Show A PCnVLUI UJ CON VI KT I Colonel Alexander McClure of tine lull Iclpln t Timct is nn eloquent speaker is well as ono of the ablest writers on tho Republican press of the country md for that revioii the following onls fronts Ins lips will be rend by Dem l crats with extreme pleasure The were spoken as this wind up of an address to the students of the Washlnuton and Lee University In Virginia rcccntlj Tho burden of his speech was aimed nt point tug out tho ccntrnlinng tendencies engendered en-gendered bv long Itepublicm rule md ended as follow I lou will ho called to battle against the dregs of the despotism of war that will over lm dnnntblyexensedorjeotlfednncehtrnlf Ulon comes with ulf Is to open ile il citndel i of freedom Against it let your hatred be mplneablo lot jour effort bo tireless let your patriotism bo unabated Itlathogrcal peril to free government It will not come will with i como banners with declaring dccitful I promise its purpose H wilt i I but infect II to reject tine crown as Ciraar did but ro t I meneberlhntltomiieyeas never freo after tins I Kuliicon had been crossed Trust the KO pic educate tho pooplo teach them that lenml viuilnnco is thopricoof libertywan tl ohool tl than against every approach to despotic authority au-thority in a ov ornmout whoso supreme sov eniuitj Is only In the people and whoso Nn lion State county and homo are distinct lie billons yet ono an the sea Colonel McClllro and his piper while holding nnlquo views 011 certain matters of national moment have alwavs beat Rtiuncb supporters of Ilcpiihlicin rule hut now m the light of the great changeR wrought in the short ascendnu of Dem oiralic povvcr lie sees the error of his was nUll imhcsitatingl acknowledges tho danger to tho country of the central Izmg policy aimed nt by his part You will bo called to Inltlii ntiniM the dregs of the despotism of wnr he an8 and therein shown up in ono sentence tho hollow pretenses tho Republican part and damns them with the truthful us sertion that they will always come In the guise of deceitful promises Tho young gentlemen to whom thes truths were spoken are mainl tho offspring of men who sought to sever thoautonom of the countrjand failedbu who never dreamed of leaving a legacy of hatred to bo borne by their children inconsequence in-consequence mil which was so prominently promin-ently manifest in all measures atteinptei bv the Republican part for the government govern-ment of the South The Reconstruction policy md laws of that part were moro burdcnsoino thin any Koman mandates and the helplessness of the people served but to stimulate tho party in power to further effort to humiliate and abuse them The contrast is now so plainly set I before them by tho return of eniincn Southern men to tho councils the nation and tho return of Democratic siraphcit in tho imnigemcnt of the ilTairB of the nation na-tion that with tho use 01 ordinary judg mcntthov canreidil see tho error pointed out by Colonel McClure and avoid nil future chances of a repetition by sohdl supjiorting tho part that saved them from its baleful influences The youthful mind is tho proper field m which to ROW the seed of manly principle and Colonel McClnros words to tho youth of Virginia and the South are destined lake deep root and loutish for tho benefit of this Democratic cause which has been is and nllll1s will bo for the greatest good 01 tliu greatest number and the equality 01 ill men before tho law |