Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-07-18

and oil The South crouching in the dust.
and her children crying for bread. Debt
lowered up beyond the reach of arithme-
tic, algebra, or comic sections. Victuals,
taxes, and doctors bills were high and wa
ges low In the polite language Of an
clent Assyria, we were in "a devil of a
fix" and getting fxer and fixer every. day.
but Congress was going to meet, and all
things would speedily be rightcd up ''The
crooked places would be made straight and
the rough places smooth The silvery-
heired, brazen faced, iron-hearted steel
souled, leaden-witted sages of the nation
were assembling, and peace, harmony and
plenty would soon prevail Their wisdom
and pay-triotism would save the country
or rapture an intestine. Wcll-founded
were ell these bright anticipations-altesi-
an-well founded. You've done it Eight
months ago you met The war for the
integrity and indivisibility Of the ''glori-
Gus Union had closed successfully. BY
the stern arbitramcnt Of arms, secession
had been proved, net wrong, but impossi-
BILE. The ''rebels'' acknowledged them
selves defeated and their fayorite theory
improbable, had submitted to every ig-
nominious requisition of a President whom
they then had no reason to admire or love,
and presented themselves in persons of du-
ly elected and ''loyal' representatives, to
resume their old privileges and duties
even the delightful privilege of contribu-
ting few annual millions to relieve the
distress of the needy, not greedy, and pi-
Gus manufacturers Of New England At
ter for four or five years declaring to the
world, before angels and men, niggers,
devils and black republicans, that the I'm
ion could not be divided, that secession
was impossible, and that the war was pro-
secuted for no other purpose but the resto-
ration Of all the States to their former po-
sitions, when these States were forced to
submit for the present to your doctrines,
you suddenly whirled on your heel, swore
secession did take them out Of the Union,
slammed the door in their faces, and re
solved" forthwith that they never could
get in till your immaculate wisdom and
holiness should purge them from their in-
EQUITIES with bunch of hyssop known as
the martial-law-conQuered-p province freed
man bureau reconstruction plan. Andy
johnson, fer adhering to the very princi-
pie on which you nominated and elected
him, you have damned as traitor" and
threatened with death. After Offering him
more than imperial powers, because he has
refused to accept and WELD them for party
purposes, you have denounced him as a
''tyrant," and tried to horrify the country
with the hug-a-boo of his intention to
''usurp" what you have attempted time
and again to force upon him. Chosen
guardians of the Constitution, because lie
has seen fit to respect its time honored tea
chings, you have lathered him with abuse,
falSehoods and vulgarity enough to have
sunk a gunboat In these elegant bran
ches of legislative accomplishments you
have acquired much proficiency and world
vide celebrity that where anything would
formerly have been pronounced ga lie, " or
"foul as Billingsgate," it is now simply
said to be Congressional" Champions
''par excellence" of the African race, with
all your freedmen's bureaus and govern
ment rations, a million graves Of your Mig
ger brethren tell how well you've cared for
them, and loud as the archangel's trumpet
proclaim to all the earth your statesnanIke
philanthropy Chief opponents Of the doc
trine that ''the will Of the people is the SUI
preme law" yoa have boldly threatened
revolution and bloodshod, if necessary, to
keep your infamous minority in power
You've ground down~a nation whose very
bones were already cracking under noun
tain load of debt to feed and clothe race
of worthless vagabonds, made so by your
own acts. Like the great dragon Of the
Apocalypse. you've opened your yawning
throae, swallowed up everything that was
good, or great, or worthy Of praise; and in
retarn have vomited forth an innumerable
swarm of your "oficial' friends, who have
spread themselves over the whole length
and breadth of the land, devouring every
remnant that the war had left. But why
go On to enumerate your lustrous deeds D.?
You've entailed upon US an unspeakable
debt Of gratitude hasten the day
when we may be able to repay it with in
terest! You've done your worst. After
standing year of your rule we feel our
selves proof against the assaults Of the
world, the flesh, blue blazes, birthstone
and everything else What is loyalty"
according to your present creed? It is
nothing more nor less than believing that
a Niger is as good as white man. That's
all OF it done up in rotten egg she'll
That is the whole sum and substance, bone
and marrow, soul, gizzard and spirit of
it: and the man who holds this, is qualified
for any Office in the gift Of a 'loyal" peo-
pie, from Chief Justice down. Now, I'll
bet two polecat skins against the souls Of
the best two men in Congress, that be-
lieve this proposition more devoutly, and
am willing to carry my belief further than
Sumner, Stevens, Wilson, and the whole
kit Of you combined. I challenge all
Yankeedom, Africa, and Harriet Beecher
Stowe to go ahead of me in it. For py
every nail-head in the coffin Of Freedom,
[ believe that niggers are not only as good
but that they are far, for better than many
white. including at least nine-tenths o.
our distinguished congressman, governors