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

beyond his ability to discharge. Like the
viper warmed into life by the kindly wood
man, he would employ his restored vitality
to sting the hand of his benefactor.
Conscious OF his own ingratitude, and
wishing, like all ungrateful men, to excuse
himself, he scurilously denounces as "scala-
wags, the meanest men on earth," those
who having accepted IN good faith, taJfH
Their pledges and cease soa1iag upon the
government, which has been generous to
its enemies even before it was just.
The folly of the statement that Republic
cans would not accept the submission to
the results of the war, is inexcusable in one
who, after the surrender at Appomattox,
presided over the State Legislature, and
helped to blacken our statute books with
the most infamous laws for the degradation
and all but reinstatement of the freedmen,
and kicked out of their hall the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution, which
simply provided that such treachcrous
office-holdefs as himself should be stis-
pended for a season.. The intent of Mr..
b. and others similarly endowed and stu
ated, was made too plain in that General
Assembly, for them to be permitted to
continue the work which they SO heartily
engaged in, "to crush, degrade and trample
upon" every man native born, or new
conner, who would not swear allegiance to
secession, and do all in his power against
the United States and by this policy per
sistently and bitterly enforced through the
agency of the social Ku-Klux, and tens,
fifties, and hundreds organization, proposed
and perfected By Mr. B. Mmse!f,) they
have prevented capital enterprise, and inn
migration from coming among us.''
We tell Mr.. Baldwin that the capital,
&c., which is now being invested in the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, SO advan-
tageously to him as counsel for the road,
would never have sought Augusta county
and the city of Stanton for Investment
it is the WEST the investors are looking
to-and if other counsels than Mr.. B. do
not prevail, the completion of that road to
the Ohio will but furnish another outlet of
escape for honest tolers, from Virginia, to
some place where white-handed, grasping
politicians, do not absolutely control public
affairs.
The charge that newcomers have in
stillcd hate OF their former masters into
the hearts Of the freedmen is untrue, and
if Mr.. B. will repeat his statement in the
speech from which we quote, in any meet
ing of coiored men in the courtroom at
Staunton or elsewhere, he will be better in
formed when next he essays to speak as to
their sentiments.
How such shallow devices, and reckless
statements as are used by Mr.. Baldwin
can still deceive the people, is a marvel of
the blindness of prejudice. The,only state
ment in his speech which cannot controver-
ted is, q There cannot be third 2,arty,'
and with this admission so pointedly made,
we find Mr.. B. talking about some Conser-
vative party which met in convention, and
recognized the necessity of complete or
SdiifAdltOif. " = CoLCtlf Will MT. ID. IllaI
there " cannot be a third party !" it is Re-
publican and union, or Democrat and dis
union and Mr.. b. is evidently opposed to
the first, but in accord with the last,
true apostle of the policy of hate and ruin
announced by the Assembly Hall Conycn-
ton, of which he was prominent member.
The people of Augusta county, and Vir-
g;nia, no longer tremble and obey the inn
perial mandates of would be despots like
Mr.. Baldwin; the events which have trans
PRED since he was elected as their Union
representative in convention. have shown
that able men are not always faithful lead
ers; and the friends of Union men, who
were hunted like wild beasts to the noun
tain Businesses, and often murdered as they
stroye 10 reach safe shelter beyond the
State lines, ask each other what has Repub-
licanism done to injurc US, what did Mr..
Baldwin's secession ever do to protect or
benefit us.
The 7th of November next will show
that the people are awake, and convince
Mr.. b. it is time he took another departure.
and turned his back upon Democracy, with
which he has again allied himself, and for
which he makes such INSCRIPTIONS haran-
CUES, as this Norfolk speech.