The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-18
r,o Conservative Party.

- nioh authority for asserting tha'
W. n no Init two great parties In th'S
country. What is true Of The United s'a'es
l. doubtless true of this state. We nave III
virginia a powerful, compact, weil.orGah'
;zcd. triumphant party, called the Conser'
yatiye party, ana also minority party
called the Republican party. TO the LOT
mer we are indebted for many OF the poh'''
cal privileges we enjoy to-day. IL les'
cued us from the hands of the cafpe'-'"s
gers, scalawags, and negroes, ana CAV: "'
control Of the Government OF Virginia
Governor WALKER is one OF these oo''s''
yatiyes; Lieutenant-G Governor NARY - ~
Conservative: the majority OF the lne,.Do'.
of the General Assembly are ConscrN 70, Tho
the Judges of the Court OF HPie.,s' onr-
circuit Judges, and the county H"'' -" Sino-
poration Judges, are Conser'"'''.s, +, VII
tcn,bs If not more. of the papers III III
,,,,,;. .-o conservative. In fact, TINS gr"nu
Conseryatiyc party is the ruling parry III
tbe o,d Dominion. 1t has the power 70
ri its will in every department OF
t,c State Government. 1t numbers
among its adhereuts nearly every man
If any prominence in Virginia. 1t boasts
If none of them rs Wings" as know
Nothings," as "Americans," as Demo
crats,'' or as anything else than "Conserva-
tiyes." They arc the conservative people
of Virginia. They arc the men who nave
the intelligence, the patriotism, ana inc
property of the State. AS Conservatives
we acted with the Democratic party OF the
United States in the last PreSidentlai CAIN
paign. As Conservatives we are invited 10
act with the Democratic party IN the next
Presidential campaign. For more than t"o
wears we have. as Conservatives, been re-
coguized as allies Of the national Demo
cratic party. There is, therefore, II Is e''-
dent. no wish on the part Of the national
Democratic party that we should change
our name, and no good reason can be gwen
by anybody for such change.
There are but two parties in Virginia, we
repeat. We do not hear that there mas
been any attempt upon the part OF the
Wings, or the Known othings, or the Dou-
GLAs men, or BRECKENRIDGE men, 10 reor-
csnize either Of those defunct parties. But
there is q small faction of malcontents, OF
whom FAYETTB McMULLIS may be set down
as the leader, who wish to revive the Or
Canization of the old Democratic party.
Under the old Democratic rule, these now
malcontents were men of mark. "They
ruled the court, the camp. the town."
They went to Congress, to the House OF
Delegates, and to Democratic national
conventions. Now. all is changed. "Con-
servatiScs's-ure called upon to perform
these duties without being Intercepted as
to whether, ain the days before the
lo4d," they were Democrats or wings.
Tie consequence is some little "racket
I'm the ranks. We feel somewhat annoyed
by it, but we apprehend no disasters to the
Conservative party. If the entire squad OF
malcontents were TO desert to the enemy
the Conservative party would not be serl-
ously damaged, and we for one care not
how soon they 60 over to the Radical party
for they are all in effect aiding that party by
their present conduct. They must choose
between the two parties. If they do not
like the Conservative party let them join
the Republican party. "There can be no
third party" 1t is an impossibility.'