Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-06-13
The Virginia Election.

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ment in the State of Virginia, have
been elected members Of the House
Of delegates Of that State.
One dispatch says the "Disunion-
lists have swept the State" BY
"disunionists we presume is meant
persons who favored the effort to es,
tablish the Confederate Government,
but who have taken the oath of al
legience and who are now engas ed
in an honest and earnest effort to
bring about a complete restoration OF
the Union in all it's parts.
We do not suppose there is now
in all the South, a solitary individual,
who has the slightest claims to
sanity, who would be willing to lend
himself to any movement designed
to keep up strife between the North
and the South. The disunion move
meut is dead and buried and is not
likely to lee revived again during tn.
present generation.
We regret to see that some indigna-
ton has been expressed upon this
subject it is thought by some that
these late seccssionists who have
been elected to seats in the tn. I'm
ion Legislature Of Virginia have
shown much indecent haste that they
are still secessionists and will again
favor secession movements on the
assurance of the first opportunity.
We regard these objections as des-
titute Of the least foundation in fact,
no sane man desires to see his desc
lated country plunged into another
civil war, which would end in but
one way; in more complete d-sola-
ton. ruin and utter failure. The
Picayune on this subject says
"But the cry that they can attempt,
in any sort of way, any other dis
union, is as ridiculous As many
other cries raised in these days
against men who do not assis: spolls-
men 70 fill their pockets with plum
der. None but fanatics can either
fear or attempt disunion now.
Those who raise the cry without
being lunatics are intent on robbinc
the body of the disunion which died
on the battle field, but which none of
them ever met face to face, or fought
to conqure'
Again we regard the course pursued
by the secessionists AS emiuently
pro per and right. If,hey had stood Il
loot refusing to vote orhold Office when
rendered them. they would have been
regarded as unconcerned Of their
former error and ready to renew the
conflict at the very first convenient
moment. The Picayune says If
these Conttdcrates had refused to
take part in the elections, if they had
stood atoot, and suffered those ONLY
who had heretofore been known as
Union men in the regions held for a
long time under Federal control to
take part in the election it would
have been said that they did not
really accept the altered condition
Of things that they still held out in
rebellion, and had submitted only to
recover property and escape punish
ment"
We fully indorse the following,
which is the closing paragraph of
the Picayune,s editorial on the sub
ject.
"According to our way of think
ing, the people who had most to do
with taking and keeping Virginia,
or any other State out of the Union,
are the most suitable ones to do the
active part in bringing her back into
it, and in undoing the work of the
past. The unanimity shown in this
the most satisfactory ought it to be to
all who desire the complete submis-
sion of each State to the sovereign
authority of the Union
This is a matter of momentous in
terest to the people residing within
the limits of the late Confederacy
and should be pondered by tn EN-
and acted upon as soon as the oppor-
tunity is offered.
a gentleman who arrived at this
place on Sunday evening from below,
informs us that on nearing the spot