The New York herald., 1872-08-01

flower to come Nck. Most vtrginlans can never re-
peac snS
grctnd s6t this is an that care 70 give q IT, for
ties as parties exist IN Virginia.
Is THERE ANY VIRGINIA DEMOCRACY LEFTY
cas ana Inc coSservatves According 70 the rsd
Gals, the conservatives are ex-rebels, who only
want the opportunity 20 De Ieoeis SUI. Acc0rrs
except q few carpet-baggers and scallawags am
convinced that eseh wrongs the other and tnat
each has justice his side. Few Of the ex-rebels
them do not like she Union and Aii Of them dstest
a tneySs ana many the arc
better than soMc Of those by whom they are con.
temned. The Postmaster az Staunton is son q
veysty anda man who would do credit to any state.
The Collector Of Internal Revenue for this district
long an hcnored one In Virginia am convinced
that .scredit attaches to either OF them, shough
e Ss y DC eas' The se radca has s own
meaning, but the word conservative Is especially
significant. In Virginia the 0ld-lne wings are @ noS
exist; but as rule they are both swallowed up BY
the conservative party. The democrat may be
lne vi hig is only conservative. Every element at
home is united against the radicals ana some peo-
take part with denocyatic national cOnv entiOns
pudiate the party IN their own districts. nave
heard so much about conservatives and 30 little
except sneeTs and faut-fndngs about democrats,
that begin to doubt whether there Is any demo
'cratic party in virginia. A new national party Is
what the gennine Nirglnian Is looking 1or ana nc
expects to lnd ftin the ruins OF both the present
political organizations. Everybody avows It, ana
q cons1mmation. The democratic party, they say,
is too weak to succeed and too strong to ne disre
20 .aeS S Of ne and the repSS
licans. Virginia may do some ething In TINS directon,
for the vgS e Pyea e %as IN
the famous Is true republican" movement Of 1869.
When Franklin Stearns, Governor walker, John
b. Baldwin anc other persons OF like liberal ten
dences went to washington in that year they gave
"true republicans" 1t aiterward turned out that
the whole thing was only trick to : clutch 1.-The the
vast was to remove @ the disabling features rom the con-
stitution In regard to oflce-holding ana to give
the people & GSvernSr Win , wnom on ,S Sseryo%y S
were to become such thorough conservatives as to
be able to pass muster as democrats at any time.
except IN one or two cases. the chief traitor among
this band OF cOnspiratOrs being Senator Lewis.
s ea Not day op
when he is at Washington that he Is not at
the Executive Mansion In his seat IN the senate
publican. 1t is OF his radicalism and not Of his
ieebleness that the conservatives complain. have
heard Virginia gentlemen denounce him for con-
tinuing republican after taking part with the
| "true republican movement" aud thereby gaining
wards as Senator of the United States. Lewis
| colleague, Senator Johnson was elected as a con-
servatve but nobody complains that TIN In Congress
seem fair, for as Senator, Johnson ID quite
as feeble as Lewis, and has done nothing to re-
commend him to Virginia gentlemen except in
| his general opposition TO Grants administration.
In one respect Lewis ought to give satisfaction to
put them in office. His influence drove even an
officer so efficient and SO faithful as Dr. Presbry the
tion on the plea that it was improper to keep two
men from the same State in oDices of the same
grade of which there were only ten in the country
REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN THE STATE.
There certainly is a need OF men Of character like
Dr. presbry at the head Of the republican party OF
York. Lewis carries very little weight and the
men who have any influence at all with tue party
holding Office ought not to make them bad men,
but it really subjects every native who accepts
place under the present administration TO the
assessor of internal revenue for the Richmond
dstrictwas an old whig and is now an earnest
the State ought to be given to natives, on the
ground that outsiders can have no influence over
G we @ fSte 1e hosy 90 o usen eers Ne @
Presbry, who were appointed when not a sufficient
number OF natives conld be found qualified to hold
Office. But 1t Is difficult to understand why the
holding OF Office andthe radicalism Of men like Dr..
Smith should change them from reputable gentle
men into scallawags. AT the same time it Is plain
that the republican party of Virginia needs worthy
standard bearers. John r. Popham Is one OF the
he is ittIe tnged with the s spirit Of the ad-
venturcr II is need which cannot be easily sup
piled. and will OF itself hold the conservatives to-
gether for many years
RECALClTRANT DEMOCRATS
Virginia stands almost alone in tie number OF her
recalcitrant democracy. General Early is not the
only man who would naturally act with the con-
servatives who are opposed to Greeley. W. $. Early,
whole Early family, go with him in his opposition.
Colonel Benjamin 5. Ewel, q brother OF the late
General Ewell and President OF William and Mary
College, not only goes against Greeley but supports
Grant and declares he has been unable to discover
any military despotism in Virginia. John Harmer
Gilmer, OF lfchmond who ranks with John B. Bald
win as q lawyer supports Grant. James Lyons,
also OF Richmond, has declared In letter that he
will do the same thing unless the democracy make
straight-Out nomination. Governor Wise and his
son John r. Wse are well known to be hostile to
the Baltimore Cincinnati programme, and, 1t
is claimed, they may even vote for Grant.
Judge TaliafcrrO, Judge Robertson Jack Mosby and
q number OF other leading men are in the same
position. The detection seems to be large one
and it remains to be seen whether they have per-
sonal and political following The conservatives
say they control only their own votes, and do not
even know what TO do with them. The radicals, on
Gratis are going to exert great power in the State
between this and election, and talk a great deal OF
nonsense about q revolution in public sentiment.
Some of them even 60 so far as to claim the state
for Grant. il Will require revolution indeed to
make such result possible. and 1t Is certain that
nobody but the recalcitrant democrats can do any
thing toward changing the result. From all saw
and heard there is only one sentiment among the
people, and that Is summed up in the assertion that
the blacks all for Grant and the whites all for
Greeley