Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-12-13
FaIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER,, Is, 1861

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FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER, Is, 1861.
ai,s There hss been no greater farce enacted,
! n the present age, than the attempt ct So
called reconstruction q the Soufheyn States,
under Congressional enactments Fhe par
ieslegislated into snffragans and law makers
by partizans politicians, and for partizan pur-
poses alone, are about as fitted for the trust,
as a Laplander to write essays on tropical
productions, or Rocky Mountain Trapper
to cxpatiate on the currents of the ocean. In
all the States where the mongrel Conren-
lions, legislated into existence by Radical
Congress are in session, there is fear and
trembling as to the eztrenaitses to which they
/ NAY 60. Gen. Pope would give the world
could be stayethe Demon which Radicalism
8 has aroused in part Of his Dominions, once
called Alabama. His efforts have proven
ffuitless, and reconstruction q goes on with
: vengeance there The same causes pro-
duce like results and Virginia will prove no
: exception in the.cscpcrieace Of hybrid con
'ventiona: 1f'anything, there is less knowul
edge and sagacity, or. in plain terms, more
Ignorance among the Radicals in the Eir-
gina ICoasention, than among the same
elass IN the other State Conyeutsoss (which
hare already assembled. .We.can therefore
expect more extreme measures here than
elsewhere. There is one consolation, how
aever. 10 be derived from the 1extrenitics to
sahich the colored Radicals are likely to 60.
That is; 4 more terrible awakening ,sof the
situation into which radical folly has;plunged
the country q. 1.-the nero fact Of Radicalisn
having forced'negro suffrage upon the South
ahas aroused our Northern brethren sufi-
GENTLY to cast aside that party. with loath-
ing and disgust, as witnessed in the late
elections. what must be the effect of witness
ing negro legislation in the South, with a
considerable prospect Of negro domination
throughout the whole country Z No one can
shaye sobseyred, the causes which lied to the
late conservative victories, without being
isble 70 satisfactorily answer the question and
to sec n good result must follow the very ex-
tremities into which Southern Radical leg
islatioH is hurting itself, We would de-
reiedly prefer to see them run to the length
ioftheir tethcr in this State AS means Of
doing this we would like 70 see every Con-
seryatiye withdraw from the Convention, in
Which they, have but little voice, Or at least,
not correct thclignorance Of the radical n,en,-
Sbera, or inform them on important subjects,
OF which they haze not a conception, but
allow tiemS 70 go on'in theirlcgislasien until
they gettinto that foreshadowed cntangled
condition, from which the legal acu1ncn 60
of Underwood VIII not be able to cxtricate
them, nor forty Philadelphia Lawyers be
sble to ellwhat they mean. Then for an
sxposisieh sef their ability to vote and iegis-
late, end Of ths Radical folly which placed
iss pets nso false n position. If conserya-
sism VIII keep its hands of, We will witness
such a. denouaurnt, and Radicalism. will
chen find that the clarion cry Of Universal
Suffrage which it sounded vas but lts own
death kncll. God speed the day and with
Il the return Of peace and prosperity to our
long opprcs led land.