Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-09
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[senator Wilson on virginia..

| Senator wilson on virginia..
The Virginia election excites hopes
aud fears, neither of which may be re
allied. There was in Virginia,
some two or three years ago. body oil
men consisting mainly of Wings of the
Henry Clay school, and few Democrats
who had not been smitten and siultified
By the theories of Mr.. Calhoun
About the middle of April (l867) a meet
ing Of delegates from fifteen or twenty
counties was held at Richmond, at which
Republican party was organized and d
declaration OF principles was put forth.
But the proposition for State
convention was rejected, and an oppor-
tune moment fer union was allowed to
pass unimproved.
Anaiha. eff,rt sill vaa made tn hiring
! into harmonious action the friends OF re-
construction, largely aided by those 10
other States who were anxious TO witness
this cousummsiion 80 devoutly to be
| wished. In this work the Uslon League
Of Philadelphia organization which
has contributed much to the coantry and
the cause OF liberv-took the lead, aud
was joined BY the Union League of New
YORK, and the Reconstruction Club of
Boston. Mr.. Charles Gibbons, enc of the
leading Republicans Of Pennsylvania
Mr.. Baker, of Philadelphia, the poet |;
John Jay and Colonel Van BureD, of
New York Mr.. Francis W. Bird, Charles
w. Slack, and other gentlemen of Mssss-
chusetis, made pilgrimage to Richmond
10 the patriotic endesvor of bringing into
harmonious accord aud on to q co anon
platform the dscordant elements of the
State. A meeting was held at the house
of the Governor, and representatives OF
different shades of opinipns-Conserya-
tives and Radicals, whites and blacks
addressed the com mittes more than five
hours. At all adjourned meeting the
next day the com mitiee urged the i'm
portance of harmony, of mutual conces-
sons and sacrifices for common cause.
-New York Independent.
Now, in the name of all the gods at
once. have things not come to pretty
psss2 Can the force of impertinence
further go? Is not this the very sublime
Of insoleace2 Here we have a set of
conceiied, nasaltwsnged, busy-bodies,
from the cod-6sheries and Quaker socit.
ties of Boston and Philadelphia, jour
neying to Virginia to instruct her people
10 politics, aud TO organize government
for them. Such boid-fsced effrontery as
this was never witnessed before in the
heavens above, on the earth beneath, nor
ia the waters under the earth. Think Of
III the Reconstruction Clubs Of Boston,
the Union Leagues Of New York and
Philadelphia sending their nisbegotteu,
wooden-headed emissaries to devise a
constitution for Virginia, the mother Of
States aud statesmen, Che schsol Of gov
ernmental science, the home Of the Madi-
sons, the Marshslls, the Randolphs. The
people Of that proud State have, indeed,
sounded all the shoals and depths of
political degradation. What a spectacle
for gods and men did this couclave pre-
sent mimic statesmen, with carpel.bag
and cotton umbrellas, assisisd by ne
terogeneous horde Of blacks ard apostate
whites, holding inquest upon 'he desliny
Of the Ola Dominion, and that ia Der
Gubernstorisl mansion "A mansion
where Pierpont, peripa,etic i'm poster, =
low, unlettered knsve, usurpei th- sue
cession of Jefferson, and Henry, aud
Tszewell, and Harrison, and Pieasanis.
Shades Of the mighty Spirits Of the
long line Of illus;rious men who presided
over that mansion Could they have burst
their cerements-could the sepulcAres
Wherein we raw them quietly inurned.
| Have oped their Ronderous and marble Jaw
To cast them mp again.
With what a thong of scorpions wonld
they have scourged the guilty, sacri-
legious seounerels from the decorated
abode, even as our Savior overturned ths
tables Of the inouey-ehangers and drov,
them from the temple.
This Senator Wilson sends MP hasa
lament At the infaissiion Of Virginia, il
no, needing the advice Of such profounc
statesmen as Charles Slack, John Jay
Francis Bird, and " Mr.. Baker, Of Phils
delphis, the poet" The poems Of ihii
Quaker City bard are familiar 10 every
body, Of course. he it vas who sang til,
dolorous dilemma of
the Quaker
Who came from Jamaics.
Bat Virginia was Joined to her heresies
she regarded not the voice Of these cod
6sh buuanitsrians. these poetic propa
gandias-the Jays, the Birds, the Bakers
the Stacks
We viii shortly be called upon 10 Ter
nsssss to remodel our State Government
bnless the signs Of the times greatly DE-