The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-23
The Daily N ews.
SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 90, 1866.
-pol1tIca tnYirginia.

Politics in Virginia.
From long letter on this SUBJECT "r1.fn , iron
Republican stal dpoint, by the Rionmen
ent of the New York Times dated June ~ We MAKE
few aYtracte Ht says there are now thlee alstlqos
political parties in Virginia, VIE
l. The Radicals.
II. The National Unionlsts.
Tha ~ radicals have quite recently declared their
creed and developed their purposes by means OF the
Gas Chat Of the Republican Union Party OF Virginia.
bu they are Radicals in the present pa' tzan Gaming
Of that word They are bent upon Sc hc M ing
dsfranchsendent Of everybody connected In any way
Nth the rebellion and the enfrancheement OF all the
neoesa proposn na aeta 1ao the pacts and
varv small moiety of the whites The only virtue
these men have is that OF not having joined the rebe
t;tnda Of Sins Claiming political liberation Tor them
selves. they vouu deny it to everybody else. Born
fanatics and for the most part men OF the sma4lest
mndicu of BRAIN they stop to inquire into the
nracticabiity of their schemes, nor to note what inf
1ite mischief their agitation may the real Union
lists Of the State, Z..A..
derwood. Lewis Mckenzie, John Hawxhurst Gtllett r
watson and Lysander Hill and sKese have lately been
Ioine by eleventh hour converts IN John f. Lewis Of
Rockingham, John Minor Bolts and Gov Peirpoint.
Taking it for granted however that the three last will
not besteadfast in the faith with which, they not
eVen Yet fully indoctlnated Virginia Radicasm must
midance The powes these men for mischief is not
Is b doubted for the already too severely felt
They have had the usual success OF bgots IN sowing
isourd where there shoad have been concord dstrus
where confidence was a, sovereign remedy. Dragging
s L the m5s sss o
asy or LOYALTY to he country they have hung around
he corridors Of Congress for the past mouths pouring
into che ears Of members fearful tales Of the dsloysy
up by ~ anab aha
oonld be oited if il oud not leng'hea this letter be-
yondIHny ordinary patience
- rHE NATIONAL uN1oN1srs.
" IL well 70 remark At once that the party is unor
purposes can only be gathered by patient investigation
S% %s H. e1 g op
II ,s Of ssi% ana n
-. The National Unionsts compriseu who have accept
cd ID aosoiS:s good faith the results Of the war; Of al
who support tha presoe6s policy truly and faithfully
I'm all its psrts who are determined possible to pre-
vent the return Of the old Secession or Demoorato
to power in the State; who were and are y
on that they may be able to affiliate with theo ana ~
the same time have some chance Of successfully COM
batting their political ndversaries at home.
The leaders Of the Union Party embrace Of the
nobest and most honored names In the State for among
them are Hon. Alexander Rves and Hon. Wn9T. Joynes,
hon B. j. Barbour Hon. L. H. Chandler, Hon. Robert
Ridgway, all mombers elect of Congress. and scores II
Others comprising much Of intellectual, social and
moral worth as 10 to be found In the same number Of
men anywhere on earth. s=
THE DEMocR lT1o PARTY
The Virgins Democrats, whilom seoessonists, in
common With their brethren In the faith everywhere,
re Ike the Borrbons in learning nothing and forget
ding nothing They believe 1t possible to reinaugurate
fhe a,tebeun politics in detail and in generals they
sbata nothing oftheiidea of Southern superiority, and
nnrrender nothing OF their belief IN secession except
10 its pracucability
The ancient leaders of this school of Vtrginis politics.
Hdnter MagDn, Seldom. ex,Gov. Smith Ct al. having
ala, tor,norarv into diacredt with the Federal Gov
srnment. have retired for the time. New assume
and strangely the only xSe
80 feld YJne WhiQs Hon. John B. Baldwin and Hon.
a. Stuart 6f ali the old secossion leaders the H.
FL henry AZ Wiasis the only one who has y.
,bsrdihood to again attempt tae f9e q a1sssaery