National Republican., 1876-02-25
VIRGINIA IRMIGRArION-HOWI IT Is Re-
TAkDBD.

representative me Of their party, and the
gross personal abuse indulgcd 10y their
party organs Of all Northern men, however
pure their personal character, who may,
perchance. represent Republican constit-
uency, in localities where ballot box stuff
ing. as yet, has failed to prevent an honest
expression Of political sentiment, will &C.
complish more to prersnt immigration in
one year than the pretentiOus dis plays of
all the immigration boards and Legis-
! latiye and Congressional committees can
possibly accomplish in the other direction
In q decade Of years, and this, too, without
taking into consideration the social oslra-
ciSm and machinery for practically disfran,
chising such emigrants as may be Republi-
cans, after they get there.
1t will be remembered that committee.
composed entirely Of Democratic members
of the Virginia Legislature. visited this
city few weeks since for the osteusible
purpose of comforting with the Virginia
Representatives in Congress in the interest
of immigration to that State. To this con-
ference Messrs. platt and Stowell. Repub-
licans, were not invited. Mr.. Platt was
ignored, perhaps, for the reason that his
seat is temporarily occupied by secession
Democrat, placed there by the open fraud.
ulent devices of the Locolocos OF the Second
district Of that State, and from which a
healthy regard for the rublic sentiment of
the nation will compel his cicctmeut and
the seating of Colonel Platt when the sub
jcct comes before the House for its action.
With regard to Mr.. Stowen there could be
no such frivolous p:ctext. He is in pos
session of q scat in Congress, TO which he
was elected by an overwhelming majority
Of the voters Of the Fourth district, and in
a moral point Of view is fully the peer OF
any one of his Virginia colleagues. In
note addressed to the Fredericksburg (Va.)
Star, called forth by an editorial in that
paper deprecating his absence from the
meeting, Mr.. Stowell says: II was not
present because l was not invited, and
mot invited because was not wanted,
and not wanted because I was Repub-
"ican. No one is moro favorable to im-
migration than myself, and no one can
feel the need of it more than the North
"ern settler" The truth is here con-
taiLcd in a nutshell, and yet there are
newspapers in Virginia. whose editors pro-
.fcss to desire immigration. defend tho
action of this ostraeiSing committee in the
matter referred to, and in the same article
deny that OstrGcism obtains on the sacred
soil" We cannot better illustrate the
truthfulress Of our oft-rcpeatcd notices of
the prosecutions Of Republicans for opln-
ions sake in the South, however rcluctan.
we may feel to give prominence 10 such
filthy productions. than by reproducing
from the Petersburg index and Appea! of
tie 10th the following article which iusti.
fics social ostrscism and at the samc time
GeuiGs its existence. Hear il:
1--WE desire to put ON record our deliberate
judgment that the committee acted exactly
right, If, as is supposed, It dccliucd to invite
S!owcll 10 take part in the conference. That
Republicans favorable to the cause Of immf-
grafton were not ignored, appears from the
fact that Colonel I'd. Daniels, late editor of
the S'a'e Jcsrra' was Eot nuly in attendance,
but took an active rari in the deliberations OF
The session. But to have asked StuWcl to
take any part in the exercises of the occasion
would have been piece OF folly and farce of
whit We hope the committee was not guilty.
SICwCn is ia 10 sense All honest immigrant to
Virginia.; OWLS no property here. though it Is
alleged that lie has money on dCposit in BOs-
ton: has no defined residence. and in the late
conference Of Virginia Republicans at Rich
mond was assigned to the Stamton district
Thus it is not even known were the creature
lives; and, whatever his residence, his innu-
cnte, such as it il, is malign to Virginia and
Fr=r l.,l, l. ~.
ostracism, intimidation, persecution AMI vio-
lercc are to be expected by any Northern man
who makes his home IN Virginia. What, in
the name OF common sense, was the Use Of in
yitinc su:h lying partisan to lend any help
ing hard 10 the immigration movement? Sup
pose nOw-and nothing was more likely-that
Stowell, being invited, had opened with a
tiradc that immigration would never come
into Virginia so long as the ku-Klux, 'Whito
Liners lynch Law, rebel iuries, and other like
institutions, were in vogue? He is fully capa-
bic of that or any other infamy. The Star
VIII concede that the cause of immigration
would not be materially advanced by such
performance. On the whole, for the various
ICG: ons alleged, and for others that might be
stated, we conclude that the committee did
well in not expecting Mr. Stowell 20 be
rrCscnt."
Exactly why the late editor OF the State
Journal was in attendance docs not appear,
bc ing neither member OF the Legislative
Committee, from which all Northern men
we've studiously excluded, nor member
Of Congress. Report has it that he is far
from indisposed to sell his OWN property
in Virginia, and lie may have adopted the
method of getting into this committee
meeting, whether invited or otherwise is
immaterlal. TO compass this end. In any
event, the opinion of Mr.. Daniels, whether
expressed in committee or through the
public prints, is that Of but one man, and
oan by no possibility outweigh the other
wise unanimous sentiment of Northern
Republican settlers in Virginia, nor even
the justification by the rebel sheet from
which We quote. of the conduct pursued
toward the representative of Republican
constituency by this Locofoco committee.
Just what constitutes ''an honest emigrant
TO Virginia" this organ of Looofocoism does
not deign to inform its readers. but we hap
pen to know that Mr.. Stowell went to
Virginia with more thousands than the
diminutive upstart who essays to cnlighten
the people Of Virginia through his Indcr,
and whose consuming vanity is as offensive
to good taste as 1t is to well-bred people,
ever possessed in hundreds; and further,
that he (StowelD succeeded in the course
of legitimate and honest mercantile Ca
recr in losing all his means among people
whose organs would now drive him, il
they could. from the State. for the crime of
being Republican. That he has no prop
crty there proves his honesty, and his
inability to pay the taxes hcaped upon the
people by Locofoco Legislature. If the
want of property should exclude a man
from position. even that Of mem
Der Of Congress, several OF yfrginiss
present Representatives would be COM
PEELED to take back seats. Nobody should
know. and probably none know better,
than the editor of the Indez that the Rep
resen.atiTe Of the district in which that