The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-28
MONDAY EVE'G, APRIL 2s, 1873.

WE want good men from the North to settle
as citizens here that they may assist us in up.
holding the great Conservative cause which is
so essential to the security of our state from the
political curse which is sUdeaden1ug and dam
ming to those states south of us that have been
engulfed in the black waters of Radicalsm.--
Enquirer.
We must confess to an admiration of a
high order for this most unique, liberal and
generous want on the part of The Enquirer.
The class of immigrants it wants from the.
North land inferentially from all other
quarters) is that every excellent class (of
course) which will settle here as citizens,
"dtat they may assist IN upholding The great
Conservative cause" IN Vaginiat The man
who does not come here for that purpose
is no ''citizen,o but simply a
carpet-bagger " of the first water. We
are glad to get these happy distinctions, in
the way of political nomenclature, through
our hair. 1t enlightens us almost as much
as poor Coleridge was enlightened by the
political surveillance placed over him at
Hollord, where he had been overheard to
utter some very dangerous and treasona-
BILE words against His Majesty's dominions,
in the opinion of the local quidnuncs. A
very dexterous detective had been selected
to shadow" the poor poet but fine meta
physician, and he reported to the Ministry,
with all the gravity imaginable, that there
was no question about his guilt, as he (the
detective) had heard him (Coleridge) repeat
edly speak of one Spy Nosy, who was no
doubt the grand head-centre of all the
reasonable plottngs in the kingdom!
This "Spy Nozy" was, of course, very
terrible parsonage in and about Holford.
The extent and character of his treason
was perfectly illimitable in the opinion of
the good people of that locality, and those
who were set upon him, pour Surveillance, to
dog his steps and eavesdrop upon his dark
aud mysterious sayings, exaggerated his
reasonable purposes beyond measure.
And pretty much so is it with the Vir-
ginia ''carpet-bagger." He is a most dia-
bolical person to begin with, since he does
not come here to uphold "the great Con-
scrvatiye cause" but really to pull it down
and commit all sorts of depredations upon
it, against the peace and quiet
OF the community in general, and
the success and happiness of the Conserva-
tive party in particular. He may be seen
and successfully Swallowed" at the depot
on the arrival of almost every train from
the North, and if he does not talk of the
terrible ",Spy Nozy," some other and
darker inuendoes may be gathered from
his suspicious looks and conversation SO
that, when lie retakes the train and disap-
pears from Sour midst" our local police
feels easier, and heavy burden is lifted
from the soul of the ''great and good par
ty" which rules our city.
For him (this ",Spy Nozy)" to stop here,
with carpet-bag in hand, is to threaten our
city with all sorts of "deadening and
damnng" influences, if not to engulf it in
the "black waters of Radicalismu outright.
1t almost makes us shudder, as with an
intermittent ague-ft, to think of the evils
that constantly escape us, but more con-
stantly threaten the Conservative party, in
the arrival and departure of these terrible
carpet-baggins "Spy Nozys," who go
about, like a certain other dark historic
character, ''seeking whom they may de-
your J"
But seriously. it must be immensely
gratifying to "Northern settlers with capi-
tal' TO know that they will have the warm
est recognition, if they only come here to
vote the Conservative ticket. 1t is party
which commends itself to to all men of
capital in Virginia pretty much in the same
way that Jimmy Barlow commended him
self to the same class of persons on Houns-
low Heath:
IN take your money, sir but not take youn
And, then, the party has SO distinguished
itself IN the financial line, commencing its
principles and measures to men of capital
in all sections of the country, especially
the Wall-street gamblers and stock Job
bers, who only take seventy-two millions
out OF the people of the state in the next
thirty-four years, by reason of the little
compound-interest swindle put upon Vir-
ginia taxpayers by this immaculate Conser-
vatiye party. Not Jimmy Barlow, nor all
the other Jeremy Diddlcrs in finance
ever equalled the Conservative party Of
this state in :" sordidly meddling with poll
tics'-the exclusive monopoly of which
little privilege the Conservatives of Virginia
desire to retain entirely to themselves.
This immaculate party originated in the
nice little game of putting three grand
swindles upon the state, two of which
would have been successfully accomplished
except for the Republican party, and the
third was pushed with such brazen
efTrontery that it fell as a still-born swim
die from its incipient start. We will name
these pet swindles in their order:
First. That of so funding the debt of the
old state Of Virginia that it should tie down
the industrial hand OF the new state for
more than a generation to come-one
feature alone of the swindIo taking not
less than seyenty-two millions out of its
industrial clutch, in the shape of interest
upon interest.