The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-05
evening state Solsraal.
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 6, 1871.
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

snail STICK closer than Drother or pore
We find nothing remarkable 10 th
papers this morning. except a very com
plimentary notice in the Rhig of the Hon
Charles H. Porter's last great speech il
Congress, which has had the distinguished
honor of being published in full in th,
Globe. OF this speech our contemporary
says: We had the pleasure yesterday
for which we were wholly unprepared---
that Of perusing the speech delivered by
our distinguished representative in Con-
gress, the Hon. Charles II. Porter" and
then in another paragraph it pays it this
"gushing compliment:
We have rarely read anything which pleased
us more. For glowing, bold and impassioned
eloquence and for stern, pitiless, resistless ar
gument, we know of nothing to which to COM
pare it except Burke and Sir William Hami-
ton. The style is occasionally little crude
and inexact; but when it is remembered that
Mr.. Porter made his reputation as a public
speaker in the Virginia Constitutional Conven-
ton of 1878, where little severity of style
was INDUCED in, this blemish is not SO remark
able.
Our neighbor then goes on to mar the
grace of its compliment by crticising
rather closely and severely, we think, and
hypercritically, the sty of the speech. We
suggest, although we are not surgeon to Mr..
Porter, and, therefore, have no special
call to "bind up his wounds and give him
another horse" that were all the speeches,
and all the editorials, or even a tenth part
of them, that are delivered or written
nowadays, submitted to the Wigs cru
chile, to its test of criticism, very few
would pass muster half as crsditably.
In another article, the Wing, taking
silly rumor sent by a Washington cor
respondent of the Tribune, for its text.
declares its apprehensons that the Presi-
dent may reopen the question Of recon-
struction in the South, --and thereupon
says:
If the President has determined to reopen
reconstruction, and to lead q crusade against
the South, it is very clear that his waning
popularity, and the rapid decline of his party,
admonish him of the necessity of doing some
thing desperate to re-instate himself and it, If
wise and if mindful of his standing In history,
the author of that ringing sentence, "Let US
have peace" will not so far stultfy himself as
to start anew on the war-path in order even to
We have no idea that there is any inten-
tion on the part of the President or Con- |
gress to renew the agitation of this ques- |
ton, any further than it may be absolutely |
necessary to hasten the complete restora-
ton of peace. The President knows that
the wounds are now fast healing, and that
all tho patient needs is quetness end
good nursing. The few indications of
restlessness that show themselves here
and there were to be expected.
They are the natural consequences of
passed but the President and the whole
country, even the Union people of the
South, ought to rejoice that we have been
able to pass through the terrible ordeal SO
safely. Every true patriot now should 10
all in his power to "assist nature" in per-
fecting the cure. Let all irritating causes
be removed, and let us rather look to the
good and glory of the country, than to
mere personal aggrandizement. General
Grant is too good patriot to do anything
to disturb this happy condition of things.
He ought to know, if he does not, that his
name is tower of strength in the land,
and that the people intend to sustain him
and continue him in Office, and, therefore,
he can afford to act independently, and for
the good of the whole country.
The Enquirer devotes column to the
colored voters Of Georgia. 1t seems that
some of them there voted with the Demo-
Gratis. as they did here, when Walker was
elected; and because the Northern Repub-
lican papers berate them for having de-
serted the party, our contemporary takes
up the old, old refrain, and says: al told
you So" "We always said the Yankees
would prove the worst adversaries of the
race, and the Southern people their best
friends" &c. But we will give some ex-
tracts as showing the tenor of the article
The Yankee Republicans seem to be greatly
that some of the negroes In Georgia
preferred their own country to the Yankee
country. They gave suffrage to the negroes,
and by violence, simply to enable
hem, through the negroes, to rule the South
'rn country. They calculated on the stupidity
u the negro and on the malevolence of the
negro, as sure agencies to accomplish their
iesign. The colored men of Georgia have |
hown themselves superior to what was expect
ID Of them.
And then, further along, we have the
The New York Tribune, the kindliest repre-.
sentative of the Yankee class who set up to be :
riends OF the colored man, devotes nearly a
column OF its space to an account burlesouipg
he negro voters in Georgia, and the styie in
which they conducted themselves. We have :
always said that the Yankee would turn out to !,
70 the worst adversary that the negro would
hereafter have in America, as he has been the q
hardest competitor that he has heretofore had
n America.
II the negro does not now sacrifice himself and I
lis native country to promote the views and
ne interests of the Yankee, the Yankee will a
'ursue him with more malice than would the b
nen OF any other race on earth, In the men
u the south and the West will the colored :
nan find his only protection from the persecu-
ion of the Yankee of the regular nasal into
lRtion stock.
Then, after quoting copiously from the
etter in the Tribune, written by some
rate correspondent, who has picked up a
aw isolated cases, and from them Judged
ne rest, in which the colored voters dis
'layed about the same amount of ignor-
nee and incapacity that the Tribune finds A
its own door among the chest Demo- i
ratio voters on every election day,-the I
inquirer concludes: <
If there is truth in all this, it is bitter re. "
ectlon on those who have put this unprepared a
mirage on the country. The utter upfitness Il