Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-23
The Great Virginia Triumph.

The Conservative Of Virginia, to their
ment Of their jacobin opponents, carried
the State in the elections oi last Tuesday
by a majority Of forty thousand The or
gans OF every party are neatly always
prone, before All election, TO speak extrava-
gan'ly Of its prospects; excitement aud u
desire 10 arouse tho enthusiasm OF their
friends are spl to brtray them into exac-
geration; but We 90 not think that any o'
tue Conservative Fap.rs Of Virginia pie
d'ctcd or even expressed the opinion, at
any period Of tile lat, sharp and active
csmpaign in tha, State, that tie C.nsvrva
lives could possibly win such ii sweeping
aud overwhelming victory as they have
won. Both parties alike are disappointed;
the one is lifted up and exi.Ia.at.d by IA
happy disappointment, and the other NOR
uhed. aud cast down by most unhappy
one. The triumph of tho Couscrvali, cs
is greater than the most ssuguiIe Of them
hoped, the defeat Of the Radicals lar worse
than even the most tiuid Of them feared
This result in Virginia will create
profound sensation at Washington. 1t is
undoubtedly At this time the subject of
the anxious consideration o! the li:h.uGi
GERS of the Government. They are t:.,k-
ing and debating rs to What shall Le done.
They canno; bu, t.gard the situation With
alarm. The atn,,ustrstio n, near the close
of The Fhginla struggle, openly in,erposed
IN behalf OF the Wells party, the jacob,ns,
aud caused setni ofticsi :lam.,,o,.to be
made that they should have the Patronage
and other support Of the Federal Govern-
ment, and it is not to be cxpe. ted or even
hoped, that the administration, after hay
ing thus committed Itself and s,ake.l, Is
Ne may say, its reputation before the cnun-
try upon :he issue in Virginia, will quietly
AMI with 10 coun,srvHiing effort perrin,
matters in that State to go on in their
present adverse course. What they are
likely to do reknow not what evil thing
they are not capable Of doing, when the
impelli"g motive is strong enough, no
body knows. A. any rate. Virginia, We
aPprebend, will be made to feel that she
is not yet 'econstrucled, and that ~hsn she
shall be or whether sue shall be at sIl mo
depend upon future events. Absurd and
even inonstrous as the idea seems, it may
urn out, that, after her baving been au-
thorized by Congress asd President Grant
to vote upon the test oath clause of her
new Constitution, and after having voted
that Clause down by majority literally
tremendous, the administration will re-.
qulre that this very test.osth shall be ad-
minis.ered 10 all persons elected to her
Legislature, SO that her first, Lesislature
under lhs new order Of things, with all
the Conservatives elected to it shnt out,
si1sll be a body that will do the very worst
that RAdicalism can do TO start Ler at the
outset upon the. wrong track and reuder
her departure from it difficulty or an
Iimpossibiiity. This would indeed he mon
strout, but she may as well remembe. that
monstrous agencies are at work against
her. il is not unlikely, however, that she
may conclude that she can afford to bear
ssmuch AS the administration can, afford
to iuflict.
Tbeinfluences Of the extraordinary re
suit Of the Virginia election will be very
powsrfui i'll the two other unrecons,.ucted
States in which elections are to- he held.
II ths elections 10 those States lwere to
take place now. Conservatism would pre.
vaili1 bo;h Of them even more overwheln.
loe'y 'thsmithas prevailed III Virginia, for
the Conservatives in both Of ,hem would
De melted not only by every considera ton
which hasibcifed theirs.breLhsen in Viz
|ginia but slso. BY. the. stirring example OF
she litter. But President Grant has NOT
designated the days for the elections in
Mississippitadd Pexas. althou2b i hundred
times reqaestedsto DO 10. 1n answer 10
aA teqas.ts uponahs sntject, he has. said
that be should wait ill after the election
tip Virginia. Ths spswsr !. amounted. 10 =
declaration, il,a., by s.he ehafxc.er ,of the
vote IN Vitginia, lie sonId decide upon his
actton in regard - Tho Two 5o,.hsr States.
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Icp,siit. MississiPpi apd Texas Eili NOT be-
Slowed % hold their 4lectians pre- para-
tiysly 10 .fseaastspeti tion aatif iha adlainis /
tsaion shall haye bid lime To adopt shat.
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