The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-05-31

IRON the NlcumOn0 Examiner, Nay IT
To general election Of This Commonwealth
occupies the town. the camp and the country Governor,
10 the Assembly will DO designated by the same vote
Never since elections held has the approach OF such
period been regarded with the like apathy Yet
say that this election imports little The who
will be chosen to must dispose OF Virginia In the
very crisis OF fate. They take OF her interests
At period when she may hive TO dread almost equalv
her Southern friends and her Northern foes. she fals
into the hands Of ignorant Incompetent men, federal
iss submIssonists they may succeed
one day in placing her in such an attitude that the virtue
aud courage and wisdom, In which Ia still, and will
always be, in Virginia, may not suffice to exricate her.
Nevertheless the absorbing nature OF passing and
the absence Of distinct issues OF principle and measure
from the political struggle now about TO be decided, de-
This ,s an election between men, not between parties
The best advice give the reader still undecided
LEGISLATORS and to manage the public asrs the stare AZ
this difficult period weak In q place Of power Is
always mischieyous; at the present season may be
ruinous. In ordinary tines when Congress has not the
means of doing either eternal good irretrevabe evil
through any action permitted by the of consti
tuition citizen may himself for giving vote TO
SILLY friend but such qualification Is too expensive
for any man in his right senses TO indulge in.
IS however lmp"ssiple even IN this election, 70 e
candidates. Although they are OF them, committed
70 any distinct line OF policy IN the future yet many
them have displayed such ncnations and developed such
political principles In past career that II impossible
70 anticipate good from them In the unred situations Of
the future. Events precisely similar 10 the past will
recur but events different 10 circumstances tho gh
essentially the same, and involving the an
effects WILL sooner or later, occupy public attention Can
II be doubted that tho Wckhams, the Botelers, the
Badwns and Letchers will then exhibit the identical
traits Of character aud action, the general rules
OF conduct and ideas OF State sovereignty which
nearly reduced Virginia TO the condition Of Mary.
land9 They ore not how either Unioniss or sub
missonsts at present II Is capital crime, trea-
10 be either. But that they both ill they be.
IS Illegal as murder Is not TO be denied. That they
denounced the Southern conederacy upheld the
mont Of Lincoln retained the State In the clora Union
while they were able and would haye kept there
they could. Can reasonably trust with conf.
dence 10 the future conduct OF who hl thus acted
In the pas But for the wickhams the ecers and the
Badwns Fortress Monroe would be at this hour tho i'm.
prernabe buwark OF Virginia To them Is due the credit
OF rendering II the key Of her prison. Is this title our
erattude2
We willing TO forget the rights and tho wrongs Of
the party squabbes between the wings IA. Gratis hard
shells and soft shells OF the defunct Union but never
never, while memory holds her seat, while the human
heart capable OF resentment the conduct Of those
who degraded and ruined this Site through late
convention, by making her the oostool ~ ncon, even
after war had been actually begun, forgotten or for
giyen-neverl