Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-25

and comingle somewhere in public mat
tiers, if we are ever to have peace and
reconciliation; and just there is where
the blending of these two elements, by
means of the compromise, is to come in;
aud we. cannot believe that President
Grant, who had so much to do in bring
ing this matter prominently forward,
can now desert the policy of coalescing
the people of the two sections in the
bonds of peace and union. There can
be no disloyalty in those our people
have chosen as legislators; for the people
Of our State have too much at stake
and too high regard for their own hon.
or ito suffer such trifing under their
present peculiar circumstances,
We have never looked on negro suf-
trage as an unbearable evil since the
emancipation, and have often thought
our people wrong inattempting to stave
it off, in face of the desire and the pow
er of those who sought its accomplish
ment, when it was so easy to control
the vote of that element in beh If of our
own section.
|. But here is the platform Of the Stand
ard: p5atseu ls...54 .-se
awe are opposed to the test-oath and
all DISTINGUISHING laws.
'The war is past I'll
IF the Government had wished to pu-
nish those who rebelled against it it
should have done so Immediately that
the rebellion was subdued. .--
1t should have punished the leaders
the men who inagurated the rebellion
This the Government did not do
1T punished no one for the crime Of
treason s4'1 @.'-r
-Four years have elapsed since the
close of the war The majority of the
States lately in rebellion have been re-
7 admitted to the Union. Their citizens
I nave the same rights as the citizens of
other States. es aDt '5o8 5aa
1T is now too late to INACCURATE pun
| ishments for crimes committed SO long
ago. ae& ae4 A4at t575
Then there should be no test-oaths
] no acknowledgements; tor the Govern
, ment, by its own action, has virtually
declared that treason shall not be pun
| ished." ,ets a.i. u. a.~r..7 er'; =
Copying the above and commenting
on it, the Richmond Dispatch, of Mon
day, under the caption of ga Good Plat
form, says: h79s-
IF there has been paper in the Uni
ted States, for four years past, more
thoroughly Radical than the Raleigh
STANDARD we have not been acquainted
with it. Its loyalty" was never doubt
ed, we suppose, by any man calling
himself Republican, and if any of that
persuasion desired to go further than
the Standard in the line of Republican
ism he would have failed in any attemp
to do So *, III, ga OF. 81, Ia#,...r,
THAT'S good enough for us; and as it
is good enough foriGovernor Holden. in
tao name Of all that is; just and wise
who can object to it2 That platform
generally adopted by people and Gov
eminent, will Immediately restore har-
mony and peace to this country. We
believe it is adopted by fve-sixths of the
people. The party that opposes it must
be doomed s4l sia1 81
| M, -'e5ovt a-, I'll jam
Ba- 1T is said that the pro position tt
modify the income tax law is being pu
into shape by influential members d
Congress now in Washington IL is
shown that all the necessary expenses
Of the Government, with the exception
of interest on the public debt, can be