The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-09-18
NEW VIRGINIA,

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| without interruption, to be prosecuted
with vigor and earnestness by the two con
testing parties. The respective candidates
for Governor are holding meetings at the
prominent places, and discussing with al
their ability the issues Of the canvass, ano
appealing to the people for their votes,
From all the indications our Repub lican
friends are making gallant canvass. with
every prospect Of success. It is true they
prejudice, disloyalty, aud hatred that have
been SO vigorously arrayed against them
Appeals are made to Virginians to recolec'
old Virginia. The most unrelenting war.
fare is made by the press and on the stump
against any attempt to develop the resources
OF the State, any spirit of progress. The
men who are leading the conservative can.
vass seem to have in view but one object
the preservation Of Old Virginia, with her
fossil ideas, her decrepit spirit of improve
ment, her liberalism, her haired, her love
for the rebellion, in fact everything that the
State should forget and abandon. M
No campaign since the war has developed
so malignant spirit of falsome adulation of
the rebellion, and such offensive praise of the
participants in that crime We can not
think shat the people of Virginia. who look
forward to the commercial prosperity of that
State, to the future development of the
great mineral resources, to- the prosperity
that is within their control, can by their
votes support this attempt to indorse men
and ideas that are in opposition to the ad-
yancement and Improvement of all that is to
make Virginia in the future a populous and
aourishing Common ealth. In 40 State in
the Union would the appeals now being
made in Virginia by the conservative candi-
dates meet either encouragement or approval
That they are boldly urged and proclaimed
there by any respectable class of citizens in
dicates how misguided political zeal is will
ing to sacrifice interest vital to Che prosperi-
ty Of the State. It is not old Virginia that
is wanted. 1t is new Virginia regenerated
and disenthralled, alive to- the commercial
interests of their great State, ready to join
in the plans to develop the wealth that has
lain dormant for years. No Southern State
has fsirer opportunity to become rich,
prosperous, and populous than Virginia but
to secure this there must be emigration, there
must be inducement to labor and capital to
seek location within her borders. And
this can never be secured by the unwise and
suicidal policy now being pursued. Howev-
er pleasant it might be for some fossilated
politicians or prejudiced citizens to cling to
the decisions and follles Of the rebellion to
live in the vain and nonsensical glorifcation
of the past, such men or such ideas will ruin
all the future prospects Of Virginia. What
ever the old men who belong to the genera
ton that is passing away may wish, it is due
the young men of Virginia who are looking
forward to years Of prosperity, that these
vicious ideas and ruinous doctrines should be
at once and forever crushed.
It is not old Virginia that is wanted with
her hatred of labor, her belief in caste, her
fidelity to slavery, and her treachery to the
Union; but new Virginia, relieved of her
burdens, emancipated from her oppressors,
and fairly started in the race to become one
of the leading States 10 the Union.
We earnestly appeal to the young men of
Virginia to stand by the side of the men Of
progress, who believe in the present and the
future, and not in the forgotten past, and who
want to make for Virginia, by canals, by
railroads, and the development Of her niue
raj resources and by the encouragement of
free labor and immigration, destiny and
name equal to any State in the Union 1t
can never be done until there is manhood and
Independence enough to openly rebuke the
present attempt to gain political control of
the State upon the basis Of appeals sow being
made by the Conservative candidates -
Young and old men Of Virginia, give US new
Virginia. Washington Chronicle ~
lin publishing the above, we do not en-
dorse some Of the expressions in it. The
general idea presented as to the policy Of
Virginia. is what we find in It to approve ]