The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-23
Rifllm,o,ld Dispatfh,
- 90 1911
Observation-Disclosures 20 i''A'
Tho State Canvass.

,f order and good government =, ..,ts
Usually we'll guarded against all "''e,,p psI
~ lido tho Conservative party upon IVA
ores,,ons and side issues. Ihe parry 49, :.
sa.ad .,n,ost entirely of negroes seems "
ret The ntrol OF the government rau .ho
tho esnecial benefit o! negroes, '". 'oA
,,,,rn,se Of obtaining offices LOT lhc &c"
,;,r. rho marshal the black hosts. lhese
,ou. WHITES arc cunning and unScrupufous'
Their important strate1em Is 10 create u's-
o,r,, i, the Conservative ranks. They nave
nothing themselves to lose-no' not even
character. They have nothing to defend, ana
their whole art in war is 10 endeavor 10 cause
divisions and feuds in different 'iocaiities
where they can operate with much secrecy.
They will take one side OF question: j."
one ueiphherhood, and different side III
another.
For instance, in one neighborhooo'
where the people have taken SORT OF o''
gust Tor the funding bill, these unsct "p"'
Ions Radicals will aSsall that blIi' ali" p.o-
coed to the extreme OF Repatriation, VIII
their agitation and irritation OF oIlh'oh'
amongst certain classes Of the good people.
Change the scene. 60 into heiehooi-
hood where there exists high sense OF
publc honor, and where the payment OF the
nuhlic debt is considered paramount "oh'
cation. and some cunning Radical VIII IN
weigh against those who would thihk iof d
moment of FORGETTING the pliehted iai'h OF
the Commonwealth. They think ihcy VIII
in this way cripple us wherever lh'fe j Il
division. They will insert 4 wedge "hcr-
ever there is the slightest opening.
Now. with us here in Virginia, the great
ovcrruling question is the preserving oi
our government In the hands OF men OF
capacitv and integrity. TO surrender IL 10
the direction Of strangers and ililtcraH ne
procs would be fatal to our interests. Inc
state has made great advancement towards
a recovery from her proStratlon-irom the
terrific consequences Of the war. 11er
Improvement has been wonderful, all
things considered. This has been due to
the manner in which the people OF 'lrsl-
mia rescued their government from the
hands of untrus, worthy and incapable
people-from carpct-baggcrs and negroes,
whose administration, together with the
ruin they brought on other States, SHOWS
how Virginia would have suffered had she
been submitted to their mcrcies, to bc
Numbered, Inundated, and driven To des'
perati0n by them. Under such villainolis
and barbarous rule where would we be i'll
this time?
Let Virginians contemplate the picture
let them each consider what injury would
have fallen upon them individually under
such a government as that. Ii, after DELHI
crate reflection upon the subject, any man
will allow himself TO he driven from the
party of order and good government, the
party demanding honesty aud capability in
the public councils and the public Offices -
be must be blind indeed to the high oblga-
tions which rest upon the citizen.
At time like this, what wretch man
must lie who would, to secure himself Il
petty office, desert his own people ana as
sst to impcrl his native State--to put her
in danger of being governed by persons
who have neither honor nor capablity ?
We trust that there may be few such men
in Virginia. We know it would he idle to
suppose that there are none. There are
traitors In the best communities, and the
best blood is too often found in the traitors
veins. But we do hope that their number
in the present trying period of their State
may be very few.
But it is not the oiticc-hunters alone who
are willing to split of from their own people,
and sacrifice their State. There are men
whose crotchcls about measures and men
make them impructicablc and seli:willcd.
They are afflicted with an invcterate dogmat-
ism, which makes no concessions and leads
them to take issue with their friends and
separate from them upon the ninth part Of
Il hair, while they swallow innumerablc
errors and monstrositics of the party with
which they may, in Il moulent Of passion,
cooperate.
Now all classes of people-ail who arc
tempted to eXioliate from the true party of
the State for the motive of oain-should
study well the situation of their State. She
isstill oppressed, though gradually rising up
from desolation. A few years will relieve
her altogether, provided her government is
IN proper hands. Should there not be an
extraordinary effort on the part of us ali to
stand by her for that brief periodic man
the ship Of State bravely, and keep the
watch faithfully until the storm is COM
pletely over, and we can all take rest with
tho assurance that the great danger is past
Cannot Virginians practice little self
denial with regard to Office, and rather thar
cngender feuds amongst their people nsn
with them the battle now and walt Tor bet
ter days and more propitious seasons!
Sad indeed are the times If Frglnlan
ut this day need remonstrances agains
DESERVING their state-and above all thu
they should be eXhorted not to join such
party as that to which we are opposed
We will not believe it to be necessary.