The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-06
THE VIRGINIA SITUATION.
From the N. Y. World.


The Democracy fairly and triumphantly
carried the Old Dominion. That some white
Republicans and negroes were sensible enough
to vote with them, and that the conservative
party even went so far as to pick a portion of
their candidates from the ranks of these vol
untary allies, does not alter the distinctive
character of the victory but merely magni-
tes the extent of it. Neither does the fact
that the fight was won under the laws of
Congress- and in accordance with such a
policy as accepted the situation only to miti-
gate and master it, diminish the emphasis of
the success or detract from its real Democratic
significance. Virginia belongs, in the admi-
nistration of government and in the mould
ing of her future, to her own true people who
have wrought good out of evil and saved the
Commonwealth by their energy and intelligent
sense.
Hence, the open letter addressed by DR..
Gilmer to the so-called leader of a defeated
negro faction i'll that State is manly and to
the point This latter person. enkins is
the name of him, if we mistake not-coolly
proposed that his beaten crowd of disunion-
lists should form an alliance with the chivalrc
and victorious conservatives of the grand old
State. DIR. Gilmers reply it is immaterial to
give IN fall; but the purport is that the con-
servative Democracy always leave their
latch-string on the outside of the door. and
that all who will can enter the tabernacle Of the
redeemed if they come with cleaned hands
and pure heart, doing works meet for re-
pentance Whereupon the administration
papers-notably the IrjbuRc, Times, and
Springfield RepUJHc0n-lecture the conserva-
tives on their disobliging and inhospitable
spirit forsooth And this from the party
that has called the Democracy dead for ten
years and our principles defunct; this from
the organization which drove the late Mr..
Raymond and others who survive him out of
place, power, and recognition because once
they inclined to even a policy of liberation
towards the cOnservatives-thisi is the humble.
pie of ''join with us which they eat before
the Virginia Democrats, and this is the howl
OF horror they raise at the rejection OF
their offered fusion with an organization at
which even to squint, except with the Btra.
| blsmlc helplessness of a Butler has haC
political and personal infamy for the penalty
! of it.
''My son, said father, 81 halve all my
worldly goods with you A month after the
prodigal returned. Father, he bemoaned
I'm dead broke !" "How, said the parent
Am help to that? l gave you as much al
allowed myself. You have squandered it
l have increased mine. What will you saw tC
that ?" The youngster was equal to the emer
gency;-'Let us halve again, Governor, anc
keep it up every time :"
Precisely so with the Virginia disunionists
They had as fair field to work is as the Con
servatives from whom they separated in AFRO
CANT assurance. They wasted their politica
substance and estranged from them all bu
the lowest of the low. Now they desire t.
''halve again and keep it up every time" LIE
the Virginia conservatives resist alike tn
Establishments and the frowns of power
They hold position which secures the pre-
sent and rules the future. 1t cannot be los
p to them unless they are lost to themselves