The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-28
Sfglrnygna .sar' S.S .sS'S,'
....n,rsnAy, SEPTEMBER q, 1879
--, r,,,,,ortance Of Harmony.

The Importance OF fa@fi 'loAs
'roxt election will be one of great I'm
~. 70 the state. That of 1859 rescued
CIV, threatened calamity, and mucl!
. &c ,.sS then secured will be lost now II
49, ,>oon,e should fail from any cause to
,ns,n,ain the ground that was then won ane
nccnnied. We secured reliable govern
ssn,,t of competcnt men, and through
aans,h,e and faithful Legislature also
T.a;o;ory that is able and whose H.
80, e. above suspicion. At the mp,
nroacbins electioa the Judiciary ana the
rxo.u,,ve Departments arc to be COM
Melted BY the filing of the local ol'ces "
the counties. That those elected on 'o'
occasion shall be capable and honest men l.
of the last degree Of Importance tof th'
sf,c,ent administration Of the laws ana Inc
nreseryation of peace and order. TO elect
srch men 1t is necessary that the intelligent
and responsible people Of the State shai'
maintain the same harmony and union
which last year saved the State from ms
rule.
Tha. the people Of Virginia will soon
have TO take part In national politics and TO
divide upon the questions Of Federal policy
we all know. But there is no Immediate
necessity for such division, and rs The
great work for Virginians at this time Is 70
restore prosperity and well-ordcred indus
try to the State, and as these can only be
secured under O wise and patriotic local
government, the whole power of the peo-
Die should be devoted to that object. We
must put our house in order and secure II
against outrage. We must protect our III
terests. and public affairs must be dlrccteo
I'm the line of sound policy and placed under
,be Guidance of honesty and capacity. This
ia our first great duty, and If VirglnlanS
nroperly appreciate it they will faithfully
,crform it before they undertake to regu-
late national affairs.
In every sense this is the true Virginia
policy. It is fortunate that While we are
engaged In pressing 1t there is no question
of national concern upon which we are
called upon to act, or upon which we can
vote.
Fortunately, too, while thus employed.
time is widening the distance between Us
and the end Of the war, and wearing away
the rancours and malignities excited by ira
tricidal strife. The close band OF negroes
once united against the native whites, which
inevitably required counteracting organi
zation, Is being broken, and (though very
gradually is losing its mad impulses and
forgetting its bitter propensitics to the per-
secution of the only true friends of the
blacks-feeings and passions which found
expression in such wild and incoherent jar
gon as the negroes themselves did not I'M
derstand.
This wearing away Of ignorant prej1-
dices-the gradual relief Of the negro from
the tyranny of the leagues and the rape
cious office hunters-promise In year or
two to relieve the State of very much Of the
peril to which it has been exposed. Time,
too, will relieve us of many of the impu-
dent intruders who came to live upon us
and to get into the public offices by in1am-
ing the minds Of the negroes against US.
They came only to fatten upon the public
treasury, and cannot stand it long while
they are excluded from office. They are
compelled to depart for some other field Of
speculation and piracy.
The union of the people now will take
the State easily and securely over present
danger. and when we 60 again to the polls
we shall be infinitely better off and better
guarded against the dangers of the triumph
Of incompetency and dishonesty over the
true and responsjbb+fe-Pso people of Virginia.
o1see @2Ssss union of all for the good
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