The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-08-07

ai"'S NV HCO thCiH pluDlp. AUQ the PEG
pie of Virginia will honor US for an uncalcu
3 lating fidelity to our cause.
THE CHARGE OF OPPRESSION.
come now proudly to affirm that the Republi
can party has in all things been friend to vir
ginia and her people 1t has been guilty of n
oHense against them, even in its great work o
reconstruction: except what may have ATTENDED
the execution of its determination to establish
the principles of the three amendments upon al
impregnable basis. Admit that the process wa
o harsh one upon the sensibilities of the whit
people. yet the work was necessary; and it ha
been performed with all the considerateness which
the case would admit of. For This, our part i
accused of oppression
1t is no oppression to execute Justice to FIVE
twelfths OF community at none other expens,
to the seven twelfths than that of feeling Just
ice must be done if the heavens fall and al
though every natural and excusabe sensibiltie
may be wounded, in doing the justice, the proper
name for such consequence is not oppression
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY A BENAFACToR TO VIRGINIA
We repel this charge with indignant pride. The
Republican party has been in ali things n hene
factor. and in nothing an oppressor TO the people
of Virginia Contrast the present condition o
the Commonwealth with what it was in April
1865, when this party assumed authority in
State surrendered at discretion and abjecty a
its mercy. What ghts had we then under
not dwell upon the picture which the people O.
Virginia presented stripped of all subsistence
by their own armies; denuded of every political
right by their own blind statesmen; presenting
the sad spectacle of blind leaders OF the blind
both fallen Jog Their into he last ditch Who fec
them? Who lifted them'up from the earth? Ano
who in time has clothed then, with every consti
tutional right and privilege enjoyed by the most
favored people? If there has been delay in con
| fprrinU IhiS at cti what the
object OF that delay but in order that all the peo
| pie OF the Commonwealth, white and colored,
might be made its recipients? Was any man s
properly confscated? Was any mans life or
liberty exacted in atonement to the insulted maj
esty of the nation? Was single act committed
In malevolence? Was single benefaction omit
| ted that generous craftsmanship could suggest :?
The answer to these questions will sound through
after ages an eternal anthem Of praise to the
Republican party of our day
| THE SECTIONAL PARTY A CURSE TO VIRGINIA.
| might turn upon our accusers and demand to
know what the sectional party has done for the
| restoration of the State from the ruin wrought
by their folly? What single act Rave they
performed for the relief of a distressed people?
| BY what single measure have they pernsatted the
cessation of arms to enure TO the welfare Of Viz
/ fiina? To me it has seemed that exasperated
with their mother Commonwealth they have
sought to prosecute her for submitting to the
| fortunes of war. speak the sentiment of thou
sands of people when say that IN all the
measures of this sectional party, they have made
peace the agent Of more crushing desoiatIon
! than even the war which it superseded They
| have so machnated, that blessed peace, instead
of bringing healing its wings to a wounded
and bleeding country, entered their State ike
the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse-'all he'll fol-
lowing" l affirm broadly, but | affirm truly,
that all the measures of the sectional party have
rendered to impoverishment and oppression that
| all the measures of the Republican party have
! wrought relief to the people and restoration OF
| prosperity to the State.
THE PRESENT STATE CONSTITUTION.
Who but Republican State Convention and
the Republican party gave its present Constltu-
ton to the state-the wisest it ever knew and he
most just it ever enjoyed?
THE HOMESTEAD.
Who gave the Homestead to the pei pie? The
object of the Reput lean party in that measure
was relieve from he sacrifice Of their homes,
the old land holding class of the State who had
devoted themselves honestly to the confederate
service and had lost all by their devotion 1t is
true that this humane design was defeated by a
decision of tae State Court of APpeals-fo' nded
on book Law, and ignoring the fac, of o des5ruc
tive revoluion-wbch cut off this deserving
class from the benefit of the Homestead But ii
is also true that Republican Congress has done
all IN Its power to correct inc Misehaef Oh eDls oe
clsioh py requiring me hatlohaf courts 20 ailo"
the homesteau 70 pa"hrssP's asssi's' ooh'eUelas0
war oepls- Inc eiiec' % 'he ueoisioh VI .,0 -
gihia coui, ~ ~ us"y .ne ~ sAv
elcr rulheo oy aeo.S originating pslo.e '1fH "a'N
er governments ana 10 ehiofse a1ni' FIJI "ioei 70
obtain 1t at all, 10 become oahkfupt ana sui'of
IN the natlonal courts. NOT ohly Ill 'hisF isa''s'
but in general ii is true, that the sectional party,
through its Legislatures and courts, has refused
a1a .Iat,l has
cd and b.s ~ nad over tba, task 10 me oeneros
-, ~ ,bo por,h1;co, narty
- y n,,,, :, ,>T.r1,Dr .w
WI ,..- a. T,,,, -, L. -, 10 tho h.a,a mo,
IF tba ca,a.rv Nortb mi Sonth whose services
~ 49,, IN Ss.,lo. sola oo~t tbe, our nat,imo
ios at bon,a9 Iask southern man ruined nv a
,yor tbrus, unor then, nv noLt;cians who have
laa.td ~, =; as. 49, r.sssd that Rs,L
rn,t law ,gbich has come 10 tbam "a an ACT Of
emanc;nation toan CENTRALIZED class? stranre to
saw the nersons making The most embifterea OBJ
,ns;t;o, 10 tho, measure Of liberty and Olsen
ihratlment ara the no]irfsssss who were most
stronro,s a,,rinn tba sTSs.r in coaserintino the
m an of fl,a St,,e;pto Inc armies Of The Confeder-
49,. RS 80. no .,,,o ,aroons also who ever
s;nco tba WI, bave hean mosi relentless in nur
si,,,. ~ ,ao,lo ,,;tb su;ts aud exeeutions
Wv p fs or INV People
wha a,1,1as If hani,runts ravaat The Destitute
oonl;,in, - yb,eh s,ch harnss have hrouabt The
49,, - v;.,,;n;a w;l road from y con- Of
81 81 nanars 6iaa h., a soldier Of The
Is lt IF all he worldly
.lonleas;nrs axno,t no n.roes If his wife and
abi,ar, II 10 .nry hr;ef.