National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-14

than fraud, robbery and corruption. the
party Journals of Virginia are filing their
columns and examining their unfortunate
readers to surfeiting with an obloquy and
abuse that had far better be applied to their
own party managers. who have robbed
and ruined the State. The very acme Of
impudence is reached when the Democracy
of Virginia, through its accredited organs,
undertakes the arraignment of the Repub-
lican party because of the personal acts Of
men who claim to have been of its fold,
while for the infamous acts of its own
party collectively. and acting as political
organization, it has nothing but honeyed
phrases. To fully comprehend. the sub
Unity of their audacity it is only necessary
to examine the history Of the Democratic
or so called Conservative party in Virginia.
and it will be found to present, as the
Staunton Valley TirginiaH very justly
observes, "the most hideous record of de-
"ceit and treachery that ever stained the
political annals of any period. 1t has
"been false to everything but the plumber
"of the people. 1t has attained power by
"duplicity and qualification, and has kept
"it by the most disgraceful devices and
"subterfuges that were ever practiced upon
can unsuspecting and confding constitu-
"ency." All of the available assets OF the
State have been squlndered that few
men might be enriched; the interest on
the public debt, debt contracted under
Democratic rule, has, in a large proper
ton, gone unpaid, and yet they possess
the very soul of honor; the funding job,
the work of Gilbert C. Walker, by which
he and his brother are generally supposed
to have been enriched, is fastened as
milestone around the necks Of the tax
payers; the sanctity of the ballot has been
outraged, and by the commission of frauds
of the most stupendous character Repub-
licans, who were clearly entitled to rep
resent the people both in Congress and the
Legislature, have been deprived of their
rights, and Goode is seated in Congress
and Bradley johnson and Gayle, ct id
onlne genus, in the Legislative halls of the
State; the money of the school fund has
been stolen to pay the interest on stolen
bonds, while the honestly acquired bonds
are unprovided for; a member of the
Legislature who violates the law he is
sworn to uphold in gambling. and ignores
with equal facility the moral code in
losing at cards money that does not be-
long to him, is retained as a member of
that body. while a judge, who is known
and proven to have " on money by gam
bling, the property of others than those
from whom he won it, and whose record
is that of a common gamester, Is still per-
mitted to drag the judicial ermine in the
dust, while still another of the judicial
cloth is undergoing examination for NAL
feasance in office. What in the name of
decency has this party not done that could
be done TO wrong, Cypress and rob the
people? And yet they assume the roe of
homIletic readers 10 party whose shoes,
fguratively speaking, they are unworthy
TO unlatch, and all because an official,
who happened to be in responsible posi-
ton, abused the trust reposed in him and
which no human foresight outside Of him
sell could have prevented.
The purpose of these baseless allega-
tons of the Democracy is fortunately too
transparent to deceive those of mature
experience, and when the fury of this
partisan bitterness shall have run its &C
customed time and been exhausted and
all the people shall have calmly weighed
the motives and purposes of the party
whose desperate straits have instigated
the calumnies, the reaction will come with
fearful and relentless power, crushing
down in its progress the wicked conspira-
tors who would destroy the very fouuda-
tons on which the Government rests, if
thereby they could seize the reins of power
and perpetuate the ascendancy of licensed
treason and corruption.