The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-07-22
Thursday,
SYMPTOMS.

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in the Republican organization, and one, too,
that bids fair to be permanent. The recent
Virginia election has caused much speculation
in Washington; the ultra or Radical wing Of
the party attributing the result to fraud, bri-
berry and intimidation, while the moderate re-
publicans claim victory over democracy,
and rejoice in the belief that the old State,
by her vote endorses the administration of
President Grant. There is evidently change
in the tone Of the leading Republican journ-
ais; they yield more to the South than they
did before the election, and the ovations
made in honor Of Gov Walker show that all
parties are pleased, save the greedy Office
seekers and miserable extremists who would
crush out the last spark of Southern honor.
The Washington Republican seems to have
come to the conclusion to throw the proscrip-
tive element of its party overheard, as is
shown in the admission of an article into its
columns which reflects severely on Mr..
Hughes, one of the editors Of the State
Journal The article alluded to contains the
following. The s'leading Confederate nota-
blity" is General Floyd, into whose family
Mr.. Hughes married.
"Ihe discom6tted organ of the Wells pro-
consulate is endeavoring to console itself
in defeat by ungenerous filings at the rebel
party; but it knows full well that there is
not word of truth in what it says. The
principal writer for that paper is an able
politician who is connected by marriage with
leading Confederate notability. and was
himself an original secessionist. Now, he de-
sires to make amends for his former errors by
prescribing his former friends, and carries his
Radicalism so far as to talk of those pseudo
Republican organs, the Tribune and Times.
In the Republican ''carpet baggers, /" s'scal-
lawags" and Union Leagues" arc denounced
in unmeasured terms. Witness the following
"Therc are newspapers in the North devo-
voted to the proscrlptive policy of the Wells
clique, who labor to persuade the public that
the rebels have gained the day in Virginia.
Uyortmately, one Of yo1r colleagues Of the
{ daily press ii Washington as engaged upon
this ungenerous and uaia. attempt. The pro.
scriptive faction Of Wells had strained every
nerve to array the colorcd vote in solid pha-
lanx. By means of their secret Union
Leagues they had generally propagatcd the
most stupendous falsehoods and actually had
the unparalleled cynicism to persuade that
ignorant race that if the rebels gained the
day they would be reduced to slavery again,
and in other places that their children would
be taken from them and bound out until the
age Of 21.'"
Symptoms of disintcgration OF the Radi-
cal party are still more clearly shown in other
quarters. The nomination of General Rose
Grams for Governor of Ohio has staggered
even the faithful and died in the wool there
is rafting among the dry-bones, and they
begin to feel that the day Of reckning is at
hand. The Washington correspondent Of
the Baltimore Gazeete says:
s'The party is falling to pieces from rotten
ness and weakness, despite the efforts of the
leaders to keep it together. A day or two ago
portion of the Radical press characterized
the Walker party in Virginia as the "Rebel
Democracy" and proposed to invoke parti-
Fan Congress to exclude the State from the
Union, and place it again under military and
carpct-bag rule. Now we fad Radical pa
per using such words as these:
"Gouernor Wells and his friends cannot
tailto gice Governor Waller a cordial and
unshrinhtny support. Personal differences
will vanish in the presence of the great good
work that lies in front of the Republican
party"
The patriotic aspirations of the writer of
the paragraph above quoted are doomed to
be thwarted. Wien oil and water mix free
ly and the lion lies down with the lamb, we
may expect to see the party which elected
Governor Walker assimulate with those who
supported Wells. The paragraph is signiG-
cant, however, as showing .the avidity with
which drowning men catch at straws."
- =. Che tone Of the N. Y. Tribune has also
become more dulcct since the result Of the
Virginia election has been made known. The
olive branch is rendered in an article on the
closing up of the work. It reads as follows
sIhe President, as we stated yesterday, has
decided that Mississippi shall vote on her
new Constitution and elect new State Off
GERS on the fourth Tuesday in November;
and it is intimated that still later day will
be designated for the kindred election in Tex
as. 1t is we'll not to be too precipitate in so
grave matter, whereof the result is ''not for
day. but for "all time;" yet we could have
wished it expedient that each Of these States
should be fully reconstructed before the LIST
of December; SO that the President might
announce the gratifying fact in his Annual
Message, and urge Congress to do promptly
its part toward pcrfecting once more the
circle of an unbroken Union. Let us have
no haste likely to mar the perfection of the
work but, that secured, the earliest day on
which Military rule can be replaced by re-
publican self-goverument in the States still
under the dominion of the sword, is the best
day for the States and for the Union
The delay that has thus far been found ne
cessary has proved source of healing. The
unprecedented majority by which Virginia
votes to resume her place in the Union under
Constitution which guarantees All Rights
to All, bids fair to be parallelcd in Mississip-
pi and In Texas. The latter has framed
Constitution so generous and comprehensive
that the cx Rebels will nearly all vote to rati-
fy it; and everything we hear thence leads
us to anticipate Che election Of General A |
J, Hamilton (whom they warmly support) as