Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1868-03-26
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COUNTY ORGANIZATION.
Mt. JACKSON, March "a, 1868.

MEssRs GArEwooD & TROUT Our District
has commenced the work Of organization under
the plan adopted by the Conservative Conven-
ton, and confident hopes are entertained that
we shall be able to bring our full strength
to the polls at the coming election, if proper
efforts are made to arouse he people from
their lethargy and depression.
Tho Superintendent OF this District has ap-
pointed the following named gentlemen Chiefs
Of Fitties in their respective neighbour oods,
and has furnlshe ed them with lists Of the regis
tered an also of the unregistered voters, as
far as they have been ascer,ained -
James NJ. Bradford, at Orkney Springs;
Erasmus F. Rinker, at Mt. Clifton;
Col. Levi Rinker, al Ripkerton:
Conrad Long, at Cabin hlll
Samuel Uamman. at Hamburg Dist No. l:
Rob't W. Harris, 1t Hamburg, Dist No. 2;
Christian Miller. at Miller's School House;
William Maphis, at Hawkinstown;
Dr. L. Triplett, Mt. Jackson Dist. No. |;
Lemuel Allen at Mt JacF son. D st. No. 2.
Il is the DUTY Of the Chiefs of Fifties to pro-
coed at once to divide their lists into tens and
to appoint a Chief for each ten, and also to see
that the unregistered are properly registered
when the opportunity was again offered, Of
which notice will be gven. They are requir-
ed to report to the District Superintendent,
and he to the County Superintendent. the
names Of nll voters added to their lists, and
any matters Of interest to the Conservative
parry.
AS the success of the plan of organization
depends greatly upon the zeal and activity Of
the various officers whose services are required,
it is earnestly hoped that each one will prompt
~ and faithfully perform the duties assigned
him, and DO everything in his power to promote
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the cause.
Many of our people have very naturally be
come disguised with political affairs and have
well nigh lost ali faith in republican institu-
tons They know that elections, as they are
conducted in the South under the RECONSTRUCT
ton progra mme, arc mere mockeries, and that
the will OF the people will not be regarded if at
variance with the views Of the Radical party.
The proposed action of Congress in the case
Of Alabama demonstrates that the Radicals
are not even willing to abide by the recon
struction acts, which We're declared to be an
ultimatum and finality, and it is not improba-
BILE that some plan will be devised to thwart
the will of the people of Virginia, lift hey should
reject the Constitution. especially after the Ex
ecutiye Department Of the Federal Government
has been reconstructed by the pious and sanity
Wade Hence it will be necessary to put forth
some 6XeTlOnS 10 UflilS lHc ptOpio W Tue pSllS
under these adverse circumstances.
1t is fortunate that the election of officers
will probably take place at the time of the
vote on the ratification of the Constitution. as
the personal influence and efforts Of the vari-
Gus candidates will secure large turnout
1t is also fortunate that the so called Conyen-
ton will frame a Constitution, which, apart
from the egro-sutfrage feature, will be an in
suit TO every respectable white man in the
State.
II is now evident that our noblest, purest
and most intelligent white people are 10 be
d;sfranchised and excluded from every office
of honor. emoument Or trust while the igno-
rant negroes are to be invested with the right
of suffrage AMI all the privileges of citizenship
in the Old Dominion.
The negro-sutfrage feature is itself sufficient
to damn the best constitution ever devised by
the wits of man, but when, IN addition to this,
it is proposed to treat he best class of our peo-
pie as unpardoned convicts, the Constitution
becomes doubly infamous. The negroes and
imported Yankees in the Virginia Convention
are not willing to grant to Robert E. Lee the
privileges which they willingly accord to those
who are but one degree removed from the GO
rilla in the wilds of Africa.
II remains TO be seen what reception this de-
grading proposition will meet with at the hands
Of the true and tried men of The State, who
have given the highest evidence of incorrupti-
bic patriotism and who have never been found
wanting in any emergency of peace or war.
Our town, which gears ago was supposed to
be finished. has recently started anew in the
course of improvement, and promises to be a
place of considerable business when the long
looked for cars arrive. Nature has provided
this neig hborhood soil of unsurpassed ferEil-
ity aAd productiveness. with every element
necessary to he prosperity and development
of country. but man has up to this time evin-
ced but little inclination to cooperate with ma
ture 1t is not, howeverva matter of surprise
that men of capital should be reluctant to en-
bark in new enterprises, under the present dis
organized condition of society and government,
and under the iniquitous system of laws now
in force, which encourage people to disregard
their contracts, and offer a premium for the
violation of solemn obligations. W. W. B.
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