The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-04
Opinion of The Press.
From the Norfolk Journal. ]

Everybody agrees here that the Radicals
at Lynchburg have nominated the strongest
ticket they could have possibly selected,
and that the Conservatives will have to
meet it with the strongest ticket that can
be devised and have campaign that will
arouse every white man in the state to the
impending danger and insure his presence
at the polls on the 4th Of November.
From the Pittsbnrg, Pa) CommerciaLI
Hon. G. p. Ramsdell, nominated on
the Republican state ticket of Virginia as a
candidate for acknowledgements, is ma
tive and former resident of Pennsylvania.
He represented Venango county in the
house of representatives once or twice, and
was assistant clerk IN the senate for sew
eral years. He is no carpet-bagger. When
he went to Virginia he went to stay. He
bought farm there, years ago, and has
been diligently cultivating it ever since. We
believe he has been several times chosen to
represent in the legislature the county in
which he lives and he certainly well deserves
the confidence his neighbors show in him.
He is an honest, talented, conscientious and
worthy man, and if elected, the people of
Virginia will have in him an officer who
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From the Philadelphia (Pa) Press.]
The political campaign in Virginia has
opened auspiciously on the Republican
side. The convention at Lynchburg nomi-
mated in Colonel Robert w. Hughes q rep
resentatiye of the best class of southern
ers, gentleman who, though he commit
ted the mistake Of yielding to the domi-
nant feeling of his section and taking part
in the rebellion, has since accepted the sit
uation in good faith and labored zealously
to bury the hatreds Of the past and
usher in an era of good feeling, not only
between the sections, which must
hereafter remain united, but also between
the two races which have been made
equal everywhere before the law.
Colonel Hughes speech before the
convention was one which the whole south
ern people would do well to study. 1t was
an earnest protest against the narrow spir-
it of sectionalism, and an eloquent plea for
nationality. Whatever reasons there may
have been for the outcry against carpet
baggers in the years Immediately succeeding
reconstruction, he said no longer existed.
The men who had made their homes among
them had become acclimated and domiclia-
ted, and could now plead the statute
of limitations. Moreover, he showed how
absurd it is for the south to stigma.
tize citizens coming from other sections
of the Union when the men of the south
are welcomed everywhere in the country
without discrimination. The remainder Of
the ticket seems to, be equally good. II
includes. for acknowledgements q. p,
Ramsdell, of Snrry county, and for attor.
ney- general, David Fultz, of Augusta
county. The platform reaffirms that o.
1872, and endorses the administration O
President Grant. Some additional resolu
tions were adopted. among them one
recommending the total abolition Of the tax
on tobacco as soon as it can be done with.
out detriment to the national finances also
one favoring the early completion O
the James River and Kanawha canal as 3
public work, and asking an appropriation
from Congress for that purpose, as well as
disapproving extra Compensation anc
the funding bill, and favoring such libe
raj legislation as should tend to encourage
investments of capital in mining and man
ufacturing operations, and general laws fol
incorporation, together with such libera
spirit OF our people as shall invite men O
enterprise to come and dwell among u.s.
Evidently the Virginia Republicans ar,
imbued with the same broad, progressive
and liberal spirit which has given the part,
such wonderful vitality everywhere in tn,
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