Year: 1870

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The Conservative members of the Lests-
tature have presented me. as candidate for
Congress from the State at large. it Isl NOT
probable that it elected shall be admitted
to a seat in that body. Yet I think it was
eNpedient to make n nomination. Several
conventions had named candidates for the
place. and applications had been made to
the State Conservative Committee by gem
tlemen to be- placed as candidates for it be-
fore the people. Competition of This sort
might have produced dissension, which tits
all important to eliminate from our ranks.
And more, lit was suggested that should the
Radicals nOminateland elect a,candidate that
party in Congress might give him the seat
which it lately denied to ours, and that it
was wise to forestall any such result. Should
I receive your commission / will present
our claim at Washington, and should there
be any opening for it, press it with proper
earnestncss. z
qz11 am, as you know, connected with our
Executive organization and being thus,
as it were, in double trust, hope it will
not seem superfiuo us or intrusiveif offer
some observations upon the state and pros
poets of our party.


An election Is near, The importance OF
which | fear Is underrated. That some
apathy should follow upon the excitement
and the success of the contest oflast year, was
to be expected, under the law of action and
reaction which belongs, to. mans nature.
Having done much, we easily conclude that
all is done, and rest from our labor. But
i'll our case that would be a fatal mistake.
The Radical party is in full force--its divi-
sions healed and its organization more COM
pact. And never while our population re.
mains divided into parties upon the mere
line of color, while the blacks are made to
act against the whites upon that dis.
tinctiOn, may we hope for repose. Never
shall we know peace until the carpet-bagger
is baniShed or Silenced. and no longer fa-
tigues the public indignation with his
cffrOntery and his eXcesses. If this dis
elimination by color, when first announced
between the States of the Union, dismayed
the sages and patriots OF the past---as one OF
them expressed it, 6 smote on his ear like
a fire-bell in the night "-ho# much more
Of State, and made to pierce and tear its
very yitals? It destroyed the Union; if
not arrested, it will destroy the State. The
coalition Of the carpet-6aJger with the
negro must be broken up. A stop
must be put to those pernicions teachings
by which an insidious and silent agrarianism
is made to perfneate the mass Of that popu-
lation. / say silent, for zoe are not al
lowed to hear or to know the half nor the
1.-THE of what is taught in the councils of
that unhoiy Union. i The negro must be
ions, and take sides on public questions; !;
to be citizen Of the State, not merely the
member of caste. The kindly feeling be-.
tween the races which marked the old patri-
archal relation must resume its sway. He
must he taught TO repel the tempter who
would ill his-mind with insane ambition for
social equality with the whites, and to know
his relative condition. BY what slow and
difficult process and degrees this wholesome
effect may be wrought, it may be hard to-
pronounce. But this is clear, that his pre-:
sent attitude Of organized hostility is a stand
ing menace to our peace, which must be met.
and answered by securing the indisputableS
political ascendancy Of the white race;
Nor Is it enough that this shall be mani
tested upon general vote Of the State or of.
some large districts of country. Where the
black population preponderates oris nume-::
rous, If allowed to have control, there is dam
ger not alone that civil rights will perish, but
that society itself will sink under the waves,
of an overwhelming barbarism, Let us all
think Of this, and, no matter where placed,
make the case our own. AS the whole is
made up of its parts, let each part struggle
for tho whole in warding of, as far as possi-
BILE, this frightful evil, receiving and COM
municating the moral support to be derived
from unanimous aid resolute purpose.
Now, I know of no means so SlIre,- (nor,
indeed, any means,) to effect this as the dis
cipline Of our strength ereryschsre upon O;
system which Shall be uniform and exacting
in its application. Let there be no double
candidacy for office, and no hating nor
hesitation in supporting Conservative nomi-
nations when made. AS the claim Of party
to obedience is but moral one resting on the
sense OF eXpedieDcy and honorable obliga-
tion, its whole sanction mu st proceed from
the uniform, general, and cheerful submis-i
sion with which its behests are received.
We hear in some quarters Of Hindepend.
eiit candidates s"-the flmsy veil under
which apostacy is not concealed and egsip,
of "primary elections" against which il
Warr with the rules prescribed for the gov
ernment of ourpal'tv, but, further, that they
expeld in contests among ourselves the
energy and effort which should he reserved
for the enemy, and put forward candidates,
not because they CAN beat the adversary,
but because they are able to beat their
friends. Personal ambition and lust for
place have ever been the bane Of successful
parties, which have been and ever will be,
successful or otherwise, just in the degree
that their leaders are selfish or disinter-
ested. All the disaster that we have suf-
fered, or that is in store for us, may be
traced to the disregard of this simple truth.


AS the enemy will ever be sowing tares
in our wheat, pains have been taken to re-
sllscitate the old party distinctions ofWhig
and Democrat, which it is supposed not
even an earthquake has destroyed. APP
peals for support for Office are In some in
stances grounded ON these. Can we afford
to throw away single vote in such un.
profitable diSSensionf In my heart can
truly say such distinctions are as cold as the
clay that wraps the dead; and look back
upon the ruins which surround me, with
amazement at the Importance i attached TO
the party heats of which I once partook
and the contests they engendered. ANA
count it one of the chief compensations OF
onr condition, tbatsWe can all address our.
selves with one mind free from the distract
ing poison or party spirit to the sacred
Office of building up our State, repairing
her waste places, and so with yenerating
affection lifting our bleeding mother from
the dust. How grateful the spectacle OF
Legislature, bending itself with Hliai zeal
and united effort to this high duty. Let IL
be the absorbing purpose OF us ali. we
have Sparta-let us adorn her.


It is NOT probable that we shall ever gain
much from the faror or fairness Of those.
who now rule things at Washington. II we
succeed in lessening the severity of the
special taxation which atfiicts us, 1t must be
by intelligent explanation that such se-a
verify defeats its object, and that more
would be yielded by 9milder exaction: If
Virginia be embraced, as think she must
he. is link in q grand scheme of commu-
nieation between the. oceans, she viii owe