The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-04
TheI,ast DAYS

DO NOT aatter Yourself that your county
Is In no danger because In his interview
with the New York Times reporter Gov
erner CAMERON did not claim that II would
vote the. Coalition ticket. Perhaps the
Governor may be as mtful as the part
ridge, which acts as II crippled in order TO
save its yeung. He mag have professed to
be fearful Of the result in your county in
order to lRll you into feeling OF false Sc
curlty.
Let us once more remind you that this
is not an election for Governor, nor even
for congressman. in such elections the
voting district extends in the one case over
n whole State. and in the other over large
extent Of territory AS the teachers say
concerning a certain rule In arithmetic,
the efforts on one side " cancel" those
on the other in large voting districts,
and the results are not affected there
by. But in small voting district
i'm a single county, especially those coun-
ties electing each but a single delegate
II is not at all uausual for personal efforts
to accomplish so much on the day OF elec-
ton as to produce result entirely diner-
ent from whs; would have followed had
not those personal efforts been put forth.
We would impress this fact deeply upon
the minds OF the committeeman OF the
precincts and the workers everywhere.
Look around you, and you will see that
MALONE is acting upon the theory that his
workers can change the results on election
days in every closely-contested county.
Above all things do not neglect the coun-
ties electirg each but a single delegate,
nor the closely contested counties. The
results in these two classes OF counties will
determine the political complexion OF the
next Legislature. The enemy will on Tues
day next make his most violent assaults on
those counties. Gloucester, King William,
Graysen. Wythe, Caroline, Goochland,
Fluranna. Louisa, Tazewell, Appomattox,
Rockbrdge, Norfolk city-all these con-
stituencies either elect one delegate only
or else are closely-contested voting-dis-
tricts. But not these only. There are
many others. Guard well those points.
The enemy will attack us at our weakest
points. He has thrown out his skirmishers
again and again, and has felt US at all points.
lie knows whereare the weak ones in our
line il any there be. 1t would be inexcu-
sable i'm us not to know them, too. 1t
would be criminal in us not to strengthen
every such point If we have any forces in
reserve.
And YOU men who aver that YOU have no
influence, and plead this supposition as an
excuse for not talking to your neighbors,-
you, we say, are laboring under a wrong
impression. You are the very men in
whom your neighbors do feel confidence,
and therefore you can influence them.
Every man of us has friends whose advice
cannot but influence us more or less. Go,
therefore, and see your neighbor, and not
only talk with him, but take him with you
to the yoting-pace.
But we return to the matter which
presses itself upon us most forcibly, and
close this article by appealing to you not
TO cease working until the last vote has
been counted. Think Of the modification
OF defeat. Think OF the fate which in that
event awaits the people of Virginia, and
especially Of this city. Think OF the flu
ture. Think OF your whole country turned
over. to Republican misrule by the
success OF MAnoNE in Virginia. I'm
agiue the exultant feelings which will
follow Democratic success-the notes
of triumph which will be sounded
throughout the Commonwealth-nay, from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific. Contrast the
gatherings OF white men in this the capital
OF your State who will rejoice over Demo-
cratic success contrast these men, we say,
with the crowds OF negroes who will make
night hideous with their cries IL the Coah-
zionist banner shall again float over Vir-
ginia. and
DO YOUR DUTY.
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