Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-05-04
MR. LUCAS AT PHILIPPI.

A Phillippi letter to the Wheeling Reo>
isier makes the following notice of speeches
made before the people of Barbour county,
on the 2ls. uls., by A. W. Campbell Chair
man of the Republican State Executive
Committee, and Hon. Daniel B. Lucas. of
this county:
Archie Campbell, the great apostle to the
Republicans, put in timely appearance and
hurled his harmless thunder at the assem>
oled Democracy amid rousiug plaudts from
the famished stalwarts. His address was
elegant, forcible and aggressive-but his
New England travels had ill>prepared him
for the homely, honest progress which, when
speaking OF the Democracy, ne caricatured
10 keenly in comparison with the wealth and
intelligence of the North. More personal
familiarity with his people here would con-
vince him that, while not go rich, SO stately.
or polished as the New Englanders, vet thew
like the Democracy, have been starved and
ignored by the general government; but new
ertheless, true to their principles and true to
him. 1t was in the natural fitness of things
that Hon. Daniel B. Lucas, of Jefferson.
should have happened to be present, an at
tentive listener. and when he concluded. de,
h7ered his mastery address upon the 'Duty
and Mission of the Democratic Party" The
light In which he portrayed the disparity
between the Now England States and West
Virginia, must have shown Mr.. Campbell
the causes and reasons of the difference. His
satirlcal scrutiny of the "party of progress. ;"
about which Mr. Campbell delightfullv
dwelt at length. brought out the enthusiasm
OF the crowd in rounds of applause which
must have been bewilderius to the great
apostle.
The Barbour Jc5ersoniun makes the fol-
lowing handsome notice of the address of
Mr.. Lucas:
Il was relishing feast on the first day of
our Circuit Court to listen to the address of
this accomplished gentleman upon the DUTY
and Mission of tho Democratic party" The
wonderful vitality, snatched from an enfeo>
b!ed constitution, with which he charged the
canister of his philippe was echoed and re-
echoed with rounds of applause, in many in>
stances, often from the enraptured Repub.
icans, and continuously from the enthusiastic
Democracy. For two hours the overAowine
court room hung in applaudiug eageruess to
catch on the one hand the whisper, even. of
the just arraignment of the dominant power
and on tho other the mission of the JeHer>
sonIan Democracy for its dethronement-
The grand phalanx of sordid, reckless and
o' Ate pooicaos, the 2otat0crdcy and
governmental patrons marching in serried
columns to the Empire, passed in stately re-.
view before the Democratic sovereiens of
Barbour, and never-never before did the
multitude witness so vivid a represe NATION of
the ultimate tendency of the policy and pur.
poses of the second-but by far, moro mex.
orsble Hamiltonian party The impress
which his acts and utterances left upon the
minds of the people may we'll suffice 70. the
dry Typography which the brevi.y of our
space would otherwise admit of the publica>
tion of the address in full. It cannot but be
that the courage, hope and duty which it in,
spired, will rouse us for the coming conflict.
and add to the distinguished ability which
has so justly characterized the life and char.
acser of its possessor.