The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-17

people of the state are in earnest abou
this matter; that they are sincere, ant
have adopted this constitution and ap
proved the acts of the legislature under j
honestly and sincerely, and that they will
accept il in entire good faim IN eUe'y par
ticuldr.
'The people of Virginia have solemnly
pledged themselves to maintain the ciui
and political rights of the coiored man, and
in my opinion there is not the slightest
doubt but that they will faithfully fulfil
their pledges. They have said it, and they
will abide by it,
The people of Virginia did say it. and
they will abide by it but the Conserva-
tive party are not the people of Virginia,
as their present conduct shows, when
tried by the declarations of Governor
Walker. Since the first Of April last their
continual outcry has been against the
We come to the year 1872. Do we find
the leaders Of this remarkably consistent
party Boosting of themselves as " Grant
administration Republicans. . Oh no.
On the contrary, General Kemper was
himself the man who offered resolutions
in the Conservative state convention of
June, 1872, instructing the delegates of
the party in the approaching Baltimore
National Democratic convention to vote
for Horace Greeley as the best plan of
beating General Grant and to adopt the
liberal Republican platform which had
been framed at Cincinnati the month be-
fore. General Grant was denounced for
all sorts Of high crimes and misdemeanors,
and the professional reviler of the south
preferred to him 'sas the best means of
rescuing the Republic from the despotism
Of the sacord,"
The delegates sent from Virginia to
Baltimore Conservatives south OF the Po-
tomac, Democrats north of it-aided in
making Horace Greeley their presidential
candidate, and in adopting q platform of
which the following are the salient resolu-
tions:
BALTIMORE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
OF 1872.
"We, the Democratic electors of the
United States in convention assembled. do
present the following principles, already
adopted at Cincinnati. as essential to lust
government
.'We recognize the equality of all men
before the law, and hold that it is the duty
OF government, in its dealing with the peo-
pie, to mete out equal and exact Justice
to all, of whatever nativity, race, coler or
persuasion, religious or political.
"We pledge ourselves to maintain the |
Union OF these states, emancipation, and |
enfranchisement, and to oppose any re.
opening of the questions settled by the |
Fourteenth and Fifteenth
of the constitution.
sm and sacr;f;oas of % tha Suu1 soid;on .,e , mere
,rS of tha a' Pnn,hi;a =, 'no I soiu'ers anu SAIL
sboH e,,e, ,1e,,pot 1s, G.,,, III ta 80 ues y ouS
Tane . ,u nr ,s s'S1S III nav aea yns:sy-ea,1.ea
.sn, y " "'' = "'' 'e'0o'o' !" me" f'a'''o'-'
This plat(orm needs no cammont Tho
of 1870 odontod tbo ,,r;,,.
,iples for which thew ohnae NO
low. not as a mcho;ce Of evils - nor &c =
natter of necessity. h,1t as Weeeent;ol to
ust oove,nue,at.U mnst he noonstron. ~
eprobate indeed. If the tshead and front Of
nv Offending hath this eytent M mora y
hat / am advocot;ns tbe nni;t;coI nv;u,,;
lies which NV rcvilers declared 70 ha a tos. %
ential to mat covernment,, onIu fwnlvo
months AGO. Tbey not onlv adonied ifb tbese
,rincinles and made Horace GraoIov tta;u
but thew went out Of their ,xa wav
o express heir gratitude to the sailors and
soldiers Of the Union armies for having
,eaten their own soldiers in the war of the
lost cause"
They seem to have become eon,e,,bot
conscious when they went into the Greeley
movement that they were laying themselves
liqltly open to the charge Of uconsistencvy
The president Of their state convention. the
Ion. John Goode, when taunted in the N.
Z. Herald with this charge. replied in a LET.
er as follows, May 18th, 1872, in language
like that which I myself might
'e disposed to use in reply to their chronic
omplaint of me. Mr.. Goode wrote:
upermit mo to odd ,,ot :,
4 = the Democratic convent;on a. pI ppaIt;'
aore will not be controliad INV the ~ na,.'.o,r n
rejud;ces Of Me nars;san hui hn wv t1a he"tG~ d;o
ates of mn enliobtened natr;of;sn, I ~ rne thot
how will rise snner;or 70 tba a,"n,.,. e,,,sI s,:5
ya1ions of a,oit,, and nro1a S t,,s,soi,,aa USnIs
anal "a tha occoo;o, that
heir deliberations thew will ~ bovma m
not so much to The roNSIS'
ENJOY of party records as to the
duty Of rescuing the govern !
lent from the .grasps Of an INSCRIPTIONS
iliitafy despot'sm.
Very respectfully, I,
7 JNO. GooDE, JR." n
Thus have | followed the tortuous
ourse of this party of consistency from /
$40 to 1872. La
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