The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-26

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

AhS soui VI oVilCidl TNtIupcT lu pOutI
west Virginia is ended /; and the result
sound and fury, signifying nothing. Neve
in the whole history of sensational jour
nalism, has there been so elaborate al
attempt topalm off falsehood for fact upol
the public as there has been in regard to
the reception which the secession chic
has met with in that distant region.
| 1t would not do for these gross ani
ridiculous exaggerations to have been in.
dulged in with respect to those nearer
portions of the state, as to which other
means of information were open to the
public. The far Southwest was therefore
selected as the locality for the enthu-
siasm and furore which were to harbinger
a certain success for the heroes of the next
civil war.
General Kemper has spent month out
there /; and it has been o month lost. The
proof that his speeches have been bores.
and his tour failure, is furnished by the
Conservatives out there themselves, in their
loud clamor for more speakers and for
greater exertion on the part of
the party committees. There has been no
enthusiasm, no great gatherings of the peo-
pie. no awakening of the masses from their
indifference to the war party, elected by
the humdrum movements of General KEN
per. He has disappointed his party,
disappointed his audiences, incensed
his opponents, driven off doubtful men,
and weakened his own party in that region
OF the state. That is not merely the ver-
dict of Republicans out there, but it is the
judgment of all candid men in his own
party. We say this confi6 emily, and call
upon friend and foe to remember what we
say, when the people of Southwest Vir-
ginia come to cast their votes.
A Southwestern wag, who has collected |
all the sensational bulletins which havo
been sent by itinerant flunseys to the Rich
mon press, represents that the number Of
men of his old brigade whom Genera
Kemper is stated to have met with in that
one section Of country, on his triumphant
march, came up to 19G,703. BY
the time the illustrous hero shall have
gotten over the entire state, it is not doubt
ed that the muster roll Of this wonderful
command will reach half million of heroic
braves, prepared to do or die for their
redoubtable old commander.
They are men in buckram, and like
The ladies who gave ear to his eloqucnce,
and the $4,000 majority of Southwestern
voters who are to make him governor,
ire part of that great host which in the
of 1872 were to have given
Virginia to Horace Greeley by 10000
We say to the Conservative press that
7our majorities are too far off. You know
hat you have mono of them near you.
You know that if they have no existence
n the Valley and Southwest, they are not
o be found elsewhere at all. You know
hat your case is hopeless, unless it il I
o be retrieved by the region in which
ieneral Kemper has wasted a whole
Month. And your brag and blustcr
oncerning the Southwest is like the boys
thistle while passing through the grave
ard, an expedient to keep your courage
p.
Our time is now to come in the South !
rest, and we shall teach the Conservatives
ow to carry for the Republican cause the
lst stronghold which they had left in Vir- !
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