Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-03

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and other exemptions "a eapportionment
of representation after the census to be
taken next year-future changes in the
constitution all the great objects of gov
ern nent may enter into its deliberations.
Can we hesitate whether to conGde power
over these vital interests to friendly hands
or by indifference and inaction suffer it to
devolve on such as are alien and hostile
It is earnestly recommended that men of
ability and character, deserving the con-
fdence of the people be brought out and
supported for the Legislature. in the coun
ties and districts. The arrangement of
representation in this constitution, was de-
signed to exclude such representatives
from the Legisla Fraud, rapine and
the spirit of confsoation presided over its
formation, and dictated its provisions
and in nothing more conspicuously than in
the ge,Tynaander of the representation.
Yet, the whites have the numbers to de-
feat the scheme, and can do SO, if they
will. Let them not be wanting in the
zeal, energy and determination required
to effect it.
The Convention made no recommended
ton in regard to the election of the Drin-
cipal State officers But while all are
free in this matter, the committee feel it
to be within the line of their duty to Of
fer such suggestions as seem prudent and
wise, to be received, however, only for
what they may be worth, in the judg-
ment of those to whom they are addressed
A like objection is said to exist in the
minds of some to both of the candidates
to whom choice is now restricted, that
they are Northern men and if beyond
this circumstance of similitude, their ex-
listed no difference between them, it would
be safe to indulge sentiment Of differ
ence to both but as this so?
In Colonel Walkers antecedents, as
well as in the character be bears and the
interests he holds in the community, where
without political design he has made his
home, we find such hostages as only men
honor and reclitude can give, for right
conduct in situations Of trnst. He is IN
dcrstood while living in the North to have
actively opposed the excuses of the rad
zeal party here he is known to have re-
ceived large Conservative vote for the
convention which framed the con-
stitution Believing the political status
of the negro to be fixed, he would deny
him none of his just rights while he is
the earnest advocate Of amnesty to all and
disfranchisement to mono. His views on
all questions of State policy are broad
catholic, and embracing, without regard
to divisions or sections, giving assurance,
that if elected, he will represent the whole
people.
Those who know him we'll. attribute to
him frankness, sincerity and truth, and
this gives him a. title to be believed and
trusted by people who regard these
qualities as essential in all who claim their
confidence and respect. Those are our
guarantees that the powers of the Office in
his hands will be used to mitigate Or
avert, not to aggravate, the wrong and
suffering so wickedly contrived against US,
for he proclaims that "If the constitution.
expurgated shall be adopted, and you have
elected your State ticket and your Legis
lature, you may proceed at once to pro-
pose such amendments to the Consultation
as will clear it of all its dangerous charac-
teristics Tile county oryani@ation need
necer be enforced If am elected with
Legislature not Radical, it never will be
put in operation.''
With his opponent, the case is far differ
ent. From the moment he entered the
State, he has played the part of political
incendiary. Bent on stirring up the
worst passions of the black race against
the white, he began by addressing them
''ia the spirit of John Brown" and has
never ceased his efforts to instil into their
weak and ignorant minds feelings of fero-
cious intolerance and purposes the most
proscriptive. His object bas been all
along to rule the State, through the SUI
prcmacy he has labored to establish in
one race over the other. To this end he
has opposed the repeal Of any Of the obi
Gus prescriptions and exclusions in the
Constitution--with that purpose, haunt
ing the Radical committee-rooms of Con-
gress, and disgusting even them with his
vile aspersions and misrepresentation
of people whose money he takes, and
repays with foul and insolent abuse. He
has persevered in efforts to prevent the re-
vision of the registration, whereby one
third of the white vote through falling to
register, would have been excluded from
the polls. He has declared an oath that
to remove our disabilities would be fatal
to reconstruction. But now, when the
President condemns this cruel oppression,
straightway this would be successor in Of
fee Of jefferson and Henry, not to lose
the prestige of his favor, publicly avows
conversion, secretly endeavoring the while,
to keep his negro dupes in the same spir-
it of hostility to white enfranchisement,
which it has been his constant study and
labor to instil His hostility to the inter
ests of the State, and his utilization with
foreign interests, are evinced by his will
lingness to sell out her internal improve
ments to Northern purchasers His en-
nifty or Indifference to the true interests
of education, and his willingness to sacri-
| fee them to the arts of the demagogue,
are shown by his proposal to cheaper in
struction in the higher institutions Of learn
ing to the level of the common schools, or
else at the public expense to open them
gratuitously to all. He declares it to be
necessary that every grade of school
shall not only be provided for, but placed
within the reach of ALL policy totally
destructive of the established schemes of
academic and collegiate instruction in this
and every other civilized State, and akin
to the Radical barbarism which in the two
Southern State nearest to us, has destroy
ed both. Elect a Legislature enlisted in
tho true interests of the State. and how
/ would It's hnst-cnnsidered cnunsels fare