The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-01


contentment will once more pervads the
State, and we will enter upon o career Of
active and cheerful enterprise from which
but one result can follow-proepefity.
From the Petersburg Express.
The true Conservatives are left where
they were in stdtit quo. We can do all
now we could have done befores The cleo
ton Of Withers, as We have often states,
would have been Of no effect, because the
votes that would have elected him would
have rejected the constitution, and there
would have been no office for him to fill.
He was only the raHying word for opposi-
ton to negro equality, and now that opposi-
tion itself is the object that will rally us.
We can as we'll now as before 60 against the
exrureated constitution, which will retain
the provisions for negro suffrage and me-
gro eligibility and jury service, Including
capacity to be our Legislators. The defeat
Of that horrid elevation of an incompetent
race is still our objective point. Let US all
strive TO achieve that defeat. Let us rally
10 the rejection Of the expurgated constitu-
tion. This is our course, and advice to all
t-re Vireinians-true to the honor and re-
nown of the old State. Let the friends Of
wells support him. Let the friends Of
Walker support him. They are both negro
equality men, and that is enough for us,
and too much to win our support OF either.
We have no candidate in the field, and need
none. IF we can, united, defeat the expur-
gated constitution, it will not matter which
of them is elected, for neither Of them can
take Office under o rejected constitution.
So far go good.
From the Norfolk Day Book
Under this prestige, then, the campaign
win be opened. We accept the situation.
Il ia lust as we would have 1t. An Ad-
ministration party can now speedily DO or
eanizsd of all who sincerely desire the
restoration of the State to the Federal
Union-of all who are sick of the Bour-
bons-of all who long to see the way clear
for the revival of business, the employ.
ment of industry, and that advancement OF
our material interests which will lead to
such prosperity as we have often speculated
upon and dreamed of, but which We can only
fairly and fully attain under govern
ment of our own in full fellowship with the
Union. Let us sweep away the obstruc-
tions, cobwebs, and bugbears, with which
the enemies Of reconstruction have sought
to entapgle and scare us; and keeping
steadily in view the prime object OF Viz
einia's reconstruction, let us rally to the
support of the true Republican ticket upon
the Administration platform, and, erssing
by our votes the oppressive and disfran-
chising clauses, accept the constitution as
the first step towards our political saliva
ton.
Thus shall we have the government Of
the State in our hands, and acquire such
power over our organic law as to mould it
more and more to accord with our estab-
liHhed principles of policy.
From the Lynchburg Vireiuian.
This action leaves the fight between
Wells and Walker. Between them there
can be no hesitation ss to which the Con-
servative party should support. The one
is the impersonation of all that is hateful,
politically, to the people Of Virginia the
other, from all we can learn Of him, is q
fair-mindcd, liberal-hearted, and honora-
BILE man-one in whose hands the best in
terests of Virginia will be safe. Those who
know him best speak in high terms of his
personal qualities, his public spirit, and
the tolerance of his political views. He is
largely identified in business relations with
Virginia, and therefore her welfare will be
his welfare.
We have already had to do many things
in the work of reconstruction that were dis
tasteful, and we will have to do many more.
This thing Of supporting the Walker ticket
is one of them, but We shall do it ne7erthe-
less. We shall do it earnestly, and use our
best efforts to secure his election. We sim
cerely believe it is the best that can be
done for Virginia now, and hope the Con-
servative party, to man, will rally to his
support and insure his success. We can
elect him if we try, and thus, perhaps, save
Virginia from horrible fate. Let US do it.
From the Lynchburg epublicsn.
We record, as a mere matter Of news,
that the report of the proceedings of the
Convention was generally received with
freely-avoWed sentiments Of dissatisfaction.
1t had been expected that the Convention
would adopt some defuite platform and
policy, and recommend it to the people of
the State for their guidance. The failure
of the Convention to take any such decisive
step was commented on with regret, as leav-
| ing the people involved in the same uncer-
tsinty and doubt as they were before the
meeting Of that body.
| From the Bristol News.
1t may be deemed hard to STAY our first
born, but if Virginia be an Abraham in
her God-like faith, we should not hesitate
to lay our Isaacs on the altar, believing
God is able to raise them up again. To-day
let us consecrate ourselves to the new duty
of accepting for our chief ruler him who,
though once our enemy, is now one of our
noblest benefactors, and who, though
brought to our eastern shore by the wave
of revolution, came not in quest Of Office
who, with character above reproach, came
to live and die in our midst whose highest
ambition is the glory of Virginia and the
good opinion of her people-Gilbert q.
Walker, of Norfolk. Let US unfurl this
standard on our mountains and in our val
leys. 1t will place beyond debate the sim
certify of the distinction we have asserted
to exist between the two classes Of northern
men in our midst-that our antipathies are
for northern infamy and not for northern
men-that there is such thing as southern
chivalry, and that it reveres virtuous
and noble foe.