New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
THE VIRGINIA ELECTION.
BOURBONs AND READJUsTERs.

JUBAL's EARLY REBELIIoUS sENTIMENTs-A
COUNTY NEE TING OF READJUsTERs.
IFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
PETERSBURG, Aug. 14-The weather in Virginia
hot, but not much hotter than Virginia politics.
On every side one hears among the Bourbons ex-
pressions of disappointment at the action of the
Lynchburg Convention They had been led to be-
eve by of their Republican allies that the Re
publican organization in this State could be turned
into machine to aid the election of the Bourbon
State ticket with the remote hope of electng Re-
publican United States Senator by trade with the
Bourbons. The result is a disappointment both to
the Bourbons and to certain Republican leaders,
who, strangely enough, appear to be anxious
to enjoy monopoly of political patronage than they
to secure free and fair elections.
The outward result of the Republican bolt at
Lynch5urg on Wednesday vsibly dampened the
enthusiasm of the Bourbon ratification meeting on
Friday evening. There were outward demonstra-
tions of enthusiasm, for Lynchbnrg is the home of
Major Daniel. He had just returned there 10 as
slime, somewhat prematurely, the character of
conquerng hero All day long preparations
making for the evenings performance. As usual
with Bourbon political displays in the Sonth
in small cities, the military feature prominent.
The Lynchburg Home Guards, fully uniformed and
armed, led the column which marched and coun-
termarchcd through the steep and narrow streets
before the speaking began, and afterward they
occupied front seats in the pleasant Opera House
where the meeting held. Following them IN
the procession came the Lynchbnrg Artillery, con-
sisting of two pieces which kept up an irregular
firing for several hours. Lynchburg has six volun
teer fire companies, and these also turned ont in full
form TO beautify the occasion Many of the husi-
ness houses on the main street or less
decorated and Illuminated, and there sporadic
discharges of rockets and Roman candles in several
parts of the town. The population of the city turned
ont in a body to witness the gorgeous spectacle.
ne HnuSe vas uppn Nj
thusastic audience. The capacious stage of the
theatre was thronged with the beauty and fashion
OF Lynchburg, and from the number of ladies pres
ent in the parquet and boxes a stranger might
have thought that the audience had come TO hear n
popular opera After certain tedious speeches by
local orators and the adoption of long string of
Mandatory resolutions, Major Daniel was introduced
TO the audience. Considering that he was on his
native heath, and that the occasion which,
if any could should have inspired him, his speech
was a fiat failure.
THE SENTIMENTS OF MAJOR DANIEL.
He began by saying that - Malone never spoke a
truer word than when he said to some Republican
friend in Washington that the debt question had
become secondary issue in Virginia. He then
touched lightly the debt question: and in that
spect evInced something of a desire to capture
Readiuster votes. He denied that he was opposed
to free schools and declared with great posit
that elections in Virginia have been free, fair and
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been settled by the adoption of the constitutional
| amendments. He did not, some Bourbons are so
ready 10 do, declare that he was in favor of the
amendments, but against their enforcement for he
made with fine rhetorical flourish solemn promise
that 50 far aS he is concerned no tissue ballots
! or pud ing tickets y shall be used in the coming
political campaign. If such agencies have not been
used hitherto to procure Bourbon success il is diff
cult 10 understand why the speaker considered such
promise necessary. 1t was noticeable that the
thusasm of the audience perceptibly cooled when
ever the orator made any allusion to free and fair
elections. Indeed the audience preserved its wild
est enthusiasm and applause for Jubal Early, who
described himself as an unreconstructei rebel"
The ex-Confedcrate General, whose preiudices
against the Yankees have been inveterate and IN
ncible ever since Sherilans army interviewed" !"
him and his followers the shenandoah Val ey seven
teen years ago. appeared to be filled with vicious as
well as political enthusiasm but his friends dec ared
that his speech not more Incorporate than usual.
General Early eulogIzel Major Daniel. who, he de-
clared, had won his right TO the confidence of
! Nirgnians by the fathfulncsS with which he had
strug gied under that gorious leader, Stonewall
Jackson for the honor the glory aud the welfare of
| NIrlina.'
This declaration received with rounds of ap-
plause, which fairly shook the building. Another
of General Eary's periods evoked loud applause and
much laughter. 1t was when he expressed the hope
| that they have fumgated this house since the mig
ger Convention vacated it," The "nigger Conven
uon" referred To the Republican Convention
which assembled in the hall last Wednesday If a
| uthe that is said by the people of Lynch
burg be true, Jubal Early would not compare favor
ably with the mem Jers of that "ngger Convention"
Judging by General Early's mode of pronunciation
| II has been largely formed upon African models
and IL is clear enough from ms pronunciation that
he spells negro with two ~.
AN ANTI BOURBON MEETING.
! AT Wilson's Depot, station the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, thirty mics west of Peters
burg. the correspondent of THE TRIBUNE yesterday
attended an Anti-Bourbon political meeting de-
scrbed in local phrase as Il barbecue This meet
ing held in the open air under the spreading
branches of a small grove of oaks. The audience
was composed entirely of people from the sur
rounding farming REGION who had come
on horseback and mue-back, and In bug
gies, wagons and carts. Between four and
five hundred people, all men who work
with their hands, had thus travelled from two 10 a
dozen miles under n broiling August SUM- with the
mercury above "a hundred degrees, to listen to DO
lltcal speeches. Abont three-fourths of them were
white men, the remainder cOorcd. SATURDAY. is what
the Virginia politicians call an of day" that is
a day when no 60 TT is held. Although place re-
mote from any town village. a mere country
crossroads, in fact. the attendance was uneX-
never seen. There were no cOnveniences for sitting
and for nearly four hours the people patiently stood
ana isIeheh TO speeches by captain Rddleberger
and General Boiling. They had come expecting to
hear General Mahone who had been an
nounced to speak, but whose expected at
tendance had been at the last moment prevented
30 h the speakers devoted considerable attention to
the subject of the State debt but they discussed with
equal candor the questions of equal suffrage faiI
elections and free schools. The spirit i'm which they
discussed these matters and the favor with which
! we'd tl,,,.