South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-01-24

duced to vice By idleness, melted TO violence
by evil councillors, fed aud pampered at
the public cost, with a great army for their
protection, roam at will throughout the
land up1n q mission of evil, carrying dis
may 10 the hearts of helplessness and inno-
cence, and shocking civilization with The
worst of nameless crimes.
Such is the condition Of the South.
A military deSpotism il over her people
The hand of lawless violence threatens
them.
Legalized robbery is before them.
Desolation reigns on every hand About
them are the graves of their countless dead
Their past is strewn with the wreck of
their greatness.
Present suffering surrounds them.
Their future is thick with peril and dark
with gathering misfortune.
The foes of the nation are at h'r feet.
Broken in spirit stripped of fortune,
wasted, ragged, wretched and ruined, their
situation invokes the magnanimity of kin
drcd manhood, and appeals to the generous
mercy of noble enemy.
DISTRESS AT THE SOUTH PRODUCES PROS
TRATIoN AT THE NORTH.
The evil influence of bayonet rccons.ruc-
ton is not confined to the South
The entire country feels it,
Northern business languishcs for want Of
Southern trade.
Northern factories are silent because
Southern pockets are empty.
Western granaries Il ,torchouscS are full,
but poverty possesses their ancient mnrket.
and their former buyers are nov begging
bread.
4 commercial crash IS immincn. an bu-
siuess stands stiil& trembics AZ the prospect.
The manufacturing interests Of the H.
ton are crippled and almost crushed
The spindle is motionlcss; the shuttle is
silent; the forge ana the furnace are de,cr-
ted the workshop is vacant; the mill Is
. closed.
The hands OF the artisan are unemploy-
/ ed and empty; his chillr2u are starry
: ing, homeless and in rags.
/ The Impeachment Of the South, throw
the eutro burden of tucatioH upon the
/ North and West.
The Southern States can render no aid
while the Government grinls them with an
ron heel
Ii thcir people shared its benefits they
wouIl be imPclcl to prod activity.
/ As they partake only Of its seventies
they could not support it if they would, and
( so long as it oppresse, them, if they are fit
to be frecmen, they would not support it
/ if they could.
TIE CONGRESSIONAL PURPOSE.
/ The declarations of lending Republicans
/ in Congress, leave no room to doubt that
the action of that body has been taken with
reference to tho future of the Radical pnr-
! ~, rather than the unity of the American
( H,public.
The National Legislature hns become q
mere machine for the manufacture Of Rad
/ icsl maj0rtics.
/ It's material is tho worst and lowest cos-
! Of humanity, barely rescued from the bru-
Utilities Of the savage state, 10y contact with
civilization.
a valuable adjunct in tho work is the
exclusion Of white Intelligence aud expert
eucc from participation in the Government
The guarantee Of success is the rel right
hand of the War Department!
( a system which j. bosel upon negro
/ stupidity, supported by bayonets, and de-
signed to secure partisan trumphs through
! the enslayement Of men Of our own race,
may be instituted here through force aud
fraud, but if j. can endure IN .his laud,
the American people have learned liberty
to no purpose, aud well descr to be taus at
It's value under that stern tuteage oftyr4u-
ny which awaits them IN the future .. Rad
cal supremacy.
fiSANCIAL AFFAIRS.
In It's mana cement of our financial affairs,
the dominant p,rty has enacted the gross
est folly and injustice.
/ Repeated coutractions of the currency
have caused incalculabe conmercit. q. as
ters
4 still more dangerous measure Of con-
traction is now proposed in the senate, by
which the legal tenders are to be Withdrawn
from circulation aud replaced by interest
bearing bonds
It property and business do not enter an
effective protest, the result will be hulo
short Of general ruin
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
Tho National Deb, amounts to e2,3OJ,-
100000
IL cost the holders 81 100000.
The party in power would pay il 10 gold,
dollar for dollar.
They would give to the bond-be.5sr o
currency, different from and better tl4u
that used by tue people
Specie for the money lenders oni paper
for the masses Is the cad Of tac.r financial
policy.
a discrimination 80 palpablo aud unfair
isan insult to the popular sense Of Justice.
Iy the terms Oi the act Of issue, green
backs are made legal tender for ali deJh.
PUBLIC and private, except duties on im b.