Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-07-31
Virginia Correspondence.

sons concerning the mornings or The
Reconstruction policy of Andrew
johnson, that loyal Americans could
possibly desire Ia every county, so
far as | have heard, Rebels oaty have
been chosen to fl our town and
coupty offices one qualification only
being requisite to ensure success, ha~
tired to the invindble Yankee ration,
and undying devotion to the putrid
carcass of the dcfunct Confederacy.
la Frederick County, OF which Win
chester is the shire town, an ex-con~
federato Colonel was elected to tie
Sheritality, whose principal recolnen-
dation TO his constituents was, that
his persecution OF union citizens con-
tinues, now the war is over and his
hostility toward radicals is Of the
real Virginia stripe. The present
condition of Virginia, is the result Of
Governor Pierpont's loniency toward
his offending hrethern for it was
through his influence alone that reb-
els were roinslated in their political
rights, and ta4V placed upon loyal
ty, which bids fair to paralyze all
Union efforts in the Old Dominion
for the next generation. Poor old
man forsaken by the party which
elevated him to power, and now
hated and despised by rebels, his
sray hairs will descend in surrow to
an ignoble grave Having like Esau
sold MS birthright foi mess Of pot
! ba IN, 4
he is evidently seeking it with strong
cries and tears.
How many of our heroes and states
men, under the pressure of govern
ment patronage and power, will de-
scend in like manner to their politi-
cal graves, time alone will determine.
Webster, by the political Vacilation
of his last days lost the prestige Of
4 his GOD like rame and CHARACTER.
Seward is gong IN tie same tracks,
while Andrew Johnson will stand
i SIDE by side with John Tyler and
Benedict ArnoId III annals Of Ameri~
can history. The Presidents Recon
struction plot like many western
town looks we'll and wonderfully
nice on paper, but, as a certain cler-
! gy man said to ne the other day,
whose proctivities, previous to com
ing to Virginia were Johnsonian if
! the conservatives of the North and
! W est want to see the GrUter tail and
hoots, in all his hideousness, let them
come south, and spend q few weeks
prospecting, and if they don change
their political way OF thinking, why
salt wont cure them.
Party ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is the pri,
nal cause Of all the excitement now
raging with such fury in the great
! political nautdroa, Of The nation, and
nothing but the firmness and unity Of
/ eho North and West, is going to save
as from the fatal macistroom to which
Andrew Johnson is now guiding us.
| do not write thus because have
any personal grudge AGAINST our
hon0red President, but standing as
do upon Virginias reconstructed soil
Uhero rebeis rnla md TREASON is 9.lsf
epCe ience, | should be recreant TO my
duty as an American citizen, if | did
| not express the honest conviction of
my better judgement. One thing is
certain union men are now passing
through an ordeal, everywhere nthe
south of which they knew compare
lively nothing, before the inaugura-
ton Of the present Joinsonian nro-
gramme and what will be tle clos
ing SCENES in the drama the Lord
only knows.
The Frccdmen's Bureau may get
get the agency in the hands Of the
American pc pie for saving the ma
ton as its agents are loyal, and
watch with an eagle eye the deep
laid schemes of southern dls.oyalists
for the rcsuscitation Of their idol con
foderacy. 1t requires some stamina
of character to be a loyalist in Vir-
ginia. At the close Of the war, Feb
els could he seen slulking through
society like 50 many prairie wolves
on the borders of civilization; but
to day, they stand out as the repre-
sentatives OF ohnsonian reconstruct
/ ion; which Is the knock dorm and
drdq oW argument, IN use among reb-
els ever since the days Of Cain. We
csteela ourselves Fortunate that a
standing army Is still kept within re-
constructed Virginia, and search y Il
week passes but there is a necessity
for the interposition of o military
force, in protecting some loyalist
from the hands Of domineering rebels
OF to. save some darlies head from
the battle axe or his neck from the
halter Your readers can never
know the deep interest the friends
Il of liberty in the south feel, in regard
to the approaching fall elections in
the North and West. Our salvation
in this country depends upon your
votes if yea forsake us, we are gone
if you stand by us we are redeemed.
If the union party is defeated in tae
coming Congressional elections, not
Q southern state will ever ratity the
strnction policy Of the present
/ Congress, if large majority Of 10y
4 alists are reelected, the labors df the
present Congress will not be lost
upon the nation, and the cause Of
! humanity viii achieve another victo-
/ ~. Maryland is struggling against
a recreant Governor, and it is doubt
ful how the contest will'go their
only hope IS IN the God Of Justice,