Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-12-19
Shenandoah Herald.
WOODSTOCK, VA.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 10, 1867.
THE CONSERVATIVE STATE
CONVENTION.

CVN Elm 1lON.
We make no apology to the reader for the
space occupied by the proceedings of the
Conservative State Convention which as
sembled in Richmond on the 18th instant
They cannot fail to attract the attention of
every man who desires to see this glorious
old Commonwealth rescued from the dire
calamities with which she is now threaten
ed by the miserable crew of miscreants
and ignorant negroes who control the ac-
ton of the Constitutions, Convention now
an session, and who claim to represent the
sovereignty of the State Of Virginia.
claim so preposterously absurd, that it can
be regarded by the native whites with
feelings only of scorn and contempt
The Convention was composed of about
eight hundred delegates. representing ev-
cry county in the State, among whom we
recognize many of her most gifted sons
R. M. 7. Hunter, Willoughby Newton,
John R.Edmunds, j. B. Baldwin, A. H
Stuart, j. R. Tucker, Gen. Kemper, VIM.
Martin, T. S. Bocock, Ex-Gov. Letcher,
John I. Anderson, Wood Bouldin, James
Barbour, R. T. Daniel. and many others
who have rendered valuable service in
her sovereign Conventions and legislative
Assemblies in the palmy days Of her pros
perity.
Why this grand convoeation, this sol
emn council of Virginia. greatest and best
and wisest men, at this time? The re-
spouse has already gone up from thousands
of earnest, patriotic hearts, from the Po-
tomac to her most Southern boundary
from the Chesapeake to her Western
line, To saue Iarginia from fate more
to be dreaded than "Tesr, Pestilence and
Famine more degrading han military
rule, and more cruel than death-THE DO
MINATIoN OF THE IGNORANT NEGROES AND
THEIR TREACHERoUs WHITE ABETToRs =
So momentous a cris is demands the high
est degree Of talent, the most energetic
effort, and the most exalted patriotism =
] { it required the labors of Virginia's no.
blest and most gifted sons to strangle the
Alien and Sedition monster, how trans
cendantly momentous must be the occasion
which summons them to convene for the
purpose of saving her from being immola-
ted upon the altar of radical fanatcsm !!
TO the impolitic and anti-democratic re-
w1zIch called forth all the powers OF a ll.
ment and eloquence of Madison and his
no less patriotic coadjutors, the intelligent
white citizens of Virginia are threatened
with chains more calling than Egyptian
bondage, and more to be abhorred than the
Spanish lnquisition. The condition of
the besotted African heather, whose life
Is in the hands of his no less besotted ru-
Ter, who sits upon MS throne of CHASTITY
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human skulls, cannot be any worse than
ours will be, should the radicals succeed
an fastening upon us 81 ch Constitution
as the Convention now in session will be
most likely to adopt-yiz with unqualified
negro suffrage, which would fill the civil
"ihces, judicial stations and Legislative as
sem olles with negroes and their despicable
white allies; impose upon the property of
The State, which is almost exclusively in
the hands Of the whites, an onerous and
oppressive school system, which will be
almost entirely for the benefit of the ne
groes; and abolish ali else that is worth
preserving In our organic laws, and con-
sequently in our statutory code.
No note of discord, no Earring opinions or
temporising concessions disturbed the pro-
seedings Of this august body. The same
high impulses throbbed in each heart and
animated each bosom. Former political
asperities and party distinctions were laid
aside, and each one rose to the sublime
level of the momentous issues to be consi-
dered. What magnificent spectacle was
here presented, in this grand conyoeatiop
al venerable statesmen and noble PATRIOTS
representing all the intelligence, wisdom,
moral purity and christian virtue of Vir-
gina, as compared with the disorderly
mob of degraded and ignorant negroes
aud debauched and wicked white men.
which herded in the African Church in
april last As Hyperion to sstyr were
these mongrcl menageries to the Conser-
vativo Convention But we will not dis
gust the reader further with the odious
comparison.
We commend the plan adopted by this
Convention for the thorough organization
of the WHITE MANS PARTY In Virginia not
only to the Central and District Commit.
tees. who are already invested NTH -,