The national Republican., 1869-01-25

DtuOmlnI pnrt OF tnt htpuOlf
can party Of the Union, or cooperating with
the same, while the ultra Southefners, such as
Wise, Robert ould and Daniel, will continue
to work with the Northern Democrats, with
whom they are so 10th to part.
There is a general desire to know who are
the leaders Of the new movement. and what
Stuart, who took the nrst stand in it's favor,
10 an old.Iine Whig and an original Union
man, for year, past Playing a conspicuous
pSa' Wss once member Of the House of Repre.en. M
| tatives. Secretary of the Interior under Presi-
dent Fillmore, and after the war was elected
ginia was not admittedt to representation, His
brother-in.law, the Hon. John d. Baldwin, OF
Augusta, has perhaps, the clearest head and
to an unlimited extent, the Confidence of 6is
held out for the, Union until everybody else
Branch is a Richmond banker OF wealth and
influence before the war he was Democrat,
but In the Convention which took the State
passage Of the ordinance OF secession. The
Hon. Thomas s. Flournoy, Of Halifax, IL an
other representative Of the old whig party.
Governor Of Virginia, and was beaten in the
election BY that untiring enemy of Know.
Nothingtsn N, Henry A. Wise. Col. Flournoy
situation In good faith, and is an earnest ad.
vocate OF the new movement. James Nelson,
who 10 the representative OF Richmond on the
Commhtttt ib lawyer, And be-
fore the war was an active DemoSfst In north
western Virginia, whore he was we'll known.
D. o. De Jarnette, OF Caroline, is an ex-mem.
SsI %yDSb,m 81 Sonfsss elected By ,whis Soss.
ernof OF the State. william L. owen, Of
since The surrender q %ppomsttos besn sa iass. s
| tihed with the Republican party, He was a
member OF the convention that framed the
Underwood constitution, being elected by the
negro vote. but he nnDnaPd IN thu nrn.
seriptive features of the instrument lust
named, and discerns In the new movement a
Republican party in Virginia. Jno. L. Marye,
OF SPottsylvanis, was also q member OF the
eonstitutional convention; an old-line whig,
| General. Asa d. Dickinson, formerly a Dem.
oerat, is from a district In which the coiored
element largely predominstes, but he stated
at the Exchange Hotel conference that the
white people OF his section would gladly give
the negroes suffrage II their disabilities were
removed. Messrs. Slaughter and Pendleton
men, having the good OF the State at heart,
and having n o sent mental seruples about com.
promise. Gen. Eekols and Cof. Frank Rufin
lin 10 a man who will yet occupy u high place
In the State of Virginia. Still young, he 10
the president OF the Virginia State Agricul-
tural Society, and every scheme Of progress
and reform finds In him an earnest, working
supporter. VIM, +. Cameron is the editor OF
the Petersburg IRdeE, and IL Justly considered
Virginia. James Z. johnson was long a State
Senator, is a well.known lawyer, and another
representative OF the old Whig party.
Such are the men who are try Ing to redeem
Virginia, and whose influence is now enlisted
In the work Of reconstruction. Such men
cannot long remain In the ranks of the Dem
existing against the other great party OF the
country. With the Inauguration OF Gen.Gtant
Ieonnaently predict that the Republicans of
ing basis, an event which will open up a glo.
rlous future for the Old Dominlon, when she
resumes her place In the phalanx OF American
That the new movement is bitterly opposed
BY such journals as the Richmond IRquir6r and
Erdmfner and the Southern Opinion formerly
Pollatd's paper Is an argument, 10 the minds
OF reasonable men, In Its favor. These papers
have ever been throwing obstacles In the way
oil reconstruction, and have already had too
On the same side may be found that impracti-
cable, unreasonable secessionist, Henry A.
Wise; Robert Ould, late Confederate commits
sioner OF exchangei Raleigh 7. Daniel, a week
or two ago removed from office by the military;
Robert Z. Withers, the Democratic candidate
for Goyernor, aud Marmaduke johnson, the
candidate OF the same party for Congressman
at large. Happily these persons have little
influence, and their opposition will not inter-
fere with the success Of the "compromisers."
l ask space in your columns for the publica.
tion Of the above brief extract from the Lynch.
burg NetrS (the bitter Bourbonite) and the
ttltIt TO snow your fehu-
ers that am on the right track 10 this matter;
that is, that the Congregational policy l advo-
cate with reference to Virginia, II frankly
adopted will insure the State to the Republl'
can party for twenty years to come.
SENATOR WILSON'S AND ogN sCHoPIELp's
EXPORTS TO PREVENT THE MIscHIET.
The Objectionable provisions of the pro-
posed new constitution were engrafted upon
1t, by-the'by, over and against the advice of
wise and earnest Republicans, who, wanting
no otiiee in Virginia, could afford to give the
convention honest and patriotic advice. Sem
ator Wilson, OF Massachusetts, took the
trouble to go to Richmond to that end, and
besought them not to do In this connection
Just what they did shortly after he left their
city. Gen. Schoheld, then Military Governor
Of Virginia, addressed the convention on the
18th or April last to the same end. Before he
did so 1t had been Informally agreed not to in
sert the obnoxious provisions. Upon that
point he spoke to them as followsi
have not hesltated to express, frankly
and earnestly, to those gentlemen OF the con- |
subject, my belief that the proscriptive fea. |
lures, which at one time were proposed, |
would prove fatal to the constitution. refer
and disqualification for office.
"Ihe former you have wisely determined |
TO remove, leaving your constitution, as far
stand substantially on the basis laid down by |
Congress. l have, heretofore, abstained from
any attempt 10 Influence the convention 10 |
oath OF ofice OF so vital Importance that be- be-. |
lteve 1t TO be my duty to give you my views |
on the subject. 1t has been necessary for me
officers as well as persons to MI the various |
civil Offices In the State.
II have been able to hnd In some counties
p. tNUn nd NhaN
sons OF either race able to read and write who
could take the test-oath. Most OF the local
oniees give very small compensation, such
go to another part OF the State for the purpose
Of accepting them. l have no hesitation in |
saying that IT will be practically impossible to
administer the government under your consti- |
tuition with that provision, and that the re-
tention OF that provision Will be fatal to the |
and probably fatal TO those who |
tionable feature, ! say this, lest some OF you |
may be deceived as to the wishes OF the people |
ol The eountry at large, or those whom you re. |
not and cannot sustain you In going so far |
beyond what Is either authorized or required |
by the acts OF Congress"
THE GOOD ADVICE SECUTED.
In a few minutes after he left the conyen.
tlon hall the wise action OF which he spoke
as above lrdS reC0HsidSred his advice and eau.
tion were haunted, and the objectio enable pro.
visions were finally voted into the constitu.
ton
Such Is the history of these Objectionable
provisions. The letter quote from the New
York Tribune tells, more foreibly than my pen
can, what the country and the Republican
party have to gain from prompt and frank
legislation upon this Virginia reconstrpctIon
q qIestlon, as common sense, common .ustieer
anu real Republican liberalism suggest.
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