Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-09-25

THE PRospEcr. There is everything
in the present aspect Of the great con
test that is in progress in Virginia, to
cheer and encourage the friends of The
Conservative cause Our gallant stan
dard bearers have sounded mo t gal
liant rallying notea call to every true
white man in the broad limits Of Vir
ginia to gather around them as the rep
resentatives Of the aohs5c mans party,
to meet the tide of Radicalisin which
has swept with a lesson Of destruction
over the South, and, which now threat
ems to turn over the old Mother of States
into the hands of ignorant negroes and
! their miserable white allies. Scarcely a
month has elapsed since our champions
in clarion tones, first proclaimed the
rallying note, yet it has been heard over
the whole length and breadth of the
State, and in no former contest has the
Conservative partysever evinced a front
SO invulnerable-a spirit SO determined.
This is signally shown in all the assem-
blies of the people wherever the cham
pions of the Conservative cause have
appeared. 49,
Virginia's bravest and most gifted
sons are in the field and with trumpet
tongued eloquence are firing the hearts
! Of the people, and striking the enemy
heavy and telling blows whenever and
wherever they. encounter him.
The Conservative press throughout
the State are full of energy, boldness,
confidence, earnestness, argument and
eloquence. And it would be strange,
indeed, if such we're not the case, for
never before did any cause present such
ample material for convincing address
es to the Judgment to their readers, and
stirring appeals to their patriotic senti-
ments.
The people of'the State are every
where awakening to sense of their i'm
pending danger, aud seem to be ANNA
ted by zeal and confidence which
spring alone from deep sense ofrigbt-
eousness of the Conservative cause
which is both the strongest incentive
of exertion and the surest harbinger of
success.
But we must not, however, be so SAN
guine Of success as to relax our efforts
to succeed. We have arrayed against
us in solid phalanx 10000 negroes with
probably $4,000 white allies, who are
thoroughly organized for the great bat
tie of ballots which is to decide the DIES
tiny of Virginia. Not only is their Or
ganization perfect, but they are supper
ted by the administration at Washing
ton, and the great mass Of the Republi-
can party throughout the country. 1t
is true, we have a superiority in num-
bers, but we must make it available by
bringing out every white voter on the
day of election. Victory is assured to
us if all the people Of the State are
brought to see their danger and re
minded of their duties in this election.
This cannot be accomplished by speak
ing alone; there are hundreds of voters
who never attend.politicalg gatherings aid
not few who think they can not lose
a day for an election; these voters must
be seen at their homes and aroused to a
sense of the danger which threatens the
Old Commonwealth, and impressed with
the importance of Conservative victo
~ not only to their State, but to them
selves their own material interests
We have confidence in the simple, SOL
id strength Of OUR CAUSE, and have no
misgivings as to the issue with which
the struggle is to be closed and
crowned, but we most earnestly call up
On every white voter in the great Val
lev of the Shenandoah to do his whole
duty in the contest.
The black tide of Radicalism will
sweep over Tidewater and will devas
tate fertile Piedmont, but here in this
beautiful Valley its dark surges can be
broken. Conservatives of the Valley,
be true to yourselves and your State,
and here III the mountains of Virginia
will be found a break-water to the
waves of Radicalis,n. which have swept
over and desolated most of your sister
states of the South. : #'.
Do your aohole duty, and when the
sun sinks to rest behind the western
hills on the evening Of the 4th Of No
yember next, the cohorts of Radicalism
will be disorganized, dispersed and des-
troyed.
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