The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-20
is VIRGINIA A FREE STATE :

What is elsewhere, and especially in the
North, simply the recurrence of partisan
struggle for office, involving no breach Of
friendship and terminating in no interruption
of social relations, here is an entirely differ
ent matter. The contest of parties for po-
litical power means here, fierce and u'ue-
n,itting battle for existence. The Demo-
cratic party in Virginia is INSCRIPTIONS,
remorseless and brutal. Its party creed
embraces the following propositions
FWst-All men not acting and voting
with it are enemies, who, in its judgment,
are entitled to none Of the rights secured
by the rules of civilized warfare, but are
all to be mercilessly prosecuted and cruelty
punished for what is no crime under the
constitution of God or of civil society.
And these punishments are to reach the
mans person, his family and his estate.
Second-All Republicans are either
'NIGGERs, CARPET-BAGGERs OR sCAL-
AwAGs," and every one of each class is an
outlaw and scoundrel, and to be hunted
down by paid spies, tried on the testimony
of suborned witnesses, and condemned by
packed jures and partisan judges.
1hud-The negro is not fit for the rights,
nor entitled to the privileges of citizenship,
and must therefore be speedily and effectu-
ally RENTED to worse condition of igno-
rance and degradation than that in which
he has heretofore been kept, which can best
be done by abolishing the present State
constitution, closing the public schools, ex-
Guiding him from the jury box, (even when
his own race is on trial y and by the imme-
date re-establishment, and frequent use OF
the achippaag-post.
Fou,th-Every native of the State, no
matter what his lineage, virtue, patriotism,
standing, or character, if he is Republic
can, is to be assailed, abused, and DETAINED,
threatened, inundated, and prosecuted,
banished from society, cut off from his
former friends, and degraded in the public
estimation to the last degree of human en-
durance.
FyM-The citizen who comes here from
another State, if an active Republican, no
matter how long he has been here, how ex-
tensive his possessions, how unblemished
his character, how useful his enterprise, or
how permanent his attachment to the State,
is to be excluded from society, denied the
courtesies of civilized life, treated as an in
truder, derded as an enemy, harassed
with vexatious prosecutions, and accused
o. crimes Of which he is not guilty, until
he either changes his politics, leaves the
State, or his ostracism, persecution, and
oppression are ended in a prison, OF posi-
bly, in dungeon with a halter at the end
of it,"
If these were only articles of Democratic
faith, or if they were simply believed in
and proclaimed, but not enforced, the hard
ship of our present condition would be
greatly softened, but unfortunately the
practice of that party has not been better,
but worse than its Infamous creed. It's
false utterances are believed and taken as
true, the cruelties it threatens have al
ready been executed, and the measures
of injustice and oppression it contemplates
have already been tried still there is no
abatement in the internal ingenuity that
invents new outrages, nor in the cruel
tyranny that brutally exercises arbitrary
power.
If any one doubts the truth or accuracy
OF this statement of the creed and practice
of the Virginia Democracy, we are ready
TO furnish proof, the most satisfactory in
kind and abundant in quantity-public re-
cords, the proceedings of courts, acts Of
the Legislature, and living witnesses. Men
who have felt in their own persons, fami-
lies and estates the very outrages COM.
planned of, will be summoned in such num-
bers, and testify in such terms, as will
abundanty satisfy the most unbeleying.
With such an organization, governed by
such creed, and ruthlessly executing so
barbarous a policy, there is no necessity of
Ku-Klux or any other secre association of
cut-throats and midnight assassins. The
cost of their paint, DISCUSSES, and dark
lanters would be an unnecessary expense
and useless waste of money.