Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-30
FRIDAY MORNING. July so, 1869
MEETING OF THE SAGES.

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Sages at the Montgomery White Sui
! phur Springs, on the 9th of August.
It appears that Governor Walker has
had some hand in causing this gather
ing of the leading minds of the State
and the South to come to council on
that occasion, and as the Governor is a
sensible practical man, the inference is
very clear that something is to be done
to meet the new and changed condition
of affairs in the South. What this
something is, is the question But
this is scarcely a question with the
readers of the Day Book, who have read
after us for the last year or two; for
the programme as mapped out in our
columns has been sufficiently plain and
of a common-sense nature to attract
the attention and serious consideration
of many of the leading minds of the
State, and that is one of the principal
reasons of the astonishing success OF
the "New Movement" which found its
way to the light of day through the
columns of this paper.
j The meeti ng that will take place on
that occasion is not political meeting,
though the political status of the South
will doubtless come in for large share
of consideration, through necessity.
Every intelligent mind in the South
must by this time have realized the
necessity of disconnecting ourselves
from the broken down and effete dem
ocratic party of the North; and inside OF
the Union we must go somewhere.
Well, common prudence and fore
thought will naturally tell us to go
where we can get the best treatment;
and if the great liberal Republican
party Of the country, under the leader
ship of President Grant, is not the
place for us we know of no place.
Rnf tha r tho ,,nrts. ~--1 III s>l~~~ T~-
US: the only party that has the ability
and the disposition to aid us; and that
isswhy the Day Book long since took
ground for "respectabilizing the Re-
publican party in Virginia" The
tenets of that party teach progress and
improvement, and we in Virginia and
the South, with an impoverished and
desolated soil surely need these. The
conservative leaders of that party feel
ing liberal towards us, are reckoning
us on to their ranks, with promises of
such national aid to build up our waste
places as we in our sober senses cannot
disregard. The pressing necessity
brough on the Southern people by the
desolations Of the late war, their power
ty aud sufferings, have caused their
leaders to take a common sense view
OF the situation and will cause them
hereafter TO adopt such a line of POLL
TIC politics as will secure them friends
indeed, in their efforts to escape from
the evils that surround them.
Well, the wise and prudent action of
our Sages,in their political choice in this
respect, will SO arrange matters that the
carrying out of our domestic State poll
cy will become an easy matter with
them; for they will thereby secure
friends at court, and inspire such con-
fidence all over the country as will
cause millions and millions of capital to
flow into our borders and enable us
speedily to perfect such system of
material progression as will cause great
joy among our people.
These are some of the matters that
will doubtless be brought up for the
consideration of those leading minds on
that occasion. They may possibly !e
induced to form some resolutions las our
leading Virginians are in the habit of
doipg,) and these we hope will be of a
wise and prudent practical nature.
Though we are quito well satisfied they
will give the famous Resolutions of SO
aud '99' wide berth in their delibera-
tious. And we would ask them as
favor to the people of the South and
as favor to very important institu-
ton of the South, if they really deter
mine to pass any resolutions, that they
embody among them one expressing the
solemn convictions of their minds, that
the people of the South should adopt the
policy of sustaining to vastly greater
extent than heretofore the press of the
South, by subscriptions, advertising and
contributions of every kind, so as to en-
able the press to be of more general
utility in the advap cement of the liberal
spirit that is essential to the progress of
the people under their new surround
ings For surely tho press, which orig
mated and, by its almost unaided efforts
perfected the salvation of the South ia