Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-08-10

beginning at the election and continu
ling on through long years. will mari
the history of our State with brigh
line of glory which neither time no
change, neither adversely nor prospect
Ity, will ever eradicate, but which viii
stand as a monument to our prudence
and to the grandeur and importance o.
our cause.
After some slIgha discussion as &c
whether platform should be adopte {
or candidate nominated first, result.
ing in decided vote TO adopt plat.
form first, the convention took recess
until s O'Clock.
HON, JNO. t. HARMS.
AT the hour 10 which they adjourned
the body reassembled. While waiting
! for the report Of the Committee on
Platform, calls were made for Hon. Jno.
L. Harris; who came forward AMI made
a ringing speech. which elected much
applause. Mr.. Harris began by say
ing: 1--WE have met here to-dIy for the
purpose Of electng ny our primary ac-
ton the next Governor of Virginia,
whose term will commence on the LIST
day of January next" [ Applause. Il
have, my friends, he continued, ''had
some experience IN political aft ,irs. |
have surveyed the whole field with
calmness and with cool and, l hope,
considerable judgment, and as the case
now stands, you are prudent tonight
in your platform, as have no doubt
you will be, and in your no uinationS,
our nominee will bear our banner from
the Alleghanles to the waves Of the
Atlantic 10 victory.
The speaker then went on comment
on the change of the times now as
compared with the time when Wing
and Democrat contended 10 generous
rivalry, but whichever party succeeded
then our State was safe. But this was
not so now, when the gubernatorial
candidate Of the other side admits that
he cannot be elected Governor by his
own kith and color.
Judge Harris then went on 10 com
ment on the Petersburg speech Of Mr..
Cameron, remarking, by the way, that
the W1ig, Cameron's organ. had taken
good care not to publish his Richmond
Theatre speech. Ia the Petersburg
speech, as reported in the Wing Cam
eron said the negroes had been fighting
for success but had failed, but now, un-
der new leaders, they would win the
fight and secure their civil and political
rights. The speaker wanted to know
what right, civil or political, had been
denied the colored man by the white
people Of Virginia, aud if Col. Came
ron were present he would ask him
that question.
lie also commented upon Mr.. Came
ron's assertion that he would carry
Africa into the war;" and upon hi:
warning TO the negroes when he tolC
them ".f am beaten 1t is your fault
and your misfortune" thereby, re-
marked the speaker, exciting the negro e'
to hostility to the white people. Judge
Harris made an apt bit when he alluded
| to Mr.. Camerou's modification of his
speech in which he said, 81 did say
will carry Africa into the war, just a
IGen. Lee wanted TO do 10 the lnteres
| of peace" Judge Harris remarked tina
when be was member of the House o
Delegates, Gen. Lee came before
secret committee OF that body and salt
he wanted the negroes to fight in de
fence Of lost cause, and that withou
them lie could not hold Richmond. S
too, Cameron, like Lee, wanted Africa
to aid him IN a lost cause, And we
while Gen. Lee wanted them to fgh
against his kin and blood. Alludlni
to the terms applied by the coalitionist
Of Bourbons and Grip-Sackers, th
speaker remarked that If there was on
ofthe coalitionists who was not griI
: ping for Office he did not know it.
Judge Harris's speech was a goo
, one, and was listened to with close al
tention and received with applause.
HON. JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER.
Mr.. Tucker being seen on tue pat
form was enthusiastically called lC
and forced to speak. His speech wa
full of humor. lie said he had been fC
seven or eight hours with twenty-si
other gentlemen trying to make a plat
form upon which all could stand, and h
thought it was a platform upon whlc
they could all stand and march TO viz
tory.
THE PLATFORM.
Gen, Taliaferro, of Gloucester: N
President and gentleman Of the CONVEX
u ton, on behalf of the Committee {
Platform, consisting of twenty-sevt
J members chosen from every p art Of Il
Commonwealth, have been instructC
without dissenting voice, to repo
Is for your consideration the platfor
Is about to be submitted as the product
e their best judgement. | believe "
l. will find ia it everything TO common
u nothing 10 condemn. l have given Il
II paper to the secretary, and now ask hi
> to read it for your approval or rejection
oi Secretary bigger then read the pla
Al form as follows:
}, The Conservative DEMOCRATIC par
If Of Vmginla-Democralic in its FEEDER
g relations and Conservative in it's Sta