The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-11-20

Ihcre was nlncompoop-we knew
him well-who, during the late war. was
In the habit Of saying to himself, ..Things
are going wrong, altogether wrong.-
Inc road we march leads inevitably to
rum, But Onr cause is certainly inst
there Is an all-wiSe and mercifuI Dis
poser OF Events, and. though we NAV
olunder never so often, we Will surely
triumph in the end
Appomattox. day Of fate came and,
despite the justice Of our cause, here we
are--oppressed by military rule or
worse, the rule oftlle carpet dagger and
the scalawag. ground down by taxes,
the people growing poorer every year.
industryhampered, tlistrust everywhere
and, dires: woe of all the newly liber-
ated slave not only vested with the fran
chise but actually a Legislator in the
high places of the land.
This is no dream. 1t is fact-and
terrible one. fHl.H .i.
We met our same nincompoopno later
than yesterday. and he talked thus,
my prophecy has been fulfilled.
Grant is elected. and we pass from
the accursed obligarchy of the Senate
and House into the despotism OF the sol.
der. hope anG believe that thar des-
potism will be mild one, and that, al
though we may feel for time the loss
OF our liberties, we will nevertheless be
compensated tor that loss by the con
scious security of the PROPERTY we hay
saved and the possibility of laboring
peacefully to acquire more. Yes, des-
potism is better, far better. for the COM
posite and restless populations of the
North, and better for us at the South,
now that the conservative infiuen ce O, |
slavery is destroyed. Liberty is not
good for many men anywIerel in this
world, and certainly not in America
Things look ugly at this time, but we
are going by crooked and rough path to
the right goal"
Oh! hopeful nincompoup. Has the
experience taught you moth.
ng! The wrong path neuer leads to the
light place, else it would nor be the
wrong path. All but the right place
or us is despotism Are you quite sure
II that; and if so, are you sure we are
quite ready for that despolismf If we
re not ready and willing, trouble, as
argyle would say, is toward" N 9TH
ng surer than that.
Grant means well. True. EvenWade.
fere he President, would mean well, +.
ceording to his idea of well. But what
"well!" Consolidation If that be
he will of the people. lit it is well if ]
OF, prenes garde, Monsieur Hiram, We
ell you, in all friendship. this expert
tent at government by consent is not y
nded yet. We of the South, having Y
ught our fight for it, are willing, for i
,ace sake, to give itu... So, gladly, 7
III The native-born Anglo-Saxon men n
capital at the North. Not SO the Il
ism and the Germans, more especially
e latter. They have not fled hither =,
ON tyranny and heavy taxation, and :.
snmed the name, sweet to them, of Re- o
iblican, to be wheedlei ont of their =
pes in one day or in many days. .,
ark 1t well the trouble Will come first u
Your o'on camp. We say Lotlnng here p
out the negro. That knot the sword o.
$ cut, but the ends lie ravelled and +.
,ublesome, very. We desire ONLY to
call to your memory that pregnant,
Will not say prophetic, sentence ut
ed by Eldridge of Wisconsin on the
'r of the House some two years ago -
PEAcEABLE CONSOLIDATION Is No MORE,
sIBLE THAN PEAcEABLE SECESSION. Lii