Year: 1869




We have charged upon the sham-Demo
cracy that it was the only radical party in
the South We sustained the charge by the
most ample proof We showed that the
VIRGINIA Conservatives had denounced it
for its radicals. That they had refused all
connection with it because of its Radical
doctrines. That Gen. LEE had proclaimed
himself a true Republican because the Re-
publican party was the ONLY CONSERV-
ATIVE party in the SOUTH That Democ-
racy in VIRGINIA was dead That Democ
racy in North CAROLINA was dying. All
this we charged upon the sham-Democracy
of this State, and gave our proofs, and
irrefragible proofs too, to support the charge.
We have invited the Sentinel to discuss the
question that the people of NORTH CAROLINA
might judge which was the Radicals, and
which the Conservative party. The Sentinel
has failed to reply to our argumentso to bring
the slightest proof to contradict our state
ments. On the contrary it has replied only in
the most vague and contradictory style and
has not been able to disprove single state
ment made by the STANDARD. We did not
expect that it could disprove anything stated
by the STANDARD, for our statements are so
plainly true and the proofs so strong that
no sophistry could make any sensible man
doubt their truth, but we did not expect
that the Sentinel would give up without
struggle as it has done. We did not expect
that it would own its party defunct without
an effort to revivify the corpse. Yet the two
faint disclaimers which have been put in by
the Sentinel are Acknowledgements of that its
party is radical in its sentiments, and that
it is dead in VIRGINIA and dying in NORTH
CAROLINA. People of NORTH CAROLINA,
hear its last efusion and judge how weak
must be that party whose organ can make
no defence for it: t div fHe a ~"


But all the time the STANDARD is engaged in
trying to convince itself that the Democracy is
dead and can't bite it, it is as earnestly engaged
in trying to convince others that it is very much
alive and overly conservative, extremely liberal
to all men and not at all proscriptiVe-"not
much so, now, and never ha'nt been" The eff
fort is amusing, and would provoke laughter if
the weather was not too warm to indulge lavish
ly in that luxury. We are willing to let the
STANDARD be conservative; we are willing it
should be liberal in its policy; we are willing it
should join in with the good and true conserva-
tive men in this State and drive out from among
us men of the WELLS type, as did the combined
conservatives in VIRGINIA. We are willing he
should be admitted into the true conser-
vatiye told without prolonged probation,
on one condition. He says, in this morn
ing's issue. speaking oil the Republican party,
" Its platform is Universal Suffrage and General
Amcsty." Now, let the STANDARD show that,
in any editorial, it has ever advocated that
platform, prior to the Virginia election, and we
will give our vote for his Immediate reception
into the Conservative ranks, in iull fellowship.


Without commenting upou the evident
distress of mind in Which the above WAS
written, plainly shown by its confusion of
'' he's" and its" we will only ask was ever
a weaker defense made by the "organ of
any party. This, however, we presume is
the effect of sympathy-this being the
mighty poor "organ I" of mighty poor
party In order to give the people full
proof that all that we say is true and that
Democracy in Virginia is dead, we have
only to give the following from the Rich.
mond Whig, which, until six months ago
belonged to the so-called Democratic party


"Why does the Washington Chronicle persist
in calling us the Rebel Democracy" Every
body knows that We are not in rebellion, and
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cratic party in Virginia. We have just elected
Republican State ticket, and carried out in let
ter and spirit the Congressional policy OF recon-
struction. 5rf =aH .fc I'tlf .-iI -.-


f"EVERYBODY KNOWS THERE is NO
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN vIRGINIAw
And this from one of the most influential
papers in VIRGINIA which was Democratic
until the death of the Democratic party!
Who can doubt this evidenced Who can
dispute its assertion that the Democratic
party is dead2 No one. 1t, one of the
champions of the WALKER party, also de-
clares that in the triumph by the Conserva-
trves thay have just elected Republican
State ticket, and carried out in letter and
spirit the Congressional policy of recon
struction.'' What stronger proof could be
needed of the truth of the assertion that the
Republican party is the Conservative party.
Gen. LEE is a Conservative. and Republi-
can. All of the best men of VIRGINIA, the
so-callcd first families, are Conservatives
fbo,,, cIlx tt,I, tr1n Il
Nay, even more, they spurn from them with
contemptsham Democracy of New York,
NORTH CAROLINA and other States, as will
be seen by the following also from the Rich
mond Wing: r sdi 3sst a1asl o-R fi oa'


We beg the New York World, and all the over
Jealous Democratic journals, 10 let us alone
What we have done has been doEc without their
aid aud in spite of their opposition. We are more
indebted to President Grant than all the North
err Democrats put together. Let as alone.


q The Conservatives of V1ReINIA have done
all they have done not only without the
aid" but in spite of the opposition ofth
radical sham Democrats Here are the
proofs to show the truth of our statements
that the so-callcd Democratic party is the
only radical party in the South. Here are
the proofs to show that the Republican is the
only liberal party in the South. Here are
proofs to show that Democracy is dead in
VIRGINIA We have always shown that it
Is dead in NORTH CAROLINA, and that moth
ing remains but a sham Democracy which is
dying too. Let the people read and decide,