The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-07-08

gloom and desolation through which we have
passed during the last few years. uLaok not
too mournfully into the Past. It comes not
back again. Wisely improve the Present.
1t is thine! Go forth to meet the sbadowv
future without fear, and with manly heart
may well now be the motto of every Virgins
Ian and every Southern man. "Peace hath
| It's victories, no less renowned than war" and
the calm, accomplishing and digniied sub.
mission OF the people of the South to the pit
| Hess peltlngs Of fate during the last three,
years, condemned as they have been to u
strictly passive position throughout that
whole period, reflects, if that we're possible.
even higher honor upon them than all the.
glorles Of their hard fought campaigns For
myself, l have no doubt that the day of our.
political deliyerance is at hand. The spe..
clous pretexts with which the leaders Of tn.
radical faction deluded the people of the.
North In time Of War, can no longer avail in
| a period of peace. The repeated and mons
trous violations ofthe Constitution by the
radical majority in Congress the violence
which they have done to the very instincts
o. the white man, BY attempting to place the
African upon platform Of political equality
Win the White race the enormous taxatioa
which now weighs like an incubus upon th.
industrial interests of the country, and which
radical measures alone made necessary. and
the tact-now patent to the whole world
that nothing but the now dominant party in
Congress and their schemes stand in the way
OF the perfect restoration of the Union, will
all conspire to make up against them a popr-
lar verdict which will consign them to that
grave OF political humiliation in which none
Will do them reverence or regret their fate.
In the political heavens the thunder already 4
mutters In the far distance, and the cloud sur
charged with nations wrath and contempt
will before the close Of this year pour its
tempest OF consuming justice on the heads Of
the wrong doors. | have undoubting conf
dence that the Union will yet be restored ac.
cording to tho spirit in which it was framed
by its founders. [ have faith in the great
American heart, and believe thas it's attach.
ment to the Union is deep and high and
strong, below all currents and above all tides,
| have truss in the very DEGREES of heaven.
and believe that here upon this continent
the problem of mans capacity for selfsoyorn~
ment Will yet be triumphantly solved and enc,
ultimate earthly purposes of heaven IN tho
creation OF our race be developed Does any
man believe that the now dominant party III
the United States is too strong to be over
thrown! The history of the world is mark.
ed with many examples to show the instabi
1ty OF human power and grandeur mighter
far than theirs. [ will ask your attention,
for moment, to single, but most remarka-
81 t tsSffyes years ago. Napoleon B0naparte
was the Emperor of France, the King Of TIA n
ly, and the head of the Confederation of the
Rhine. His brother Louis was King OF
Holland his brother Jerome Of Westphalia
he was in alliance with Austria and Prussia,
both Of which powers were bound To furnish,
him troops in time Of war. He was in effect
absolute master Of all continental Europe eg>
oept Russia, Sweden and Spain. The mill
tary force of his empire amounted to the
enormous number of twelve hundred thousand
men, directed by the Marshals of France un-
der the chief command of their renowned
Emperor, whose banners, during sixteen
years OF almost constant warfare Fortune had
never deserted In the year 1912 he under
took his famous expedition to Russia, ex
pecting by the conquest Of that country to
make himself master of the world. He en-
tered Russia at the lead Of 100000 veteran.
soldiers. For time everything succeeded
according to his wishes. He defeated the
Russians with immense loss in the decisive
battle of Borodino, and penetrated with his
grand army to Moscow, the holy city Of Rus.
STA. Its inhabitants abandoned the city on
his approach, and it was soon afterwards SET
on fire by Russian emissaries and almost to-
tally consumed. Gifts confagration and the
subsequent fate Of Napoleon a distinguished
American orator has said: when Moscow
burned it seemed as If the earth was lighted
up that the nations might behold the soeno.
As that mighty sea Of FIRE gathered und
heayed and rolled upward and higher and
yet higher, till its flames licked the stars
and fired the whole heavens, it did seem as
though the God of Nations was writing i'm
characters Of fire on the front Of His throne.
the doom that shall fall upon the strong Ma,
ton that tramples in scorn upon the weak
And what fortune awaits him, the appointed
executor Of this work when it was all done
Right then, while he witnesses the humiliation
and meditated the subjugation of Russia, He
who holds the winds in His tsts gathered
the SHOWS of the North together and blew
them upon his six hundred thousand mon
They fed, they troze, they persisted, and the
mighty Napoleon, who had resolved on uni,
yersal dominion, is an exile at Elba and Il
prisoner on the barren rock OF St. Helena.-
And there, on barren.island, in an unfrc
quentcd sea, in the crater ofan extinguishcd
volcano, there is the death-bed of the mighty
conqucror. All his annexations have come
to that His last hour is now come, and he,
the man of destiny, he, who had rocked tho
world as with the throes of an earthquake is
now powerless, still, even as the beggar SO he
died. On the wings Of tempest that ragged
with unwonted fury, up to the throne of the
only power that controlled him while he
lived, went the soul Of that wonderful warr-
or, another witness to the existence Of that
eternal Decree that they who rule not III
equity shall perish from the carth.''"
Doubt not that He who overwhelmed Phara,
oh and his host in the waters of the Red Sea,
and assigned to the great Napoleon a. prison
aud grave on, the rock Of ST Helena wills
in his own good time, consign to paliticat
insignifcance and punishment that radical.
though now governing faction in this eouu
try, whose crimes against heaven and earth
,voao5 th,sa If Fha.snI and N,noIoon oo,,