The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-13

a character most gratifying to Republicans,
and reassuring to every man who has not
followed the teachings of a once famous pol
itician, who ''gave to party, what was for
mankind" Reaction is little less. dreaded
by lovers of order and attendant prosperity,
than revolution, and to create reactionary
tendencies in the popular wave, has been
so reckIessly and persistently the cndeavor
of Democratic agitators, that even true men
feared;wc had only escaped Scylla, to find
shipwreck on Charybdes.
Now, from the Golden Gate of the Paci-
fic coast to the rock-ribbed mountains of
the Atlantic coast, across the teeming
plains of the Ohio, comes the fat Of free
patriotic people-,oe soiu not trust our
grar,d destiny to red handed, plotting,
knapish Democracy. Nobly, thus far,
have the people responded to the appeal OF
our President-"Let us have peace."'
Haclneyed as this brief appeal has become
by frequent reiteration, it is pregnant with
beneficent meaning, the people appreciate
its vital import, and are nobly doing their
part in securing its realization.
1t would be strange, indeed, were it 9TH
erwise. The Republican party, claiming
and receiving the allegiance Of good and
true men everywhere, has carried the ma
ton through the throes Of bloody rebel
lion, and the scarcely less difficult period of
consequent exhaustion it has fulfilled the
poetic aspiration: 9-tl. t
MAY Wisdom sit firm in her councils, and still
May the Angel of Mercy descend on her laws,
While the broad-swom of Justice leaps forth at
her will,
In defense of the Right, and for Liberty's
cause" M f5 rs
And when our National Centennial is cele-
brated in 1876, the Republican party may,
by Republican President, make this true
valedictory: FINS corona opus--a nation
of freemen redeemed from the wreck
threatened by secession-a nation of freed
men redeemed from the dark charnel OF
slavery-and both pressing forward in har-
monious strife, which shall do most and
best to place the United States in the var
of prosperous civilization, as she is now ii
the van of the nations-a power to be
courted in friendship, feared in enmity--thf
grand successful exemplar of free institu-
tions-the towering representative
''In the parliament of man the federation of tn,
world.n
Yet tricky wire-pullers, and advocates 0
"Let us alone" policy, like the Dispatc'
(which, alluding to anewspaper entitled TN
Progress, says: "We wish it were named
something else,'') would mar all that ha
been SO gloriously accomplished, by reaction
or rob il of its legitimate fruits, by ignobl
inaction; and for what? that would-b
inconoclastic Democrats may be installe
priests of the temple, and placed in charg
of the sacred altar-fires of liberty they s
sacriligeously endeavored to stamp out
Their pretensions may be summed up in
single line paraphrased
"Let country die, so Democrats but rule
We call upon every Republican to be u
and doing, and let his doing be for nation
al, not personal advancement only. Their
is work for all and the work is SO vita
and so glorious that all should be inspire
to prosecute it with vigor and constancy
Ours is no task to be entrusted to coward
or tricksters we must enthuse or cas-
aside the former, and drive out the latter
Even with Democratic shackles, which hav
been riveted upon our arms IN Virginia b
partisan Legislature, we can, in Virginia
address ourselves to the work in the spiri
of Shakespeare's hero:
otis not in mortalto command success,
But we'Il do more Horatio, Well deserve it.''
And if we succeed in our efforts, thu
greater the honor which will attacht all b
whose labors and cooperation Republica
success is achieved in this State next M
vember, the precursor of greater victor
to be won in November, 1872.
THE Enquirer breaks ground in dire'
ton all must approves Public Park
and as it states truthfnlly, "the fact thu
Richmond grows when it is difficult to sa
what makes it grow" is one full Of Ell
conragarnant tho,,oh not nerhans stricfl