The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-09-18
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ty responsible for the $50,000,000 State
| debt, the 100000 judgments recorded in the
county courts against the unfortunate citi-
zens, and the 1000 who have been compelled
to resort to the bankrupt law for relief. With
all their buster about "Opposition to Radi-
calism," they do not attempt, or even insin-
uate that the Republicans, radicals, scala
wags, carpet baggers, or the g Northern scum,
| are in any way responsible for the $50 ,000-
600 debt the 100000 judgments, or the
1000 bankrupts Who is responsible? Of
course the Democratic Conservative party,
the 'sVirginians for Virginia. who have had
almost uninterruTte ted control of the State
government and finances for the past fifty
years. Gas you SOW, so shall ye reap
The Conservative party-the very men who
are now making SO much noise about ''radi-
cal rule" is the party and the men who caus-
ed the debt, bankruptcy, and misery under
which the good old State to-day groans, An
| other fact worthy Of notice; in all their abuse
Of the Republican party they do not attempt
! o hold the republicans or carpet-baggers
responsible for Virginia's troubles, but tell
us over aad over again what radicaism has
| done in other Southern States, AID seem to
be far more distressed about the political af-
fairs of South Corolina than home affairs
Thou hypocrite. first cast the beam out Of
| thy own eye, ard then shalt thou see clearly
to pull the mote out of thy brothers eye"
[ e Republican party is national, not sec
tional The evil that few bad men have in
| ficted on South Carolina, Georgia, or Lou
lsiana, will subtract but little from the great
national blessings extending from one end of
the Union to the other. If you want to see
Republican prosperity in its ful!ness and glo-
ny, look at Pennsylvania New York, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.
&c, &c. Even little radical Rhode Island,
with hardly territory enough to make re-
spectacle sized county, has, to-day, factories,
capital, and other resources enough to buy
the whole State of Virginia, and the entire
Conservative party, SOUL body, breeches and
boots! How is that for high 2?
| The debt Of South Carolina, forsooth
The Conservative debt OF Virginia exceeds
the debt of South Carolina by s45 600, 900,
| and add to this 100000 unsati fed individ-
ual debts recorded in the Judgment dockets,
| how insignificant the comparison between the
| two. ''people who live In glass houses
must not throw stones"
Mr.. Horace Greeley delivered very in
terestins and thoughtful speech in Alexau-
dria, August, 1871. For the edi6cation Of
| our Conservative friends and late support
ers of Mr.. Greeley the following selections
are made:
IA great deal Of complaint had been made
| about the slowness of reconstruction, but he
thought it had been as rapid as consistent
with the best interests Of the country II
the people of the Southern States had been
content to remain for FIVE or six years under
military rule they would have avoided heavy
taxes, the formation Of political parties, and
the creation Of enormous debts, and been IN
| much better condition than at PRESENT.
ut was more important to them that they
should have their material prosperity advan.
ced than that certain parties should be in
power. Tt was Virginias Privilege to be as
great as Pennsylvania p
eff Virginia had believed this, aud in
sisted upon the policy of developing her man
! ufacturipg interests, and working her min
eral resources, she would, instead of seeing
locomotives flying over her coal and iron beds
! VI DllClcA IlOu1 do ciC LOW uUGS, U6 UuC VIII
| ness of prosperity of which her most san
guine friends have hardly conception"
Such were the words of Mr.. Greeley to
the Conservatives Of Virginia, who for many
| years have had control Of public affairs, and
are alone responsible for the present lament
able condition.
Now listen to what ex-Gov. Henry A.
Wise said in speech delivered at Liberty
Hall, Alexandria. Feb. 1855, seventeen years
ago, aboutth mismanagement Of the ssstump-
tailed Conservative party:
81 was saying when interrupted that the
State Of Virginia has elements of commerce,
Of agriculture, Of mining, and of manufac-
turing. Or Chesapeake Bay, from the mouth
of the Rappahannock to the Capes of the
Chesapeake, you have roadsteads and harbors
sufficient to float the navies of the world
From the rivers of swans on whose margin
we are, down to the line Of North Carolina
you have the Potomac, Rappahannock, the
Piankatank, from Mobjack bay to James RI
yer, and the Elizabeth r;ver-all meeting in
the most beautiful sheet of water of all the
seas of the earth. You have the bowels of
your Western mountains-rich in iron, in
copper, in coal, in salt, in gypsum, and the
very earth is rich oil, which makes the very
rivers infame. You have the line of the AL
Ieghany, the beautiful Blue Ridge that stands
there placed by the Almighty, not to obstruct
the way Of the people to market. but placed
there in the very bounty Of Providence to
milk the clouds, to make the sweet springs
which are the source Of your rivers, and at
the head Of every stream is the waterfall MUIR
muring the very music of your power. And
yet commerce has long ago spread her sails
and sailed away from you. You have not
yet dug more than coal enough to warm your
selves at your own bearths. You have set
no tilt hammer of Vulcan to strike blows
worthy Of gods in the iron foundries You
have not spun. more than COARSE cotton
enough in the way Of manufacture 10 clothe
your Own slaves. You have had no com
merce, no mining, no manufactures. You
have relied alone on the snglepow Of agri-,
culture-and such agriculture! Instead of
having to feed cattle on thousand hills, you
have had to chase the stump-tailed steer
through the hedge patches to procure
tough beef-steak.
IHE PRESENT CONDITION OF THINGS HAs
EXISTED TOO LONG IN VIRGINIA. Theland-
lord has skinned the tenant and the
ten land, until each and all of them have
grown poor together [ have heard story