Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-08-27
Gov. Peirpoint at Harrisonburg.

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Peirpoint addressed the citizens of Rockingham |
at the Court House in Harrisonburg. If the
editorial articles in the Register and Old Com
2aonaoealM are true opponents ofthe sentiments
of the people of that great county, we do not
think that the views presented by Gov. Peir-
point met with much response in their bosoms.
The following are extracts from the Register:
''Gov. Peirpoint speech was chiefly an at
tack upon the University of Virginia, William
and Mary, and the College and Institute at
Lexington, contending that they were for the
benefit of the rich, and asserting in the face of
the fact, that no rich mans son can be educated
there free of charge, and in the face OF the fact
that poor mans son can, and that every year
there is place for the poor boy, free of charge,
and for the rich never; in the face of the truth,
that the University is the first institution of
learning in America, and second to none in the
world In short, Gov. Peirpoint is a leveler,
and leveler from the ditch, and it is more
than even a slave can bear to listen and not cry
shame against the principles of anarchy mobo-
cracy, and negroism, which he promulges in his
small talk in low flung style. We don't know
what Hunnicutt can have said or done worse
than Gov. Peirpoint. Surely he could not have
performed his part in worse style. We have
never read or heard such speech from mortal al
man before.
Governor Peirpoint has been here the man
that deserted Virginia to become the Governor
of Virginia; that discovered Virginia to become
Governor of Virginia that established gov
eminent distinct and separate out of part of
Virginia to be Governor of Virginia that left
the good men of the State to be the chief of
bad men. His speech was worthy of him who
would desert his people by reason of their phys
ical weakness, and adhere to their enemies by
reason of their flesh pots
"There is nothing politically that we know
he is fit for in the times when governments are
well established, and is only fit in troublous
times to be an exhibit of how low and how fallen
dents for their chief magistrate
Commonwealth
ellis Excellency, who probably has deputlzed
some one to exercise the pardoning power in
his absence, over negroes and loyal convicts,
while he made a stumping tour through the
State, delivered himself of a speech before the
sovereigns of Rockingham county, on Monday
last Court day.
GA large crowd assembled to SEE him, and
enjoyed themselves hugely over the big show
and the side shows that accompanied him.
'The Governor occupied the greater portion
! that it was more respectable to be an ignoramus
| than an educated man. We suppose his excel
lency knows his own condition, and we cannot
| find it in our heart to censure him for defend
| ing himself We know now the reason that he
could not find anything in the character of
| Stonewall jackson to admire, and therefore re-
fused the use of the Hall of the House of Dele
gates, to party to deliver a eulogy upon the
character of this distinguished General, but
granted the use of the same Hall to strong
minded woman of Massachusetts, Of the Lucy
Stone persuasion, to lecture In. Oh, consist
ency,. what jewel thou art!''
! Judging from the manner in which he han
died Scripture in his speech, we are not sur
prised at his disappearing Of the preaching Of
the Richmond Ministry, as we do not think
there is one of them ass enough to approve of
the manner in which the Governor spouts pol
itics, scripture and scriptural orders at an as
sembly Of people.
Gov. Peirpoints compaign.
The following extracts are from an editorial
article of the Enquirer and Examiner:
Casting aside then any interest it (the Whig)
may have in Peirpoint personal fortunes, we
can but regard with astonishment its applause
of his course in traversing the State as he is now
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party by whose success the suffering people of
Virginia" have everything to lose and nothing
to gain If we shape our action in accordance
with policy alone as the Wing advises, is it
not infinitely better to vote down a convention
and remain under the present military govern
ment rather than under a Radical State govern
ment, even with the "amiable Peirpoint' as
executive? Let Missouri with its Radical Leg
islature and judiciary answer y
| 'Peirpoint, Langston, Cromwell and the whole
crew, white and black, of Radical ''orators, -
who are now srumping the State and haranguing
mongrel ceilings at the court houses and cross
roads, are laboring solely in the interests of the
| Radical party. No matter what specious
pretences any of them may make, Radical sue
cess is their object, and Radical success means
in Virginia, what it means in Missouri and in
Tennessee. Radical defeat here means what it
means in Kentucky and in Maryland.
| We, therefore, renew our appeal to the public
men of the State to take the field, and when
ever these miserable Adventures of the Per-
point school dare to come before the people,
| let the wretched juggery with which they cover
| up their atroclous schemes be exposed to pop
| ular derision and indignation. They were the
! first to commence the contest; let us quickly
make the last of it. They were the first to take
the field, let us make them the first teleave it. "
ADDRESS OF HENRY A. WIsE-A tele-
graphic dispatch from Richmond says: "Ex-
Governor Wise delivered an address at the
Washington and Henry Academy to day. He
said that we all now owed natural allegiance
to our country, and any oath to support its
| Constitution or oath of registration, was vio-
lation of that Constitution. There is now an
effort to make the white freemen of the South
subject to the domination of the black freedmen.
| Against this we must appeal to the white masses
of the North, who will not permit the sacrifice
of natures laws to political prejudice. The
whites of New England the Middle States, and
Europe must not keep out the South by black
rule. This is the white man S land and must
be kept open for the white man. He said that
to avoid the national dishonor of repudiation the
interest on the national bonds must be reduced
to four and half per cent, that interest taxed,
and the whole debt consolidated; then the rich
would stop boarding bonds He urged his
audience to renew their allegiance to their coun-
try, and never desert the Constitution; to
preserve the purity of their race and blood and
labor increasingly to live in peace and plenty. !"
Radical Prescription.
The County Court of Shenandoah county, of
which the Radical, George Rye, is the Presi-
ding Justice, made the following order:
For reasons appearing to the Court it is
ordered until further orders, that the officers of
tbic fto,1rt aDd tboco ovooutIpr tho or1orc do