Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-14
TOO UTTERLY LOYAL.
THE THrRTErHrH, FOURTEENTH, AND
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
Agriculture and Politics--A Remarkable
Meeting at Williamsburg Dick
Wise Breaks Up Meeting.
rsn.cI,l Telegram 70 the pispa.ch.l


WILLIAMSBURG. VA, May 13.-Iu q meet
ipr calIed here to-dsy. over which Judge
Farthiug presided, to take steps looking 10
the organization OF a county agricultural
club the proceedings took very unexpected
turn and the gathering proved TO DO OF .
most noisy and turbulent character. Near
the close OF the meeting several oil the SPEAK.
ers became very much excited over SET OF
resolutions offered BY DIR. Wise reanlrming
our LOYALTY to the Contribution, especially
the thirteenth, fourteenth, aud niIeentn
amendments. Mr.. Morrison. OF West Point,
Va, the originator OF the movement, oolected
10 The resolutions beng introduced In thls
meeting on the ground that the citizens OF
this community bad once accepted the re-
suits Of the war, and the tendency Oh It was
solely TO introduce politics In this agricui-
tural organization, the object OF which Is the
material advancement aud prosperity OF the
farming interest OF the community, and that
the resolutions would have no effect In the
North. The confusion was so great and the
feeling not being OF the best kind the meet
ing was declared adjourned.
DETAILS oY TIE RuaPUs.
n had been we'll known here and In the
county that an effort would be made court.
day to organize an emigration society, aud
for that purpose Mr.. Morrison, OF the West
Point Star, was here 10 address the people
on the subject. His remarks were atten-
tiyeiy listened to aad we'll thought OF. Hon.
II. 5. Hsmlin, an ex.Rspublican congress-
man from Ohio. then followed or the same
subject and was in turn followed by DR..
Wise, who msdo anything else but an agri.
cultural address. In replying to remark oil
Mr.. Morrison's about political trtcksters de-
uding the people Wise said you won't say
me.
Morrison calmly replied: / say any man
who does 1t.
The question was several times put, and
each time elected the same firm reply.
Wise then stated that he wished to prove
the loyalty OF the South before inviting emf
grafton, and introduced IS above stated set
OF resolutions reaffirming our loyalty to the
Constitution and the thirteenth, fourteenth,
and fifteenth amendments 10 the same.
Mr. Robert Il. Armistesd aud several lead
ing farmers could not see what this aRricul-
tural meeting bad to do with their loyalty to
the Constitution and called for the regular
order, when much excitement and confusion
ensued.
order was finally restored and the resolu'
tons were ruled out by the chairman rather
than have politics brought into the meeting.
A motion for adjournment was put and
carried.
After the adjournment Of the meeting. q
few whites and fifteen or twenty negroes re.
naming in the urt-house, called Mr.. T. NJ.
Southai TO the chair, organized meeting,
hsd Wise's resolutions passed, and adjourned
his meeting.
The writer interviewed anumber Of persons
who were in attendance, all OF whom ex'
pressed themselves as disgusted at the turn
things had taken. Among those seen was
Hon. l.. 5. Hamlin, who said he had been 8
Republican politician for many years, but
never brought politics into anything else but
politics, and thought the resolutions entirely
out Of order.