The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-09
THE RESPONSIVE SOUTH
GOVERNOR TILDEN's WAR CLAIMS LETT
FURTHER ENDORSED.

THE RESPONSIVE SOUTH.
GOVERNOR TILDEN's WAR CLAIMS LETTER
FURTHER ENDORSED.
The following dispatch from Virginia has
been received BY Hon. A. s. Hewitt, chair
man Of the democratic national committee:
| "RICIIMoND, VA, Nov. 1.-The State
conservative democratic committee, now In
session, representing every conservative vote
IN Virginia, direct me to insure sou that the
conservative party OF the State thoroughly
approve and indorse Gov. Tilden's letter on
Southern war claims. Our people have &C
cepted in good fsith the results OF the war.
and ask nothing but honest government and
! fraternal reunion.
W. B. TALIAFERRO, Chairman
The national democratic committee have
received dispatches similar in tone to the
above from Jas. L. Kemper, Governor OF
Virginia; r. N. T. Hunter, treasurer; Ra-
leigh T. Daniel, attorney general; S. 81.
Boykia, register land Office; John W. Dan.
lei and F. ". N. Holiday, electors at large;
N. p. Meade, chairman executive commit
tee; E. NJ. Braxton, and from fifteen to
twenty other members Of the Virginia State
| government.
OF course what we may say upon the
above announcement is not expected to have
any effect in the election, as the result will
have been determined before this is placed
in type. We, however, cannot allow the as
ssrtion TO pass, or the statement Of Gen.
Taliaferro to 70 to the public without some
| criticism because we believe 1t to be de-
ception.
The declaration that ''snr people have &C.
cepted in good faith,thc results OF the war ,
is not borne out by the history Of the party
Gen. 'raliaferro represents.
The amendments proposed to the Consti-
tuition OF Virginia, and voted on last Tues
| day, .how eonclusiveIy that the Conserva-
tive party of Virginia do not accept the sit
uation, and do not abide BY the adjustment,
of the war; Those amendments are design-
ed to defeat the 18th amendment to the ma
tionat constitution. They are intended to
strike at the negro vote, and it viii be found,
If adopted, that they will be in operative
from the fact that they contravene the spirit,
II rot the letter Of the amendments to the
National Constitution.
As to GOV. Kemper, X. +. Daniel and r.
| NJ. r. Hunter. however well satisfied thew
may be with their own intentions, their pub
lie declarations do not fortify the dispatch.
said to have been sent from them. The
speeches OF Gov. Kemper, during the cam
paign that Terminated in his election, were
extreme, denouncing every native Virgin
ian as a Judas Iscariot' who supported the
| Constitution and laws Of his country in 70.
ting for the Republican candidates. Mr..
Daniel stultified himself in congratulatine
President Grant over the success OF his
police. in the triumph OF the True Republi-
can party headed by Gilbert C. Walker, and
then turning around and denouncing not
only the President but every Republican in
Virginia after his party had come in. power.
Mr.. Hunters letter in 1873, claiming that it
was constitutional to pay for the slaves
emancipated, and that the time would come
when it would be so regarded, shows that
he does not accept the situation,' nor
abide the results OF the war. .aays
In short, the whole history OF the Conser-
vatiye party has been an attack upon the &C.
complished results OF the war. They arc
sappins and mining at the Constitution Of
Virginia, so as to destroy all the good that
| is in it. There are now amendments pend
ing in the legislature, proposed and reported
by the Legislative committee on constitutions
al amendments, which strike from the Bill
Of Rights that clause recognizing the per-
petual union Of the States and deny the
right OF secession. These amendments re-
ported, it adopted, would leave the Consti-
tuition Of Virginia precisely where it was in
1860, with the right to secede not inhibited,
and the whole question Of the States Tela-
ton to the national government just as it
was understood by George Mason, and De.
clared in the Kentucky resolutions al 80.
1t is true these propositions were not acted
upon, because they were so glaring in their
revolutionary and reactionary tendencies,
that prudence, at least, forestalled them.
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