The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-22

nv President Grant adopted BY the Admin
istration wing of the Republican party OF
virginia. and advocated by its nominee,
Colonel Walker, is, az far as 1t goes, q re-
coonition md vindication of our own ideas
and principles and why should we re-
iect it? SO farifrom it's acceptance being
an abandonment Of our. principles, 1t
ia in some its most vital points n
nlsjn and practical reassertion of them.
Tr1e. we do not get ell we deem
dine to us but ia, it not the part of blind
folIy and incurablea Obstinacy 20 refuse
what is offered because we can't. Obtain all
we demand? No prudent man adopts such
4 policy in managing his private affairs and
the interests of political parties and OF states
are but the aggregated interests OF the lndi-
viduaIs COMPOSING them, and require the
application Of the same general principles
and rules of conduct. We do not surrender
our principles we do but yield to the stern,
invincible logic of events, and, like many
GREAT and victorious commanders. take up q
new Dosition and confront the changed at
titude of the opposing forces.
But there is another point of view from
which our actions may be understood and
justified. In accepting reconstruction with
an expurgated constitution. as proposed
bv the President, we get back not only
civil rule, but re-habllltated govern
meut, controlled by the Caucasian race.
We win vantage ground from which to as
sail the remaining iniquities of the Under
wood outrag e-a thing impossible to us now,
and must continue to be until we have some
form of civil government re@stablishcd. On
the other hand, if we reject reconstruction
we lose all the chances of escape from the
degradation and ruin now threatening us,
and leave ourselves not only subject to the
evils of our present anomalous situation,
but 90 back under the control Of disap-
pointed and cXasperatcd Congress, where
the influence Of orr worst enemies is all
powerful. Our fate will he sealed. our So
cial and political perditiOn inevitable, and it
will all be the result of a noble and high
strung, but impractcablc and unwisc. adhe-
renee to abstract and sentimental politics.
Our Candidate in Rappanannock.
COLONEL WALKER AND YOUR CORRESPONDENT
SPEAK AT sPEREYvILLE.
RAPPAHASNoCK COUNTY, June 10.
This afternoon Colonel Walker and your
correspondent addressed large meeting of
the citizens of Rappahannock ut this point.
They were introduced by Major Icph.
Turner, who made brief but very appro-
pirate speech. in the audience I noticed
the Greens, WiliseS, Menifees, Brownings,
ing citizens of this section.
There are ut least $50 voters on the
ground, and, considering the short notice
given, the meeting was Il most gratifying
success. The people are interested, and
will turn out to hear speaking whenever an
opportunity is offered them. We are to-
night the guests of Maj r Turner, and go
to Culpeper tomorrow.
& 60 IN HARNESS. .s-- ... -
The following influential and energetic
citizens of Page are announced to canvass
the county thoroughly, and their names are
Il guarantee that what their hands find to do
that will they do with all their might. Co.
lionel Splitter, Colonel Kiser. DR.. Rusk, and
McSsrs. Ashby, McFeigh, Borst, Stewart
(member of the Constitutional Convention
of so, X. L. Parks, Isaac Long, William
Mines and Dcakins, and Captain Jordan
(brothcr of General Jordan, now in the Gu
ban seryicc). Others Will be added to the
list.
POLITICAL SPEAKING ELSEWHERE.
From every quarter of the Valley reports
of political speaking by the friends ofColonc
Walker reach us. Last night Mr.. Liggctt
the citizens of New Market, and
tomorrow McSsrs. Roller, Woodson, Lig-
"ett, Walker, Halves, and Doctors Ka,ltI-
MN and Motlett, and others. have appoint
mcnts in Rockingham, in which county, by
the way, most of our canvasScrs and candi-
dates are each speaking twice a day.
The canvass i'll this quarter is fast reach
ing that point ''when the interior of Mount
-Etna will be an iceberg to it," At the mr.
gent opportunities of Major Zeph. Turner,
Colonel Charles Green, and other citizens of
Rappahannock, we 90 to Spcrryville, in
that county, tomorrow. Major Douglass
leaves lis here and goes to llarrisonburg,
where hc will speak Monday with the Hon.
r. s. Flournoy and others. We part with
him with many regrets. q.