The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-19

we for generations worshipped idols of
clay? Has not Republicanism gained any
thing, anywhere for humanity? No!
they did not live in vain; and all that
humanity has gained during the. genera
tons which have lived and passed away
since the clark ages, y has been the gift of
Republicanism.
Plotters. holder in their designs, but inn
bued with the same ideas as seek express
sion in the columns of the Dispatch, find
ing that peaceful means could not resist the
advancing tide of popular rights, gathered
their deluded hosts in 1861 and entered on
a mad crusade against Republicanism.
Substituting slavery" for "liberty" in
the following quotation from the article in
the Dispatch, and the history of their
mad endeavors is most graphically told:
/ I'm every arena the mad advocates of ''liberty'
have after shedding much blood, far better than
that which flowed in their own scurvy veins,
suffered utter defeat and been brought into con-
tempt
Utter defeat has brought the opponents
of Republicanism into utter contempt; and
the walls of the widow and orphan over the
wreck of property, and shedding of blood
which marked the progress of their boot
less efforts, were the funeral dirge of seces-
sion, the decrer and would-be destroyer
of the achievements of long line of heroes
and martyrs, the record of whose words
and deeds, as propagandists and defenders
of Republicanism, make the most brilliant
pages in the history Of the United States,
and especially in the history Of Virginia.
But hear the Dispatch and note the spirit
which must dictate such utterances:
No; Republieanism is q name. That is all.
1t has no real existence on earth. 1t is breathing
| feebly intermedatey in France, but is soon to
expire there. In this country it is dead except in
| the brains OF the fanatics such as Greedy. And
If England is agitated to her foundations, and
oceans of blood shall submerge her SOIL the end
| will be arbitrary authority. The men who VIII
bring'on the CONFUSION have no capacity to rule
They will in turn meet their deserts, and Provi-
dence in mercy, will send the man and the pow
er to preserve peace and settle down the State in
| to order and safety
Has not the utter, absolute disasterous re-
suit of the attack made upon Republicanism
by secession (which robbed cradle and
grave alike to swell its hosts, taught the
Dispatch that Rcpublicanism is more than
a ''naine"? or has it closed its eyes and
stopped its cars to what has blazed and
Numbered since opposition to Repub-
licanism assumed the form of armed
rebellion? Is it dead in this country,
when it stands with its flaming sword
of Justice, over the PROSTATE form
of its vanglishcd antagonist Is it dead
when it intcrposts the invincible majesty of
the law to protect the loyal citizen, who
loves Republicanisin, and will not abandon
it. even when life is the forfeit at the Ku-
Klux hands, and when that interposition
compels leading men, whose sentiments
are reGchoed in the Dispatch, to write
PEcCAvI over their sign manual, and pro-
mise to aid Republican officials in staying
the outrages which disgrace the dying
struggles of secession against Republican,
ism
No! Republicanism is the name for a
concrete, compact party;a party which
has done everything that makes our be-
loved country an asylum, an example, an
irresistible influence against tyranny of
one Or many, power among the nations
of the earth, and exerting that power every
where, to protect the weak, raise the lowly,
educate the ignorant, and guard all from
the secret or open cnmity of those who
would rob them of their rights.
That such men--those entertaining senti-
ments such as those above quoted-will
''meet their deserts at the ballot-box, or
elsewhere, whenever the issue is joined, is
as certain as that Providence in mercy will
send the man and the powero to resist their
reactionary efforts, and give us in this and
other States, order and safety under the
; broad egis of Republicanism. ....