The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-07
WHAT 1T SHOWS.

WHAT 1T SHOWS. b
We have been picking up the dead and t
for the past two or three days, o
as well as looking over the field for general {
results, and have come to the conclusion
that while we gracefully retire, as General
Lee did at Gettysburg, and leave the field I
in the possession of the enemy, there are
about as many politically dead ducks on
one side as the other The election, as
compared with that Of four years ago, is
nothing to make us especially bewail our
unlueky stars, or doubt the pluck
and persistency of fight in our own
men. We have met the enemy and
the field is theirs; but it is theirs by
diminished force as compared with the
Walker campaign, when the GLORIOUS
chivalry" was led by 'carpet-bagger,"
and not by the valiant Kemper," who was
to bear down all before him. We have
left them in possession of their own we'll
fortified field, without being obliged to ask
any truce for the burial Of our dead, or
seeking any hospital accommodations at
their hands. In Withdrawing from the field
our movements are entirely unobstructed,
and our future is not at all materially
clouded by the result.
A full survey of the field shows that,
as compared with the Walker campaign,
zoe hare actually gained, IN retdt,re
strength, over t,oenty thousand cotes ~ the
last .fo,r gears. Let this statement be
palpably formulated thus:
Walkers majority four years ago.. 1881
Whites enfranchised by expurga-
ton of onstitution.............. 7,50o
Whites cnfranchsea by imnigra-
ton to Virginia. .................. G,o0o
ures ..................................... 1881
Ns Since i r ,............ 10000
ures.. ................................. AZ, 1871
Kemper's actual majority will hard
" vary from Walkers by more
than 1000 either way-call it
3 600 in excess 1900
This would have made Walkers
majority 4,33l
Deduct his majority four years
IS, 49,
Hughes actual gam over Wells
vote in lS69...... ...............". z,Oo'
This is not simply putting good face OF
the worst side of the picture. tits what tn
figures actually show; and when we said
the other day. that we intended to pick GU
flint and go for 'em again, we meant regr
lar BUSINESS" and not the the starting {
any new gas-factory.
Our political neighbors of the ''colc
line' persuasion, seem to be feelin
excessively happy over the result. 81
if there is any Dragging to be done ov'
these figures, we would like to have
accompanied by enough of Falstafiian W
to save it from Irregular damning befo
grace" Let genuine zest accompany
and not mere sack with lime in it. v
are not the most miserable feeling ma
in the state by a long she
and, what IS more, we uon Htei
to be. If the people of Virgin
can stand another four years of misrule
the old Bourbon dynasty, we can. "
can live on hog and hominy, take OF
Scotch snuff, listen to the singing of eric
cts on the hearth, shut our ears to t
hootings of gray OWLS" and philos
phize the time away as well as the ne
man. There is only an interval OF fo
years to be endured by the presence
"Bourbonism and its dead past" when
new plebiscit,m will be ordered, and '
shall, with no greater relative ga
than we have made in the last four year
whip 'em by more than twenty tho
thousand majority and walk into pow
with prospect of imparting somethl
like life to old Bourbonized Virginia, NJ
unfortunately given over to the idlest of
idol worship-that Of the dead past a
the glory of defunct craftsmanship.