The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-07-01

Ell But if it does, can the conscience Of ths
G guarantor permit him to halt before he has
? installed negro authority at the ballot box .o1
. every State in the North? Again. ask il
the essoppeli in favor of Virginia will not stay
the progress of Federal invasion of State SOW
!, ereignty, why should Congress hesitate to re
publicanize Michigan and Pennsylvania =
: But so far is this clause from justifying ali
this action, insist that the guarantor, by
reason OF that clause, is bound to arrest this
whole movement, to retrace its own steps, and
leave Virginia where it leaves Pennsylvania
Judge Story e Com. on Con-, oh. Al, p.
6S3) cites the Federaliat with approval, and
the citation is conclusive on this point. Tbs
writer Is commenting on the necessity of pro-
tectlng the state governments from assaults,
and the possible inability even in republic Of
the party in possession Of the Governments TO
defend itself without the aid guaranteed by
this clause. He then says: aMay il not
happen, in fne that tho minority Of citisens
may become majority of persons by the &C.
cession of alien residents Of q casual con-.
course Of Adventures, or Of those whom the
constitution of the State has not admitted to
the rights of suffrage | take no notice Of an
unhappy species Of population Astounding in
some of the States, who, during the calm Of
regular government are sunk below the level
Of men, but who, in the tempestous scenes of
OWL violence may emerge into the human
character, and give superiority Of strength
to any party with which they may associate
| themselves" =
How strikingly applicable to eur case! We
| have republican form of government which
IS ~ possession, under the sanction Of the.
United States, "alien residents, q casual con.
course Of adventurers," and ssthose whom the
constitution Of the State has not admitted to-
| the rights Of suffrage, have combined to over
throw the established government without
the authority Of the Legislature to make 8
new constitution, and TO erect this usurped
government over US, under the orders Of and
upon terms prescribed BY the military com.
mander Of District No II
Is not this the case contemplated by the
trainers Of the Constitution for the interposi-
ton Of the guarantor in our behalf-pot
against us2 And what would the writer's of
the, Federalist Hamilton, Jay and Madison).
say, could they rise and see the Federal Gov:
ernment lay aside tha shield for orr protection,
and take up the sword for our destruction /?
That Government, bound to guarantor, yetdss-'
troylag What it guarantees peryerting the
duty OF defence into Q power to assail .sthat
should against the murderer shut the door,
not bear the knife" itself! And to what can
we attribute such q state Of things, but to that
ambition "the spur to prick the side Of its in
tent" which s'yaulting will oyer leap itself,'l
and We hope will end in the fall Of usurpation
before the'well aimed blows Of free people.
Your career in the administration Of usttica
under law and Constitution, your distinguish
ed position in the House of Representative
and the pleasure derived by me personally il,
a former correspondence, induce me to offer
these views to your consideration, that, We may
have the benefit of your action, as represen-,
tative of State whose interest is identical,
with our own.
When the Federal authority placed the re
stored government" in the Capitol Of Vir-
ginia, her people submitted to its power and
to its laws. They do not gainsay that restorsv
ton. Every mau Of business took an oath to
uphold and defend it. We stand where the
Federal Government placed US, and we ask,
from that standpoint, how the United States
which inducted the restored government into
power, can declare their own act invalid set
aside the republican government it give 20 us
as guarantor, and all to fasten upon this mother
CammonWelth the dominion Of semi -barbar-
GUS racer? How can the United States asa,
guarantor, see the Legislature of Virginia for.
hidden to assemble, and her Governor cxiled
by military edict may, more, instigate the act
and see it perpetrated, without an instant Or
der to restore them How can the United
States justify and authorize, or see Withholding
terposition of its power as guarantor, its own
military officer take the treasury Of State
from its legal custody, draw from its Golfers mo-
pey without appropriation by law, appropriate
| it to purposes not authorized by LAW, and then
place it in the keeping Of his own appoiptees
as On officer of the army2
Ifthe people Of the United States will not
interpase to arrest these alarming usurpations,
| thedoom Of liberty is sealed To the peopleof
the North we appeal Their voice at the bal-
| lot boz is not yet suppressed. Ours is stifed
amid the glories, which attend the advent Of
the new dominion, under negro rule, to sub
stitute the Old Dominion, venerable with the
memories of Washington, Jefferson, Madison
and Henry rj Nssa
! am, very sincerely, your friend, q
| J. RANDOLPH Tucker,