The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-10-09

that great privilege. At the same time Mr.
Greeley made another statement equally as
truthful, whom he told his audience that it
would have been far better chad Virginia
rspaised siz years under military ruls-that
il would have saved heavy debts and taxes,
and that the State seould hare been, in a far
better essdi'ies than at present"
You express tAs sentiment Of the aga, in
saying YOU would not give the snap Of a
hinge. fer man who never Changes his opin-
ioas. aad actions. A mummy is never in
consistent, never changes, and man who
csn close his eyes and ears to the self-evident
fact that shs Conservative party has, Ito use
the expressive language Of the Culpeper OBJ
server, in October, 1870 "Brought the
oountry to the very verge of ruin" that
| SHE people are in severe distress, and dread
worse to come" and do not mean TO be
bound to dead sorpse." I repeat, man
who can remain blind to these facts and not
dssira . change for the better, is, as never
shelsss to his State and community, as an
smbalmsd mummy looked up in vault.
I Thia fear Of being Inconsistent" has been
the great drawback TO Virginia growth and
prosperity A force of circumstances has
led man inse the Dcmooratic-C Conservative
party, and he thinks, in order to appear con-.
sistsnt, he and his children must live and
| die the friend and supporter Of that party
a party, whom viewed in political or prae.
| tical sense, ID Of no more value than dead
| corpse"
Ths best and greatest men that ever lived
achieved sbeir greatness by changing their
course, opinion, and by being s.inoonsistent"
in the sense ths Conservatives use the word.
King David was inconsistent when be re-
pentsd of his great sins, sad promised Nathan
that he would reform. and send no moro
Uriahs to the front of the battle in order
that he might get possession Of the beautiful
"eve-lsmbs." St Paul was "iaconsistent"
when be Abandoned the Conservative Jews
and Pharisees, and became the friend Of
publioaus nd..Gsntilss, and believers in the
new christianity. Martha Luther was Sin.
consistent" when he left the Roman Catholic
Church aud formed the Protestant Gen.
George Washington was "inconsistent" after
serving as colonel in the British army, threw
up his commission, aud not only joined, but
became ths leader of the patriots of the Rev
olution.
Fulton was inconsistent by inventing a
steamboat to superqede the slow, Uncertain
Conservative sailing craft. Morse was 'ia-
cousisten by introducing electricity to take
tbs place of the Conservative post-boy, and
to-day, the brightest and bestsevideIce Of po.
lisical 'inoansistency' is a radical change
FROM lifsless and worthless democratic--.
conservative to aa active, progressive and in
telligent Republican, and, in nv humble o.
pinion, by the change Of the K9Ney Viryin-
ian from bogus democracy to genuine Re-
pnbioanism. we have secured, NOT only an
active, reliable. and intelligent editor, but one
of the ablest, if not the ablest, newspapers
in the State. This, the leaders Of the sham
democracy will know, and henao their cha
grin and bowling about 'ineonisteasy.'
TRUTH.
TIE sourHwEsr.-Gen, Kemper has dn-
shsd bis tour through the Southwest, where
he has bsen speaking for the past month.
The Richmond papers have had stereotyped
special kilograms from those sections, an
nouncing the ovations that have attended the
Conservative candidate. la no instance has
he spoken to less than "tuo thousand per-
sons" WHO manifested the .'wildest enthusi.
asm for Ksmper and the Conservative cause.
1t is singular fact that, according to these
kilograms, precisely "two thousand people
have assembled each time he spoke. There
must be remarkable oneness in the dispo-
sision of the people of each locality to have
managed to get exactly that number at each
place. The whole affair has been an unmiti-
gated failure, and the specials, bald faced inn
positions We learn from good authority
that Kemper's campaign though South
western Virginia was attended with but little
enthusiasm, and that the indications were
sorely discouraging to him. The Southwest
will show marked increase for Hughes even
over Grant, 10 the votes cast. The Repub:
ioans haye yet to canvass that section.
The Republican speakers throughout the State
are bearing themselves nobly. Col. Hughes.
Mr.. Ramsdall, Judge Fultz, =, H. Chand
ler Col jenkins, Col. Pophau, i. L. Lewis,
Rush Burgess, J. H. Rives, Col. Clements,
Col. Plstt, and number Of others, are doing
glorious service. Everything looks encour-
aging, and the confident belief of those who
have the best opportunity to know, is that
Hughes will be elected by ct least 10000
So mote it be-
THE SUDDEN DEATH OF Hon. SAMUEL
w. THOMAS OF vIRGINIA.-ls was announce
cd by telegraph last week, that Hon. Samuel
W. Thomas, Of Warren county, Va, was
| found dead in bed in his room at the Ex-
change Hotel, in Richmond on Thursday
morning The Daily State Journal gives
the following particulars of his death:
"Mr. Thomas arrived in Richmond on
Wednesday, and at night attended tho CITY