The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-31

to plead the five years. Statute Of liz itas
tons to any Indictment which may be
brought against them for vagrancy and,
as Virginians, we are bound TO
sustain the pea, for we ourselves
are the most universal carpet-bsgyrs
in the known world. Our best young
men have gone abroad since the war in
search Of employment, and by no people
have they been received with more gener-
GUS hospitality than by The people Of the
North, to whom they have borne letters
oil introduction from our much.abuscd car
pet-baggers at home. lf we look as far
north as Boston We shall find that an
audacious carpet-bagging Virginian there
has had himself elected to Congress from
the very precincts Of Faneul Hall.
| If we look into the halls Of
Congress we shall discovered that carpet
bagging Virginians have been sent there by
non -proscriptive constituencies from every
point of the compass of this broad Union.
| For the sake, therefore of the host Of car
pet-bagging Virginians who are scattered all
| over the world we must exercise some in
diligence towards the non-natives who have
cast in their fortunes with our good old
commonwealth, and take care not to make
Virginia, the only state in the Union and
only country in the world except China
and Japan, notably inhospitable and repel-
liant to strangers. -, ~.
THE NEGROES ALL REPUBLICANS.
But how shall | meet the other objec-
ton of our opponents. who complain that
the negroes flock in a mass to our party
and make up the majority of its member
ship ? Is the mere fact of humble station
a sufficient objection to the man in q land
Of free institutions /? Is it wealth and
eruaition alone that make the citizen here
Has it ceased to be true that "acorth makes
the man and want of it the fellow ?" Is
it what man has, or what he is, that
gives him title to consideration in this age
and country? Eiz1l1 ,zsgg8s.
Study the character of the laboring
population all over the world, and where
will laboring class anywhere be found so
exemplary in their conduct or so elevated
in their morale, all things considered, as
the negro population Of Virginia? When
apeople Of such approved character flock
in body toa political party is that an
argument against that party or for it?
I1iWhat would have become of all the
great reforms Of history if they could have
; been put down on account of the social
position of those who engaged in them !?
IL 10 tiic Iulc Will Ncep IciOIllS tiCy
are rejected by pampered aristocrats and
pedantic rabbis, and accepted ouly by the
humble in station &59s f@
HUMBLE STATION NO DIRECTION TO
THE MAN OR HIS CAUSE. ~
Christianity itself would have persisted
in its infancy if it had depended on the
learned and exalted for the acceptance OF
its simple tenets. Were its doctrines the
less righteous because their only supporters
! were fishermen, tent-makers, and unletter-
ed poor people? Was it an argument
against their purity or against the benef-
l cence Of the Christian dispensation that
: they were rejected by the educated and in
f1uential and accepted only by the humble
: and lowly? To the eye Of the Pharisee
and Saducee the follower of the Man o
a Sorrow were infinitely more despicable
than the humblest Of the men with us
. black or white. who advocate those doc
\ trines which sum up in restored Unior
a and loyal Virginia. f
= It is credit to our party that the poor,
humble, helpless members of society nestle
e to its side, and seek there that relief from
! misfortune and aid in distress which they
: are hopeless of obtaining from any othel
source. always feel sense of pride wher
, hear the Republican party denounced as
i negro party, because the denunciation i'm.
i plies that the down-trodden negro man look.
! up to it as his friend and benefactor. 1t il
9 theglory Of our party that the laboring class
! everywhere leans upon it, and upon it alone
f for support. That the poor cling to it in
i their weakness and the rich eschew it il
J. their power is pregnant argument to its
!. honor and their dishonor. a
!. Oh, what shame upon the Conservative
party of Virginia does the fact proclaim
q that it has driven the negroes in q body
g from its protection ; . that it is houndinl
: them into their chosen refuge with all tn
n venom of race-hatred and that it is as
a sailing their friends, because they are o.
n their friends, with all the engnery of pc
# litical and social prescription! e
!, 1t is not our fault that the wealthy an
q can party. If they make a aoT0ng stat
i of hings by refusing to Join a party 9
a right principles and aims, it does not Ii
= in their mouth to blame us because the
- are not of us.
! It sounds badly for the gentry Of Vir
4 ginia that, as body, by their own comics
i sion, they have abandoned to "carp et-bag
y gers and scalawagsn the cause of the ne
il gro laborer in this commonwealth. 1t
j an eternal shame that the southern whit
v people did not themselves procure thos
a. civil rights for the negro for which he ha
!. to be indebted to strangers, The epithets Q
Il our enemies fall harmless at the feet {
e. "scalawags and carpet-baggers, ;, who ar
to enobled by their holy mission Of politica
i. evangelism to the colored race. ...-i.,5 ~
Of The Republicans party has done nothin
~ to drive the quality of the state into TIL
se ungenerous policy. tits always prompt
q. honor men who come to its side. 1t is M
illiberal nor exclusive in any manner {
degree. Our doors are always wide ope
An to accessions, and our hearts as open as OF
doors. And this because our principle
at counsel to fraternity and liberation, an
n not because we feel in need of any create
ly 'respectability' in our membership tina
DC we already possess.
IS. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TRUE TO 1T
n - p FAITH.
u 4 So much for this objection of coxcom
y, politicians to the membership of our par t,
- And thus have discussed the issu'
y which have been forced into the canvass b
y our adversaries. There are Republican
l, e who would dodge these issues, and seek
~ 70 WORTHLESS success by the ignoble abnegatiol