The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-30

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Hon. John 3. Baldwin has taken many
new departures, in fact has boxed the polit-
ical compass so frequently that coming it
backwards and forwards is an easy task,
and situated as indications point he is at
present with one eye on the Senate Cham
Der in the Capitol at Washington, and the
other on fees from the capital Of the Chesa-
pcake and Ohio railroad, he has somewhat
delicate task Of legerdemai,s, far too delicate
for him to perform without exposing his in
constituencies.
The report of Mr.. BIS speech at Norfolk
before a Conservative meeting, if correct,
represents him as saying much that is
foolish and some that is worse than foolish.
For instance speaking Of the election, he
says: 1t is not case where the solid
people OF the State, the intelligence, the
worth and integrity of the State was Ovid
ed into two classes, but is case where the
entire intelligence, integrity, commerce and
business of the State is on one side and that
of ignorance, corruption, and wiclsedness ar
rayed on the other. We have to contend
against thoroughly drilled and disciplined
party. The late Conservative Convention
recognized Tie necessity Of complete o,yani-
cation. M
The time has come when we must link
ourselves with one or other party. There
cannot be a third party. = Ex-
anime the two parties. See what the Rad
icals have done since the war. At its close
the people accepted the result. =
Instead of meeting us as a people who had
accepted the issue of the war, the Republic
can party have, on every occasion, attempts
ed to crush, degrade, and tramplc upon us,
and by this policy have prevented capital
and enterprise and immigration from COM
ing among us. They have spent every eff
fort to cause the negro race to hate us and
suspect us, and not satisfied with that they
have stirred up theii. i'll will, they have set
them to govern US. This the most infa-
nous crime that the history of mankind can
exhibit, and the effects of which we would
have long felt, had it not been for the gene
rosity the negro bore for his former mas
ter, on account Of the kind treatment he
had received while slaye.n
Now this is the sort of stuff manufac-
tured for the purpose of misleading the peo-
pie; Mr.. B. reads the signs Of the times.
and finds that it is necessary to Brighten
those who are slowly realizing the fraud
which Democracy, under the guise Of Con-
servatism, has been guilty of; therefore he
draws what he hopes will provca rcpulsivc
picture of Republicanism. What is his
own record? and how has Republcanism
oppressed him?
A trusted representative of loyal con-
stituency, he fraudulcntly used his respon-
sible position to place the State under the
heel Of Davis, Toombs and others, and with
the utterances and pledges of devotion to
the Union scarce cool on his lips, he ac-
cepted commission to fight against the
very cause he had so cowardly BETRAYED
using in his speeches to cover his own
baseness and sire the Southern hearth
language almost identical with the follow
ing from his Norfolk speech
"Not satisfied with this, they imported
INTO our midst the carpet-baggcr, the off
securing Of the pententiarics Of the North.
men who were willing to leave their coun-
try for their country's good, to stir up and
produce strife with our people, but still not
satisfied, they began the breeding process
and produced in our midst, the scalawag.
the meanest man on earth.v What lau-
rels as he, Col. b., gathered on the field.
history does not record but if in the lux
mious contentment of his home, which was
not sacrificed in the cause he holds SO dear.
he has not heard the walls Of widows and
orphans, who have by his indirect agency
been robbed Of husband, father, home,
everything, then his ears are deaf indeed.
The war ended and taking another po-
litical departure, Mr.. Baldwin 'scrooked the
pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift
mightfollow fawning, confessed his crime
was treason, its just punishment death
and confiscation, but threw himself upon
the generosity Of government he now ac-
euses of malignity, and to-day he enjoys
life, liberty and property, while he would