The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-22

! Ap,xgpox. Va, September 0 ,1seI.
There wss a large and enthusiastic Dem
| oeralic meeting held at the Town Hail I'D
| this place Saturday night, uncer me auy-
pices OF the Democratic Club. Desphe tue
| heavy rain which fell almost continuously
,h,onob the day. the announcement inst
| N,;or Daniel would be present Drought
from the country so respectable a gathering
that our most s%anguine expectations were
NOT only fully realIzed, but we were
astourded at tue crowd. OWING 10 Tue ia'e
! arrival Of Msjor Daniels party from Eus'
| sell. IL was nearly 9 O'Clock before Toe meet
| ing opened. As the gallant OedreI
| entered the hall--tbe same In men Colonei
| Cameron bad so recently committeo suic'ue'
| and where an anxious crowd had for more
than an hour awaited his c~omiug-the DEAF
| ening applause with which he was greeted
rave token OF a eoodIy day in November
and assured him that be was To The midst oil
friends. The first speaker introduced was
Dr. A. Montelro, OF Manchester, who, for q
| neriod OF one hour, made a most telIlng
sneecb upon the issues Of the canvass, fully
nrenarino the immense crowd. who IRE
ouentlv greeted him with well-merited APP
plause, for the feast which was 10 ioto".
MAJOR DANIEL WAS NgIT INTRODUCED,
and the enthusiasm with which he was re-
ceIyed must have been truly gratifying. IL
was feared by his friends that owing TO the
fatigue OF travel and The further fact that
eight miles distant from this place be bad
been compelled 10 cross the North FOLK OF
lUoIston. which was so swollen from the re-
| cent rain as 10 swim The horses attacDed 10
his vehicle and submerge the whole party
nearly TO the armpits, that he would not DE
able 10 do himself full justice. But all
jdess OF this kind were dispeIled when he
appeared before this audience, only 10 KIM
| die fresh enthusiasm by bis very appearance,
for ne never seemed In better plight, and
| looked every inch the man. The writer oil
this has never been a newspaper correspon-
dent. and Is not in the habit OF going
into ecstacies over nothing. He en-
loved, as all men, OF whatever con-
dItion, must, The captivating, fine, and
fnisbed oratory Of Major Daniel; but It
was not This alone that crowned him Wild
success. His speech was that OF
A DIGYIFIED VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN
| and statesman, bristling with telling facts
most pointcdly told. furnishing food for
thought for the multitude who will hear OF
II, and wbo will dare to do the right when
they know what il Is. There was no man
who heard Cameron in bis miserable
"break dowB" here a short time since, and
then Daniel last plight, that did not, IN
drawing The comparison, think OF mud
TO marble, dungbill TO diamond" aud the
few Cameron leaders who were present
must have regretted that he was ever known
or heard in this land. When Daniel gave
bis record upon the school question,
showing that his party, and he espe-
| cially, had always favored the public
schools, and branded as liars the big
guns and The little guns, the county checkers
and little country newspaper editors and
| scribbleIs who said and wrote that be was
| opposed 10 the schools and wanted TO burn
them, there was truly what newspaper-men
would call
"sENsATION III GREAT APPLAUSE"
He said that the "Richmond Wing was
the mandatory Of concentrated lie"
and issued them Systematically and gra-
t%uitously in favor OF the coalition. He
| differed, be said, from the Daniel Of old in
many respects, but particularly in The fact
that he had been " cast into a den Of liars"
instead OF lions; that he had the advantage
OF Daniel, because the liars bad neither
teeth nor claws with which to tear him, and
that though a lie outtrsyelled the truth by
many leagues, usually he had oyertaken
4 IUIu1s uuu NOtilug ~ us lOnNoA DNblO~
cratic boots, oyertake and kick out the last
one before the election in November. His
arraignment Of the
THREE D~EAAGOGUEs AND PRETENDERs
upon the Coalition ticket could not hsve
been surpassed. He spoke OF the harsh
thiogs that had been said by The two parties
OF each other. and said be did not approve
| OF this, and III this connection read what q
a n d. L-s.l N,.rfoH - hal Gaia ~
his opponents. relding from Csmeron's
noted articles, placing the debt at $50, 000,-
900, and demanding its pay ment il il took
the last a. drop OF blood" aud characterizing
the negroes as chicken-tbieves. This was
done with tremendous effect, and when be
made known the fact that the old Funder
who talked 80 was now
The MOST "sCALEY OF READJUsTERs,"
and " bis name William T.. Cameron" there
was again throughout the house, and espe-
cially in the gallery amongst the colored
brethren, decided sensation and great APP
plause. Cameron's Inconsistencies could
not have been better exposed, and II is
simply impossible that people OF inteli-
gence, whatever their prejudice, could listen
to such an arraignment without feeling the
effect. His prosecution OF Lewis as a politi-
cal demagogue and traitor to the best inter-
est OF Virginia and her people was no less
severe, and the verdict OF an honest people
is that such man cannot be Put in that posi-
ton where by accident be may become
| Governor OF Virginia. When be came to
poor Blair's case, the manner in which be
| handled that individual was simply crush
ing, and 1t remains TO be seen whether any
man with any self-respect can vote for such
u creature, as be was in witbering terms
described to be. He had, be said, with his
own ears heard Blair Say in a public discus.
sion In Giles county, at which he (Daniell,
together with Generals Terry ana Walker,
and Senator WitheTs and others were pre-
sent 10 behalf OF the Democracy, that " honor
would not buy a breakfast" and had
heard him with contempt and scorn the
next day again repeat the remark that not
withsianding this, that be tBlair) and cer-
tain Coalition papers now had the boldness
and efronteIy to say that be bad never ut
tered the remark. Such q man, he said,
sis not rorthy OF belief" and IL would
take much more than his denial and the
certificates Of q few partisan friends 10 con-
vince the public that the. Wilson letters
were not genuine. Aside from the fact
that these letters were, be said, voluntarily
surrendered by Wilson, who said they were
genuine, aud who had many others from
the same source, and the further fact that
they were pronounced genuine by many
gentlemen OF respectabilily who were IA
miliar with bis handwriting, and amongst
them Blalr's brolher,in law, Major Saun-
ders, that Blair's " conduct convicted
him OF them; that, doubling aud trembling,
he bad sought the inspection Of letters
which bad already been published, and
which, IL they expressed sentiments he had