The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-24
THURSDAY EVE'G. APRIL "a. 1873
:. The Irnnxoidahie Issue :"


forgiveness, indeed there is no language tnat
could depict the nfamy of their conduct
AZ symuatRy with our section and kindred
compeiled us TO abandon the Union of our love
and affection when it became war OF secuons
so now when every warning has gone unheeded,
and we find our late slaves-agamst whom we
cherish amnesty, but in whose freedom we
rejoice, and to whose happiness ana prosperity
we would gladly eontfibute--arrayed under Tue
lead of the pestiferous carpet-bagger in soma
column against their natural allies and ffiehds'
determined to assume the control OF the sttte,
to make and administer its laws, we can no
longer hesitate as to our duty
Virginia in this hour of her tribulation expects
G 5ery man 10 do his duty. Let the lines be
drawn and the roll be called that we may see
whether it be true, as is charged by the ADVERSE
ry that treason has left our ranks deserted Ia
this contest there can be no hall way mouse; no
neutrals. 1t is not Grant or Greeley, inhaer OF
auti-funder, high or low interest, this or that
railroad: is Virginia against her enemies, the
whites contending for the supremacy OF their
race, and he who now proves reeEea l, W M
enters the camp of the enemy should De lnaoe
TO understand that he has left all hope behind
him.-IVhtg Of yesterday
The Wing sounds this trumpet-note OF
alarm. 1t forgets, or assumes to forget,
all other issues, and appeals directly to the
passions of race-to the white man as
pitted against the black man in contest In
which the ''pestferous carpet-bagger" is to
be chief leader, with here and there trai-
tor to Virginia who betrays" his state, his
honor, his kindred, and his race" To this
class of Virgiaians, that is, those who do
not enter the camp of trace pitted against
race" the brand of treason is to be affixed,
and they are to be made to understand
that. in this desertion from the Conserya-
tive ranks, they hare left all hope behind
Hem."
And something more is to be understood,
if we understand The Wing, and that is,
that all northern men who come to Vir-
ginia. and do not enter this camp o, pro-
s,ription and hate--do not array themselves
under the banner ofrace pitted against race
are to incur the threatened degradation
of being branded as "pestiferous carpet
baggers," who are " to be rsRde to an,der-
stand" mot permitted simply that in COM
ing to Virginia "they have left all hope
behind" "-s.
Well, be it so. Let this be the threat
the malignant party shibboleth-the loyal
blazon of the Conservative party of Vir-
gina! Let prescription rear her head and
bear her crest thus high. Her blazonry
does not intimidate us, nor do her armorial
trappings cause single misgiving as to
the ultimate issue. We are ready to enter
such field of fight and leaee all hope be-
hind, if NEEDS must be. Where the teeth
of such dragon are sown, it is better to
press forward against the malignant sewers
than turn back to reap more fruitless
harvest of blood in the rear. We have
labored most assiduously to prevent this
second sowing of the dragons teeth o.
Cadmus in Virginia, but if the old dotare
Demos will take on the ass's ears and SOW
them, let him :" leave all hope behind" ant
watch like another Cerberus for the F" com
ing in of hell" We may deplore the stel
he takes, but can only gnaw our heart a
his supreme folly, and accept our share o
the fatal consequences as they shall come
We do not stop here to frame an indlct
ment against the Conservative party, bu
simply to characterize the utterances o
The Wing, as the mouthpiece of ITS party
to be both malignant and Infamous. They
breathe out raneor, hate, persecution, ant
the DEVILS own brood of threatened ills, T.
our people. The coming political contes
is not to be one of generous and honorabl
rivalry--a mere struggle for party ascen
dency in the state-but one in which ''tru
men and Virginians" mo base-born bloc
from other states or nationalities to be cor
sidered) are to enter the lists and proclali
at once a war of races, with no middl
ground for native Yirginian TO stan
upon, but that on which he was con
PEELED to secede and fight in 1861. Tf
lines are to be drawn, the roll called, an
all traitors disposed Of in the same way no
as then. The man who does not fall lnt
Conservative line, is to be branded as recr
ant to his state, his honor, his kindre,
his race, and his blood. He closes the do
OF hope-forever bars himself from q
recognition by Virginians-if he takes al
other step than this. Old Strepslad
might as well escape the contagion OF ere
itors in the play, as for " true man al
Virginian' to find escape from polite
death, if he fails to vote as the party shi
boleth shall demand. He must take Il
draught of Lethe, or this party lash of L
Wing, with no alternative to boot. If
so plebeianizes his blood as to vote wi
"pestiferous carpet-baggers, scallawa
and negroes" he is doomed man, wi
the door of hope forever barred in /
face, as when Echo went weeping aft
Narcissus, never to overtake the fugitiN
but forever to engage in the fruitless pr
suit.
And this is the threat made to the OIL
chivalric Virginians! 1t is the same cry
"Treason, Treason" that ran through
Old Hall of Burgesses at Williamsburg
when Patrick Henry was to be COW
down by intimidatons and threats of
sort. We shall see how much of "scar
it proves to be in the coming electiC
Threats of this character are but lii
needed by brave men, except to excite Ii
disgust, and impart a different bias fir