The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-05
4 Few >, Co = |, Il, 3 Reasons.

Rutthere are other Eeasons TOR opposing
fh, Repnpsscantickrt as,art- fren tise.tsaaae-,
date eGecteaethe auitsre efsths State which
would result srpmaits success. and IN adldi7
ton to THOSE we have already given @..3t!o
The whole tendency, Of this party Is to-
wards consolidation and Capitalization; to-
wards the obiiteratioa Of all State lines,
their rights and checks, and towards placing
the power Of tho nation III. the hands Of one
Federal Executive or of a few leaders OF the
party ; towards gathering all tbe retns into
one hand: which completed, the change to a
crown and hereditary monsrehy were zoe
easy for safety. This is b peril, real ana
awful. We do not wish to contribute to 1t,
nor to add the strength of Virginia to this
party, which is seeking TO absorb every
State and leave no voice to protest against
Its future acts. l ~ ,48l}&Tt sstes
1t is the desire of the Conservatives to re-
tain control of the States to develope her
wealth, physical an! Intellectual; to restore
her power and Influence, and to use that
power and Influence in her federal relations
for the good of the whole nation. She says
to her northern sisters, as TO the war and its
memories, " The past is mine, the futtlre is
yours snd mine" Az she WINS compelled TO
stay in the Union, it is no part of the princi-
piles or purposes Of the Conservatives Of VIZ
ginia to be marplots--to ponder mischief, OF
sit with their backs to the future, gazing and
brooding IN suIlen apathy over the past.
They mean to do as much good to, and get
as much good from, the Unicna as can be done
and got for and out Of it.
Virginia has her place, and great place, to
81! in the common country. It's welfare and il
berty is and must be her,weliarei and liberty"
Her children desire that she,may do her part
with glory and usefulness in the future com.
mensurate With her past renoWn--Wlth her
individual character as q State, TO this end
they seek to increase her wealth, her power,
and her influence, so that, by this influence
and by her great example and the precepts
Of her statesmen, she may Illustrate and I'M
press. rs she has always done, the great prlD,
ciples of right, of freedom, Of true republi'
can government, as conceived of by our
fathers, and established Tor, rather. recorded
BY them in the Federal Constitution.
To this end she must be u sovereign State,
not a Republican slave. Woe te- to any son
of hers who would tear of her plumed bel
met and leave her head defenceless; who
would wrcst The sword from her hand; who
would raise up from under her feet the ty'
rant from whom she has Just freed herself:
who would rivet again upon her glorious
limbs the letters which she has just shat
tered and scattered upon the ground.
Heretofore the sadness which shaded hel
features as her children were slain or were
led prisoner by the stranger and the enemy
was tempered by the stern and indignant
resolve to redeem their captivity; but ii
those children fail to defend her, or if they
deliver Der bound to that enemy, they will
be- forever haunted by the look Of hopeless
grief, which will settle like desolatiou OIL her
haygard face.
But we will not believe that she will be
stricken to the heart by those whom she has
nurtured from infancy. November will find
her dcstines still in the hands Of her own
sons. n> .r.r