The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-04
A NECESSITY.

It seems to us, if our business men would
take little time, and lay aside their ledg-
ers, and direct their practical minds to an
inquiry INTO the political condition of this
State, they would see the necessity for q
change of men at the wheel. ,Hf ,g s,5,
If they would only remember that prior
to the late civil war the Democratic party,
for many years, had charge of the finances
of the State; that it was it that fastened q
debt of nearly fifty millions upon our peo-
pie that it was it that took the incipient
steps to rebellion and civil strife; that it
was Democratic gun that called to arms
the avenging hosts Of nations honor, and
marshaled the loyal sons of America in
one grand phalanx of irresistible power,
each of whom entered into their solemn
duty of brotherly chastisement, like God
frey, Of Bouillon, with the Holy Lance into
the field of Ascalon, crying "God for the
right and the just" They arose like
the infant Hercules, which, with great diff
fculty at first, did throttle the Ophideans
that crawled and Kissed about his cradle |;
but they now stand, like the angel of the
Apocalypse, with one foot upon the noun
tains of the East and the other upon the
waters Of the Pacific" proclaiming to the
uttermost ends of the earth the downfall Of
treason and the folly of Democracy. In
your ledgers, gentlemen, charge up to that
party the lives of your brave sons, the
National debt, the State debt, your wasted
fields and blackened walls, your tears, the
terrors, heart-burnings and the gloom of
these wasted years of strife, and then credit
them-with what? In vainhaye we sought
for a credit, and if you invite them to ball
ance their account, they write "carpet-bag-
GER" Yankee" "nigger,n ssvandals :"
curse Lincoln, Grant and the revenue laws.
When asked to pay the State indebted
ness, a creature all their own, @theys re-
spond by Funding Bill, the provisions of
which make complete the ruin of the Com
monwealth, bankrupts the people, and sub
jects them to probable contiscation. And
yet we see their CHASTITY faces from out this
ruin, crowned with impudence, and hear
their clamorings for a continued lease of
power. Shame should displace their impu-
dcnce, and their only words be prayers for
forgiveness, and, if justice was their judge,
instead of mercy, they would be chained
to the rude collins of their unfortunate
dead, and be condemned to hear, through
the long years of eternity, the wailings of
those who fell without repentance.
Change, the great purifier, is needed in
our political rulers in this grand and beau
tiful State, with her undeyeloped and untold
wealth and resources. We need calm and
patriotic men to guide us out of this maze
of Democratic ruin, to undo the follies of
fools, to gather up the wrecks on our
storm-tossed shore, to utilize the broken
hulk and spars, crushed and splintered
by reason of the false lights of Demo-
cratic political wreckers. Let us hasten to
recognize the necessity for change of
advisers, the necessity for "new
departure" in reality, long and
final one from the old blind and Infatuated
leaders who have delivered us into bank
ruptcy and strife, and amid the brazen flu
ror of vituperation against Republicanism,
endeavor to hide the folly Of their reign.
Stop but moment, business men and farm