Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-03
oNEOFTHE RECOHsTRUCTED.
What Virginia did for the Union,
and what Radicalism has dome
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What Virginia did for the Union,
and what Fsadicalism has done
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According to Radical Reconstruction, what
was once the State OF Virginia, is not now
State of the Republic-not member of the
Union, but is foreign and hostile Prov
inee, ruled by the bayonets of the standing
army, the officers of the Freedmen's Bureau
and the colored race, late slaves, that Rad
icalism has given the right of suffrage, to
be not only master of the situation, but OF
the white race and of their late owners. -'-'
The tomb of WASHINGTON, where sleeps
the hero patriot, is in what was once the
State of Virginia, and is now but @con-
quered Province" whose people are denied
the right of seH-goyernment, and
there the bones of him who was
first in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen, will repose
until they return to their native dust, and
until the last day, when all are to be called
to an account for the deeds done in the
body. 7g-4
Under her soil reposes all that was mortal
ofTHoMAs JEFFERsoN, ,whogav to the world
that matchless State paper, the Declaration
of Independence, which Declaration, for
three -fourths OF century, and until Radi-
calism began its rule, gave freedom and in
dependence an existence, and name and
fame to the Republic. The vampire
spirit of Radical misrule has transfer
red his beloved Monticello from a State of
the Union to that of a conquered Province.
In like manner, the spot where the graves
of MADISON and MoNRoE-ot PATRICK
HENRY and Chief Justice MARSHALL are To-
Gated are .'out of the Union," and there, if
Radical rule continues, they must remain
in conquered province, where the white
men are held as slaves, that the negroes be
free and independent voters of the Rad
ical persuasion.
Ii living now, at their old homes, orsno
the spot of their birth, WASHINGTON, nor
JEFFERSON, nor MARSHALL, nor MADISON
nor MONROE, nor Lighthouse HARRY LEE,
nor PATRICK HENRY, nor any of the other
warriors, patriots and statesmen to which
Virginia has given birth, would be allowed
to vote for President, until after sufficient
probation, the WADEs, and SUMMERS and
BEN BUTLERs reconstructed them, and, as
a precious gift, for which these patriots
and heroes were of course to be duly thank
full, allow them the same right that their
late slaves have and exercise in the neigh
boring States.
Who, after the war, with It's loss of
hundreds of thousands of lives, and of
thousands of millions of treasure, to settle
the question that a State cannot secede
from the Union, would ever have supposed
that Virginia would have been forced out,
and denied the rights secured her By the
Constitution, to which the name of GEO.
WASHINGTON stood first, to attest its cor
rectness, and OF which MADISON was the
most devoted friend and defender, thus
upsetting the result of the war, not by
force OF arms, but by Radical strategy and
Radical trampling of the Constitution un-
der foot, by half made up Con gress?
Virginia was the parent of the Union,
but what of that? She is now conquer
ed Province" with no rights that Massa-
chusetts and those that Massachusetts con-
trolls, are bound to respect. 5r
In other days, when Virginia was indeed
Province and SO was Massachusetts, both
belonging to England, who governed both,
as Massachusetts, with her SUMMERS and
wilson's and BEN. BUFFERS, and those
who do their bidding in Congress, now
governs Virginia-the outrages of the
British Parliament against that Colony
being in assumption and in acts but as dust
in the balance, compared to those that Con-
gress now assumes and commits on the
states of the South, Massachusetts, appeal
ed to Virginia for aid against aggression.
The iron heel of oppression was upon
her. No direct blow had been aimed at
Virginia, but it had been aimed and felt at
and in Massachusetts,. Virginia responded
to that cry for help more nobly. No
sooner than the wall of the people of Bos-
ton reached her Colonial Legislature, than
tnat noble body of men, with the match
less HENRY. whose eloquence was unsur-
passed and unsurpassable, resolved that the
Colony of Virginia should make common
cause with the Colony of Massachusetts,