New-York tribune., 1869-05-08
Democrats in this Tammany Robbery
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Gen. Candy, acting under instructions from
Washington, will very soon issue his Pr0Cla-
nation appointing day of election and pre-
scribing the mode in which tho pending Con-
stitution shall be voted on by the legal electors
of tho State the Rcgistrics being meantime
carefully revised and corrected. The day VIII
probably be the last Thursday in June or the
first in July; il the 4th of July did not fall
this year on Sunday, we could wish that the
new birth of the Old Dominion 10 Freedom
and Loyalty might date from that day. Mean
time, the Conservative State Ticket having
been formally Withdrawn, it is manifest that
most of its late supporters will vote the indie
pendent Republican or Walker Ticket, so far
"a they shall vote at all. And, though the
election is still nearly two months of, the
issues unsettled and the parties about TO come
into collision are now matched for the first
tine, the cardinal principles which are to
triumph in the struggle are already clearly IN
dieatud IA follows:
i. ne Free Constitution, framed year or
more s.nce will, in the main. be accepted by
large raaiority if not without serious opposi-
ton his secures TO Blacks equal rights with
Whitcs)
.. The Test Oath and all disabilities not pre-
scribed by the XIYth Amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution, will bc voted down-also by
large majoritics.
g. State Officers, Representatives in Congress,
and new State Legislature, will he chosen
of whom n decided majority will profess to be,
as most Of them will truly be, friendly to Gen
Grants Administration.
4. Two L. s. Senators Of like faith will be
chosen by this Legislature the week after It's
assembling.
3. The predominant desire of the masses to
have peace industry, security and prosperity,
will make itself very generally respected, in
spite of the bitterness still ranking in thou
sands Of hearts.
G. A vast immigration from the North,
whereof tho vanguard is already traycrsng
VIrginia's valleys and scaling her ridges, will
rapidly appreciate the value Of her lands,
break up her plantations into farms, pcrmcate
her omnprcsent forests with new roads and
new ccariugs, while a very considerable pro-
portion Of her still growing timber is destined
to enter into the construction Of new dwellings
and other structures within the next few years,
In short, Virginia, having had enough of Civil
War and devastation is about to subordinate
political strife to industrial progress and ma
tcrial prosperity, and thus advance to a future
of power and wealth undreamcd of IN her
past.
We have said nothing as to the relative
strength of the Wells and Walker tickets re-
spectiyely, nor have We even indicated prefer
ence between them. On this point, we may
speak hereafter But Gen. Weiss late letter,
wherein he courteously yet clearly repudiatcs
enduring prescription and dislranchisement,
recognizing and acQuicscing in the bcnignant
intimation on this head Of the last Chicago
Platform, has divestcd the contest between them
of much of its original importance. For the
present, we rest in the joyful conviction that
1869 will see Virginia fully reconstructed and
reGstablished on the substantial and bcncfcent
foundations of Universal Amnesty and Impair
tial Suffrage