National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-26
A pRopBESY FULFTLIED

when the 'GentlemanS Party In VIZ
ginia nominated James L. Kemper, whom
they subsequently elected to be Governor
of the State, resolution was embodied in
their platform announcing in specious terms
that the heightened sham Conservatives had
no hostility to President Grant, but, on the
contrary, rather admired his administration.
We announced at the time our opinion that
it was deceptive bait thrown out to catch
such Grant-Democrats as Colonel Mosby,
and denounced it as a piece of political
treachery. We prophecied that in the event
of Conservative success the spirit Of the
resolution would be violated and its i'm
piled pledges ignored. We did this because
we honestly believed the leaders of the
party to be capable Of any degrada-
ton in the way of political false
hood and yillany. How far oul
predictions have been realized may be
learned from the fact that Colonel Mosby
has already been placed under the ban Of
the Conservative State Central Committee,
and that his aspirations to become candi-
date for Congress, regardless of party nomi-
nations, have been visited even with the
disapprobation of Governor Kemper him
self. Now, Mosby has not changed one
jot or title since his false friends tickled
him with their meaningless praise of the
President. He is as much of "Grant
man." whatever that may be, as ever
but the necessity for his influence in the
coming election is not as apparent as it was
in the last State campaign. He has, conse-
quently, been thrown aside, left to shift for
himself, and suffers under the stigma of
having failed "to bring the Conservative
party to Grant,"
1t is said that he has in his possession, OF
under his control, certain letters or CORE
spondence with Gov. Kemper, in which
the latter pledges himself to sustain Grant,
by fifty thousand Confederate soldiers. -
Rumors regarding this fact have been in
circulation for some time, and having
reached the public through tina columns of
the Virginia press, the Richmond Wing
feels called upon to denounce the statement
as false. As the Wing is the ''organ" of
Gov. Kemper, it is fair to presume that its
assertion was inspired by him. But the
Wing adds in behalf of the Governor ''that
he has no aspiration to be associated
with President Grant upon Presidential
ticket; that he is thoroughly in accord
with the Conservative party that elected
him, and that if at home he would take
" the stump against Colonel Mosby or any
independent candidate that might oppose
the regular nominee of the n----0fraptTe
"party," &c. -
WaIz-0t a1ude to this development in
the spirit of self lorifcation, although it
comes to us now as prophesy fulfilled,
and that too, q prophesY of our own; but
we give it publicity for the purpose of sd-
vising Col. Mosby and his friends that no
halfway policy-no national Republican
ism and State Conservatism-will ever be
accepted by the leaders of the sham Con-
servatives of Virginia as satisfactory. They
demand full and unqualified submission to
their arbitrary and selfish dictates, and
they dictate only with the object in view
of securing the advancement of those
theories which are directly opposed to
sound Republican principles. This. is not
the first time we have offered this advice, and
We repeat itnow, knowing that it will carry
greater weight with 1t on account Of the re-
Gently developed treachery to Which we
have alluded. Let Col Mosby take sdvan-
tage of the opportunity, and make use of our
columns, if he desires to do SO, to set him.
self right to tell the entire tale of the ras-
cally duplicity of which he has been the
victim and to square accounts with the des-
picable traitors who have deceived him.