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We are among those who believe Virginia has been soundly governed for the past three centuries. Her present reputation throughout the nation, and indeed throughout the world, is one of which we are proud.
Our State government has been, in some respects, like the medical profession. It has demanded that a remedy be proven before being adopted. Some criticize it, as they do the medical profession, for not embracing every new idea which comes along. But Virginia knows what many foreign countries painfully out—that a few years of unwise experimentation can destroy the foundations which centuries have built.
Though Virginia has avoided utopian panaceas, “change is a proud part of her tradition. She has been the very cradle of those once-revolutionary principles of self-government which all free men now hold dear. She led the fight against the British colonial tyranny. Over the opposition of other states, she forced the adoption of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, establishing the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from illegal search and seizure. As early as the 1830’s, the Virginia Legislature failed by out one vote to outlaw slavery. And in more recent years, it was Virginia’s venerable Senator Carter Glass who voiced the firsjf nationwide demand that America stop the despotism of Hitler. Those who charge that Virginia is reactionary are simply ignorant of the facts.
This age-old policy of sound andprogressive liberalism has become the unwritten law of Virginia. Since colonial times the maintenance of that law has been intrusted to various State political organizations—and to this day not a one of them has betrayed the trust.
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