The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-11
GENERAL wrsE,s INDICTMENT OF
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

the same reasons chose leading him to
oppose, in part, the Republican party
cannot and will not unite with the Conser.
vative party. cannot dissent from the
Republicans consistently without dissenting
from the Conservatives. Their leaders
have endorsed and sanctioned every iden-
teal wrong which they charge to have been
perpetrated by the blacklist Republicans,
in the BLACKLIST sense. Their plea is that
they were compelled to submit. Grant it |;
but they were not compelled to endorse.
Their want Of good faith and of self-respcct
has betrayed their trusts so far as to pass
all bounds of simple submission, SO for as
to dishonor themselves and the Con-
federate cause, and so far as to
degrade their constituents and to de-
press our people. They have wantonly
done what was unnecessary and uncalled-
for in manifesting servile compliance with
the will of tyranny, in order to win its
forbearance; and they have thereby excl-
ted even its contempt and caused an aggra-
walton of its wrongs. They affected to
to loathe the "Black Book" and thew
have scowled upo1 us with a yisage more
hideous, and scourged us with lash
more decorating even than its own. By
passing the acts of the Virginia legislature.
re-enacting the acts Of congress to disfran-
chiseRobert E. Lee and bis unforsworn Con-
federates for treason, until tyrants, W no
arbitrarily imposed disabilities, should
graciously remove them they superser-
viceably and supererogatorily became par
takers in the crime of branding and
Furnishing comrades who were never ar
raigned and never tried for alleged Of
fences under ex-post-facto laws. They
not only submitted to the 18th Amendment
but endorsed ITS oppression, and enforced
its provisions by test oaths. They endorsed
reconstruction in every form, which de-
molished all old guards of civil rights, and
assented to new ones, which they them
selves affected to despise. BY the erro-
neous decisions Of their chosen Judges on
questions of political law, they have, in the
unmanly fear of halters, set up the abso-
Lutte laws Of war over the supreme laws of
internal sovereignty. By stay laws and
exemption laws, by laws of judicial and
forced sales, and laws against the re-
covery of just debts by legal process
and execution, they have turned
lawful thrift away from its levers of pro-
ductive industry and enterprise and given
up creditors to be the prey of antagonism,
They have favored the phantoms of Jeremy
Bentham, and delivered up the distressed
farming interests of the state to O shaving
ring of Soulless Shylocks and have con-
temned the expressed will of the people as
to usury. They have wasted the legislative
sessions in corrupt and demoralizing strug-
giles OF railroad corporations for rival mono
poles. They have driven all credit away
from honest debtors by tempting all dis
honest ones to 60 into bankruptcy and
to come out of it with wealth as well
as certificates in their pockets. They
have disparaged and dishonorcd state credit,
by makidg no adequate provisions for paw
ment of the public debt, and have failed to
pay portion of its interest in arrear, or to
provide for its accruing interest, leaving the
state bonds to the sporting speculation of
brokers, depreciating them more and more
daily and bringing tho invested funds ofth
poor and helpless to naught. They have
left the people to groan under an excessive
burthen of taxes, whilst insurance compa-
MES have been left undisturbed in the mo-
nop0ly of premiums and profits of policies
on lives and property which the state is
bound to protect. They have constituted
nothing but rings Of associated wealth until
mammon has, in the main. subsidized the
newspaper press to pander to its power and
purposes TO monopolize the profits of trans
portation, and tho right of using the COM
mon highways to the detriment Of our own
cities, towns, and country localities. They
are in the hands of rings which defy the
scrutiny of public investigation, and
which openly claim the right Of monopoly
and of lobbying in its maintenance and de-
fence. They affect to despise and dread
the negro, and yet have canvassed and cleo.
tioneered and treated with him, hail fell
lows well met at bar-rooms and restaurants
and lager beer saloons, and in hacks or on
horseback have ridden and tied with him.
and tempted him with brides, until the
''colored gentlemen" have been disguised
by their inordinate greed for office and the
spoils. And at the same time, there is rea-
son to believe that their present design is to
declare acar of rdces-of white men against
black men forgetting their own statute of
February 9th, 1856, that to incite the
colored population Of the state to make
instruction, by acts of violence and war
against the white population, or to unite
the white population of the state to make
insurrection, by acts of violence and war,
against the colored population, shall,
whether such instruction be made or not,
be punished by confinement in the peniten-
tiary for not less than five nor more
than ten years. Besides this one, they
have avowed no common principles Of
action to govern even themselves, or to test
their truth and sincerity. They cannot
agree upon any platform which can COM
bine these component elements of State
rights and Federalism, of Know Nothings
and Nullifers, Of Submisslonists and
unsubdued Rebels, of Democrats and
Old Tine Wings, who hate Democrats
worse than they do carpet-baggers or
scalawags and Black Republicans. After
endorsing every odious policy or principle Of
black Republicanism, the last convention
they held declared that they had but one
principle, and that was to destroy the par
ty whose measures they had endorsed and
approved. They were originally formed
temporarily, to accomplish that end;
but now they are so organized and welded
together by King Caucus they imagine that
men who have principles and who dare
maintain them, can't well combine 10 crush
them as a greater evil than the acorst and
blacklist aphieh they themselves soould crush.
They have out-scallawagged the SCALA
wager, and out-carpet-bagged the carpet
Dagger. and yet they raise up their hands
in holy horror at any Democrat, or unfore.
sworn rebel, or any man uncommitted to
any Black Republican wrongs. who at
tempts by honest and independent action
to destroy both them and their sslesser
evils.u Lesser evilso they prefer, and
therefore in their evil hours and latter too.
they eliminated in the grossly unprincipled