Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-08-22
Y 90 STOCK, VA.
ES The majority of the radical papers

E The majority of the radical papers
manifest commemorate modesty in refer
ring to the removal of Secretary Stanton
by President johnson. The reason for
this affected moderation is apparent enough:
They can't find fault with the President
without including Gen. Grant in the SEN
tence Of condemnation. Gen. Grant has
already been nominated for the next pre-
sidency BY some Of the leading spirits Of
the republican party, and it would not do
to censure him for accepting the position
recently held by the ''honest Iago" of the
War Department. For once the radical
blood-hounds are nonplussed. They are
compelled to yield to superior force v'-
The poisoned chalice' might come to
their own lips They are too cowardly to
attack Gen. Grant openly for accepting
the office, but with clenched teeth and glar-
ing eyes they mutter their pent-up wrath
against the Southern people. They are to
be made to feel the heavy hand of oppres-
sion for the acts of the President. Their
leading men are to be disfranchised by
"liberal construction" of the reconstruc.
ton acts; they are to be prosecuted and
harassea for perjury; their property is to
con6scated and divided among the sswards
of the nation;'' and if that does not salts
fy the righteous malice of the party, they
are to be denied the use of fire and water
even, and driven out of the country -
All this is threatened by the party which
claims for itself more ''character, christian
faith and Devotion than any other party
that ever existed in this country! More:
every man holding Office in the five militia
ry districts, from Governor down to Town
Sergeant, who does not swear to be a will
ling subject of the imperial Congress, is to
be considered an 'impediment" in the way
of-the radical party and its purposes, and
must be removed and his place filed by a
3'loyal' man. Editors and publishers, too,
If they refuse to ''bend the knee to Baal,"
when they hear the sound of the radical
@'sackbut," are to be prescribed and starry
led into submission; and it will only be ne
'cessary for Congress to confer upon its FIVE
satraps the power to suppress the conserva-
tive press of the South to complete the
work Of converting US to the doctrines of
the radical party
DO we exaggerate? Does not every in
telligent man in the community know that
we do not? Does not every man know that,
from the highest to the lowest, the minions
OF Congress are using their little brief au-
thority to Cypress and harass the Southern
people? There may be some honorable
exceptions; but the rule is as we have sta
ted.
This state of things cannot last forever.
The iron grasp of the oppressor's hand
must let 60 its hold sooner or later. The
military dcspotism under which we groan
must have an end The moral sense Of the
nation is Disguised with the system Of pet
ty tyranny and partisan vengeance which
has been established. The government of the
country will pass into the hands of states
men taore patriotic than the mountebanks
who now control it, And the miserable
yankee exotics WHO now lord it over US,
taking from us our ri hts, will give place
to the young men who are now coming
upon the stage Of action, AID who have
had nothing to do with the rebcllion.-
We can afford to bear the oppresslG1s of
the present hour, ia view Of the glorious
liberty that awaits US in the future. In
fact, so far as we have suffered. it is i'm
mensely agreeable-and so refreshingl