National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-10
AN ADMIR- sion FROM AN UNEXPECTED
- QUARTER.

There is an excrescence, called by cour-
tesy a newspaper, about the size and ap-
pearance of a badly damaged sheet of fools
cap, styled the Stdr-the EUsning Star
published in the city of Lynchburg, Va,
the editorial utterances of which are un-
derstood to be the inspirations of fossilized
jurist of an antediluvian era. The venera-
BILE toolf, of the Star, IS exceeding wroth
because of the truthfulness contained in a
late editorial article in the THE REPUBLI-
CAN, wherein we endeavored to show, by
means of facts and figures, that the cluse
of Virginia s poverty was, in great meas
ure, attributable to her continued ad-
herence to Democracy. The Star attempts
to controvert our deductions with large
amount of the staple arguments Of the De-
mocracy, such as '1yiug audacity," &C.,
and then virtually admits the proposition
of THE REPUBLICAN, that emigration to
Virginia is retarded by the prescription
course of the Democratic party of that
State. Witness the subjoined extract from
the article in question
"THE REPUBLICAN has the temerity to ask
the Virginians to CO operate with THE REPUB-
-politically-and thus secure, through
concert of action, emigration to the State.
Now, seriously, the fastidiousness of the Vir-
ginians will not allow them to associate with
such as THE REPUBL-CAN man, or those he
could suggest; but whenever a gentleman
comes to Virginia, if he is worthy and does
not come to plumber her people, he is given a
cordial reception. This fact is proven in a
thousand instances. Eirginians are hospita-
BILE, and are never better pleased than when
entertaining gentlemen from without their
borders; but we decline TO dine or wine men
of the stamp of THE REPUBLICAN. They are
incendiaries, cut-throats, plunderers and
thieves of the deepest dye"
Herein is a confession from Democratic
source of the truthfulness of all the allega-
lions we have ever made Of the ostracism
to which Northern Republicans are subject
at the hands of the Virginia Democracy,
Whenever q gentleman comes to Vir-
ginia, forsooth By this expression moth
ing else can be meant than Democrat,
and, per contra, all Republicans who go
there are not gentlemen, butare 'tincendia-
ries," cut -throats, plunderers and thieves
of the deepest dye. The Star says that
the Virginia Democrats decline to associate
with Republicans of our stamp. We have
known all the time that they had no tole-
ration for a man who had independence
enough to entertain sentiments of his own
if different from theirs, and the manliness
to act up to his convictions when occasion
required Republican, in other words,
who would not permit himself to be used
by them. We have, however, seen fulsome
adulations of certain internal revenue
official of that locality, who processes to be
Republican, in the columns of this twink
ling luminary. By parity of reasoning,
then, we are to conclude that he is of the
stamp that suits the Star. THE RE-
PUBLICAN is not, we are happy to state, of
the stamp" that is likely to be the sub
ject of the Stars questionable compli-
ments, though We must confess our graft
fication at having our views on the-causes
that retard Virginia emigration so fully
sttested from quarter altogether unex-
pected. tits not the first time, however,
that Democratic paper has unwittingly
told the truth, when itmeant to do ''on the
contrary quite the reverse"