The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-03-19
The Conservative Party.

The ringing call OF the Executive Com
mittee ought 10 echo all over the Common
wealth, and find an answer in the heart OF
every true Virginiar. The readJustcrs'
convention has bad one desirable effect. 1t
has separated the wheat from the chaff.
Some such expe(lient is as necessary now
~ in the time OF Gideon: The evils OF
third party are very much to be dreaded.
Already Radical journals are gloating over
the not unreasonable prospect OF WELD
ing the balance of power. Divide
ct ;mperu is to be the Watchword
of "Mi<ser" Chandeliers manipulators
here as elsewhere. For this deplorable
state OF things such men as the extreme re-
adjusters are directly responsible. From
the outset their aim seems TO have been to
split and then disntegrate the once compact
mass of the Conservative organization. This
| fell design they have in reality accomplished.
The nominal adhesion Of these men to
party which they have to all intentS re-
nounced is no longer to he desiderated.
The Trojan horse had better be outside tue
walls.
These readiusters have now shown them
selves in their true colOrS. The mask OF
enforced equity" no more hides the
chastity visage Of political bankruptcy.
The convention OF the S0i-diSdnt "thrce-
percenters" is resssuring in another aspect.
| LEAVING out the tail OF noUi hOnineS, the
Kite is latter all the buster that has been
made about it) q small one. Perhaps for
the very reason that it has that tail, and that
the tail is so Internationally long, and
| % wobbles" so. the kite flies badly. we
need not be afraid to make an inventory or
| the Black-and-Tans or to analyze the Votes
| in the Legislature. Let the new party be
4 tokt hn frlJa MOI ~
domitablc stand. We firmly believe that
more glorious victory than any in the past
is once more to perch upon the Conservative
standards. The triumph under Walker was
a grand one 1t was by that triumph that
the gristle OF our youth was consolidated
| into the bone and sinew Of our manhood.
We were then lighting for existence. We
are now fighting for honor. 1t would have
been we'll for Francis Bacon had he persisted
in the English channel in 1880 on bis re-
turn from the Continent without ever hay
ing published his essays or planned and par
TALLY executed his "Magna InStduratio
Scientiaruna," rather than have betrayed
Essex, tortured Peacham, and taken brides.
We repeat it., the triumph under Walker
was grand one. But we maintain that the
triumph begun under Kemper, and destined
las we trust) to be completed under Holi-
day, is to be a yet grander one. TO this
end it is only requisite that the material, or,
II not the material, that the integrity, the
discipline, the just alignment, the SPLEEN
did heroism OF our forces, be preserved.
The cause is one that is fitted to animate
the breasts of the most gallant and devoted
spirits. 1t Is nothing less than the I'M
dimmed renoWn Of the dear old mother
The instrument in the use Of which we shall
snatch up drowned honor by the locks Is the
thorough organization Of the Conservative
party. Hereafter let all boilers be ruled
ont. Let the rames of Independents all be
scratched" Such allies are more TO be
feared than open enemies. AS the wife of
Hector exclaimed when she behed one OF
the undesired champions Of Ilium girding
on his arms, "non tail auriIio." -Farm-
vile Mercury. ..'~ .,.'..