The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-27
THE PRESS ON THE ADMISSION OF
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TEE PRESS 0NTHE ADHESION OF
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From the Norfolk Ylrginian.
UNDER THE CROSSED SPEARS. >'s'
A great outrage has been inflicted on
Virginia, and VIC have no honeyed words in
which to hide the wrong, and no disposition
to conceal our disgust at the violation of
faith we have Just witnessed. These are
not the words of passionate temper, nor
are they prompted by "a sudden heat. The
compact made between the contracting par
ties-Congress and the President on one
side, and the people of Virginia on the
other-has been deliberately broken !. and
Virginia, after MI her establishment, has
been subjected to new humiliations. Under
these circumstances, we look back at the re-
cent past with profound regret, and forward
| to the future with sad abatement of our
hopes for restored autonomy. There are
those who will attribute these expressions
OF sorrow and disgust to our Bourbon phi
losophy but we do not stand alone in our
opinions, nor are We peculiar in their ex-
preston. 1-.--.....
THE Virginion then quotes from the
Times and Tribune, of New York; i ,.fr
With these opinions from great Republi-
can authorities, added to our own profound
convictions, we may well be .pardoned for
declaring our disgust at the infraotion Of
faith which we have suffered at the hands
of Congress, and unhesitatingly put our
opinion on record. There ore those more
sanguine of the future than we. are, and
hot N
drcamers may be sustained in their cheer
full predictions. In the mean time we hope
that the guns which we're to be fired will be
left untouched blythe people. II we must
march under the crossed spears of despotic
and unconstitutional power, let us at least
do it with decent composure and mea'
sured tread.
P.S. Since the above was written. " the
salute" has been fired, and the patriotic
artillerists have been informed by sable
orators that Virginia may ye. be remandeo
| to a territorial condition il she does not
behave herself This is shame enough foI
one day, and we bow our head in sorrow
at the dancing of these Helots of the State
who, drunk on degradation, disport them
selves before their masters.
| From the New York Times.
| The act of admission would have beer
more gracious haH- it been unencumbered
with conditions which appear to reveal NJ
exacting and suspicious temper, but which
after all, are practically powerless. Of al
the States which have regained fellowship
in the Union under the terms of the recon
struction acts, not one presented itself Will
better title to unconditional and imme'
diate recognition than Virginia. The grace
Of the recognition now accorded is marred
by implied imputations upon the good faith
of the people. What, under some circum
stances might have been an outrage, il
greatly mitigated by the fact that the pro
visos imposed will be virtually, imperative
The bill as it has passed looks offensive, be-
cause clogged with conditions where all con
ditions are out of place. But they vii
neither hinder the restoration of the State
nor lessen it's usefulness, or retard it's pro
gress when restored. And bad as they
seem to be, they are trifes compared witt
the tests which those who regard recon
struction simply as: a partisan agency at
tempted to impose. s.a..... s......s. .tr.
From the Boston Advertiser.
Looking at it in the light of policy, tht
new measure cannot fail to prove disas
trous to the future prospects of the politi'
cal minority in Virginia. The compare
lively small number who will be shut out
of the present Legislature are of no &C.
count. But they do not stand alone. They
represent great class in Virginia, bound
| together by common traditions, common ex'
pcriences, and common retribution. The
once active men who guided and controlled
it have withdrawn in great measure from
public life, but not from, interest in public
affairs. To them the new conditions are o
fresh and. needless humiliation. Human
nature in Virginia must be of base1
quality than exists in any other part of the
world if it does not in some way compen.
safe itself for these impositions in the
future management of it's affairs. 1t is OF
greater Importance to the Republicans OF
Virginia, and especially to that por-
ton of the Republican party which has
been deprived by life of servitude of the
tact, knowledge, and experience, which
will enable it to compete with its trained
masters of political craft, that the old dis
tinctions should be wiped out and forgotten
rs early as possible. This is an act tc
quicken and perpetuate them. If, it had
been the purpose of the Republican mo-
jority in the Senate to put the Republican
minority in Virginia OF disadvantage in
the future politics of the State, when the
heavy hand of the general Government
shall at last have been lifted from it, j,
would have been difficult to odeyise anything
more adroitly fitted to the purpose. 1t il
the part of wisdom and craftsmanship te
legislate for the future. Congress is in this
matter legislating for the past, and is laying
plans which, unless oyerruled for good, as
so many of our short-sighted schemes here
tofore have been, will bear bitter fruit fol
many years to come. ,.--.....