The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28
WEDNESDAY EvEY'G,, MAY g, 1873.

party with which we are still contending. The
Radical party which would if it could, have put
upon the people, of Virginia most proscriptive
provisions in their state constitution is the same
party.still STRUGGLING for asoendency in the gov
eminent of this commonwealtht.-Engtt
We have given but general outline of the por.
trait OF Virginia Radicalsm in the past-the
specialties as With hotir are scared upon the
memoriesof all. To-day this same party, mod
filed somewhat by defeat, but composed in the
mafn Of the same material, have the presump-
tlont1 appeal to the people of Virginia to com.
NIT the estinies of the state and their rights and
liberties to their keeping, Wing.
Our city contemporaries, like the three
kings of Cologne, follow each other in con-
secutlve order as political mag, and pound
away at a very brassy gong, eachfin their
order, and sometimes two at time, as if
to exorcize the :" fell spirit of Virginia
Radicalism," whose special mission it is to
scar the blasted memories of our beloved
"fallen Confederacy" as with hot iron,
and otherwise affiict the souls of the
righteous in spirit. which is very
grievous. So conspicuously is Virginia
Radicalism" engaged in this abhorrent
work, that it is impossible for us to read
the continuous plants of our contempora-
ries without feeling the pitiableness of their
condition, and cxclaiming, in an outburst
OF indignation not entirely our own, How
can these things be thus, and our benig-
nant mother earth not open her ponderous
jaws, and, with one mighty earthquake
gnlp, swallow the party with which we are
connected into the nav of relentless obliv-
ion!"
We feel the greatest conceivable sympa-
thy for our Conservative friends and jour
nalistic neighbors, while this horrid night
mare of alright is upon them and if we
only had little more of the milk OF
human sympathy in our breast, and
little softer spot in our heart, we
should leave our post of dshon-
orabla duty, go out into the swamps OF
Chicahominy, and weep ourself into a
pool. The trailing Narcissus would be no
where beside our pendent sorrow, and the
tears we should pour forth would be
such as ''only angels could weep"--in a
general swamp! There would be such
sympathy with our grief, in the sweet
bosom of nature, that even the unfeeling
gum-trees would weep in odoriferous
resins, and hang their boughs in
-"such dim sadness
As does not spare celestial visages"
But, really, is there no way by which
our neighbors can 'let up" on our sympa.
thetic nature, for one single twenty-four
hours? If we could only join the good
and over-veracious Lemuel CULVER, and
accompany him into the lugubrious land
ofLuggnagg, there to find out the unuttera-
BILE misery of human beings, receiving the
privilege of perpetual sorrow without the
fortitude to bear it, it might be a relief to
us. But to commit the destinies of Lugg-
nagg, and the rights and liberties of her
lugubrious people, to such a set of villain
GUS politicians as now afflict the Conserva-
tive party of Virginia-causing their soul
to rise up within them, and shake and
SILVER
" As aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze
is conditional status" for our neighbors
which none but human ogre would wish
to see relentlessly enforced.
Stand back, ye fell spirit of +" Virginia
Radicalism," and let the year Of Conserva-
tive jubilee mot jubilo) come in!