The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-22


successfully interpose, there is an existing
active, pervasive po,cer reposed in tic
federal laws to meet and suppress all sucl
unlawful combinations.
The real facts, as presented ON the re.
spectivc state tickets, repel every such
wild and vicious inference. Both tickets
are headed By white men, gentlemen Of
attested worth, social position, and en-
endowed with mental capacity of high
order, and cultivated by assiduous study
and enlarged experience. There are white
men of culture, tried experience, and well
established social worth, who support the
Republican ticket, equal in every quality Of
head and heart, to any candidate, canvasser
or voter, of the so-called schite man s
ticket.
The past history of the acts and policy
OF the Democratic Conservative party in
Virginia demonstrates the utter fallacy of
this assertion. They, as a party, drew
such line in 1869, but speedily and.wisely
aoahdrew it, and put in nomination a
Douglas Democrat, native of New
York, and a personal friend and, in some
way, an official attache Of General b. Il.
Butler, of Massachusetts. Then it was,
that in the height of party rancor and
sectional hatred, q colored man was
placed on the state ticket. In that
canvass the Walker party employed
colored canvassers, courted colored votes
and succeeded. Nor is that all; in 1872, this
same Democratic-Co Conservative party of
Virginia procured the nomination Of Horace
Greeley for the express purpose of in
fluencing the colored voters of Virginia and
the south against General Grant. Failing
in this, and losing the electoral vote of the
state, they now fall back on tie desperate
experiment of The aoh,te mans party rs
the only means left to arouse the preiu
dices, fan the passions and rekindic the
slumbering fires Of q deadened, but not
extinguished civil strife. See their
ticket. Observe their papers. Hear
their orators. Look to the past,
and prepare for the futre, by at
once arousng the dormant energies
OF the true conservative sentiment of the
country, and directing it to the real, vital,
living, dangerous policy which underlies
this ieigned issue-under and by which
these very men who inaugurated the late
cival war, enforced secession, by s.firing
the southern heart '-again seek to en-
graft on the legislation of the country
the spirit Of the old Democratic party.
Having committed the objectionable sin o f
sacrificing every creed, immolating every
manly and patriotic sentiment, efac-
ing every noble record of the past,
insulting the memory and discarding
the teachings of Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe, Jackson ; ruthlessly obliterating and
scorniully treading under foot the true
theory Of federative system of govern
ment; surrendering all, everything to per-
sonal and party ambition, by worshiping
at the altar of Horace Greeley, this Demo-
cfatic-Conseryative party Of Virginia have
now the bold and audacious effrontery to
impugn the motives and arraign the policy
Of Virginians who act now, as they did in
1872, in manly support of the admins
tration, which they directly or indirectly
aided in re-electing last November.
2. In 1914, when that great tribune of
The people, HENRY CLAY, was a candi-
date for the presidency, this same Demo-
cratic party assailed every Wing voter
with the same stale, personal charges
which they now seek to revive, and charged
them, collectively and Individually, with
being traitors to the south, the enemies
Of their race" In 1860, when Stephen A.
Douglas, the patriot statesman of the
northwest, was urged by his friends as
lit and proper candidate for the presi-
iency, this same sectional Democracy
iefeated his nomination, broke up the.
charleston convention, adjourned to Balti-
more, where they then and there inaugu-
rated the civil war in which they lost all,
leaving. the misguided people in penury,
poverty, restitution and political slavery.
Having in the last six years adopted every
policy, re-enacted in terms, every law of
Congress, they now, in 1878, seek again to
lodge every practical issue, and to creep
nto power that they may again abuse
heir trust under the covert issue of the
chae mans party and as means
If intimidating the qchite men,
lenounce every one of them who
votes the Republican ticket "as q traitor
% his state and an enemy to his race"
Not only this. They have the boldness to
threaten to dra,o tue lne Of color, and
hereafter to prescribe every white man
who votes the Republican ticket as a com
oanion and associate of the negro. /, for
)ne, repel this base insinuation with the
stern rebuke of one who knows and feels
his social and professional position too
we'll to measure it by the vindictive ex-
oletives of selfconstituted clique
IF vicious, Greeley, Democratic partisans.
L, in my judgment, believe it to be to
the real, substantial interest of the agri-
cultural, manufacturing, industrial and
commercial interests of Virginia and Vu-
yi,.ians, that the state Republican ticket
should be elected, and an overwhelming
majority of the colored men of Virginia
Igqee piM me, shall /, because of this fact,
my convictions, abandon nv
policy, and betray The whole interests Of
The people and state, rather than co-ope-
rate with the colored people? What a start
ling proposition! Consider it.
An overwhelming majority of the colored
people of Virginia, who profess to be
Christians, are communicates in the Ban.
list and Methodist churches. Will the
chite preachers Of these most respectable
md justly influential denominations leave
heir pulpits, denounce their creed, renounce
heir faith, and dissolve their aotite congre-
cations on this account? Do they or their
lay members propose to associate and ofli-
late with the colored people because al lie
sacred table Of the Lord they commune
With them? If this same people, IN
my estimation, rightfully and earnestly
worship at the shrine of liberty, shall /,
because of that fact, refuse to worship at
.he same shrine, and in a fit of passion
desert my creed, and denounce my firm
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