Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-08-21

wisdom of the people of Virginia in the
adoption of this plan of State policy,
and. demonstrates the necessity of con-
tinuing the powers ofthe State Govern
.ment in the control of the Conservative
people of this Commonwealth.
In every one of the unhappy States
in which Radicalism has succeeded in
upturning the old established society,
we have witnessed the same bankruptcy
of the State, the same destruction Of
public credit, the same weight of
taxation which has exhausted the means
and crushed out the energies Of the
people the same proAigate waste and
Misrepresentation Of public money-in
short, the same organization OF the
authority of the State into schemes Of
corruption, spoliation, and plumber.
Their institutions of learning and
charity are broken down; their colleges
once instinct W it'll the life and light of
learning and civilization, are deserted
and in ruins; even their lunatic asylums
plead in vain at the doors of an empty
treasury for promised support, and
their unhappy inmates deprived OF the
sustenanee provided for by fruitless
laws, appeal in tones that pierce the
heart for the means Of life to the charity
of the world.
In the once sacred halls oflegislation
obscene birds of prey profane their
most sacred places. Here ignorance,
greed, corruption, and vulgar passion,
and the malignant spirit bed of these,
bear unresisted sway. Liberty, born
of order and law, seems TO have fled
away from the scene forever
There was time when the patron
age and influence of the Federal Gov
eminent were separated by jealousy
guarded line from even the shadow OF
interference with the freedom of cleo
tons in the States. Conduct in Fed
eral official: apparently marked with
design to disregard it, sealed his ejec-
ton from office. Now, the ruling pur-
pose of the ''rings" which fill the GUS
tom-houses is to ''run" the State, and
the shibboleth Of party confidence is
with them and their blind supporters
the official commission Of the Presi-
dent.
TO carry presidential election we
have seen the vote of a popular MAORI
ty of six thousand reversed and a State
Government overthrown by chance
~ order made by Federal judge and
supported by the military authority Of
the United States A spurious govern
ment installed by the same means us
urps and exercises the supreme power
yet Congress is informed by the Presi
dent in formal message that ''no exc
cutive control is exercised in any ono
of these (the southern States) ''tha1
would not be exercised in any of the
States under like circumstances. Con
| gress in turn refuses to interfere, ano
thus are forced to conclude that those
entrusted with the constitutional pow
ers of the Government, instead Of pre-
serving and enforcing the pledge il
the Constitution that 'the United
States shall guarantee to every State
in the Union a republican form Of gov
eminent" are cooperating with full
purpose to foil and defeat it. 1t is 6
habitual thing with these people wher
they hold State, by means of corrupt
boards to ''count out" popular MAORI
ty against them. To this day they
usurp in this manner the government
of Texas against the recorded protes
of her people, and in Arkansas they
expresseu III & 1nsg5r1t q, pwerse'tuoriis
and.
''By their fruits ye shall know them.
To doubt that similar results would fol
low their accession TO power here is te
lose faith in holy writ itself
Space is wanting for more than s
! glance at the remarkable manifesto put
forth, after elaborate preparation, al
Lynchburg by the chosen standard
bearer of the motley crew assembled
there. Doubtless its multiplied errors
of statement of fact and deduction will
be exposed in due time with just bu,
unsparing hand. But it proclaims s
new political Evangel. Aforeti1ne we
were taught that it was the right of q
people to abolish their Government
and 'sto institute new Government,
laying its foundations in such princi-
Piles, and organizing its powers in such
form as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their safety and happiness
And again: s'That government is or
ought to be instituted for the common
benefit, protection, and security of the
people, nation, or community;" and
that whenever any government shall
be found inadequate for these purposes
majority of the community hath an
indubitable, indefeasible, and inaliena-
BILE right to alter orabolish it in such
manner as shall be judged most con
dueive to the public veal )" But now,
with the quack in Moliere, when told
he had put the heart on the man; they
may say, Every well, that used to be so;
but we have changed all that" Now
we are taught that ''the nation is not a
machine contrived by human invention
to be remodelled and taken apart &C
cording to the caprice of man. 1t is an
organism and growth. 1t has life, pur-
poses. and aspirations. It has moral re-
lations with its divine head and it's con-
stituent members. It has religious as
well as civil claims to the homage and
allegiance of its citizens 1t is not sub
ject of theories, but an object for the
affections. 1t is not merely q mower to
be obeyed, but a divi'lely given parent
soorthy OF a" a1'aqstestioni,4g duty and
.afectioa;; and farther, 1t is said to
have been the faith of Washington.
Franklin, and Jefferson, that the Amer
lean Union was "God-ordained and
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