The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-26
TAPPAHANNOCK.

SPICY DEBATE BETWEEN GARRISON AND
CRITCHER--G GARRISON WILL NOT HIMSELF
USE HIS SALARY AS JUDGE DURING THE CAN
yAss-tTHE CANDIDATES. wAQ REC0RD--wH0
SHAVED COLONEL CRITCBER'S HORSES
TAIL ?--PERsONAL AND EMPHATIC.
Underwater Index's report Of Mondays meeting
Judge Garrison said the first letters he
received after his nomination was ore from
his honored friend Judge Jeffries, who was
pxesent, kindly offering TO hold bis courts
for him, which offer he had accepted, and
had in his letter of reply not only turned
over to Judge Jeffries the entire business OF
bis courts, but his salary for the services;
the interests Of his people were attended TO,
they did not complain, and certainly the
people OF the Western shore had no right 10
complain; that. in addition, the members
Of the bar and the people OF the Eastern
had united in urging him to accept the
nomination.
He was not afraid to compare war records
with the gallant Colonel. Having bip-dis-
ease in his infancy he was unable to march !;
IL there was physician in The house who,
after examination, would pronounce him BIT
for duty as a soldier, be would abandon this
canvass but, notwithstanding, he had en-
tered the ranks OF the Confederate army so
soon as the war broke out. hadSparticipated
In several skirmishes, and had remained
there until the soldiers in the field had
elected him to the Legislature, and after
wards they promoted him to the Senate. and
whenever Richmond was Threatened he
went out in her defence and manned the
fortiications and participated in the battles.
How was it with the gallant Colonel,
whose own soldiers, in derision. shaved his
horses tails He drew ludtcrous picture
of Judge Critcher, 10 beaver hat and linen
buster, with an umbrella over bis head,
bobbing up and down before bis regiment
on his shaved-tal horse.
When he was ia Fredericksburg recently
he was asked by an old woman il this was
the same Critcber who ran so fast by her
house when he was running away from the
Yankees.
But, more than this. at the battle OF Ire
Williams, Colonel Critcber having got his
regiment into confusion, was relieved by
bis superior officer, General LOmaX, OF the
command. aud Major Mason, OF the Quar-
termaster's Department, put in charge five
minutes before 1t was ordered into action,
and he had never commanded it from that
day to this.
Crtcher had been member OF the Sem
ate OF Virginia for four years. and what had
he done TO readJust the State debt, but at
every session he had voted money to pay
the interest.
Judge Critcher, in reply, said that as to
the shaving OF the horses tail, il was the
work of drunken soldier. and was not APP
proved by the soldiers OF his command.
That the charge that he was relieved at
'Triyillian's was a deliberate falsehood-a
die. Judge Garrison here produced the au-
fhority for his statement. and at Judge
Critcher's request read letter from Mr.. J..
>. Davies, editor Of the Manassas Gazette,
ststing the facts precisely as Judge Garrison
had stated them, and giving as his authority
General Lomax. Judge Crltcber said 1t
was a wilful and deliberate lie, and wished
Judge Garrison would communicate what
he said 10 General Lomax. The facts were
that at the battle Of Trevillian's, Just before
poiSg iieto action, Major Mason was pp-
poinred TO the colonelcy OF his regiment,
W bseb was vacant; that at MasOn's request
be retained command during the day. Whep
the battle vas over he wrote his resignation
and took 1t TO General Lomax. telling him
he in coded 10 leave at once and would not
submit 10 the slow processes OF red-tapeism.
That LoGaax covered the page with compli-
meuts aud he took his resignation to General
Fuz Lee, whoa he took cut OF his blankets
TO sign II, and rode with 1t forty miles to
Richmond, and twenty more to General
Lees headquarters to get bis signature.
That he was Dever relieved of bis command,
and whoever asserted 1t asserted a lie; that
oil the officers 81 his command immediately
rendered their designations. but these were
not accepted. His last quarter OF an hour
was devoted to this exclamation almost ex-
.clusiveiy, leaving him barely time to urge
b.. RexdInster friends to elect their own
men 10 Congress II they wished to succeed
Ia sta,e affairs.
Neyei' In our lives have we witnessed n
more CON, ple,e overthrow upon the hustines
than that sustained by Judge Criichey on
Monday last. A gentleman who has heard
Ill. or nearly al, The political discussions
wbtch bsye occurred here in the last thirty.
i've years, remarked In our presence thai
DO would not hays .cceiyed the casilkx.
,i0H rec0fyod by yau6pk Critcher for the