was engraved, 'If you seek monu.
ment, look around you.' II you seek
monument OF Republican misruIe. look
upon The expulsion of white men from the
right OF franchise" And Garfield was for
the privation of the right Of voting Of all
the men In the South--not for term OF
years, but for so long time as any who had
bad any share in The war between the States
should liye--for DISTINGUISHING 1000, 900 OF
people.
Major Daniel next charged that the Re
publican party was party OF fraud. II
once stood upon two legs-fraud and force.
Tilden's guns had shot away force. And
here Major Daniel burst forth into specifi |
cation Of the practices OF fraud equal TO that |
celebrated specification OF taxes by Sydney |
Smith. Hayes had gone through the coun-
try, saying grace at everybody's table and
speaking at the meetings OF the Young |
Mems Christian Associations, but the story |
OF his administration had only been like one |
Of those stories from the New York Ledger
the most interesting part had been brought |
from preceding numbers, and was
be continued" He bad counted In /
one hundred and fifty Of the rascals who
bad had hand In counting him In. and |
none had been forgotten who had ever done
him rascally turn. Things nowadays In |
that party are as Curran said they were In
Ireland. As Icing as any man was sound he
would sink FROM his own weight and stay
1t the bottom, but when corruption began |
the body would begin to rise. Reforms sci.
dom commence with party that has been
long in power. They must come from an
outside source.
The next point OF the speech WIS sketch
81 the character OF the candidates and q
OF the reasons fol- nominating
Garfield was o student and q
scholar, and bad been an active and influ-
entail partisan; bnt be- had no steadiness Of
;onvieitons and no fixed principle except
hat No. 1 was 70 be taken care Of; not ma
Iclovs. but mean from lack Of principle.
de hsd ell the eIemenls that Indicate that