The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-09

A very little observation taught us that to "a
faithful member Of the Republican party
there was no choice iest but TO 60 for the
party and its nominees who boldly espoused
the Republican platform, the Admfnistra.
ton of Grant, and the new free constitution
Of Virginia.
But all is not lost in Virginia. Congress
holds the key Of the citadel. The rebel De.
mocrats may boast that they have elected
their candidates, but there Is an ultimate
remedy. Colonel Walker and his friends,
who declare they are still Republicans.
have assumed the responsibility. 1t is for
them to show that they do not intend to de.
>troy the new constitution after the manner
Of Georgia and Maryland. 1t is for them to
show that they do not ask Virginia's read
mission into the Union only to restore her
TO the men who have no higher mission
than to prosecute every citizen, white and
black, WHO supports the Republican party.
Coming to Congress, rs they will, with pro-
LESSONS of Republicans on their lips, we
hope they will take such stand as will
prove that i'll the late election they were
not willing parties to a plot to restore that
State TO its eX-rebel masters.
The compact between Colonel Walker
md these desperate politicians should be a
warning TO every aSpirant South who pro-
fesses any fidelity to the Republican party.
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form, and only those who obey the one and
stand upon the other can hope to be re-
garded as Republicans. Wherever candi-
late seeks for votes us ga CONSERVATIVES -
he cannot claim to be Republican, or look
for recognition from Republican Admins
tration or Republican Congress. The
The nomination Of General A. j. Hamilton,
of Texas, rs the .tcitizens" candidate for
Governor, however it may please the rebel
element, does not strengthen that distin-
guished gentleman's title to the confidence
of the great party of which he has been for
eight years so bright an ornament. We had
Colonel Walker proclaimed Republican
from tide-water to the mountains all
through the canvass, and it remains for him
to say whether he will be true to his own
convictions during and since the war, or
will help the rebels to overthrow the new
free constitution, and so drive out the loyal
element Of the State.
Is THIS SURRENDER ?-If the following
dispatch of the chairman Of "the Walker
party" to the President is not a new rebel
snare. it is the only sensible thing that the
old Democratic politicians Of Virginia have
done since their rebellion
"RICHMoND, July Z, 1869.
"Mr. President, ON behalf of the State
Executive Committee Of the Walker party
| congratulate you upon the triumph Of
your policy in Virginia. The gratitude o.
the people for your liberallty is greatly en-
Iiycncd by the overwhelming majority by
Which that policy prevails.
OR. Il. DANIEL, Chairman.
His EXcelency &. S. Grant, President O
the United States"
President Grants "policy" has beer
clearly shown to mean universal suffrage
|
universal amnesty; complete protection &c
the loyal people of the South, including
full political and civil rights to the coloret
citizen, and no Reputation Of the nationa
debt. If the "NNalker party" mean to Sus
| tain these great ideas, now is the time t.
show their sincerity. Let them cease thei
abuse of the President and his "policy.'
! Let them cut loose from the Democrats Q
the North. Let them abandon their persc
cution of the Republicans of Virginia. !
Colonel Walker speaks through Mr.. Daniel
| he has chance to prove it by such al
aYowal as will show that he did not run TO
| the simple purpose of throwing the Stat
into the hands of the rebel Democracy
| Formers Ch'0mcle, Sh.
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
| ELECTION NEWS FROM VIRGINIA.
! HaShington, July THE news from Nir
! gnia continues to grow better and better
and the victory for Walker appears more
and more decisive. The Radical politicians
here can't understand it. They had beef
led to believe by reading Radical paper.
and accepting Radical teachings without
question that Wells was certain to carry TIN
State. If Walkers majority had been 3.0G
or 1000 it would not have been so bad; bu
when that majority is doubled and treblet
the Radicals view the field with fear ant
trembling. The detection Of the negro, es
pccially in some Of the counties where the,
had reason to expect the heaviest coloret
vote, is 4 doubly complicated enigma which
upon the unity of this vote, and al
along before the election the Republican
papers took especial pains to parade before
the people of the State double-leaded arti
cleS intended to convince all the Firgini:
voters that the reports of negroes coOpera
ting with the Walker party were Demo
cratic falSchoods, and it was repeatedly as
serted that the detection was very slight
Great was the surprise, then, when II wa
noticed yesterday (as am informed by gen
tlemen who arrived here this morning. tina
scores Of the colored people marched boldly
UP TO the polls with an open Walker ticket
and would not be deferred or persuaded
from voting it. The colored vote has beer
divided, and the backbone Of its power i
broken. not only in Virginia, but the etiec
will he felt in the States of Texas and Mis-
sissippi, and indeed al over the South.
And now the question arises, what vii
the Admiui stratioa tiuP The fact that Judge
Dent. Il brOther-in-law of the President
who has been named in connection with thu
conservative Republican nomination for Go
vernon Of Mississippi, authorized an an
nouncement to be telegraphcd South las
| looks as though the report that the preSl
dent is with the conservative Republicans il
correct. The politicians Of both the State
! Of Texas and Mississippi have been maxim!
every possible effort to get The moral in1lu
encc Of the Administration on their sides re
spectively. Thus far, however, the PreSi
| dent has stood aloof, and this gives verify t.
! the report that he was only awaiting the re
suit of the contest in Virginia. That resul
being now ascertained, the policy Of the AID
ministration in the South is to cast in its 10
with the conservative Republicans, ant
Judge Dents course, referred TO ABOVE
gives the report an air Of certainty, SO far q
Che President himself is concerned. How
far the Cabinet will go, however, is matte
for the future to determine.
1t will be remembered that when the Cabi
net was considering the question of submit
ting the teSt~oath and disfranchisemen
clauses of the Virginia constitution to sepa
rate votes there was division of sentiment
and it was only determined by majority o
one. The Cabinet officers who voted agains
making these clauses exceptions may still
desire 10 commit the Administration to thu
support of the Radical Republican party o
the South, and here, perhaps, comes thu
real danger of disruption of the hitherto
and present good feeling in Cabinet coun
Gil. Whatever may be the result, the Vir
einia election has worked material chang,
in the aspect OF affairs at the South, and yol
loolc fo1. dnNpn1a1nailts lhforsa tn