The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-08-21
The MutteTinssof The coming storm North.

me Muttcrinss q the coming storm North.
In reviewing the results Of the election in
Kentucky, the New York Freemcn's Journal
aud Catholic Register, speaks some 6rave
t'ueworas. We will be more pleased when
we see them carried out by acts 1t says :Is
= ''The fact is, it is almost laughable, If it
were not SO sad, to think how easy i would
be for the Democratic majority in these States,
North and South, to assert their power
if they had but organization, and the most
ordinary amount Of courage As it is, to our
damning disgrace as people, a Puritan M
nority are ruling us-and the managers Of
this minority are, physically. abject towards
What position for a great people, profess
ing popular Government.
/ Let us resume the courage of the old time
sunterrifed democracy" let us assert it
for North and South alike! Let us fight if
need be: the corrupt plutocracy that seek to
grind down the people IF we will only take
che trouble, as people, to learn the issues
before us, as the intelligent men Of Kentucky
have done, we will win without a conflict
We will put the cheating Bondholders under
our feet. We will pay Memcf i. their oaee
greenJachs /! We will not let them reap gold
for their greenbacks, while We have butgreen-
backs in exchange for the gold we used to
own. They talk Of amanhood suffrage"
Let them have it to the full . It shall not,
however, be, as in Tennessee, farce and a
fraud, manipulated by violence upon docile
people. It shall be-if they 50 will it, real
exhibition Of the popular power against the
monied few. IF the monicd few persist in
sowing the wind, we will give them the har-.
vest Of the whirlwind! The greenback- pa
per currency is rotten from beginning to end.
S. P. Chase, formerly Secretary of the Treas
ury, left that position with thirty millions Of
debt incurred, ,cithout corresponding vouchers.
The Treasury Department has been, and con-
tinues, a huge swindle upon the people. For
every million of real debt, the people are.
burdened with other millions Of fraudulent
debts. Revolution-if necessary bloody
revolutions our only escape. The fnan-
ces of the country are bankrupted by official
frauds, and the proofs will yet be forthcom-
ing that this is SO.
Kentucky has given us the rallying point.
Now let Pennsylvania, and Ohio speak, next.
The issue before us is one, at the same time,
Of manly principle, and of personal selfinter
est. The principle, Of manhood is this -
Will we let our States of the North be domi-
mated by Puritan minority, in Congress,
pretending to WELD the power of the South
ern States against us, when, in fact, they
have DISTINGUISHED the real people Of the
South, and have substituted for them the
ignorent rabble Of uncivilized and pagan ne
groes, who have stuffed the ballot-boxes with
whatever tickets the military power has put
in their hands. s.
The question of self-interest results from
this action. A few are to be benefited, but
the masses of the people at the North, are to
sink into subsection to the few cunning mani
pulators. These few are about to bring their
nominal triumph in Southern States, by ne
gro votes, to override our State dispositions
at the North. This is the end and aim of
the Black Republican party, that made war,
in 1861, to change our fundamental institu-
tons. u sasf
If we. yield, we are lost-for a time at
least and can never recover liberty but by
bloody war. Our evident duty is to meet the
issue at once s6
Civil war is terrible scourge 1t turns
houses into mourning; it sets neighbor in
deadly array against neighbor; it disturbs the
order Of society by deplorable excesses.-
Nevertheless, civil wars, Of frequent occur
renee, are part of the history Of the human
race We see all the conditions of war gath
ering, here, in our Nothern States It is to
be the war of the masses of the people against
the tew who are set on robbing them, and
against those proletaries that the few may
hire, or fool, to fight the battles Of monied
aristocracy against the bulk Of the people
If this battle must be fought, the sooner it
comes the better Old Kentucky shows the
way. Let Pennsylvania and Ohio fall into
line IF the elections result in restoring the
people to power, against the New England
all may be accomplished in peace.
[f not, thenit is a matter more evident than
most political events OF the future, that the
strong and bloody hand Of counter reyolution
Eilltakc vengeance on the usurpcrs that have
oppressed the people"
s Large Farms. ID gsa N
Since the emancipation Of slavery, says the
Winchester Times, it is impossible for great
many of ourlarge landholtlers to cultivate their
arms, and owing to this fact there is vast
mount Of good farming land now lying idle
This land instead Of being benefit to the
,wners is an expense, they paying taxes on it
III the fine, Now we think that thn hast