Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-26
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2e, 1867.

Gg The radical leaders, not entirely
satisfied with General Grants views, az
express I'd in his late controversy with the
President relative to the removal of Gen.
erals Sheridan and Sickles, are pressing
him for more explicit ayowal of his SEN
tlments, in order that they may use them
IN the approaching elections. In addi-
ton to the power welded in their favor by
the untaxed bond-holders and the national
banks and their innumerable satellites: in
addition to host of demagogues who have
peen hired to travel from State to State
and from District to District. harangino
Che masses in the interests of radicaism ::
IN addition to the influence exerted bv a
corrupt press, subsidized by fat rewards in
the shape of public printing, publishing
the laws, &C.; in addition to the aid Civ
en- by hundreds of oath bound associations
designated as "Lincoln Clubs ssUnion
Leagues, the s'Grand Army of the Re-
public" and the rest; in addition to the
power welded by their political preachers
over the so-called religious element of the
North and West; in addition to the dirty
work performed by the thousands of pre-
clous scamps who Eli all the little Offices in
the land, with some honorable executions.
we say, in addition to all these corrupt in
fiuences and potential appliances, the radi-
Gals deem their organization incomplete
without the prestige Of Gen. Grants great
tame and influence with the great masses
of the people.
The patriotic conservative portion of the
country, in preparing for the contest be-
fore them, involving, as it does, the most
vital issues ever presented to the people.
should be as wise as serpents, or they will
be overwhelmed by this seething mass of
political corruption
40 secure substantial victory over the
ooth-bound, thoroughly organized, disci-
piled and armed mob that now threatens
to overthrow the constitution and laws of
the country, and to degrade and brutalize
our very social existence, will require an
effort almost super-human. It will require
the united, persistent, untiring excrtions
of all good men everywhere, regardless of
previous party associations.
A very small portion, if any, of the CO.
loted population of either section can be
relied on, if it were even in accordance
with our sense of propriety to invoke such
an influence on the side of the constitution
and laws: they have been "gobbled up"
by the radicals.
If saved at all, (and we doubt not that
1t viii be ultimately saved, from the ty-
ranny of mob rule, it will have to be done
by The white race-the educated, the res
pectable, unconquerable white race-whose
superiority to all races of negroes and mon
grels has never before been disputed. The
contest may be animated, but it cannot be
Of long duration; nor will it be sectional
contest, as the, radicals seem to think
True, the radicals may retain their ascen-
dency in the South for some time, but they
will as inevitably lose the Northern and
Western States, where the negro element
can have but little influence.
General Grants great name and inhu-
enoe, with all the combined appliances re-
ferred to, cannot rescue the radical party
from ultimate defeat, if the conservatives
will present the issues involved fairly and
squarely before the people.