The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-11-29
The Ultras Admission of Virginia

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The Cltras Admission Of Virginia.
With unanimous expression OF OPINION
the northern Republican papers .dcnonnce
,h,actiou Of the recent so-cailed RepuDhcar
Convention in this city i'll the strongest IAN
suace. FoESEY's papers and the fhlladei'
mia Tcleoraph-ultra enough to suit the
most extravagant Radical-are included III
his list. The folly of the propositions OF the
Virginia ultras looking to the upsettlns OF
everything that has been done towards recon
etruction and the placing the State unaci
The abominable iron-clad oath cannot ne
sustained anywhere.
II was no more than was to have been
cypected that the better class OF Radicals,
who had something 70 lose and something
10 hone for, would withdraw from such !:
reckless and foolish conclaye-one so bllndco
bymalignity and barbarity that it could not
perceive the impossibility Of what 1t pro-
posed to do; which was MS lawle5s ano
heartcss as the plots of bandittl.
II was well that this Convention was held
L unveiled the vile passions Of some OF those
who have reached, through arbitrary autho-
ri;y. governmental positions in this state
We have had the mass still further shaken
NJ, and the better part yet once more siltcd
from the utterly bad and hopeless. There
Is now nothing left under the lead of the IN
cendiaries PORTER and MADDOX but the tail
incs. which will he cast out and soon for
.,o;tcn because of their utter insigniticance.
There is still some talk amongst part oi
those who have separated from PORTER d
Go. about further b" guarantees" This, we
take it. is but Il breathing pause in the COM
plrtc retreat from ultraisin, and in little
While we think even this ground VIII be
abandoned as untenablc. Guarantees -
What more can he given than are contained
in the organic law and iii the Overwhelming
vote Of the people of Virginia acqucscine
in all the provisions Of the reconstruction
laws? 1t is. indeed, n utopian idea, which
has been woven into some Of the acts Of
Congress, that any law or regulation can
lie made perpctually binding upon society
If the Federal Government were to
20 so far as 10 declare the State govern
nights abolished, and to make laws for
them. even then it could make nothing
pc~petualv binding-could itself give no
guarantees" to the country that any
measure or policy should be permanent.
As a republican government it could not
prevent change of public opinion, nor in
terdict any change in public policy or law
which might be demanded ny that change
in opinion. 1t can neither bind itself
nor the States Ivy guarantees which shall
not be subordinate to that public opinion
upon which the Government rests as long
as it is republican; and when it ceases to be
that it must be at the mercy of arbitrary
authority Of some sort, which will suit its
own views and purposes, in utter contempt
Of the previous character Of the Govern
ment.
But it is idle even to discuss this matter.
Congress and the nation are tired to death
with such absurdities rs are sought to be
Tagged into reconstruction to the delay Of the
restoration Of peace to the nation. Virgil
MIA will be promptly admitted without
further cavil, and her admission ends the
whole matter.