The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-14


those principles as their own; declarin
them to be s'esscntial to just government,
and calling upon the governments of th
country, national and state, to act upon th
great prin siples of
EQUAL LAWS, AND EQUAL, CIvI
RIGHTS FOR ALL.
Not only did the Conservative party Q
Virginia thus endorse and accept the prin
ciples for adherng to which they nov
abuse the Republican party, but
THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA DID so
in their votes both for Grant and Greele,
in 1872, and in their vote given in 1855
upon the present state constitution. By
the vote of the people of Virginia the
present constitution is our organic law
The first article of that instrument in
several sections declares as follows:
SEC. A. ALL MEN ARE BY NATURE
EQUALLY FREE AND INDEPENDENT
ALL POWER is VESTED IN, AND DE
RIVED FROM THE PEOPLE.
Sec. G. No MAN OR SET OF MEN ARE
ENTITLED TO EXCLUSIVE OR sEPA.
RATE EMOLUMENTS, OR PRIVILEGES
BUT IN CONSIDERATION OF PUBLIC
SERVICES.
Sec. s. ALL ELECTIONS OUGHT TO
BE FREE, AND ALL MEN HAVING sUF-
FICIENT EVIDENCE OF PERMANENT
INTEREST IN, AND ATTACHMENT To,
THE COMMUNITY HAVE THE RIGHT OF
SUFFRAGE.
SEC. 10. SLAVERY SHALL NOT Ex-
IsT IN THIS STATE. E
Sec. 20. ALL CITIZENS OF THE STATE
ARE HEREBY DECLARED TO POSSESS
EQUAL CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
AND PUBLIC PRIVILEGES.
These provisions are but another form
OF expressing the creed Of the Republican
party, as embodied in the reconstruction
acts OF Congress-. and in the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth. and Fifteenth amendments of
the national constitution, which were &C.
cepted and endorsed by the Virginia Con-
servatives in 1869 and 1872, and by the
Democratic party of the whole country in
1877. They were also solemnly accepted
and endorsed by the whole body Of the
people OF Virginia in their vote upon the
state constitution, containing them as
above set forth. given in July, 1869. The
vote which the Virginia people gave on that
constitution was two hundred and ten
thousand five hundred and eighty-fve for,
and only nine thousand one hundred and
thirty-six against, that instrument. Yes,
the whole body of the people of Virginia,
by a.vote almost unprecedented ia popular
elections, have thus accepted and adopted
the identical principles of the Republican
party, on which we now stand, on which
we are now fighting the Conservative party,
and which we now faithfully and bravely
advocate, just as We have done for the last
six years.
They have all, peoples and politics, thus
accepted and endorsed these principles,
because they are right, and because they
will sooner or later beat down and destroy
any party or people who array themselves
against them. 1t is because of its fearless.
faithful advocacy of these prin-
ciples that
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY HAS BECOME
THE GREATEST PARTY THAT EVER
EXISTED IN THIS OR ANY OTHER
COUNTRY OF FREEMEN
greatest in its numbers, in its intelli-
gence, its wealth, its education, its prestige,
its patriotism, and its character and renown,
that the sun ever shone upon. It has
saved this Union. It has rescued the
south from suicide by its own hand. 1t has
this government upon the
revered, just, golden principles of 1776. 1t
has compelled its political adversaries to
drop down humbly upon their knees and do
loyal obeisance to these principles. 1t has
carried the most hotly contested election
which ever occurred in this country, by
nearly four millions of votes, out Of less
than forty millions of population. 1t con-
trols this country in every department of
The national government, and in nearly
of the state governments Of
the Union. And it has grown thus strong
from the same reason that this nation has
grown to its great might, dimensions, and
that reason being that
IT'S PRINCIPLES ARE RIGHT,
being the self same principles on which
The nation and its government have been
and have prospered. Is there
any man in this audience ashamed to be-
long to the Republican party? l pity his
ignorance. Is there any man afraid to
belong to this great party? As free-born
Virginia man am ashamed of his coward
ice.
Thus armed as it is, with right princi-
pies in just cause,
TT Is IMPoSSIBLE THAT THE ENEMIES
OF THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY CAN
AssAIL 1T, EXCEPT WITH FALSE
HOOD.
The number of falsehoods which have
been employed against it in this canvass is
Most of them, however, are
100 trivial and contemplate to deserve mo-
lice. Our great party regards them as lit
lie as the Monitor in Hampton Roads in
1862 would have regarded volleys of mus
shot discharged from toy guns
let off by children in the Capitol Square at
Richmond.
A few of them rise to the dignity of cam
paign dialectics. Because the Republican
party advocates the great principles oflegal
equality, and of universal suffrage, which
have been put by the votes of the people
nto our state constitution, and into the
national constitution, our enemies charge
Is with the purpose of enforcing what they
,all social equality and social Intercourse, by
aw. And there are some of them so silly
IS to believe the gabble of newspapers
lbout my alleged refusal to answer ques-
ion put by General Kemper at Warren
on, to the effect, that if
A CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
we're passed enforcing the principle of mixed
schools and mixed everything else, would
,eto it. Expecting to be Governor of Vir.
,inia, and being the candidate of the