The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-03

value. These, however, are questions for
future discussion. For the present, we refer
cur readers 10 our elaborate report.
The Proposed Convention at PhiIa-
delphia.
Virginia was the great political leader in
the original Union of the States. She has
given tone to the politics of the country
Her political sledge-hammers have been
looked up to, and blow from them has indi-
Gated the policy of the Government Under
the Colonial system, she was the 1nagnate;
and in the revolution she was foremost and
looked up to for counsel and leadership. She
hung on to the Union she had SO largely con-
tributed to form until it became neces-
sary to let go. In re-assuming her sovereign
status, she did what she intimated she would
do in her ratification of the Constitution
and, by her ratification, as well as by her act
of withdrawal, she has proved that she was
both honorable and in earnest. Her course
has always been heightened and without re-
proach. She stands to-day, as she has always
stood--grand and great. And, though her
domain has been the bloody theatre of the
great conflict of the recent war, her spirit is
unsubdued, and she is, this day, lioness
though couchant.
Some months ago she originated primar
meetings, which passed resolutions indorsi 1g
the policy of President JOHNSON, as it APP
peared to her to be the policy dictated by JUS
tice; and animated her intention, by such
meetings, to support him in the position he
had assumed relative to the sanctuary and
truculent spirit Of ungenerous and rampant
radicahsn. The first of these primary meet
lngs commenced in another portion of the
State; and were then soon held in Norfolk and
Portsmouth. Since then they have been hold
elsewhere in the State, and in other States. Ity
was thus, as we have said, that this great
State, as she has ever done, set the ball in
motion md gave it an impetus whose inAu-
encs has reached the very Metropolis itself, of
tbs so-called Union.
This influence will promote tbs Conserva-
tive and Democratic forces of the North, and
they will ultimately be marshalled in COM
pact form, which will prove terrible politi-
cal engine when brought to bear with all its
organized power against the unsatiated radi-
cal element, which is now triumphant. Its
purpose will be to restore the Union-now
rent asunder in "broken and dismembered
fragments" and, five are to believe there is
q conservatism at the North, this battle cry
cannot fail to unite it as one nan and wake
1t up as giant refreshed with wine
When the South presents herself in this
Convention it will not be necessary to say to
her, "Under which King, BEzoNIAN ?" She
stands ready to unite with any party which
will sndeavor to preserve the remains Of pnb-
lie liberty.
Let the conservatism of the North manifest
itself Let evidence be given of real desire
for union. Let holy war be waged against
the common enemy, throughout the States
new having Congressional representation
Let dethronement of radicalism be deter
mined upon and effected. Let their forces be
scattered. Let them be repudiated by the
conservatism of the represented States as the
violent GRINNELL has been by his constituents
Let the Augean stable be swept and garnished
the Capitol, we mean-where STEVENS is
the political AUGEAs, SO to speak with his
radical oxen believing at his beck Let the
conservatism of the North, the East, and the
West, become the political HERCULES to clean
out in day this stable, which has not been
eleansed for many more than nine years. In
this work of cleansing, let the HERCULES rest
assured of the sympathy of the South, for the
accomplishment of this work is the act, with
out which, the policy Of the President cannot
triumph; nor can justice be expected by the
the South, until this day Of retributiop.
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The performances of LEANDEg and CESAR,
In swimming, among the ancients, were very
creditable, while Of the moderns Lord BYRON
and Lieut.. EKENHEAp were held to strike out