The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-10-31
A STIRRING APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
Rooms EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
RICHMOND, October 30, 1857. }

To the Conservative People Of Virginia.
In.the election which impends you are
called on to determine two questions'
first whether YOU are ready TO bow
your nccks 10 the most degrading slavery
that has ever been dreamed OF In the poii'
ties Of people pretending to be Tree.
Second, whether at the bidding OF 4 man
who has found his profit in the easlhess Oh
political virtue, you are ready 10 ABANDON
the principles OF your whole iiNes 10 TN
brace what you have ever abhorred, 10 sup
mort what YOU have always resisted, and
ineeklv kiss the hands OF those who for MI
teen years have trampcd on every righ,
and interest you cherish, and scorned ana
nsulted every feeling and sentiment you
hold dear.
As IN tbe first. IL would seem an affrOnt
TO white men to argue it, Party organize
tion NAV demand executive leadership; but
when the leader Of party tramplcs on its
written faith; annuls the peoples will, in
the most solemn form expressed; ties with
sealed pledges their representatives hands.
and gags their mouths; demands personal
seryility TO himself as the price OF pubic
favor, and pollutes the sanctity OF ieglsla-
five trust TO personal profit and private
vengeance, tyranny has been established
more dangerous than that imposed by arms,
inasmuch as it implies contented aDase-
ment.
Nor should the second question be less
easy OF solution. All disguise is now
abandoned. You who never cast a Repub-
Iican vote are now boldly summoned 10
forswear the principles OF your lives, ana
sustain Stalwart Republicanlsm and It's
I,o, fxvo
unanimous white people OF Virginia re-
pudiated both, and those who appeal to you
now TO become tulncoats united in that re-
pudiation. Were you then and have you
for fifteen years been fools and false to your
State? Was all the wisdom and patriotism
of Virginia then and at all times confined
to the negroes and the Federal Office
holders? DO you proclaim yourselves in
capable Of the duties OF free men! Was
that continued orgry OF corruption ana
maIadmnistration which drove the south
ern people to despair right, and wise, ana
lust, and your protest against 1t factlorS
and unpatrlotici Is that " stalwartlSm
which the disguised Republicans OF the
North are spewing out OF Their mouths the
only fit food for Virginians? Is that dis
graced form OF Republicanism which the
State OF Garfield has already repudiated,
and the State OF Arthur is certain TO re-
nounce, the only fit faith for Democratic
Virginia?
Lightly indeed must principle sit on the
Virginia people if this wholesale apOstacy
he possible. TO you, white men Of Nir-
ginia, who upon this issue have never fail
ed or faltered these questions are now
submitted.
Our State disputes no longer divide us.
All that is political in this canvass is ma
tonal. In that field Virginia has never
answered with uncertain sound. Let Us
stand together now on that issue rs we
have ever stood. The time has not quite
come to admit that the only fit people to
rule this State are the ncgrOe>-the proper
people to wear collars the whites. In the
support OF Mr.. Massey, the Debt-Paying
Democrats vindicatc the sincerity OF their
position that in Federal elections they IL
nored State controversies. Lctthc Rcadju>t-
cr-DemocTatS show, rs we confidently be-
Iieve they will, that they arc equally true to
thei.. national principles, and that no power
can make them bctrav their state. From
every quarter the tidings come that this
confidence is well founded. I'm every di-
rectiOn self-rcSpeCting men and patriotic
men recently opposing Us are proving the
truth of their professions that, however they
might be ReadiustcrS in state affairs, in
national affairs they were Democrats. All
the omcns point to a closing OF the unhap-
py breach that has divided Us and the re-
sforatlon OF Virginia to the line OF those
certain States upon which RadicaliSm calls
for support IN vain. 4. NJ. KELLEY,
Chairman.