Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1868-01-02
G rrres Pc ~ de Or
EplNDuRa. Dec. 80. 1867.

prompt action has set to work the machin-
| cry by which the thorough organization of
the Conservative vote of the State may be
accomplished. it were well that the voters
themselves should also act in confor-
nifty to the resolutions of the Convention,
and by their individual and united efforts
give the good work all the impetus that
energy and perseverance can call forth.
We notice that ,bany of the counties in
the State have in meetings adopted the
entire action of the Convention Others
have it in contemplation, and soon we will
have the entire State tremendously at work
Our own county has undertaken the good
and glorious work, as will be seen in your
present issue The different parts Of the
system of organization, as adopted by the
county, viii work we'll and effectually,
and yet the greatest success. can only be
met by the hearty cooperation not only of
the different. superintendent and chiefs,
bat by the combined efforts of every true
Virginian in the county.
Wherever man is found who opposes
the wild and disorderly rule Of radicalism
and all its scurrilous and villanous princl-
plies, there is a man who has something to
do. Not even those who have been SO IL
legally deprived Of the inestimable right
Of suffrage should remain idle and uncon-
cerned. Though they nave no vote, yet
they may encourage others to act and see
that they be prompt at the ballot. They
can assist il carrying out the particulars
of the organization. They can do more:
they can present themselves at the reopen
ing of the boards Of registration and de-
mand the right to be registered.
| This is no time for any one TO decline
to register. The farce Of perjury. SO sed-
uIousiy intimated by those whose greatest
! hope is in intimidation, has been exploded.
If the CRY is perjury, and intimidation ag
ainst registry, fight the malicious principle
manly and firmly, not by refusing to reg
lister, but by careful examination Of the
law and the facts in the case Of the appli-
cant, and give the intimidators to know
that no such scheme will deprive you Of
your great right guaranteed undei, the We
~ Consultation under which these villifers
Of the law claim to act
! Inaction and indisposition will be fatal.
It will not be many months till the good
and wholesome laws Of your State, framed
in halls Of dignity and ability, and under
which the best AMI wisost of our fathers
were pleased to live under whose benign
protection our good old State has sent
forth the master spirits and the great pat
riots Of the country, will be handed back
to you discolored and polluted by yankee
touch and radical prostitution. All chan
ged, torn and blotted you will not reoog-
nize the tablets of your States record and
the organic law
Then, too, you viii see your organic
law remoldelled and changed-by whom
| By Erginians? No, by negroes and Mig
gers by men who never lived in Virgi'
MIA save TO disgrace her by men raised
to the dignity of position whose names and
characters are written in the yilIainy of
their lives by ignorant and deluded ne
groes, who vote against and oppose US from
instructive imitation, and whose highest
and OILY motive is to follow the example
of persecution and vandalism given them
by these imported blood-hounds of radical
anarchy and robbery. Shades Of Henry
and Of Marshall negroes and niggers
changing the organic law Of Virginia
| But there is yet hope. We may de-
feat the action of the mongrel Convention,
but in one way only. Defeat at the polls
is the only defeat in prospect. And YET
that vile and unprincipled thing, assuming
FOR its name "Ihe Congress of the u, S."
not content with the extreme measures I'M
/ posed upon the South so long astwo-thirds
Of the registered voters were necessary to
insure the adoption of the remodelled Con
stitution, has again set its mill (wherein
have been grinding the Constitution and
the rights Of freemen) to work, and mi
guilty outdoes itself. The poor hope given
US before is gone. Another spirit Of ven
geance has gone up from Stevens and Ash
ley to the immortal gods. The mill has
ground yet more aDely, and radicalisn
breatbes more freely
Yes, the two-thirds vote, like Johnson's
impeachment, is gone, and Virginia is to
be reconstructed, her organic law to be
changed, her Bill Of Rights radcalized,
in the vote Of bare majority
Here is constitutional liberty with a
veng 4ance! But vote it down we must,
or Firginias proud name remains no lon
ger. Vote it down, or her escutcheon
rusts in the chill damp air Of her downfall.
Vote it down we will, or, like Spartans,
die with our armor en-. Virginians can
do it, and Virginians will do it.
By the. way. NIre-Iierald, | had almost
forgot to tell you of our Christmas here,
and yet | guess your readers, OF at least
many of them. know a Christmas or other
holiday can't pass without some festiyity,
as long as that incompatible landlord and
gentleman, Ben Murray" keeps the
Murray House in Edinburg. Under
his careful management a ball on Christ
mas eve was given, which, for arrangement
and studied care in its supervision, met
with entire and general satisfaction.
There was general attendance from all
parts of the county, and all enjoyed them
selves in pleasant and agreeable manner