The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-21
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Desiring that the official notification
should first be published in our columns,
we have purposely delayed comment upon
the Republican convention, which the State
Central committee, on the 18th instant, de-
cided to call the place of meeting to be
Richmond, the time IL O'Clock noon, 9th
of September next. 1t is not usual to hold
State conventions, unless preceding election
of State officers, or when parties adopt a
new platform of principles but the excep-
tional condition of affairs in Virginia, with
reactionary opposition, SO violent and
bitter as to press home to us the fact that
,oe arc IN a state Of aodr ma time of peace,
renders the call for convention appropri-
ate if not necessary, so that wise, harmo-
NOUS and effective plans may be laid for the
November campaign, and able, efficient,
earnest men entrusted with the execution
of those plans in detail. l-..
The Democratic convention, to meet at
Richmond, on the Both of August, is par
ty necessity with them. Walker conserya-
tsm has been stripped of its stolen plu-
mage, and, having accomplished its hired
task Of fraud, placing Virginia under DEM
ocratic auspices, now boldly affiliates with
Democracy in its reactionary measures, and
is loudest in its revolutionary threats. The
success which crowned the deception prac-
ticed in Virginia, under the name of Wal
kerism, has induced some of the Demo-
cratic leaders at the North to "assumc
virtue, if they have it not )" and the "New
Departure" is proposed as the plot of a
modern edition of the old comedy, "She
Stops to Conquer" XII $40 3.
But, although, it is abundantly demon
strated, that the professions of willingness
to recognize the validity of the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the
constitution of the United States, are as
corruptly false and hollow as Dead sea APP
pies, there are many Democrats who think
they have the game in their own hands, and
can soon expunge these, to them, obnoxious
amendments, excaiming s'No surrendcr!'
in something of the spirit described by the
poet:
" Let wealth and commerce, art and learning
But leave still our old nobility" H. d
This class Of Democrats declare the ssNew
Departure" an unclcan thing; and it is
necessary the plottcrs meet in convention,
and adopt, or skillfully dodge, the Ohio
bantling. go
Republicans carry no $ banner with. a
strange DEVICE" but the "old Aag,o battle
stained it is true, but with no star or stripe
missing; and for the first time in our history
fulfilling the prophetic apostrophe :-1
"And the star spangled banner in triumph 3gl
shall wave,
Ger the land Of the free and the home of the
brave.n eaf gill.rtf ~ is.gt
The Union is saved !; slavery is dead but
the labors of Republicanism are not ended.
The raging tide of rebellion has been driven
back, but an impregnable breakwater must
be constructed, and carried to such clcva-
ton that it may bid defiance to any future
surge of threatening rebellion. Hitherto
shalt thou come, but no farther"
In this country, law is the moral break
water between order and disorder. Con-
gress, as the law-making power, has by
appropriate legislation" doEe its part to
erect the needed barrier, and the President,
by virtue of his office, and his pledges to
the people, is constituted the guard, to pro-
tect from hostile attacks, those engaged in
the labor of laying up, course by course,
the material furnished by Congress for the
of the great work. And fur
Their, knowing that the future safety Of all
our hard-earned, dearly bought, and trea-
sured gains depends upon this moral break
water proving impregnable; it is our duty
rs indeed it is the duty of the. humblest
citizen, to see that no mine is placed, or |
lriven under it, to be exploded at the
first opportunity; or defective material IN
serted by those, who, while apparently
aboring for its completion, sound and |
'trong, are really laboring for it's destruc-
ion, speedily and absolute.
The prominent, patriotic duty of the Con-
'ention abont to assemble, is to cheer the
hearts and strengthen the hands of all who
are earnestly laboring for this "security in
he future, which we are willing to accept
IS the masnanimous acknowledgment in
ull of indemnity for the past.n To cheer
he hearts and strengthenthe hands of our
riends and co-workcrs,,e. two things are ne
.as q e.
essary for us 10 do ourselves-be ha,mo-
tons, and, being harmonious, e6ectice.-
The Republican party is not composed of
ngelic but human beings and in no other
POLITICAL party is the old adage more tho
oughly exemplifed, ''Many men, many
minds, when agitating questions of party
The party sprang from IDEAS; the full and
rec interchange of ideas brought strong
onvlctions and those convictions crystal
.ed into deeds of high and nohle do r;n,, |