Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-12-09
WOODSTOCK. VIRGINIA.
rharsday Morning, eeee.aber 9, 1869.


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SoNx Of our contemporaries have been
freely discussing the prepriety of the Leg
elsinre Of this State r.tlfying the Four
seenth Amendment to the Federal Con-
10 defend the action upon the ground o.
Consistency We confess the diecps.
tion has mace Us thong htful We car
net SOC that ia dropping tas Conservative
State ticket, and, las choice of evils.
in voting the modified Republican ticket
that re are required to endorse Republi
sauism throughout, as matter of Con
sistency /" TIE modified Republican tick
ct -ss taken az a derRisF 'esvt, not t.
defeat Conservstisn,. but to carry ths
r1o.t conservative ideas, and to give q
death blow to Radicaliam. We have &C
oomplished the purpo.e. So the result
sko~s. by the choice of the evils. and W.
do not now see the necessity Of further
cancellation.
The fourteenth amsnmeni'' had al
ready been ratified By stwe-thir1 vote ol
the States, and was recorded accepted
on .hs Journal and nothing in the Re
construction acts required or asked at tbs
banda Of the Virginia Legislsture its en-
doFsemcnt or ratification. It is a mos
isfss6cas amendment, and its require
mtn'. ait e1scting in the extreme
Then. whg Has il saloi:edly ratified
Tie Journals II ataprroye the action have
spoken of ''dures'' and ahnegatiou; :.uJ
many of the Candidates, (beforc the cleo
,ion) for tlic Legislature declared them
solves apposed to the amendment.
We have often heard of sxe grinding
and re have ai~sys known the grinders
to set the psy. And By excessive grind
ing by inexperienced grinders we have
known sionce to be worn toa bevel, and
become worthless. When such i. TIE CASE
the grinders loose their occupation.
Hugo, i:in.itable last suggests strik
ing illustration of our political status =
The vivisecionisis IF that period are al
mirsbly pereoniGed in the Virginia Legis.
ls.ure Chinese Montebanks often bottle
their youth, and suffer them to grow up'
IN detorn'i'y in order to exhibit them al
monsters aud curiosities; Comprachicos
were clsss, in formes times, who pra;-
ticed the art of rio,sectjoa upon the face
TO give the ludicroas appearance of laugh
ter, under al circumstances. The Maj
who Laughs" iss fair type Of the State A
nnlitinai yirisection has been praetieed UP
HIS been July rendered, ana the State i.
on exhibition before the world. perfect
political specimen of the art The NJ 5nte
banks are. perhaps, getting the receipt
Of the exhibition, but the time will come
when, By the providence of God. she shsl
claim her peerage among States, and
when she will stand up as her oun adve-
cate of right and Justice. What then :
Why. the world will look on and cry
bravo. 90 on your political countenance
is distorted and terribie-you laugh when
you would weep-yoa grin when you
would show your suffering. You make
us laugh, go on!
1t is true this horrible distortion might
have been rendered more horrible if the
wishes Of the Radical members of the Leg
isatore had been complied With entire
bat that is 10 excuse for What they did
copceds. :.
But let the State laugh in her agony,
the tine will come when the ''hosam y
shall be found, and the evidence contained
shall re;nstase the Old Con monwealth to
her peerage, and the Comprachico Legis-
.lature-sh4ll be found crushed under
the massive weights. in the dark holes Of
the tower