National Republican., 1876-02-25

paper is published hos q 'defiued resi-
deoce at Burkeville, and if he be ignorant
Of the fact that Mr.. Sto we'll represented
the ''Stsunton district in the late confer
ence of Virginia Republicans at Richmond"
as PROXY. he exhibits his incapacity as a
newspaper man, or, on the other hand, he
is guilty of gross perversion of facts. that
render his paper unworthy of countenance
in a respectable community.
The judicious deprecations of the Fred.
ericksburg Star at the action of the CON-
mit,ee no doubt afforded the saffron
tued" individual of the Inder a coveted
opportunity to relieve himself of the sur
plus bile indicated in his facial extremity
by the use Of such choice epithets as ''crea.
ture," lying partisan" 'tinfamy," &C., at
the expense, as he doubtless deemed it, of
one who is his mental and moral superior,
albeit Republican, and whom he and his
party have been unable to supplant in Con-
gress, even through the medium ofa stuffed
ballot. The "verdancy" of the Indcz
has, however, in the concluding paragraphs
of the article we havo quoted, furnished
the public with the motives which i'm
PEELED this legislative committee in the
commission Of their dlscourteous act.
Suppose that Stowell, being invited, had
"opened with TRADE that immigration
"would never come into Virginia so long
Gas the Kuklux. White-Liners, lynch
claw, rebel jurics and other like institu-
"tions were in vogueS The cause Of i'm
emigration would not be materially ad-
"vanced by such performance" In other
words, we are 10 infer, and the inference IS
a legitimate one, that lest the truth be told
these gentlemen who profess to be so
earnest in their efforts to people the State
with immigrants and q mode of inducing
the coveted immigration be pointed out,
that might endangcr Locofoco supremacy
in Virginis, by causing an influx Of North
erners into her borders. Lest all this might
happen, they preferred to begin in the CON-
mittee with the ostracism they propose to
continue, and which has been 30 fully at
tested by Republicans in that latitude ever
since the war.
1t has not been our purpose in this arti-
Gle so much to defend Representative
Stowell, he being abundantly able to do
that himself, as to place the facts in connec-
tion with this Virginia immigration move
ment before the public. If it be the pur-
pose Of the dominant party in that State to
ignore, ostracise and perSecute the Northern
Republican settler, the sooner the fact be.
comes known the better it will be for all
concerned. If, ON the other hand, they de-
sire that kind Of immigration that will
speedily build up their waste places. it is
well for them to comprehend the fact that
a more liberal policy than they have ex-
hibitcd may be insugurated. When men
of the North who honestly entertain Re.
publican sentiments can feel sure that they
will not only be tolerated. but fully pro-
tected in the expression Of their opinions
at the ballot box, and whom social ostra-
cIsm for political opinion sake shall cease,
then will Virginia obtain the influx of pop
ulation she so sorcly needs, but not until
then; and it is due the people Of that State
that they should know it, To compass so
desirablo an end, papers of the class to
which the Inde=-Appsag belongs should
be ''squelched" or their editors be re.
strained from their blatant utterances by
a wholesome public sentiment.