The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-03

: ,stitution; the people were divided off il
/ lens, nitles and hundreds all over the sta
ana captains o. tens, fftles and hundre
Y appointed to practice thorou
espionage, and to drill and conscript q
people INTO the service Of this party.
s.a.e ticket was nominated to Canvass Il
state m thorough manner, and evel
means taken and .arhtices employed to i
] sure lle rejection OF the constitution, AT
sne prevention OF the admission Of Il
state unaer 1t. But we all know Il
result result before the election came on
I9oy lnls party found that the pc,
pe w1uia not go with them. The
,ouia slas, the people intended to ratil
,ie oons.'eu'ion by an overwhelming vot,
anu y REJECT The candidates Of this, qchii
to.Ns 2,qiay' 50 these politicians change
I,ieir5 ancties. From being violent ant
hepuohcans they Suddenly became mos
eAcelIent true Republicans. They go
the new York Tribune and Times to en-
aorse them as such, induced the Presiden
toIcountenailee their movement as sin
cere one, hauled down their sectional can
uidates, put aside their sectional platform
put up carpet-bagger candidate for gov
ernor, and claimed to be q better Uniol
party than the Union party itself. s. n,
l elThenrwhole proceeding showed IL ans
showed cpnclusively that they had 9liscnv
cred that The people of the stafe were
national in their sentiments. and ; WOW
determined to get back info tba IIn;ar
which Washington, Madison and .Iatfarso,,
had founded for them and their nostsr;tn
1t had been claimed by the nol;i;c;ons NJ
l had '',-S
change front and to abandon their Whit
mans, anti-U Union platform and Candidates
that this resort to the 'struev Republican
Walker movement was trick and cunninc
piece of deception intended to 'deee;ve
General Grant, congress and the north into
letting them back into the Union. Colonel
Hughes secuted this imputation. 90 far 40 +
applied to the people Of virginia Ha g.. so; i
that he scorned the. task of nrov;nr that
the people were honest and sincere IN the
vote which they. cave ia Jnly. 1890 Rut
he was forced to admit that the politicians
of the white mans party who had thus
suddenly and completely chanred their
tactics, did practice detention and fraud
In the vote given on that OCCASION tho
people had manifested thoir doto,,, ~
to re-enter the Union bv n maturity nf
21O, 585 to {. 136.
The sectional politicians. he said wara
estopped from pleading that this was Dis
honest vote by the magnitude of The ma
iority, and bv the solemn nlellpes and
which Governor Walker and
the legislative committee. headed hv
Speaker Zeph Turner. had made to con.
gress III December. 1869. -
The determination of the people of Vir-
ginia TO enter the Union with nat;ona,
and to abandon The Sectional
politics which for so many vea,s had in.
Volyed them in loss and ruin. WINS not man
tested merely by implication. II e
positively proven by the words of the con-
'titution which they ratified by over.
vote. The second section of the
Bill Of Rights Of that instrument declares
sThat this state shall ever remain a
member of the United States Of America.
md that the people thereof are mart Of the
American nation. and that ali attemnts
rom whatever source or upon whatever
,retext, to dissolve said Union. or to sever |
aid nation, are unauthorized and onoht to
70 resisted with the whole power nf the
tate.n ,.,rfr y, n. -
Observe, said Colonel Hughes. the use
nd repetition of the word aation. which I
hus appeared for the first time in the
ffcial vocabulary of this commonwealth.
;ould there have been a more thoronob
equalization of the old state-riphts tenets
+ politics and complete accentance IF
ational doctrines than is accomplished n
his clause? Colonel Hughes said fiat IN
he interest of the slave institution Of V;r-
mia and the south he had been nm earnest
tate-rights man until slavery had fallen
nd expired on the Sd of Anil 1855 in
he flames of Richmond. Twas cnstom.ru
) commend him for his LOYALTY fo thoca
octrines. With the fall of Richmond the
hole system of extreme state-riphts nol;-
cs, invented for the protection Of slavery
ad become useless, and he had determined
o longer to adhere to creed which
ad become obsolete. and which had
rOved to be unspeakably nernicious
/ practice. For this course IL was the
abit of his enemies TO prononnce him an
postate and traitor to his former nrinc;-
Ies But it was comforting to him to
fleet that he was not without good COM
any in this apostacy to pernicions nrinci-
les for the public good. There had been
1854 other Virginia men who had
postatized with him and. even if he had
Of before apostatlzed. he would have becn
ound now to do SO on the good nrincinle
{ the old Democrats, that it was every
ldividual's duty to boau TO The qciU of The
ajoraty, and to cease from a factious al,
erence to q system Of sectional politics