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The Southern Commissioners and the people.

An intelligent correspondent earnestly seconds the suggestion that the people should have an opportunity of hearing the Southern Commissioners:

We, the great excluded ‘"Mobocratic"’ mass, as we have been stigmatized, would be glad to hear them, and I suggest that the African Church be obtained for three days, from 10 until 3, or from 5 until 9, and the Commissioners invited to speak, and all employers requested to permit their employees to have leisure during those hours to listen.

Three days given to the country now, may save those employed and the country from the terrible ‘"three days"’ of civil war.

One Of The Excluded.

We do not know that the Commissioners would feel themselves at liberty to respond to the universal wishes of the people; but, if they should, they would at least have an opportunity of discovering where the great heart of Virginia is, and to every lightning flash of their eloquence they would hear the answering thunder peal of true Southern sentiment.

The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 22, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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