Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-10-03

Uhotty unlnteatondI! And no wonder thew
demand emancipation from those political
leaders. who have hitherto so ordered things,
thdt the voace Of thepeople could be fairly cypress
ed. They know full well that with that voice
fairly expressed they necessarily and Of their
own weight sink so low that the hand of res
direction will never reach them! They know
that by that voice this county has already adj
judged to them the fate of guilty, debauched
and drunken Belshazzer: that they have been
weighed in the balance and found wanting
They know full well thata party which stole
into office almost before the sound of the hos
tile cannon had died away, and in opposition
to the expressed wishes Of their own Governor,
| and who lave shamefully remained in official
position ever since in utter defiance of the
| known sentiments of deeply injured and
grossly outraged people, have nothing to ex
pect at their hands They know that party,
whose leaders and whose present nominee have
been diligently engaged in efforts the most per-
severing. unfair and outrageous, to prevent
full registration by baseless challenges by
threafs and intinidations Of every description,
and thereby to deprive every man who could
by possibility be reached by the most stringent
rules and strained interpretations of law
already as harsh as a radical Congress had
been willing to make it, of the most precious
right Of American citizenship. They know that
it is useless for such party and such a man to
solicit the SURFACES Of those whose rights were
thus sought to be sacrificed to the Moloch of
party and selfish greed for Office. They know
that such solicitation will be received with
coldness, scorn. derision, and unmitigated
contempt. They know that when they are so
destitute Of merit and brains, as to be compelled
in their own estimation or at the dictdtion of
:her chief to lock beyond this county to a far
off, wooden clock peddling, wooden nutmeg
vending puritanical, nasaltwanged Massachu-
sets for the poor, pitiful office of the county
clerkship, that the people viii consider them
utterly unworthy Of any trust. They know
that Virginians will never tolerate any party
which imports upon them office seekers and
office holders from abroad, and especially men
whose only recommendation is that they are
constrained to seek their fortunes abroad as
oducntauers, as negro league makers, as anti
President swearers, as intermeddHng interlo-
pers, seeking not plerely a home among us
with a view to cast in their destiny with US
and to become one with us, but to disorgo7izc
our society, array one class against another, and
to SOW the seeds Of discord the irebrands Of
hatred and of strife, broadcast among the very
people whose support and whose money they
seek.
Let us not be misunderstood. We have no
objection to immigration among us of honest,
trustworthy men from the North. who come to
make their homes among us and to ntermn-
gle their interests and their symnathies with
ours; and although we would prefer that they
should be conservative i'll sentiment and feel
ing, yet if they such IS attend to their own
business and do not become brawlirg dema-
gogues and disturhers OF Our society, we will
not closely inquire into their views and poll
+ or1 4 raColntin0e \
The first demands "a free school system, al
neces sary' to q perfect Republican form Of
Government. Under this we remark, one
thing is certain, ifthe government we nor here
is the prodNct Of the free school system, such
as these men want to introduce, Heaven save
US from it If the present is the perfect mod
el of a Republican form of Government, the
less we have Of it the better This article
has been already so much prolonged that We
will defer what we have to say about this mat
ter until next week, when we propose to ven
tilate these resolutions freely.
La the meantime we would simply remark
that they propose to educate every body at
pubisc expense. Jl0ch end ,ch5fe--and abolish ali
captation ta1 and license thus throwing the
the State--upon the men who have been indus
trious and accumulated something. The whole
thing is contained in nut shell. The negroes
and others who have little or no property are
to do the U0ting to create the expenditures
to realize the benefits and the distronchtyed
and The property holders are to play the piper
while these dance in all the abandonment OF
idleness ana sloth