The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-29
PUBLIC Sentiment IN VIRGINIA.
From the N. Y. Evening Post Republican.

PUBLIC Sentiment IN VIRGINIA.
From the N. 2. Evening Post tRepublican..
Joseph Segar, of Virginia, known as q
steadfast Unionist from the beginning of
the war, a man who refused to be dragged
into secession, but chung to the Union
when bis State was misled into secession
by r. n. T. Hunter and Mason, has made
public q number of letters from prominent
citizens of different parts of Virginia,
drawn out by bis request to know from
them the prevailing sentiment of the peo-
pie of their sections of the State.
We notice that Mr.. Segar has written,
in general, to citizens well known as Union
men, and whose word strangers and the
government will therefore the more IN
hesitatingly believe. Alexander d. a..
Stuart, of Stanton, wrote, on the LIST of
August:
81 have no hesitation in saying that nine.
tenths of the people of Virginia cheerfully &C.
| quiesce in the result of the late terrible war,
and are sincerely and anxiously desirous of
seeing cordial relations re established between
the Northern and Southern States. In this
part of the State (the Valley the people haye
| very little interest In the subject of slavery
and accept the present condition of things
without serious regret some Inconvenience
has been felt owing to the suddenness with
which the revolution has been made, but as
soon as the transition stage is over everybody
| will be reconciled to the change"
Charles L. Mosby, of Lynchburg, wrote
on the Sd Of August:
II have had opportunities of conference
with o number of persons of highest standing
and all grades of political sentiment from
Southwestern Virginia and the country round
about this place, and very free Interchange ct
opinion among our own citizens. And-while
do not undertake to speak for everybody or
to say there may not be individual, exceptions
| to the remark / am about to make-my DELHI
crate opinion is that very large majority of
the people of Lynchburg and surrounding
counties, and of Southwestern Virginia, en-
| bracing men of all classes and views, sincerely
| rejoice at the termination OF the war-accept
the result as permanent settlement of the
! sectional questions which produced it, and
| have no wish or purpose ever again to open or
attempt to open them. They are heartily tired
Of war and all its Incidents and pant for re-.
| pose and the return, as soon as possible of
kindly relations between North end South
| This letter has been shown to a number of our
leading citizens, holding originally most con.
trary opinions, and they all concur in the senti-
ments it expresses"
Tucker Darlington, of Charlotte county,
wrote on the S1st of July:
L am, as you know, citizen of Mecklen-
burg, but owing to my extended connections
in the counties of Halifax and Charlotte, both
pOrtunity of knowing the sentiment of those
counties also. Our people want peace and
repose after the bloody struggle we have had,
and they look forward with honest and heart
felt longing to the re-establishnent of law and
order. 1t can scarcely be hoped, and it would
be more than human to expect, that the same
cordial feeling could spring up in the Southern
heart toward the North in the short time
which has interviewed between the overthrow
of the Southern cause and the present moment
But there is here no spirit of resistance to Fed.
eral authority. but quiet acquiescencs in ex-
isting events"
John Janney, of Leesburg, who was
President of the Virginia Convention, and
is a well.known Union man, wrote on the
10th Of August:
Sin this quarter the disposition to submit
! without further resistance is, in my Judgment
not only general, but universal do not know
any exception, if such exists. But the late &C.
ton of the military authority at Richmond, in
multiplying the election. is viewed with great
concern here and cali. for explanation.
trust it may receive one that will prove salts
| factory. The people wait peace-a solid and
enduring peace-peace mat will leave them in
possession of all their constitutional rights
John S. Millson, OF Norfolk, another
well-known and steadtast Unionist, wrote
on the 18th of August:
II know of no one who counseIs OF medi-
tates renewed efforts to withdrawal from the
Union, or who would approve further resist
ance to the authority to which Virginia is
righttully subject as a State of the Federal
Union. The people seem to be animated by q
desire to repair the wastes of the past so far
as it Is now within their reach of human effort
and, by q diigent cultivation of the acts of
| peace, to restore to the country plenty and
prosperity. fthere be any of whom this NAV
not be said, they must, think, be very few.
They should not be allowed to influence much
less to control any general plan of settlement. "
James Marshall and R. Y. Conrad, of
Winchester, wrote O., me 9Th of August {:
Having, in other parts of our State, as well
as in this region, been closely observant of the
feelings of the people since the surrender of
Lee and johnson, we have no hesitation in ex.
pressing our full and sincere concurrence in
your judgment-that the people of Virginia
almost universally accept the situation. are en-
tirely submissive TO the result and sincere in
this submission"
Judge Vim. 7. Jsynes and Thomas Wal
lace, Of Petersburg, wrote on the 22d OF
August:
1.-THE submission of the people Of this part
of the State to the political results growing
out Of the termination of the late war is both
general and entirely sincere. We believe that
the great body of the people are utterly averse
to any further resistance to the authority of the
United States, and that no movement looking
to that end would be either encouraged or toi.
Grated. If there are exceptions, they are IN
known to us, and certainly so few aud 80 OBJ
scure a. to be entirely destitute of influence
and unworthy of consideration.
Robert 6ibbony, of Wythe, and ]. E
Eskridge and D. b. Hodge OF Montgom-
cry county, in reply to Hr. Segars inqui.
~, sent him copy OF resolutions passed
at public meeting at the Court House O,