Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1861-05-21
!. For the Ksnawha valley Star.
CoIERAIEE, April %, 1861.


by distance, fails the groanings of Black
Republicans upon the earsiof the loyal
Sontherner and honest man wherever be.
may ehancetto be-. Their faneied victory
in November has proved 10 be the gaul
of bitterness on theirlips, and the labors,
villainies, expressions, plumbers, frauds
and prosecutions Of a wanton, causeless
war Of thirty years upon the people ofthe-
South, which they, have waged. have
proved to beIfruitless and resultless 10
them so far as their objects aud aims are
concerned. In the day of their victory,
they are defeated /; ID the hour Of their
triumph they are destroyed. While they
sweetly sieptin enthusiastically, dreaming
of Fobberies past and others to come,
suddenly, in amazement and coasdernas
ton they were awakened to End that their
intended victim Mad eluded their grasp;
nay more-that he had girded on bis ar
mor-ihat the red white and blue already
hoated gracefully and gloriouslyinthe mild
Southern breezes, bidding defancesto all
foes, that his domain waslbrfstled with
bayonets, and blackened with frowning
cannon. They constantly hear the tramp
of armed legions, and well do they know
that he has only to raise his voice to call
around him armies of uncomfortable
men. and only to sign certain sailing doc
uments to sweep the last vestage Of Black
Republican commerce from the face Of
the ocean. No wonder that they groan
in the very agony Of soul. No wonder
that they shed tears Of blood, for they be-
gin to discover that step BY step they
must descend the ladder Of humiliation
until they reach the uttermost depths Of
political degradation, there TO wallow for
all time 10 come In their natural filth, and
there forever to drink the bitter cup,
drain the poisoned challice prepared for
the fair women aud brave men of an inn
perial South. This is retributiony dire.
but who can doubt its unquestionable
Justice 60. III
Virginia, by her glorious act Of the
18th, has crowned herself with immortal
honors, and shown to the world that there
is life and honor in the old mother yet
that those who have made the ignorant
and the idiotic chargefof cowardlce knew
but little ofsthose with whom they had to
deal. They viii find Virginians made Of
sterner stuff.
In q communication received from
Pennsylvania, written on the 7th inst. !
find the following paragraph: the
Wide Awakes wear oil cloth caps and
capes. The hottest ablotionists here are
now ashamed 70 say they voted for Lin.
coin, aud are trying to deny it. They
want Western Virginia. Her mining and
mineral resources are too valuable to be
Host, and they are willing to do most any
thing to retain her in the Northern Con,
! federacy."
Cute enough are the Black Republi.
cans Of Pennsylvania, and Of all Yankee
dom. They despise our wholeS people.
They not only would grind US pecuqarily
10 the earth, but did they only dare 70 do
| ii. their mufderous arms would Be raised
SO soon against US and ours that not 4
| Virginian, on her consecrated soihfcould
retire to rest this night with any certain
lty that before the morrew's sun should
t-rise his soul will not have taken its flight
10 the God that gave it.. Look at some
! of the fruits of this organization, and
laby their fruits ye shall know them: - 4
Behold the blood stained plains Of bleed
ling Kansas" Here my pen 81 poisoned
hoffors wrought, and deeply dipped in
1.-The waters of9The Styx, yet would i fail
to depict ii their true light, and genuine
colors the worse than barbarous scenes
enacted there. Could those once quiel
plains but be given tongues to speak
lifting their hoary heads in grief, they
would a.tale untold Of The most atroeieue
lcrusade which ever stained earth or ever
/ shocked high heaven r-instigated BY the
clergy Of a fanatical and inimitable reli.
Egion, such as is yet allowed amongst us,
and carried on by this same God -forsakeu
party which delights to riot in all the ex-
lcesses of blood and butchery, at the mere
details Of which the heart sickens and
recoils. /
The next place We beheld the black
| flag Of aboliionism, was actually IN oul
midst, floating over an arsenal on Virgin
ia's haIlowed soil. A band Of these
same Yankees. vainly endeavoring to stiT
up a seryile Instruction amongst us
succeeded IN numbering many Of oui
friends and relatives at the dead hour 81
midnight, when peacefully they slept,
happy in the consciousness Of having
| done right to all,-wrong TO none Has
Iapy Virpinian forgotten this ? Will i
ever be forgotten? Yet the ruling pow,
els in the United States Of America wor--
ship this ioary, headed scoundrel (their
Header, Jno. Brown as holy martyr
and a sairSss, and bid the world lock g
"the gibbet in Charlestown as being gio-
tribus even as the cross on Calvary. 10
Again let us follow these minions and
sTcophants of Chase, Seward and Lincoln,
over the beautiful plainssof devoted Tex
al In that Eden Of Ibis continent,
where all should be cheerful, gay, pros
porous and happy, what scenes met our
ewes, aud what were the sounds which
| fell upon eur ears The lovely village
ofto-day was q heap Of smOldering ruins
81 the morrow: families happy IN their
homes BY the hour Of midnight were
bouseless and homemlsss. Where our
relatives and friends were wont e drink
"a cooling draughts, they found, when
least they thought, the cup Of poison and
dsafb. The obedient servant OF to-day
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