The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-10
The Conauerors Conquered.

The Earl OF Chatham proclaimed LII the
British Parliament, very near a century
ago, ''that three million Anglo Saxon A
mcricans, fighting for their independence
and rights, as free-b born men, once over
powered and conquered and held down by
military force, would be sufficient, when
welded by despotic power, to crush the
liberties Of the rest Of the British empire. !"
His profound observation is likely to be
soon confirmed in the history THE Ameri-
can Republic. The stronger section Of
the Union, welding the whole power Of
the common government, succeeded in
crushing, by arms, the aspirations Of the
weaker section for independence and self
government. In order to carry out their
arduous undertaking, the Northern peo-
pie (for the time only, as they fondly sup
posed, consented to surrender their llber-
ties into the keeping Of the government at
Washington
The war has closed North has con-
quered-the South lies PROSTATE and help
less at the feet of the government. The
Radical party, which assumes to be the
| government, is fast drawing all powers Of
the States and people toward the Central
Despotism, which despotism it is deter
mined, at all hazards, to control in its own
interests. heconquering section becomes
FESTIVE and alarmed-thc shadow Of the
despotism which shrouds the South in
gloom, steals Northward; the signs Of the
times indicate surely that large MAORI
ty Of the sufrages Of the Northern States
will be cast, at the approaching general
elections, against the party in power. But
the people Of the original free States will
bemet at the door ofthe Electoral College
and in the halls Of Congress, with the over
whelming powers which they have conf
ded to the Central Despotism, for the pur
pose Of crushing the liberties Of the South
| The vote Of fourteen Southern States (fol
Kentucky and Maryland will inevitably
meet the fate Of their Southern Sisters
which they hoped to avoid by "loyalty' to
"the old flag, y together with the minority
vote Of the North, which will likely be
cast for the Radicals, will give that unscru
pulous party another four years lease o.
power and less time than that will suffice
for their reckless boldness and energy to
complete their scheme Of despotisln for the
whole country.
We may be considered visionary in these
representations, but no careful and can
did observer Of the times can doubt that
this is the programme. By disfranchise-
ment Of the whites and enfranchisement
Of the negroes, tie Radicals expect to use
the whole influence Of the South to con-
solidate and perpctuate the power of their
party. in spite Of the protests Of the North;
OF in other words to use the conquered to
subduc the conquerors.
In an able article, that sterling journal,
the National Intelligencer, well and truly
says: "The programme is plainly develop
ed There is not space i'll single article
to comment on it; but it is but simply
this: The Radical party managers, fore
seeing their loss Of political power in the
Northern States, are preparing to make
up their losses by the means Of military
despotism in the South Fearing the in
fuence Of the Border States, they have
determined TO reduce Kchtucky and Mary
land, to begin with, to the same status as
the ten Southern States hitherto subjected
to Radical military control. Having by
fraud and violence, by the outrageous dis
franchisement Of white voters, and the
fraudulent multiplication Of negro votes
secured to tliemselvessthe political power
Of these twelve-and with Tennessee.
thirtoea-states, they Will be ready to
deal likewise with any Northern CT West
ern State that dares to elect Senators and
Representatives who will not submit to
the dictates Of the Radical cabal and
Whenever it becomes necessary for the
preservation Of the supremacy in Congress
Of Tie Radical faction, the delegations
from New York and Pennsylvania and In
diana, and other Northern States, will be
subjected to precisely TIE same process as
that already applied to Kentucky, and
soon to be applied to Maryland.
Thus military dcspotism, with all its at
tendant frauds and outrages, will be ex-
tended over State after State throughout
the whole Union. This is what is in store
for the deluded and betrayed people Of
the loyal Northern and Western States.
Their loyalty and their rights under the
Constitution are to be measured only by
their allegiance to the Radical revolution
airy cabal."
A Loyal Blood Hound in the Sur
raft trial, now in progress in Washington,
SWear IFS that he heard Miss Annie Surratt