The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-17
A SYNOPSIS OF MAJOR n. M. CAR
! TIERS SPEECH AT RAPPAHANNOCK
COURT, OCTOBEIe II, 1873. 80

Rappahannock for the generous support
which he had received at their hands
when, during the last year Of the war and
while still in the field, he was candidate
for the state senate, brought out by the
people of the district. He said he was before
them now for the vindication of the princi-
piles of the great Republican party, not the
Republican party of the state Of Virginia,
but the Republican party of the Union, and
also to vindcate himself and those asso-
ciated with him from the aspersions which
had been cast either directly or indirectly
upon their motives, character and aims. e
He expressed his sincere belief in the
soundness and justice of those principles,
upon which he said were based not only
the welfare and prosperity, but the per-
petuity of our government. Because they
contemplated progress and development
and contained within them none Of the
seeds of disunion and dissolution, being
b based upon equal rights to all under the
constitution and laws. and acknowledging
paramount obedience thereto on the part
of every citizen Of whatever party, name or
d. distinction. And here he elaborated his
views, closing this portion of his address
with the declaration that any man, by
whatever party pame he may be called,
and civil rights thus secured and guaran-
teed to him, was in the sight Of God q
moral pe,Juwer.
He referred to the arrogant assumption,
on the part of the Conservative leaders, of all
the intelligence and responsibility and ostra-l
cism of all who choose to differ with them,
and denounced their course, contrasting it
with the course pursued by the Republi.
cans. }'tg Cur tt% H
And also to the course pursued by the
Conservatives of appealing to the passions
and prejudices instead of the reason of the
people, and demonstrated the danger and
criminality of such course -
He then refuted the charges against the
Republican party: aEalrs
|. Their favoring negro supremacy or
negro social equality, which he denounced
as miserable SANDER, unsustained by
the slightest evidence, and said he believed
there was not an intelligent Republican in
the state, either white or colored, who
ever dreamed of such thing. aIA
,, 2. The misrule, &C., of the Republican
party in the Southern states. He clearly
demonstrated that, even admitting there
had been, to some extent, bad govern
ment in those states, which facts and fig
ures he presented showed were greatly ex-
aggerated, yet the native..white people Of
those states were responsible therefore.
Having Indignantly and obstinate'y rejected
the reconstruction measures, and refusing
to take part in the formation of their state
governments, necessarily threw the control
of these states into the hands of inexpe-i
rienced negroes and unprincipled adventu-
rers.
He then contrasted the condition of Vir-.
vio1a I1p6nr Gopc opyo r,1o ~ {hooa cto FAC
north and northwest, under Republican
krule, showing their unparalleled prosperity
and advancement, and the depressed and
Impoverished condition of Virginia. The
great and increasing wealth of these
states, as evidenced by the value of proper,
ty, real and personal, and the insignificant
value, comparatively, of that Of Virginia.
Here he produced evidence on all these
points from the census reports. XIV
He then adverted to the Conservative
party, showing its inconsistency, as a par
ty, as evidenced by the number of varying
platforms of principles. Its desertion of
all its principles, whenever they found they
"would not pay" Here he dwelt upon
its course in the last presidential election,
as well as every state election since the
adoption of the state constitution.
lie illustrated its incompetency in man
aging the affairs of the state of Virginia,
and challenged any Of its supporters
to designate a single measure of relief to
the people or benefit to the state adopted
4 by that party since they have had control.
He charged it as responsible for the
funding-bil, by which the people are made
to pay annually from 500, 600 to $500, 900
more in taxes than they would if
the interest under that bill had not been
compounded, and thus made an interest
bearing debt.
rl lie charged that it is proscriptive
party, keeping out immigration &c.,
and opposed in effect to the development
of the state. dA-httE sE II. 5000
lis sectional and therein dangerous =
cherishing those principles and sentiments
which brought on our late unhappy war
and, as ex-President Davis says he hopes,
may. be nourished and kept alive in our
children 80 that, when opportunity occurs,
they may yet triumph. q
Major Carter then took up the platform
ofthe Republican party and proceeded to en-
force its principles, and showed that, rest
ing as they did upon the faithful observance
of the constitution and laws, and recogniz1
ing the equal rights, political and civil, of
all citizens, as guaranteed therein, and
with determination to observe faithfully
the same, the perpetuity Of the government
was secured by and through the success of
these principles. 1t fayors the development
and improvement of the state in all her in
tereSts. Ua..# 4. ittiijllE
1t is opposed to prescription, and invites
by its liberal and beneGcient policy the
capital, the industry, the intelligence and
the enterprise of every state and of every
land. LH4tALt tEfE '"t
i, yr 1t ignores the senseless cry of "Virginia
p farVirgnans," and invitesimmgraton from
every quarter, in order to- build up her
waste places and unlock the great casket
3D. of Virginia's boundless but undeveloped
wealth. '1-i4R
a Then, and not till then, may we expect
Virginia to be restored to her historic glory
and renown, and placed in the political
armament where she once shone as the
brightest star in the great constellation o
American states. up.t la.gat
The Lynchburg Press enlightens The
public by publishing a very plaintive ant
pleading appeal from Mr.. NJ. b. Meade
chairman Of the Conservative executive
committee, for funds. lie says but two