The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-25

As BETWEEN the lately belligerent States the
position is still occupied of superior and inferior,
and the population of the one side Ia excited
against the other by reiteration Of old quarrels,
while the people of the weaker section are sys.
tematically divided among themselves by The
acts of dishonest men, who seek to keep them
divided by line of race and color, as their coad-
TUTORS and chiefs here endeavor to perpetuate
dscord by geographical division. AS far as /
can see. the party which controls the govern
ment Is exerting unrelaXed zeal to knde and
fan the fire of antagonism of races in the South,
and undyiDg hostility between the Northern PEG
pie and that population which includes all the
education, intelligence, and energy of thirteen
states of the American Union. Their effort is to
keep arrayed in hostile attitude against the lat
ter the solid sentiment of this powerful section.
and to confront us at home with the unbroken
ranks of party based on color and race Gen.
Bradley z. Joaastoas FaneuH Hall Speech.
General Bradley T. Johnston has been
put forward as the Democratic champion of
the South, and stood forth in Faneuil Hall
the other evening to vindicate the position
Of his party in the South, and to hurl &C.
cusations, such as the above, at the whole
Republican party of the country. We say
nothing of the good sense or political sa-
sacity of the friends of Mr.. Greeley in the
South, in placing the commandment of the
Salisbury prison-pen in the forefront of the
battle at this time, since it is not our pur-
pose to refer in this article to any portion of
his record as such commandant but we
have word to say about those who have
sought to keep the people of the South
"divided by line of race and COLOR" as
well as the "coadjutors and chiefs " who
have cndeayored "to perpetuate discord by
geographical DIVISION"
These are the two charges preferred by
General Johnston against the Republican
party of the country, when that gentleman
ought to know that the accusation is one that
rests entirely at his own party doors. In
no Republican meeting held in this State,
or in any part of the South during the
present canvass, have we known of the
first effort to divide by a line of race and
color. or to perpetuate discord by geo.
graphical line. The Republican party has
scrupulously kept itself aloof from any
such position. and the Republican speakers
and journals have in no instance, to our
knowledge, fomented spirit of discord
"by geographical DIVISION" In the reso-
lutions passed by the Republicans in this
State, in their Convention held on the 18th
of April, 1872, they emphatically declare,
as the cardinal faith and governing rule Of
action by the party in this State, that we
oppose all prescription for opinions sake,
and all e,adearors TO infused spirit Of hatred
and hostility IN minds Of one class
Of citizens against another on political
grounds"
On the contrary, it has been the con.
slant endeavor of the Conservative party
by its unjust laws and proscriptive policy
not only to engender spirit of hate as
between the two races, but to enforce Q
principle Of political and social prescription
for opinions sake. These are facts which
no man can gainsay who personally attends
Republican and Conservative meetings If
this State. The Conservative party is tht
one of proscription-of hate and sectional
animosity-and their whole aim is divide
on !" line Of race and color" and tc
perpetuate discord by geographical di.
vision" This we boldly charge as the
truth in this State, and throughout tha
South, so far as our political Observation
has extended.