The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-14

! Government, and the utter nnmlilasioh a'ie
| differentiation Of the States TO the national
| authority, with the right of that Governs
| ment to subvert the laws, suspend the wris
| of habeas corpus. and hang, draw, n
| oparter. the citizen without trial II It
| chooses to do so. The leap was a great one
| Gtn ;umnnur from the suspension bridge
| into Niagara. But those VINO approve Ms
logic ought to follow MN
Tho ENQUIRER will be quite singular
amongst nti-Republicans in It's admiration
| Of these documents. That paper even Sc
,.o,ds one of the charges brought against
| N. conservatives: that they have not car.
| ried ont the school system. Ihe charge Is
| not sustained by specifications. But 1t Is
| not true. 1t may not have been carried out
to suit the Enquirer, but that paper Is not
| rho Chief Justice to decide whether it be
Faithfully carried out or not. The Legisla-
,ure promptly proceeded to organize the
.rstem-neceSsarilv n work of time-and
levied the taxes to carry 1t into complete
operation. These taxes are being collected,
and as soon as the means are In hand this
S%tate-poor as she is, whose public debt is
suspended, and q great number of whose
white citizens, having some property left
them, have been unable to educate their
own c~hildren-will carry out the public
school system faithfully.
We can understand why RIvEs L Co.
raise n rumpuss about the school system.
They desire to Undue the minds Of negroes
with q sense of wrong, and the trick SUBJ
serves their purpose. But why the En-
quirer should back them up Is passing
strange!
The Enquirer is before the public. II
ANYBODY else can reconcile the course of
that paper with its understood assurance OF
cooperation with all who oppose Republic
canism, we confess we cannot.
In conclusion, We copy from the Dispatch
of August Goth the following brief of
"TH1NGs TO BE REMEMBERED.-That the
Conservative party was organized as a Nir-
yinia party, and as such has succeeded in
getting Virginia out of the hands OF the
carpet. baggers and scalawags..
"That in 1868 the Conservative party was
represented in the National Democratic
Convention, no objection being made to its
name in that body.
"Ihat John F. Lewis. Lewis Mckenzie,
George ". Booker, and other men who are
sometimes referred to by designing pollti-
clans or their ignorant tools as having been
members of the Conservative party, were
never such, but were members OF the True
Republican party which split of from the
Radical party at the time OF the PETERSBURG
Convention.
UTha thesa copornssmen were elected as
Republicans, and because they could not
only take the iron.clad oath, but could ma
t~eriallv assist in securing the admission of
Virginia to representation in Congress.
"That if the Conservative party had in
1869 elected a Democratic delegation to
Congress and a Democratic Legislature,
Virginia would probably be now under
military rule. 1t is certain that the IRON
clad oath would have been required of the
members of the General Assembly.
"That Virginia owes the privileges of
Judges, q Governor in sympathy with her
wishes and feelings, a Legislature of her
own choosing, and many other inestimable
privileges, to the fact that the wise men of
he State did not organize il Democratic
Darty here. but created Il Virginia party,
and called it Conservative
THAT Conservatives prescribe no man
Tor havins been a Democrat or for having
been a Wing, but select their candidates for
office without reference to their ~antecedents
as party men. 49,
.inia can act with the national Democratic
party in 1872 without changing its name.
"That the address of the recent Demo-
ratio and Conservative national caucus at
WASHINGTON was to 'the Democratic and
Conservative voters Of the country.
"That the northern Democrats do not ask
us to change our name.
"That we should injure our northern
friends if we followed the advice Of the e.
tremiSts of this section.
THAT no one can offer one single good
reason for changing the name of u party.
"Tbat no Conservative objects to Il man
hat he prefers the Democratic to the Re-
publican party, seeing that such is the pre-
.erence of every Conservative in the state,
80 far as is known.
"That every mar who triest to disturb the
harmony of the Conservative party on any
DrcttXt whatever needs to be watched"