The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-15
g THE LAND is FREE"
SPEECH OF MAJOR JOHN w. DANIEL
DELIVERED TUESDAY NIGHT.
from Friends Who Could Not
be Present ON tho Occasion.


stration on Tuesday night:
God has poured his benedction upon
this people. To him be praise The
chains OF the oppressors are broken. The
land Is free. The Virginians tread again
their native heath " iih the elastic step, ex-
ulting hearts. and uplifted brows OF free
men. 1t was said that Virginia was feeble
and e0ete. and bowed to the despoiler.
This is her answer. [Great applause.l -.
All honor TO the "Big Four" who IN
Wonder Capitol raised the standard OF re-
volt against the one-man power, and TO
brave Sam. Newberry, who sounded the
slogan, "This way, ireemcD.' All honor
10 the Readjuster Democrats who In the
irving hour remembered that all true yir-
ginians are brethren. An honor to the
Stiaightout Repubicans-few in number,
btft houeSt in e0nyiniisn- -saa Sfrm 10 pur-
posc-who refused to be sold and butch
cred to make a Coalition holiday. All
honor TO the sturdy and never-tlinching
Old-Line Democracy which, "trodden
down" many times, could never be "trod-
den out" and who now tread the path OF
victory. Al honor TO that convention OF
SIX hundred representatiye-men who hon
ored the City OF Hills by there assembling,
and who in their platform secuted apology
and laid down bold and decisive doctrines,
and then charged home like the 600 OF
Balaklava; and with better success, 70"
they have not only taken the enemy's guns,
but hold them. [Applause.] All honor to
the committee which devised the plan OF
organization; TO the free and fearless and
unbought press that sustained our cause I;
and three cheers for John ). Barbour, our
worthy and distinguished chairman who
conducted the canvass, and now wears the
victorious wreath well won. [The cheers
were heartily given.l
But, above all these, and next TO Him
who is the giver OF every good and perfect
gift, all honor to you. people OF Virginia,
who led the leaders, outw0rked the work
ers, and oyerleaped the prophetic ken-to
you who rose in your stirrups rs you
rushed to the rescue OF the peace and dig
nifty OF the Commonwealth, and with
blazing blades cIeaved through the Arthur
plated helmet of the tyrant, shouting with
triumphant voice. d" Bossism, get thee hence
forever!" [Applause.l
What does it meany That the Demo
crats meant every word they put in their
platform that the people conided in their
pledges, and that every pledge shall be to
the last syllable redeemed. That the debt
as settled by the peoples representatives,
and by them confirmed, shall stay settled;
that the highest OF all debts OF free peO-
pie is the debt due thcmselves-to maintain
their freedom; that the white people OF
Virginia intend TO be generously Just to
the colored people. and fearlessly just to
their own race; that the public schools
shall be generously maintained; that the
colOred people shall have their colored
schools. and as far as they wish them
cOlored teachers and cOlored trustees,
and that the white people demand
and exact for themselves white schools.
white teachers. and white trustees
that we give the lie direct TO and spit upon
the boarse perjurers who declared that we
were opposed to the public schools. And
their new falSehoods that Danvlle or any
other Virginia community has shed
innocent blood cry aloud to Heaven,
whose lightnings, were not miracles
ended, would paralyze their putrid
tongues and shrive them to dust.
That the colored men who voted with
us shall be protected from the rage OF their
enemies, and that black battallons led by
white cOrporalS--fOr the most part white
renegades reduced TO ranks by the white
not ride roughshod over
white battalions led by white captains
over white men who once met brave
and honorable foes in battle, and
will not bow their crest TO venOmOus
dastardS. That brutal and vulgar At
who boosted, when he
helped to turn out twenty-siX white women
as schoOl-tcachers here in Richmond, that
he gave them "the toe OF his boot" has
found now that the boot is on another leg,
and will soon himself get touch Of the
that an itinerant Governor, who
drew the colOr-line against his own race,
helping to Oust white ladies as teachers,
and at the same time putting in black men
and black women a. trustees and teachers,
is warned to obey the peoples will. and to
STAY i'm his place and attend 10 his business.
1t means that your circuit judges will not
be tom from their seats to make place for
Judges of the lizard breed; that offices
will not be multiplied to make places for
henchmen, that congressional districts
will not be gerTymandercd; that the peri
patctic officers who deserted counting
room and Office to slander this people and
d" whoop up the boys" must 90, and 20
quickly. [CheerS.] II means Virginia owns
no Boss: that "Master, follow" was not
written in her Bill OF Rights or in the
Declaration OF Independence; and that
they will not be amended to accommodate
the "new evangel" IL means that the
auctioneer and place-peddler, who cried
aloud, What am l bid for Virginia :"
and who knocked her down to "Arthur
for us" for mess Of pottage. has been
arrested for selling stolen goods, the sale set
aside, and the whole proceeding quashed.
Ii means that corrupt bargain is rebuked
and King Caucus is discrowned. 1t means
that Arthur Sullivan, the one-legged SOL
der who was kicked ont of the Capitol
four years ago TO give way for a Norfolk
Rsdical of low repute will be borne back
there on the shoulders OF comrades who
never struck fallen foe, and who stick
closer then a brother TO stricken friend.
II means. in brief, peace, prosperity, safe
ty. and happiness for the Virginia people,
who have worked out their own deliver
lnce, and
THAT the man shall have his mare again,
And all shall be well"
Great are the lessons taught. First and
that people determined to be free
nav be free, and that neither patronage
nor power, money or trickery, lies or
hreats, can prevent them. That Democra-
cy is vital in every parts neither dead
nor sleepeth. They stole the presidency
rom Samuel ]. Tilden, the elect of the peo-
pie, in 1876. They sent the star-route
.hiei, Stephen W. Dorsey, to Indiana, and
here, with bribery and debauchery, sold
out Winfield Scott Hancock, the choice OF
he people. They tied Old Virginia's
hands and cried aloud that she and Demo-
cacy were together dead. But here she is,
with the rose OF Heaven on her cheek and
he fire Of liberty in her eye, at the head
oi the Democratic column, which now,
with eyes front and heads up. marches right
proudly toward the coming presidential