Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-10-10

Your last issue will be read with inter-
est by our people, containing, as it does.
the proceedings of galvanized Ameri-
cam convention recently held in your
town. The policy Of the people seems to
be to send to the approaching convention
such men as can be best dispensed with in.
the community, and I presume your fell
low-citizens think the Bots will be pre-
valent in that august body, from the
efforts some people are making to be rep
resented therein by donkey. The reso-
lutions of the hybrid convention, which I
find in your paper, prepared by, and for
the benefit of, the .'Hon." Mr.. Rye, re-
mind me Of those of body Of Puritans in
Boston, who drafted two, in great soem-
nifty, as follows: ''Resolved, first, that the
saints shall inherit the earth; secondly,
resolved, that ice are the saints" If cold
Rye" has any particular or special acquain-
tances in your village, it should occur to
them as their duty to act as curators, take
his affairs in hand. and advise him when
he has a lucid interval to make his will,
for his approaching defeat will probably
SO derange his nervous system, as to re-
suit in sudden death. Tom Paine speaks
of one who rose like rocket but fell like
stick" It is to be hoped the good peo-
pie Of Shenandoah will bring forward
some man, whose past life will guarantee
something honorable and useful in the dis
charge of his duties, as their delegate in
this ceay important convention; for, to
send men to Richmond to aid in forming
constitution for this State. who are without
brains, principle or honor, whose past
lives condemn them, whose present exist
ence is reproach to their neighbors, and
whose future is ominous of so much dis
grace and ignominy, is Of all courses the
most suicidal aud ruinous. In order to
save the State of Virginia, we have a n.y.
Ola headed, deadly fanatical organiza-
ton to destroy. This party, with: its head
and front in the halls of the national le-
gislature, is rami6ed throughout the coun-
try; and everywhere, in every county, de-
mons in human form are meeting in Sc
cret and midnight conclayes to invent new
and more diabolical schemes to disturb the
peace and quiet of the community, as well
as,to engender spirit of hostility between
the races. And think it the duty of the
press, not as a sensation, but in all candor,
to forewarn the people of the danger that
may possibly result from these meetings.
There are but two parties now in this
State, the one composed Of Viryimians,
h. to&, IL, 4ho &c
the white men of the State; the other no.
thing more nor less than party of naur-
derers and naatricides-men whose hearts
are black enough to imbrue' their hands
in innocent blood /; for when they strike a
fatal blow to Virginia, they are of all
murdercrs the most accursed1 It is be-
yond the capacity of the human mind to
conceive of miscreant more foul and in
famous than one who would desert his
State in her hour of danger, and when the
echoes Of war have hsed to resound, to
return to prey upon and to destroy what
little of liberty she has been able to save
from the wreck If there is man in the
district whe wishes to disgrace himself and
bis posterity, and to bring reproach and
ruin upon the State of Virginia, let him
support the political cochatrice that was
Matched by your radical convention, and
his deed will place him on the long black
catalogue Of traitors, whose names have
been the foulest blots upon our country's
history and whose bones rot in unlament-
ed graves. The safety Of our wives and
daughters demands of US the defeat of
these foul and most toad-spotted traitors, !"
aad the honor Of the State appeals to us
no&to be recreant to the task, but to meet
manfully the most important duty ever al
lotted us to perform. a sE G.
Page County, Oct s. i~4.