The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-27
Afraid of Virginia.

tHcr OVERWHELMINGLY I tH6 UurcSVuosi aSsSu
States makes no provision for an election in
Virginia. She is to be turned over to the
tender mercies Of get Of vagabond officials
under the following joint resolution, which
passed the Senate on Friday, and will pass
the House;
" RESOLVED, de-, That the persons, now
holding civil Offices in the provisional 81
vernments Of Virginia and Texas VINO san
not take and subscribe the oath Pres s.ha On
by the act entitled An act to snoscrlg,e On
oath of Office and for other purposes assap 90
proved July 2, 1862, shah, on tae p from
and IL shail be the duty Of the district com
mander to fill the vacancies ~ ois .a.a ~.
appointment of persons VINO Gun 'aAe 'ile
said OATH" s1,5
All the other seeded States have had or
will have elections upon their constitutions;
but Virginia is not to be allowed the poor pri-
vilege of even rejecting the one proposed tor
her ruin and disgrace. The bill is modelled
afterthe genuine Radical pattern. The same
unprincipled Congress which gave to Gene
raj GRANT all power in the FIVE military aus
tricts, and authorized him to compel North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
barna, Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas, 10
cast their electoral votes for him, gives TO
Governor WELLS similar powers in Virginia.
He is authorized not only to remove the
present registers and judges of election
but to FIJI their places with his own vile
creatures; and these tools Of his are ex-
pressly made ineligible to any =" elective Of
fee" under the provisional governments !;
which is equivalent TO declaring that
they may be appointed to office; and
thus, 20 secure places for themselves,
they will be sure to receive and
count the ballots in such manner as to IN
sg,re thst he shall I'll the ofhce--we do not
ssv insure his election, because the voters
cannot by threats or brides DO induced to
vote for him. He will, however, accom-
olish his purpose unless the people OF Vlr-
rinia be active, vigilant, and untlrlng IN
their efforts to defeat this diabolical scheme.
Indeed, under this bill there need be no
election in Virginia. The Convention OF
Mississippi is required to frame constitu-
ton of State government and submit 1t to
the people, but the Convention of Virginia Is
not required to do any such thing. From
all that appears in the bill, it would seem
that the Virginia Convention is expected to
do nothing but take possession OF the va
rious Offices, and, resolving itself into
Legislature, pass whatever laws may
be necessary to inaugurate negro su-
prcmacy and perpetuate Radical rule;
for this bill does not only authorize
the rcassembling of the Convention, but
confers upon it extraordinary powers
powers which it would not and could not
possess if it's members had been regularly
chosen by the legal voters of the State. 1t
is actually invested with full Legislative
powers, and told in plain language to pass
whatever laws it may deem necessary-the
bill says, to protect all persons in their
lives, persons, and property; but it is OF
course well understood that this languages
intended to authorize the Convention to
drag down this old Commonwealth into the
lowest depths of degradation and ruin by
passing ordinances intended only to place
her under negro rule, impoverish her pro-
p erty -owners, destroy her credit, enrich
carpet-baggers and scalawags, and disgrace
the very name of government.
If any man in Virginia-the mother of
States, and one of the original thirteenth
Virginia, whose WASHINGTON gained the
independence of the country, and whose
HENRY, JEFFERSON, MADISON, MONROE,
MARSHALL, RANDOLPHs, LEES, &c., &C., con-
tributed most to its renown--if any man in
this down-trodden and oppressed old Com.
Presidents of the United States were born,
shall presume to vote for any candidate for
elector of President or Vice-President of.
the same United States, he is to be fined
not more than thousand dollars and i'm
prisoned not more than a year Can the
northern people endorse such legislation as
this We cannot but hope that this infa-
nous bill will ring tho death-knell in the
northern States of the most cruel, cowardly,
malignant, unprincipled, and diabolical
party that ever poisoned the atmosphere of
this world. &
There is reason to hope that this fiendish
scheme cannot be perfected at the present
session of Congress. Certainly it cannot
be if the session should end to-day. But
we know SO well the undying malice and
satanic perseverance of the Radical lead
ers that we shall not feel safe until the
presiding officers shall have pronounced the
two Houses adjourned.
every cloud" says the adage, "has a
silver lining" In what does that silver
lining consist in this instance? In this,
that the passage of such bill at such a
time and under such circumstances indi-
Gates, more plainly than anything else has
hitherto done, that the Radicals are trem-
bling in their tracks. There can no longer
be any doubt that they fear an overwhelm-
ing defeat in November next. They have
coiled themselves up, as the popular fire
closes around them, to make final strike,
but let US hope that they will succeed only
in singing themselves to death.
WHAT IT MEANs.-The telegram stating
that the military districts are to be reorgan-
lied is explained by the Baltimore Ameri-