National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-10-25

buChcsc Dtutts
THE Lynchburg Republican, abiding to the
arrangements being made In this city for
sending voters home to vote at reduced rates
of fare; says:
'These fellows vote regularly in the District,
and then when an election Is held In this state
they regularly put In an appearance
This Is o willful falsehood. The Republican
knows very well that the Government cm-
ployees In this District have always retained
their residence in Virginia, and that they
cannot do so II they vote In this District.
Let us recall TO the mind Of that journal the
demand made by the rebels OF Virginia upon
all the Government employees from that
State, then resident in Washington, to re-
pair to their Virginia homes at once, upon
the adoption Of the ordinance Of scccs-
sion in 1861. upon pain OF social and political
ostracism. II the State had right to make
this demand then, have not her sorAhc right
to vote there now
OLD MAN HUNTER, or VIRGINIA, in his
address before the Shenandoah Valley Agri-
cultural Society, proposed that the Govern
ment shall pay for the slaves freed by the
emancipation proclamation OF President Lin
coin. Referring to the Hampton Roads con-
ference, Mr.. Hunter declares his willingness
TO accept, on behalf OF the entire South, the
800, 900, 900 offered by Mr.. Lincoln as n
compromise, on which II was proposed that
the sectional war should be ended. The
Democratic press Of Virginia has been COM
PEELED TO denouncc him and to repudiate his
utterance. The Alexandria iSAtinel for In
stance, declare. that Hunter Is not leader
OF the party, and the Richmond Dipdtch |
Is Of the opinion that he made blunder."
Perhaps Hunter was drunk when he made |
the "blundcr," or perhaps he was ZEN
thused," Us JEFF. Davis was when he deiy-
cred his reasonable speech before the South
en Historical Society at the Montgomery
White sulphur Springs. However this may
I've, Il seems to be the fate Of the sham-C on
-eryatlycs to be subjected TO the dlscom-
hturo of exposures OF this kind. In other
words, the Headers" Of the party have no
discretion, and invariably disclose the real
animus Of their organization whenever they
allude to the issues which the Northern pep
pie believe were settled by the results Of the
war, The Chicago Inter Ocean, critlclsing |
Mr.. Hunter, says that "he does not scem to |
reflect that Mr.. Lincoln's proposition was
probably not Intended to he held open ten |
years; nor docs he consider that the sum
named is mere bngatslic compared to tho
expenses OF the war after the proposition
was Indignantly rejected at Hampton Roads
But while the people will undoubtedly laugh
ut Mr. Hunter and his propositions, it has
nevertheless serious aspect, Tho lost
cause will never he quite lost so long as the |
Democratic party maintains an existence,
and the Democratic party will never die 70
long as there Is the fllntest hope Of paftcl. |
patlng in u job of the magnitude Of that ,ug.
gested by Mr.. Hunter, The tcnacIly with |
which the old slayeocracy cling to the hope |
Of proGting by traffic In human beings is cx-
actly paralleled by the deathlIkc grip with
which the Democracy hold TO the decayed
Organization which was so long the synonym
of public slandcr.'