The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-09

the people Of the two sections; and VIII
OF all others, was most industrious in ope,
ing wide that angry chasm in which wei
engulfed so many brave men of the Mort
and South. 1il ~. tl.t n - -
a 1T is impossible to explain by whs
mockery of political justice, it is only by
monstrous apostacy to sentiment and prir
clple that that man is now the candidate {
the party once led by Wise, Hunter an
Harvey, which calls upon the soldiers q
Lee, Johnston and Jackson to vote 70
him. -" =,
Your beautiful city was within the sount
of the artillery of the disastrous battles O
the Wilderness, where so many Virginian,
fought and fell for the Lost Cause. 1t wa,
IN those awful days Of suffering and car
mage, that the savage hatred of Horace
Greeley for the people of our State found
vent IN the following slanderous paragraphs
published IN the New York Tribune of the
18th May, 1864. t,i@ "a u"
Sd 30 tFrom N 4. Tribune May IL, 1851
Time twists events very strangely. The pop
ular idea OF gallant knight is certainly not of
one VINO logged women and sold into honda pc
ms own base-born children. The paynjms NAV
most erroneously ofcourse) be supposed to have
done such thing but not consec rated iva rriors
with the cross upon their breasts and spurs ,,pon
their heels. Whether historically accurate or
not, the common notion of chevalier is, one
, wno went about on horseback clad in com
plete steel, succoring distressed virgins,
&c,,t &c Now a Virginia planter, with a
straw hat upon his head and a eat-o-nne
tails IN his hand, and q linen coat upon
ms oack, with his mouth full of bias.
phemy and tobacco, with one wife and at home
in the great house. and a score or two of conou-
blnes in the little huts, if he did descend from an
cestors without shame and without reproach,
mas made indeed u descent most decided and
most fearful. At the best in this busting and
ssrdngE century, no man need to care to be pre-
cisely IKE MS ancestors; and as. it happens in
me case Of many Firginians, 1t should often be
tne study OF his days and of his nights to be as
ies31aetly unlike them as possible, ~ Y
Hlstery proves plainly enough that, Virginia was
settled BY gentlemen of very dubious standing at
me-thieves--sharpers-- Al
satlon rs, Dean Swift with his usual vigor
ca us ahe spawn OF Bridewell and the stews." .
Ihere Is the fact, aud it is one which preten- 4
uon now carried into criminal performance com
pels us conspicuously to parade -
~ ne lords 81 the lash account it shameful to
me people OF New England that they come of n
GOD tearing, God -prasing stock but certainly
u Is better to find ones ancestor in con yentieie
e snah IN orothe II 1T be necessary to unsarth
ones ancestor at all
II it be disgraceful to have sprung, from those
VINO PAID hypocritical homage to virtue does |
u follow that 1t is honorable to discover your |
sreat-great grandfather dangling from a public
and not from the family tree ~ - |
The very President Of the Virginia Colony f. |
NJ Wingfeld, signalized himself by embezzling
.he public stores and converting them To hts o,1,
use; and afterwards plotted to sneak hack To
england in the Colony's bark and to leave the SO
'efs9 So, Whe nrst came to Jamestown, As desig
=, 81 as gentlemen" and these
lley had little or no care of anything but to
,amper their bellies to fly away with our finan-
~ 81 procure the means of their return to Eng
ana Smith says further that most of his SET
iers were gentlemen, tradesmen, serving men |
loertlnes, and such like. ten times more fitto
! peli common wealth than to begin one or help
Daniel Defoe when he wrote his remarkable
ovel of Mol Flanders, painted almost from ner-
o oI OBSERVATION the characteristics of Virginia
Here is his record of the proud beginning of
ms arrogant Commonwealth Il - !
Inc greatest part of the inhabtant of that
olony come thither in very indifferent circurn-
tances from England. Generally speaking thew
'ere of two sortsi either ,Ist sneh as were
fousht over by masters OF ships to be sold as
TER naying been found guilty of crimes
with death. When thew come .
ere we IN AXE differences; the plan |
~ puy inem and they work together in the
ave encouragement given them to- plant for
lemselpes, for they have certain number of I
res OF land allowed them. Here many a New e
w. plrd becomes. a great man and we have {
verai justices of peace, officers in the train =
ands and magistrates of the towns they live in G
at nave been burnt in the hand C
The people of State which had 70 unded O
us Union, which had endowed it with an c
nperial domain, which had indited the o
eclaration of Independence, which had a
implied the Bill of Rights, which had yir-
ally framed and established the Ameri- n
N CONSERVATION, which had produced such t
en- as Washington, Henry, Mason. JEFF. b
rson, Madison, Clay, Calhoun, Lee, John Il
on, and Stonewall Jackson, = certainly Il
ese people did not deserve such charac- 81
rization as Horace Greeley bestowed up- '
them during the agonies of the battles tt
the Wilderness and it is an insult to n
cir intelligence, their personal and State ft
lde, and their manhood, to ask them to al
cept as their choice for the place held by Of
ashinngton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe.
q Tyler, on the score of amiabiity m
feeling and generous sentiments Z
the South, the ruffian who then. y
q all his life before, so. brutally ira &C
ced them. | know of but one way by "
llch the Virginia people can verify the 70
18th of Horace 'Greeley's contemptuous tn
presslons about them and that is 6g 10
ing for him. f517 - tn
40 not envy the party or the speakers ar
70 persuade the Virginia people to give u
5 stultifyting and degrading VOTE the m
< they have volunteered to assume. tn
am, sir, most r -aa 70 tn
respectfully and sincerely, co
your obedient servant. ca
RO. w. HUGHES. tn
after the reading Of this able letter. Col. TO
&C IL. Shields, Of Richmond, was intro tn
ed to the meeting by the chairman in gu
nplimentary terms, and spoke for an II,
IT. aai.H3 -755dg ,saEga.I
,ol. Shields began by congratulating the 1h,
sens Of Fredericksburg pon the beauty of T Ill
evening selected by them for their grand on ~
the heavens, as if in token a snI
approval, guiding the sky with tae
5eous and respondent aurora, as a @ a,
nterpart to the beautiful locality so aus 81,
ously selected by their committee Of he HE
lngements. On one side is the bcauti- -''
temple ofjustice on the other Wonder ol,.
ndId masonry dedicated to the worship a ma
fodr-the one indicating that we are in wi m1
nd OF liberty, the other that moral ex- e..
'ncy has its power over the people con- ~, ,ou
ated here. This spot, with its sur ~
ldings, is surely befitting one for free al al
to meet in and take council together as ~
ne best means of perfecting the gran b.,
and excellence of human government. H. H.
70 are here not as partisans, but as one f fiU
I party standing almost on common L. H.,
IOrm. We have nothing that 10 ahso. icy icy