Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1868-03-05
Che Bison" on the IA page,

The Bison" on the ESa---page.
The white Republicans hello meeting
in The capitol in Richmond on the 9th
ult., which was presided over by Mr.. G.
Y. Thomas, member of the convention
from Henry county.
Judge Alexander Rives, Of Albemarle,
spoke first. He denounced the Conserva-
tive Convention which met in that city in
December last. He said ''there was no
clement of Unionism in it," &C.
Circuit Court Judge Rives having pour
ed out his seven walls of mpotent wrath
upon the Conservative Convention.- the
Immortal Bolts, of ''head- him or-die" no.
toriety-the Great Virginia Bison the
biggest animal in the Grand Radical Me-
nagerie- pitched into the ring. The
Bison" was evidently excited. He bow.
ed his neck, paved the earth, beloved,
and shook his shaggy name with bovine
rage. Perhaps some thoughtless rebel
had exhibited red rag Or, perhaps,
he was thinking of the -four acres of ne
groes' that blockaded his entrance to the
African Church on a former occasion.
Like the great horned beast named in
the good book, he trambled everything to
pieces under his huge cloyen feet. lie en-
dorsed the infamous and oppressive meas
ures of Congress for Africanizing the South
He thanked God that Congress had done
as It had. Amid the shouts and applause
OF all the radical beasts, he beloved,
Andrew Johnson ha! been impeachcd
Congress had at last assumed position of
creditablc manhood" This sentence was
understood By the ''manhools" present to
be special compliment to them; where
upon they gave yell that shook the capt.
tol from the basement to the dome He
concluded the entertainment by declaring
that
ale rerudiated the idea of having '.white
mans party. AMI ''black mans party and
asserted.that there is no such thing. IF the
so called white mans" party could get the
negro votes they would not hesitate to take
them II a war OF races should come. ii would
be the white mans fault. If that party ever
got into power the black man would be reduc-
ed to condition worse than slavery They
would be sent 10 The penitentiary for looking
into heg pen, and if caught in the pen Their
lives would be forfeited.
lie had heard of propitiaIing rebels" Pro
pltiate q rebel! A wild cat, lion. tiger, CT
hyena could be tanned by kindness. but who
ever heard of tanning rebel by kindness
lie next took up the question Of suffrage
and advocated the disfraL chisemcnt of every
perst who had ever written, spoken, preached
or prayed for the success of The rebellion. and
every foreigner who had left his native coun-
try, and after swearing allegiance to the Fede
raj government for the advantages of its pro
lection, had engaged in rebellion.
He advised the ruling party to examine in
TO the number of persons DISTINGUISHED and
then into the number of their own party. and
unless there was a clear working majority, to
look for other classes to disfranchise, then to
disfranchse indscriminately until majority
was obtained
These villainous sentiments are in ex-
act accordance with the whole radical the
Dry, anu are practically embodied in the
mscalled reconstruction measures of Con-
gress. Let the white people ponder them,
and then act with reference to their future
OrOtactinr