Year: 1874

desire, and I apprehend no difficulty in beiDt
able to unite all its friends upon that piar
which gives best assurance of success. Ger
tainly so far as am coRcarned, whether in
public place or private station, what
ever irfuence I may possess shall be earn
estly welded to secure success to this great
enterprise.


These, gentlemen, are some Of the subjects
of absorbing interest to MS all with which
your representative will necessarily hive to
deal, and ] have thought it due to you aud
TO the people that should briefly state nv
| views upon them at this time. There are
Others of great moment also, upon some Of
which my opinions are already matters of
public record. Always an earnest friend of
education, I shall labor 10 secure the applica-
tion OF the entire proceeds derived from the
sales Of the public lands to the educa.
tion OF the people. A firm believer
in local self-goyernment, l shall always
oppose Capitalization, come in whatever
form it may. believe in the theory and
the fact that the government of the Union is
a government of delegated powers, and that
afi powers not expressly or by necessary i'm.
pIication conferred upon it are reserved to
the people and the States. Nv voice will
ever he raised against wropg and oppression,
for the overthrow Of oppressive monopolies
Of every kind and character. and the pre-
servation of the rights or The people. And
above all, shall labor in season nnd out OF
season to secure justice and fair dealing to
my district and my State, and to render the
name OF Virginia once more potential in the
councils Of the nation.


PROTEST AGAINST THE CivILRIGnTs BILL.


Dir. Kelley presented the following:


RESOLVED, That the delegates Of the Con.
serfative party Of the Third Congressional
district OF Virginia, in convention assem-
Dled, deem it due to their constituents and
to the Conservative people Of the State and


Union to embrace this the first suitable oc-
caslon to record their solemn protest against
the measure known as the civil-Tights bill,


which has passed the Senate of the United
States by an exclusively Republican vote,
ard against the scheme and purpose of that
bill by whatever legislation sought.
ReSoiUed, That recognizing in that mea-
sure resUlute purpose to exhaust the re-
sources OF law to annoy and humiliate the


white people of the South, and intensity the
hostility between the coIors already existing,
We desire to stamp this cherished measure
of the Republican party as declared war


fare not only against the Constitution, whose
limitations it disregards, but against the


social and domestic rights of our people,


more cherished and sacred than all the poIiti.
cal privileges to secure which the compacts
Of society are framed.


RESOLVED, That as the course of the Re-
publican party on this measure for the past
| two years, and the encouragement afforded
it by President Grant, admonish US that this
isto be the last form of enmity with which our


peace and happiness are TO be menaced, we


regard 1t proper to arouse our feloW.ci'izens
to sense Of the common danger, and urge
them to exhaust all honorable endeayors
to encounter and defeat this odious measure
by the election of Conservative members to
the House of Representatives, where alone
the battle for our rights can be successfully
fought.


The question being taken, Judge Cox an.
nounced that the resolutions had been agreed
to by acclamaton, as they ought to have


been. [Laugbter.]


On motion Of Mr.. Frayser, it was ordered
that a committee of three be appointed to


wait on Colonel Guy and invite him to ad


dress the Convention.


The Chair appointed Messrs. Frayser,
Powhatan Weisiger, and Julius Straus. TIE
committee retired, but after brief absence
returned to the Convention and reported
that Colonel Guy could not be found.
The usual resolutions customary on such
occasions were presented and agreed to;
after which the Convention adjourned sine
dir