Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-11-14
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, IA, 1855
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Rtsnrreeted!

Star printing Office was destroyed. Al
that VIC had earned By toll and, industry
was burned with the Office. We were left
destitute Of everything, save that energy
which God had endowed US with, and q
determination, with renewed zeal, to bat.
tie still for Che principles Of Democracy,
By tho noble generosity and libcrality OIL
the Democrats of the Valley Of the Ia.
nawha, We ard enabled again to make our
appearance, and strik another blow in
behalfof those principles which are. ad-
yocatcd by all national men from Maine
to California. Fl
! Three months have elapsed since our
last issue. Dlfring that time many i'm
portant events have transpired both in
the Old an New Worlds. The Southern
side Of Seyastopol has been taken. The
combined efforts Of the Allies hasprqyen,
in TINT event at least, too much for the
fearless and brave. warriors Of the Car.
And by the almost superhaman efforts Of
i the impetuous French, the Malakoff gave
way, and by the enthusiast shouts, "
"a II Empefear" Of the French which
drowned the faint cries Of victory on.the
part Of England, once. victorious and
naughty, fora conquest which made them
feel that they were but the feeble allies Of
the enthusiasticIand impctuous French.
While England and France were yieing
with each other for the need of praise,
some forty thousands Of human beings
were sacrificed 10 pay the dear-bought
victory. When the victorious Allies
marched into tho city, they found that
the brave and gallant Gortschakof had
withdrawn his army across the inlet Of
the sen, to the still more formidable, and
perhaps imprcgnable, fortress on the
Northern side Of Sevastopol, where every
gun can be brought to bear upon the All
lies, unless they evacuate .the position
their victory has given them. When ter
rible winter shall set in and encompass
them in the enyirons Of Seyastopol, then,
perhaps, we will hear of another battle,
more destructive in its effects; one, too,
that would teach the Allies to believe that
by the time they regulate the affairs Of.
the East" that their resources will not en-
able them to turn their attention to the
West"
While the monar chial powers of Europe
arc thus contendillg for aggrandizmcnt
and power, how different the state Of
things existing in our happy country, I'M
der the benign influence Of a free repre-
sentative government, where all power il
vested in the people. Yet, but few
,monts ago, many a noble patriot bad al
most despaired Of the perpituity Of our
free Institutions, as the enemies Of civil
and religious liberty in Exeter Hail, Eng.
land, had, through their cmissaries inWil-
Iams Hall, Boston, conspircd against us,
by political organization the most evil
and pernicious that ever reared its head
in this land, and their leaders the most
interruptions and infamous that ever
headed apolitical organization, which for
q time threatened the direst consequences
to the peace Of the country. Fora while
it seemed that the intollerant spirit Of IA
naticism would overspread the land-the
constitution @subverted, and the land
drenched in the blood Of a civil war
Many Of the friends ofour free institutions
looked aghast at the prospect before them.
Those fell political diseases, Abolitionism
and KNOWN othingism, had taken such
deep root in the public mind that it SEEM
ed impossible to eradicate them in time
to preserve the Democracy or the Union.
Yet wc have had an abiding confidence
in the sobersecond thought Of the peo-
pie. Fortunately. the FIRST election in
the South came of in Virginia, with the
gallant and chivalrous Wisr as the Lead
er Of the Democracy. which stayed the
tide Of fanaticism; destroyed the vestage
Of KNOWN othingism; re-amrcd the De-
mocracy Of the Union with new argu-
nents, exposed the hypocracy and intol-
lorant spirit Of the enemy; gave new life
and energy to the friends Of civil and re-
ligious liberty; which aroused every IA.
ftionai man in the Union, as shown BY the
noble victory obtained in Maine BY those
standingo on the same national platform Of
Democracy; that caused the shouts Of
triumph and victory to resound in Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Indiana and
Pennsylvania. which gives the Democra-
cy 10 start with, in the next election fol
President and Vice President, los cleo
toyal votes. as follows: Virginia, Is; N.
! Carolina, 10; Tennessee, ia; Alabama, 9;
Texas. 4; Maine, 3; Georgia, 10; Penn
sylyania. 81; Indiana. l3.