Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-10-24
Correspondence Of the Herald.
ExCHA NOE HOTEL.
FREDERICKSBURG, VA, Oct,

vote to the HERALD | ascertained by my
trip that Zcph Turner of Rappahannock was
the nominee for the Convention from that
county, R. Taylor Scott, Esq, from Fauquier
j. L. Marye, Jr., Esq, from fredericksburg
aud Spottsylvania, and t. &. S. Hunter from
King George, all good conservative ant-repub-
lean sghite men. Also Fayette Many and j.
Al. Bolts from Culpeper, the latter being the
champion Of his negro brethren. The negroes
IN these counties have also selected men to be
supported by them and their infamous allies
at the coming election and the contest is al
ready begun on the hustlngS. l learn that
the nominees OF these negroes and profit gate
''whle men OF color" are not coming to time
in the CANVASS perhaps frem proper appre-
citation Of their ignorance and worthlessless
and a Discrimination to be dissected in such
way as the able and talented gentlemen who
oppose them would likely do. There is no
peace now, the war has been carried into CAT
RIGA" and though bloodless, the conflict will
nevertheless result in the utter defeat and
death of the radical party in this State.
! There are but two parties, one for the coun-
| try and the other against it; one striving to
make Virginia as she was, slavery excepted,
a home where worth and honor could dwell,
and an asylum for the oppressed of all coun-
| tries the other using all their might to sub
vert the entire structure Of our government
and / prostitute the powers Of the legislative
department to subserve and further their ne
farious and unholy devices There can posi-
bly, be no middle ground in this matter; no
excuse for apathy and dead Indifference; all
are interested; the property, lives and honor
| OF every man, woman and child are at stake:
the friends Of self government and freedom
must be our allies or our enemies; and ours
must be an active, not a passive, friendship
Tho arotx .
every citizen, no matter whether he occupies
a position OF prominence or insignificance in
the State, his entire and most arduous efforts
TO batter down the walls of fanaticism, and TO
destroy its stronghold in our midst; for, Just
SO long as this party is in the ascendency,
will our rights, our interests, our property,
and our honor be assalled. 1t is merely
| question Of time; one or the other party must
| sink, and that forever; both cannot flourish;
there must not be two suns to light the world;
right and wrong cannot prosper at the same
! time
''Secret wrongs shall never prosper
While there is sunny right
If We wish to live under schite mans gov
ernlnent and to transmit such one to poster
lty, we must mite all our powers in opposing
the purposes of this fanatical monster this
internal radical organization. The escutch-
presence, by the ahstergent powers of public
contempt for any who adhere 10 it. Public
1 opinion properly directed will root out and
destroy the last vesige of its execrable growth
in the State.
The celebrated maxim Of the cyne Diogones,
''Choose good people for your friends, that
they may encourage you to do what is right:
and the wicked for your enemies, that they
may hinder you from being wicked is as APP
propriately applied to political parties as to
| individual companions, and it should be the
motto and watchword Of every lover of free
government in the State.
! Whatever may be the sentiments of others,
am uncompromsingly opposed to a Conven-
| ton. Why? Because it will prove an addi-
tional and useless expense; nothing will be
gained by it. Getting into the Union, $50
called" under the reconstruction bill will not
| increase our pecuniary or literary wealth, but
will place the white men beneath the negroes
and rob us of everything that contributes to
make life endurable. IfVirginia is in solitude
now, she can well exclaim, if admitted into
the Union in conformity to the requirements
/ of this fanatical Congress, ''My solitude is
solitude no more, but peopled with the furies."
And the fourteenth amendment to the Consti-
tuition, whose ratification IS a sine qua non to
our readmssion, and then the test oath that
must be taken by our s.misrepresentatiues," who
could take the one or vote for the other ex-
cept the character described in Byron's Don
Juan, ''cold- blooded smooth faced, placid
miscreant'? If such step is worthy of our
action, it must certainly be worth our deliber-
alton and long and anxious generalization. for
it carries with it the future existence Of the
State. My powers of perception finite
and weak, but with the combined exercs of all
of them, fail to see the slightes thope for the
State if she re- enters the American Union,
'so-calied." upon this plan. The shout of
applause that her enemies will send up, as it
rings upon the ear, will be her dirge, her sol
emn, last, and final reguem and oh the hor-
rors of that death---a death that never dies
caused by the act of her recreant, perfdious,
and craven hearted sons. Who in all Chris
tendon will hewail our fate Who will la
ment Yirginia's fall? Who will weep over her
mangled and inanimate form Aye, will she
not lie brutally murdered, sswithout a grave,
unknelled, uncefined, and unknown" Would
to God she could rise in her majesty and might,
to crush the poisonous asps that crawl up
on her bosom, mingiing their venom with her
| life-giving current; serpents that, in her be-
nevolence and love, she has brought to light
and nurtured to age alas, some have reached
the declining years of life and have grown
gray in their efforts to ruin her, to these she
should deny graves; they are unworthy de-
cent and christian interment.
There is q National Cemetery here contain
ing, with the other cemeteries in the county,
some ten or fifteen thousand bodies the great
| err portion of WHICH were sacrificed by priest
named Burnside. If we could place in the
same august assemblage the bodies of old
Thad and Sumner, the one might find pana-
cea for his head which contracted sore in
ante belluw times from Brooks of South Caro-
/ lima, and the other begruntled and villainous
old traitor might find compensation in Satan's
Golfers for his er-memorable iron works. If
both go 70 perdition at once, the devil will
send i'll his resignation {.