The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-10
ASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1865.
TUR VIRGINIA ELECTI0N-THE LETTER OF TIL
PRESCRIPTION CANDIDATE.

PRESCRIPTION CANDIDATE.
The issue presented the people Of Virginia. to be de-
eided in May next is appealing to so many Of the
inspiring recollecons Of the and the measures OF
the carly days of the Old Dominion that il rouses them
like call from the graves Of their ancestors TINS
issue is the for which those ancestors struggled
and the same upon which they succeeded u Is TINS
which makes the memories of the sages given by 'n-
GINA 10 the Union dear to al Americans II Is TINS
which still inspires the admiration OF the scholar ana
the efforts Of the patriot IL is this that has more IMAM
once thrilled the worldthe issue that conscience must
be unieticred and that religion must be free And tha
party should found willing to take ground against saeh
an issue in the very State where its nobest victories nave
been achieved disposed regard as piece OF good
fortune rather than calamity II admonishes all pair'
otc citizens and discoses the balefu tendencies OF the
times II is like holding dsunion meeting In the sacred
hall from which the Declaration of Independence was pro-
claimed like defending the treason Of Arnold ut the
grave Of Washington Genuine Americans will stare at
spectacle at once novel and arrogant and those
who had hoped triumph by such PROCLAMATION will be
glad to repent or will depart with death and defeat written
on their brows
Hon. Thomas Sanhope Flournoy is the candidate for
governor of the anJeeson, anti ashngton, and in
tolerant party Virginia He has announced his princi-
pies with flourish but he is Of those demagogues
who always ready for anything that turns up from
uniting with abotonists to combining with natives his
consistent II is his province to join anything to
destroy the democratic party. man like Mr. Flournoy
will take mp any cast-oT idea Of the democratic party II
is his policy the language of another "to embrace
every diversity of opinion and every fragment Of organi-
cation which agitation divorces from the democracy"
wbg like himself have spsrk-catchcr and dam
per for every locomotive the track Of reform Tide
mocracy excommuncaes faction Of malcontents like the
know-nohings he must be ready from the boundless as
sorment Of his sentiments to meet the accident and to
exert the attraction of its anes He must adapt himself
to every idea hostile the democracy and like Tittlebat
Tmouse his parliamentary bill promise TO give every
body every thing only everybody will gve him vote
Mr. Stanhope Flournoy is however, doubtless very sa-
gacious well very liberal It is great pity,
though that he did not live in the daya OF such
gave Virginia high rank among ths States Of the
Union He would have been a rare Mentor to such phi
osopher Jefferson who had certain youthful notions of
liberation and equalty aud there is doubt that he
would have taught Mr.. Washington" Is the English
ministry used say better than to praise such
Yahoos as American Catholics. Had Mr. Flournoy
lived he would have spared US the DsGRAcE" of La
fayette a De Kalb, Kosciusko, and Montgomery.
In order TO show how much history has lost because Mr.
Stanbope Fournoy did not flourish during the revolu
tonary era present his letter accepting the nomna
ton Of governor of the so-caed Americans" in Vir
inaa party made up of the lock- stock and barrel Of
the old wing organization veneered and vanished by
very thin layer of outside democrats
The rapid increase Of foreign immigration is well cacu
lated to excite alarm and the power of the government
both state aud federal should be exerted to check IT. It
seems almost impossible doubt that the influx OF between
four hundred thousand foreigners into our country
annually will Ultimately be subversve Of our republican in
sutions Washington jefferson, Madison, and Jackson
gave early warning country Of the danger to be appre
hended from foreign influence The naturalization laws
be repealed modified, and such restrc
tons imposed, as to avert the evil.
The South especially and deeply interested in this
auestions immense annual addition to popula
ton settled avehodng States and the extensive
the West and Northwest out OF which free
States will consequence, be speedily formed, in
ceaspg with fearful rapidy the balance OF power against
ultimately with this question Of foreign i'm
migration the growth Of the Roman Catholic Church in
our country Despotc proscpttve, and intoleraD its
cndency history teaches has been destructive of
freedom Of opinions and while would nncompromisingly
oppose any Interference with the rights OF its members ct
by legislative enactment yet by full and independ
ent exercise right Of suffrage and the appointing power
they should be excluded from the offices OF the In
all its departments
may be said that there comparatively few foreign
ers and Catholics in Virginia She is not acting for
herself She is leading member Of this great sister
hood of States aud her action will be felt for veal by
them an Der dcsny is identified with theirs and she
not indifference the fact that the great valley of
the Mississippi waered by twenty thousand miles of navga
BILE rivers the and fertile territories stretching
beyond the Pacific capable OF sustaining population of
hundred millions rapidly filing with this class of
people
al viii advert particularly to other principle Of the
American rartybe intervention of the federal and
State with the municipal affairs OF each other.
The strict observance of this principle will make the
the States perpetual"
A document that would have done honor to the era
when schools unknown, and bold barons could
write their names-an argument for the Japanese
before Commodore Perry knocked at their doorsa plea
for pagan despoismsa protest against light liberty, and
the dictates Of God himself
We well imagine that Mr. Stanhope Flourncy should
be sincerely afraid Of emigration This old federal
idea It originated with King George, who desired to
stop emgrsnts from going the American colonies be-
cause they hostile him but however consistent ii
may be in Mr. Flournoy entertain similar dread
himself think il win be easy convince vir
gnians that they should have less confidence in emigration
than felt by their He may be quite
ready doubtless 10 obliterate the memory of Mr. Jefer
sons great Of religious toeraon and also the noble
work achieved by the Virginia State of 1929
work cnnonized by the relics of the revolution who
shed their departing ustre through their membership