The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-06-12
4 CHAhAcTERgSTfC LETTER.


Norfolk Ysayi;aiam, In which he gives his
opaasoa Of both the Rspahhcan and Consea-
vasive parties, and says he will act wish neith+
er. Ae asraigss- tho Republican party BE-
cause. hs says it has wronged ths eouaasy,
wsoAgsa liberty wnsngea yinginia, &c, &c.
He assaults, the Conservatives, thas:
eanaoa disssnh fom this, Republiaan coa-
ssaaahlg without dissenting fnonA the Com
ssnxaalN, s. Thair aaadans, have endans,ed
and saaeaiened every IDENTICAL wrong, WHICH
they change. to, have. been, penpstnate& By the
Their plea is that they wenne compelled to-
su5snat. Grant it but they wer. not compel
led to, ENDORSE. Them want, of good. faith
Iandl of saIf inspect has, bstrayedi their TRUST
so fan as>to, pass all bounds, of simple submits
sion, so, far as, to, ddshonor themselves and
tina Confederate, cause, and! so' far as to- de-
grade, thair constituents anM to- depness our
lpeoEle.. They have. wantonly done what
/ was UNNECESSARY and unoalaea-for. in mann
Ifastdng al senvile compliance, witch the will; of
lTyranny, III order to win its fonbeaDnce and,
0I0V NuNls CHoAoCC uHNit60 GHou ItS GUuV6tu3V
IIasa aaased am aggegsrawation, of it's wrongs
|'EheH affected to. Ioabhm the 'lSiaolk Book"
|raudl they have scowladi upon uH wifihal visagse
more, hideous,. and soourged us, with, a. lash.
lmene lhceratiug EVEN than its. OVID. BM
passing the acts of the. Virginia Legislature,
lrs-enaoting acts Of Congress. to, disfranchise
Robert %. Lee anal His unfbresworu GonEd-
erates for Dsason,. until tTnaats,. who arhitma
riay imposed disabilities should gracouslN
remove themNy they supansenvceablW and
supererogatorily became partakers In the
c,ln.e of branding andl furnishing comrades
|. who, wene. never arrais1ed and never trledf for
alleged offences. under ex post-facto laws
They not only sn5nMueel to the l4th amend
ment but endorsed dispersion, and euforc-
ed its proVisionsby test oaths. They endors-
ed reconstruction In every form, which de-
molshed all old guards Of civil rights, and
assentedi CO. pew ooes, which they themselves
> affected to dcspise. By the erroneous de-
cisions of tfein chosen Judges, on questions
tot political law. they have, in the un,naniS
fear OF haltens,, set up the absolute laws OF
war over the supreme laws Of internal sover-
< eighty. by stay-laws and exemption laws.
NY la Wcrol du4 IOtCCu SdiSo, duu Id VIZ
against the recovery of just debts by legal
process AUDI execution, they have turned
lawful shrift away from its levers. of produc-
|tive industry and enterprise and given UP
creditors. tossbe the prey of agrarianism
They have: tawcnedl the, phanAoms of Jeremy
Benthan, and delivered up the distressed
farming interests of the State to shaving
ring of soul|ess Shylocks, and have conten-
ned the expressed Will of the, people, as to
usury They have wasted the. legislative
sessions in corrupt and demoralizing struggles
! of railroad corporations for rival monopolies
They have driven all credit away from honest
debtors by te,up.ing all dishonest ones to go
into bankr rptcy, and to come out Of it with
wealth as we'll as certificates in their pockets
They have disparaged and dishonored State
credit by making no adequate provision for
payment of the public debt and have faded
to pay a portion of its interest Ia arrear, or
to provide for its ACQUIRING interest, leaving
the State bonds to the sporting speculation
of brokers. depreciatipg hem more and more
daily, and bringing theinvested funds Of the
poor and helpless to naugbt. They have
left the people to groap under an excessive
burthen Of taxes, whilst insurance companies
have been left uandisturbe3 in the monopoly
Of premiums and profits Of policies On lives
I'D property which the State is bound to
| u otect. They have constituted nothing else
but rings of associated wealth until Nam
mon has, in the main, subsidized the news
paper press to pander to its power ana pur-
poses to monopolize the profits Of transporta
ion and tie right Of using the commcn high
ways to the aetrilnent Of our own cities,
towns, and country localities. They are in
the hands of rings which defy the scrutiny
of public investigation, and which openly
claim the right Of monopoly and Of loGlying
in its maintenance and defence They af-
feet to despise and dread the negro, and yet
have eanvassed and eleetionee7ed and treat
ed with him, hale fellows we'll met at bar.
rooms, and restaurants and lager beer saloons,
and in hacks or Oh horseback have ridden
and tied with him, and tempted him with
I brides, anti.. the @colored gentlemen" have
been disguised by their inordnate greed for
office and the spoifs. And at the same time
there is reason to believe that their present
design is to declare g a0ar Of races-of white
men against black men forgetting their own
statue of February 9th, 1866, that to 1ncite
the colored population Of the State to make
,surrect,on, by acts of violence aud war
against the white population or to unite the
white population Of the State to make in
surrection, by acts Of violence aud war,
against the colored population, shall, wheth-
err such insu~rection be made or not, be pun
ished by confinement in the peuitentiary for
not less than five nor more than ten years
Besides this one, they have avowed 40 com
mon principles Of action to govern even
| themselves, or to test their truth and sinceri
| ty. They cannot agree upon any platform
which n combine thee component nents
Of State rights and Federalism, of Know
1 nothiugs and Nullifers, of Submissionists
and unsubdaed rebels, of Democrats and Old
Line Wings, who hate Democrats worse than
they do carpet-baggers, or scalawags and
black Republicans After endorsing every
odious policy or principle of black Republi
canism, the last convention they held declar-
ed that they had but one principle, and that
was to destroy the party whose measures
thew had endorsed and approved. They
were originally formed sstempo ar y to ac-
ccmpished that end; but now they are SO
organized and welded together by King eau
Gus they imagine that men who have princi-
pies, and who dare maintain them can't we'll
combine to crush them as greater evil than