The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02
The Example Of Virginia as View
ed froRm Republican stand.
Point.
4 State ,chose People Wisely accepted The
Situation, and ,cere Governed BIZ
Home Rulers.
From the n. o. Republican.
Virginia.


However we may have differed from the
constructions placed by the statesmen of
Virginia upon the common constitutions,
none can deny the open integrity of all her
political action, She is no conspirator.-
No secret organization can grow upon her
soil. Outspoken and candid. she has always
maintained in the field the doctrines adopt
ed IN the council. She furnished 60 the
Confederate war some of its most able lead
ers and some of its bloodiest battlefields.-
She laid down her arms when further re-
sistance would have been the suicide of her
helpless people. The federal General was
touched by the heroic defense, even of
cause which he condemned. He proposed
teams for the surrender of the last armed
force, which their commander accepted and
signed without the change of letter. The
federal General in command was not pres
ent at the formalities of surrender, nor was
the Confederate commander or his soldiers
subjected co any humiliating conditions
The parole given by Virginia has been kept.
Shorn of half her territory by the events of
war; deprived by emancipation of much
that had been regarded as property, Vir-
GINA has never degraded herself by COM
plant, nor sought in charity relief for mis-
fortune. She has addressed herself reso-
lutely TO the reparation of her Interests
Diminishing the ignis fatuus of federal poll
tics, she has sought to organize a domestic
government without regard TO the party
opinions of her public men. Her first step
Governor. He has proven just man, and
has not abused the power TepoSed in his
hands, The next result was to place i'm
legislative and judicial stations the best
men without regard TO their political ante
cedents The c0l0red people hare been con-
Uilaced that no mischief is nseditdted against
them and are coRtented The militia has been
fe-organlZed, and in compliment and con-
tidence towards the courageous men who
gave their parole at AppOmattoX, almost every
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soldier Society is thus reconstructed on
the basis of ancient principles applied to a
modern eXigency. Immigration. from the
Northern States and from England, is flow
ing in steadily. Foreign capital has just
completed magnificent railroad, stretch
ing from tide-water on the Chesapeake to
the Ohio river, connecting Cincinnati with
Norfolk across the best mountain grades
between the East and West, Another rail-
road unites the Chesapeake and the Missis-
ippi, and has, last year, transported between
three and four hundred thousand bales of
cotton on the voyage to New York and
Liverpool In legislation, Virginia has
pursued the same honest and candid policy. |
She has not increased hel public debt one
dollar since the war. She has refused to
fund her back interest. She says her cred |
itors knew what she was worth when they
trusted her. They know what she has lost. !
Her creditors must sym pathse with and aid |
her. She has refused in her poverty the |
i1OeG bCIAIt dppCdlS lOI lIdu-
chises. She has indicted mayors and legis- |
lators, and driven the herd of lobbyists
elsewhere. One of her laws may be well
copied elsewhere. Seeing that spectators
infested her Legislature with bills to secure
privileges for private advantage,
and that the consideration of these bills oc-
eupied the time of the Legislature at great
cost to the people, she exaeted the prepay
ment of one-half per cent. on the capital of
every joint stock company.
A an S0 6piynn
Bullock and his c0mpeers to pass over the
old State and alight on others more divided
and less sagacious. The example of Vir-
ginia has never been disgraced by her
Southern sisters. 1t has never been held
to follow her lead in war. 1t
can imply no humiliation to initiate her
candor. her integrity and her courage, when
a common adversely has befallen her. They
should look respectfully upon her, standing
like stone wall against the full artillery of
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