The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-09-30
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earnest sympathy and cooperation, not
only from the Republican National Com
mittee, but from the representative Repub-
licans of the Northern States. This assur-
ance has caused the following address from
Gen. Wickham, Chairman of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee, to the Republicans of
Virginia, embracing a letter from Hon.
Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the National
Republican Committee:
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF VIRGINIA.
HEADQU'Rs EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, \
OF REPUBLICANS OF VIRGINIA,
RICHMOND, VA. Sept. 81, 1880.
For your information I publish the fol-
lowing letter from the Chairman of the
Republican National Committee /:
HEADQU'Rs REPUBLICAN NATIoNAL)
COMMITTEE, No. 24l, 9Th Av., N. Y,
September 23d, 1880.
GEN W. C. WICKHAM., Chairman Of State
Republican Ececattioe Committee Of Virginia ::
Dear SIR The Republican National
Committee is DESTROYS of carrying the State
of Virginia for the Garfield and Arthur
Electoral ticket. They ask that your Com
mittee use all honorable efforts to achieve
its success. and through you they ask every
his power to bring about an end SO desira-
Bile, and so apparently within reach.
This Committee will be pleased to receive
frequent reports from your Committee, and
assures you of it's cordial support and CO.
operation. Yours very truly,
MARSHALL JEWELL, Chairman.
You will perceive therefrom that the Ma
tional Republican party is looking with
deep interest to the success of the Repub-
lican ticket in Virginia. Let us not allow
them to be disappointed. Let every one of us
Republicans do our full duty in this can
vass and cast our votes solidly for the Gar
field and Arthur Electoral ticket and for
our Republican candidates for Congress. By
SO doing we can elect our men and have
the proud consciousness Of having contrib
uted our full part to the maintenance of the
principles of that party under whose pol
icy the prosperity of our grand country has
SO greatly progressed, Respectfully.
w. C. WICKHAM,
Chairman Elk. Com.
This is the formal and authoritative OPEN
ing Of the campaign on the Republican
side. Not only is it the judgment of the
State Republican authorities, but of the Re-
publican officials of the Republican party
of the Nation, that it is our duty to make
struggle for the electoral vote of Virginia.
1t is needless to say that this determination
meets our hearty and earnest approval
Indeed, any other course would be treason,
open and shameful, to the party, and justly
invite the scorn and contempt of all me u
who really are Republican from convic-
'tion. Even were defeat certain and inevi-
table this would be the honorable course
to pursue. But we have the popular
strength to carry the State for the Republi-
can nominees. The point is to arouse the
Republicans of Virginia to the importance
of this fact. and stimulate them to meet the
precedent duties necessary to its accom-
plishment. We have voting strength OF
$4,000 in Virginia, against 10000 Demo-
Gratis, divided into about equal parts. To
make the most unfavorable showing for the
Republicans we have $4,000, after deduct
ing 10000 delinquents against 10000 for
each of the Democratic factions, after de-
Quoting the delinquents from their voting
strength. We have larger margin to OPP
crate upon to secure an increase of the Re-
publican vote as last above indicated than
either faction of the Democracy, and to as
sumo that Republicans feel less interest in
their cause than their opponents in theirs, is
to confess to a cowardice and a perfidy
that every Republican in Virginia should
scorn to acknowledge.
In this national contest we must recog-
nize all who carry the Hancock and English
flag as our political foes, it matters not
whether they range under the Funder or
Re-adiuster wing of the party. As Repub-
1icans we must recognize the action of our
National Convention and support the able
and patriotic ticket it has presented, with
Garfield and Arthur as its representatives,
and the electoral ticket nominated at Staun-
ton in April last. Thus far we can have no
compromise or dalliance in any sense. We
must maintain our Republican consistency
by acting in concert with the National Re
publican party, and giving an earnest, un-
firing and determined support to our nomi-
nees. We cannot do less and measure up
to our full duty. 1t is contest, freighted
with the most pregnant and vital interests
that ever engaged the attention OF the
American people. Especially is it so for
the colored people of the South, whose
rights as guaranteed by the Constitution
and laws are so deeply involved in the re-
suit. With the Democratic party in power
In the Executive and the Legislative
branches of the government, it would be
but short time before the Judicial Depart
ment would be made to harmonic with the
same political complexion, and then would
follow raid upon the laws enacted in pur-
suance of the amended Constitution, which
would nullify the intendment of those
amendments and place the rights of the
emancipated class at the mercy of kin
,dred spirit to that which controls and d-
reefs the legislation and the political power
of the Southern States towards the negro
as a citizen. 1t is right here where the col
ored people have their protection lodged
Surrender this, and his citizenship would be
a mere mockery, and the immunities which
hedge around him under the legislation of
a Republican administration become a
taunt and farce. State legislation, and not
national, would regulate the rights which
the colored man thinks he has. and which
the amendments to the Constitution were
intended to secure to him. The admins
tration of the government must be secured
to the party which formulated those amend
ments and devised the legislation for their
enforcement, or they will amount to prac-
tical nullity.
This national contest is separate and dis
tinct from the State contest of next year
and it is this fact that the Republicans of
Virginia, who recognize in the policy of
the Re-adjuster party a liberal spirit to-
wards the colored people in State affairs,
should be made to understand. In the Ma
tional contest the Re-adjusters and the Fun |
ders support Hancock and English electoral |
tickets, and should either be chosen, the |
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