The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-14
Rev virginia Gospel.

The Richmond Dispatch, the foremost
conservative Richmond paper, dis
courses thus on the results of the Vir.
ginia election. II we could be per-
suaded that the people for whom the
Dispatch speaks think and feel in the
fashion here set forth, we should re-
gard the situation in Virginia very
hopeful indeed; but whether enough
OF them do to give shape and body to
the new. order of things there, time
alone can tell:
There are two classes Of persons who
are endeaVoring to force Virginia into
the Democratic party, whether she will
or no. One is the party OF carpet-bag-
gers and scalawags in this State, who
are of opinion that they may do us
damage with the President and Con-
gress by calling our victorious party
Democratic. The other is the Northern
Democrats who are very anxious to
muster us into their ranks.
First: The victory here was won by
an alliance of good men generally of
all political shades of opinion in other
days, who sunk all party preferences,
all personal opinions, and Joined in the
common cause OF rescuing the State
from the dominion of Ignorance and
ulSnOnehLys 4ney dcteu as paLrlOLSI
national and domestic. They ignored
the old party names, and associated as
comrades devoutly struggling for the
public salvation. So 1t is the greatest
absurdity-it is an insult to the grand
motives which governed them-to call
them by any OF the old party names.
Second: The fight here was upon re-
construction, and the victorious party
which has set Virginia free stood upon
General Grants platform; and that par
ty Is now absorbed in more important
matters than hunting for party name.
They are endeavOring to complete the
great work that has been so prOpitiOuS-
~ begun, and they desire TO go on with
it in entire harmony with the Federal
Administration until it Is consumma-
ted. Their party relations depend upon
the events that are to follow. Those
events are to be controlled at Washing.
ton. At present, we repeat, they stand
on the Grant platform, desiring, in
proof OF their sense of the favor extend
ed to them by Gen. Grant, to go on in
harmony with the Federal Executive.
And
Third: 1t Is plain that parties must
be reformed. The old issues and the
parties that were formed upon them
must give place to new issues and new
parties. We do not believe there will
ever be q Democratic party in Virginia;
ed in every respect that it will resemble
the old one in name alone. The reVo-
luton in the theory of our Government
has taken away the main pillar of the
old Democracy. Nor do we think that
a party bearing the name Wing will
any more resemble that which existed
before the war.
The old parties must all pass away.
The new Congratulations out OF the
debris of the old, and their combina-
lions with the new issues that must
grow out of the new order of our polit-
Zeal system, are now steadily going on,
and Virginia will not be ready to take
sides until they take shape and have
the breath of lie blown into them. AS
yet, she is in the chrysalis state, en-
deavoring to expand her limbs and re-
cover her strength in the genial sun
shine which mas been introduced
through a loop-hole kindly made for
US by Gen. Grant. She is now drawn
to that light, and is inclined to con-
tlnue in it. Thus far only can we see
now. But to join any of the old par
ties, she is not at all inclined, and it is
not probable that she will. They are
dead.