The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-04

critics of the people are nepaced, and the sa-
cred right of local self-severnmcnt in the
States ignored, if not totally overthrown.-
Nodded upon the seditioD laws, so odious IL
history, they are at sarience with all the
sanctiGed theories of our institutions, and the
construction given by these radical interpre-
tiers to the fourteenth amendment is, to use
the language of an eminent Senator, Dir.
Trumbull, Of Illinois, an humiliation of
the States"
Under the last enforcement bill "the Elk
ecusive may, in his discretion. thruat aside
the government Of any State, suspend the
writ Of habeas corpus" arrest its Governor,
imprison or dispense the Legislature, silence
its Judges and trampe down its people under
the armed heels Of his troops. Nothing is
left to the citizen or the State which can any
longer be called a right; all is changed into
mere suferance.
Our hopes for redress are in the calm good
sense, the 'ssober second though" of the Amer
lean people. We call upon them to be true
to themselves and to their posterity, and dis
regarding party names and minor differences,
to insist upon the decentralization of power
aud the restriction of federal authority with
in its just and proper limits, leaving to the
States that control over domestic affairs which
is essential to their happiness, tranquility and
good government. Everything that mali
cious ingenuity could suggest has been done
to irritate the people of the Middle and South
ern States. Gross and exaggerated charges
of disorder and violence owe their origin to
the mischievous minds Of potent managers in
the Senate and House of Representatives, to
which theExecusive has, we regret to say
lent his aid, and thus helped to inhame the
popular feeling In all this course of hostile
legislation aud harsh resentment, no word of
Cancellation, of kind encouragement OR fra
ternal friendship has ever been spoken by the
President Or by Congress to the people of the
Southern States They have been addressed
only in the language of prescription.
We earnestly entreat eur fellow-c citizens in
all parts Of the Union to spare 10 effort to
maintain peace and order, to carefully pro-
teot the rights Of every citizen, to preserve
kindly relations among all men, and to dis
counteuance and discourage any violation of
the rights Of any portion of the people Sc
amendments.
Let US in conclusion, earnestly beg of you
not to aid the present attempts Of radical par
tisaus to stir up strife in the land, to renew
the issues of the war, CT to obstrnct the re-
turn Of peace and prosperity to the Southern
States. because it is thus that they seek to di
vide the attention Of the country from the
corruption and extravaganza 10 the admins
tratioa Of public Affairs, and the dangerous
and prodigate attempts they are making to-
wards the creation of centralized military
government.
In the FIVE years of peace following the
war, the radical administrations have expend-
ed 81 200, goo 0C0 of the aggregate amount
spent for the same purposes in war and in
peace during the seventy-one years preceding
June 80, 1861, not including ID either case
the sum paid upon principal or interest Of the
public debt
1t is triaing With the intelligence of the
people for the radical leaders to pretend that
this vast sua has bsea honestly expended
Hundreds Of millions Of it have been wantou-
ly squandered. The expenditure Of the gov
ernmeut for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1861, were $62, coo 0U0, while Tor precisely
the same purposes list, army navy, pen
sions and Indians-$l64 600. 900 were ex-
pended during the fiscal year ending juno 80,
1870
No indignation eau be too stern and NO
scora too severe for the assertions by unscru-
pulous radical leaders that the great demo-
cratic party of the Union has or can have
sympathy with disorders or violence in any
part of the country, Or in the deprivation OF
any man Of his rights under the constitution
It is to protect and perpetuats the rights
which every freeman cherishes, TO revive in
all hearts the feelings ef friendship, affection
and harmony whioh are the best guarantees
Of law and order, and to throw around the
humalest citizen, wherever he may be, the
protecting segis OF those safeguards of per-
sonal liberty which the fundamental laws OF
the land assure, that we invoke the aid of al
good men in the work Of peace and reconcile,
alton. We invite their generous co-opera.
ton, irrespective Of all former differences o.
opinion, SO that the harsh voice of dscord may
be sienced; that new and dangerous see.
tienal agitation may be checked; that tbs
burdens of taxation, direct and Indirect, may
be reduced to the lowest point consistent viii
good faith to every just national obligation
aud with strictly economical administration
of the government, and that the States may
be restored in their integrity aud true rela
ton to cur federal union.
The address is signed by all the democratic
Senators and Representatives in Congress.
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A TERRIBLE DEATH-A heart-rendins
accident occurred near Bertrand Michigan
on the Sd instant, by which thc wife of Mr.
Pope was literally roasted alive Mrs Popt
was subject to Gts and being habituai pipe
smoker, it is believed by her neighbors that
during the absence of her husband at election
she was taken with fit, and perhaps smok
Ing at the time, her clothes caught Ere froa
the ashes and that, partially recovering he,
consciousness, she wandered into the yard
where she set fire to q pile Of straw and the1
put it out. She then evidently leaned agaius
the side of the house and set FIRE to the build
ing, and again extinguished the flames with
wet cloth. During her rawlings she cu
her garter and took off her shoes and stock.
ings, and then washed her hands and arms
until the skin came off, as the loose skin anc
pieces OF flesh were found in the wash-pan
Finally, when her clothes were completed,
burned from her body, she lay down on he1
bed, and there mot her terrible death alone
aud unattended