Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-25
WOODSTOCK VIRGINIA.
Thursday Morning, February Is, 1875.
B1AcKevAaDs.

Inc loioNWS artcle from the Dos
ton Adcertiser, the leading Republican
journal of Massachusetts, will be read
with interest. Its tone is encouraging
and leads us to believe that to what,
ever expedients the leading radicals of
Congress may now resort, the intelli
gent, thinking people OF the North
have determined to unite with the con-
sentative element of the country in
repudiating the reckless leaders, who
to continue in power would sacrifice
every principle of good government:
"The gentleman was anparliamentlry
from the beginning to the end of his
speech. r.s
But before I sit down I will show
HIM how to be severe and parliamentary
at-the same time, said Henry Grattan,
in his famous reply to Mr.. Cory in.
the house of commons There are
some nice determinations to be Obs
served in the reconciliation of scathing
invective and parliamentary law, and
the most accomplished orators are more
reckless of them when attacking than
when attacked. This same Grattan,
when he emptied his vehement scorn
upon Mr.. Flood, did not stop at the
line of privilege, but denounced him
personally as guilty of every baseness
possible to politician, concluding
with the sentence 'sThe merchant may
say to you, the constitutionalist may
say to you, the American may say to
you, and l, l now say, and say to your
beard, ''You are not an honest man"
The trouble with Mr.. John Young
Brown is that he did not know how to
be severe and parliamentary at the
same time, and, in these days when
our legislative halls are filed with
chevaliers of courtesy, any violation of
the strict proprieties Of debate Is an ill.,
tolerable offence. How great the diff
ference is twixt tweedle. dun and
tweedle dee will be seen by study of
Mr.. Buffers speech and the rulings of
the speaker on points of order, in com.
parison with the speech of Mr.. Brown
and the action taken and attempted on
that. Mr.. Brown was supplementary,
but there are not few, even among
those who hate the political school in
which he has been trained, who will
more easily toler ate his lawless in
vective than General Buffers par
]iamentary and protected Sian
ders of States, parties and peoples
That it is the deliberate purpose of
General Butler and those who train in
his company to taunt and insult the
South to the pitch Of evaporation and
overt acts of oscillations, obseryent
men can hardly doubt. The danger
is that the large body of republicans
who sincerely desire peace and justice
will too long neglect to rebuke and
repudiate the Internal policy of provo
cation upon which few of their un-
scrupulous leaders are bent
If their conduct should sting some
of the more hot.headed communities
to madness, the future historian, calmly
reviewing these times, would rightly
blame us and not them. If Brown or
Mclean, OF any other hot tempered
southern member had shot Butler for
his provoking Characterization of their
constituents day or two ago, or his
worse insults of yesterday, we believe
1t would have gladdened the hearts of
reckless faction, who see no way to
perpetuate their power except by kin~
ding again the unreasoning passions
Of war. The sectional spirit will never
be conquered by sweeping denuncia-
tons of an intelligent population as
'banditti, "murderers" and ''assassins. :"
General Butler has done more within
a week to perpetuate strife and rancor
between the sections and the races
than can be corrected in a generation
without prompt and decisive repudia,
ton of him and his allies.
Let the country bear in mind that he
is already repudiated in Massachusetts,
and let the southern people rest in the
conviction that this Commonwealth
and the great majority of the northern
people have indicated a strong disap
proval of all his clan. The North
wants peace and good government, and
in this respect is Of one mind with the
South. What is now doing is the des-
perate throw Of political gamblers
struggling for another chance, as revolt
ing in most particulars to our people
as to theirs. Their day of power to do
mischief is nearly over. Patience, a
short patience now, is the virtue they
and we are called upon to show. The
North cannot be led to canseless war
for white or black, by any leader,
whatever his rank, his Office or bis
fame
National issues are likely to eater
largely into the approaching campaign