The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-06

the country. The message is calm, dig |
nifed, and terrible # insane tyrants
have voted it down in Congress, it may
prove to the country the signal-gun to
awaken the people to the vindication
and preservation Of their liberties. The
Jacobins Of France shouted, hooted and
ribalded as Stevens & Co. do now, and
yet Robiespiere and Danton died under
the swift gliding axe of the guillotine-
such may be the fate of eonspirators
here.
But let things turn as they may, Presi-
dent johnson has done his duty. If he
had done Or said nothing before to az
compiish it, this message would give
him niche in the temple of fame, by
the side of Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son and Jackson.
This much we have said of the military
despotism, established over the States of
the South by the ever UNANIMOUSLY to be
remembered Thirty. Ninth Congress,
which has just expired. We have not
lauch more TO sly at present, but we
cannot pass from the subject, without
asking the question, who has committed
this outrage upon the old CommonWealth
of Virginia, the mother of States?
What say ye, bloody parricides of the
Northwest, did ye strike the great
heart of your old mother, from whose
very loins ye were cut, from whose
generous nipples ye sucked the milk of
your infancy? Yes, the guilty blow is
upon your polluted garments, and the
deep, dark, damning spot will never
out. We wish this We're alive wish
we had no others to arraign, than the
representatives OF SIX Of the great
Northwestern States, which Virginia
freely, generously, magnanimously gave
to the Union, and to freedom. Was
there no memory there for the iilustri-
Gus Vi,ginians, George Washington,
who led the armies of the Revolution,
Thomas jefferson, the author of the
Decaraf ion of Independence, James
Madison, the father of the Constitution,
Patrick Henry, whose eloquence en-
kindled and lighted up the fires of the
Revelation? Alas! No, the heart
there was dead, the memory oh.
livious, Puritanical fanaticism filled
hearts, which knew how to hate and be
jealous of, instead Of loving the warm
hearted and generous s,outherners, Vir-
giniaas, upon whose magnificent domain
they fed.
But the roll Of intamy does not stop
here--as the Xustrious West Virginia
delegation, (the Lord save the mark J
Senators and Representatives, voted to
perpetrate this Ubiquitous outrage upon
Virginia and her sister States of the
South. or the representatives they
are obscure men who most of the time
reposed in "sleepy Hollown in the
House, and were heard mainly when
Thad. Stevens walked them up to vote,
and therefore we pass them by--of the
Senators, Mr.. NanWinkle, a Northern
man by birth, but q man Of sense, we
had some slight hopes, as he tried seve-
raj times to break loose from the Kadi-
Gals, but was whipped in-but of Mr..
WilIey,a Virginian born, d man who
has been identified with the legislation
of the old State in some of her highest
trusts, a lawyer OF standing, christian,
an orator of no mean pretensions, q
member of the State Convention Of 1861, |
who voted in that Convention against
Secession, but yielded to the decision of
the majority, and went home to counsel
his people to prepare for war, but back
ed out when q Senatorship was dazzled |
before his eyes, and was one Of the main |
spirits engaged il severing the old State |
in twain, the leading stump orator all
over the State last fall defending the /
Radical party against the charge Of
favoring negro equality, and negro suf-
frage, and yet here he is, g cheek by |
joWf' With iuritanieai Yankees, and |
degenerate Northwestern men, whet-
ting his bloody beak in tho very vitals
Of that noble old mother who had nursed /
and care.sed him. ana Of whom ne once /
protested 10 be 50 proud. PIC, re, .aa, /
for shane!