The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-10-31
BOIL OF TIE CONVENTION.
POLITICALLY as Well as Alphab etically Ar
ranged.

ranged.
(From the Richmond Dispatch.)
To Richmond, on the noble James,
Famed for brave men and handsome
danes,
In nineteen hundred and one, in June,
Sent at a time inopportune,
A hundred men came to create
A Constitution for the State.
Two Andersons begin the list,
All crooked things firm to resist;
The first distinguished as George X,
The other known as William A.
Ayres, Barbour-so the Clerk proceeds
TO call, as each occasion needs.
And Barham on the roll comes next,
His mind with knotty problems vexed,
Then Manly Barnes, of fair New Kent,
And DR.. Barnes, by Nansemond sent;
Young Blair, of Wythe, of rising fame,
And Boaz, with good Scripture name.
His seat to Carroll Bolen owes,
Judge Bouldin many law-bOoks knows.
There's Braxton, with his auburn hair,
And Bristow, with his knowing air;
These may in social converse mix,
But don't agree in politics.
Brooke, Brown, and Cameron may com
pare
With any of the members there.
Two Campbells, who perhaps, might
trace
Their lineage to the Scottish race;
From Hilly Amherst county one,
The other from far Washington.
Hill Carter, OF his State lover,
Ycleped Elector OF Hanover,
Next, Chapman, of broad Shenandoah,
Then genial Cobb, an easy-goer.
Old Fred'ricksburg, to lend hand,
Sent Crismond to augment this band.
John Warwick Daniel, patient man,
Worked hard upon the suffrage plan;
He tackled every kind OF clause,
And found not one without its flaws
To read and write, to understand
The Constitution of the land,
Grand-daddy, soldier, property,
A poll-tax, or what else it be.
From Franklin Davis got his right
To sit among these men of might.
Good Lancaster, upon the bay,
Deputed Doctor Dunaway,
Whom Wysor to star would bind,
Could he but carry out his mind.
In order, Earman, Eggleston,
And Epes are next the roll upon.
Fairfax and Fletcher make pair,
From fertile Loudoun and Fauquier;
While Appomattox sent Hal. Flood,
A congressman just in the bud.
Judge Garnett boldly spoke his mind,
But Gilmore seemed not so inclined.
Gillespie found boomerang.
In counting that Cold Harbor gang,
And yet he figured out a plan
For seating Republican.
Perhaps there were none could surpass,
In disputation, Carter Glass,
Who spoke at length, and proved it, too
That he the Norfolk pledges knew,
And that it was not the intent
The Constitution should be sent
To all the negroes Of the State,
But to the new electorate.
However all the others stood,
The president, at least, was Goode.
Three Gordons were among the lights;
Judge Green stood by his Bill OF Rights
Judge Gregory trembled in his seat,
Lest he should be turned down by Treat
Who claimed that to him it belonged,
And that he had been foully wronged;
But whosoe'er was counted in,
The Grayson people would haveGwyn.
To Alexander Hamilton
Adheres the immortal name OF one,
Who served his country many ways
In Revolutionary days.
Bev. Hsncock knew thing or two,
And was not slow to claim his due.
A Hardy had not much to say,
But Harrison would blaze away,
And Hatton, too, would let them know
How the majority should go.
Judicious Hooker, Patrick's man,
Did every proposition scan,
While Others wrangled, taking note
OF how twas best that he should vote.
And Hubbard, Hunton, Ingram, all,
Responsive were to duty's call.
In every list Jones is due,
But this Convention boasted two.
Huge both in stature and renown
Was Keezel, knight Of Keezelltown.
Judge Kendall, Of the Eastern Shore,
A spotless reputation bore;
And none his record kept more bright,
Than Lawson, OF old Isle of Wight.
Next Lincoln, Lindsay, Lowell, come,
All ornaments Of State and home;
Round-shouldered Marshall, Cyclone Jim
SO nominated for his vim.
Prince Edward honored Mcllwaine,
The grand old man, straightforward
plain,
Who, when his notions he would air,
Would not be fooled with anywhere.
Charles Meredith, a lawyer bright,
With Miller aiming at the right,
And Thomas Jefferson Moncure
Were all virginians, Simon-pure.
R. Walton Moore and Moore I. Il.
Were nothing loath their views to tell;
OF different parties though they were
| Both patriotic and sincere.
| James Mundy, every hard-iought day.
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