Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-10-26
The Republican Candidate For Congress.

cahuIuate Tor congress, presents hlm~
self to the voters Of this district ia a
two column card.
Everett is small man, fighting
weight about 1870. He usually wears
one of the nobby stand up collars with
a fancy colored shitt-concealing beau,
and walks with cane, when at home
On a guess, we put his age at IS.
He is son, 1--WE hope the only onel
of old man Early, who, we would
judge from the card, had wasted
some money in sending his boy to
school. 1t is presumable that he
was named after the great Edward of
Massachusetts but as Edward died
before his namesake became a Re-
publican candidate for congress in
this district, we will not dole ont any
coincidence in that direction. Everett
is not the scholar and orator that
Edwar! was Whether he will ever
take rank with his godfather as
statesman, it is hardly fair to decide
from his first effusion, prepared at so
Early an age. under the crushing
embarrassment of unanimous nomi>
nation with no possibility on election.
Everett rel1zes the fact that sue are
n the midst Of presidential CAM
paign which invofUes uital questions
and m,omentous issues, affecting the
general aoelfare of our common coun-
try and even threatening the continued
existence of established institutions
md q republican form of gooern-
oaent." Considering that this para
graph in sentence was written before
the October elections, we must admit
that Everett's prophecy of an Early
collapse of republicam;sm was a
president and statesmanlike view of
the situation.
Everett is national man who de-
plores display of the ex-confed rat
spirit by sending ante beztuns demo-
Gratis to congress, instead of post
beAum republicans. He is especially
fingered at the disloyalty of the Vir-
yinians in congress as manifested by
their votes agaist the Centennial APP
preparation, in which they ''imitated
he action of our legislature" Everett
forgets that the republicans of the
Legislature threw their strength in the
scale against the Union on this emo
mentous question" and decided that
vital issue affecting the general
welfare of our common country"
On the Earlier politics of our coun-
try Everett is posted lie speaks of
The old Wings, Jackson Union Demo
Gratis and Calhoun Secessionists as
thorgh he had just closed Wise's
Seven Decades before taking his
pen in hand to write a few lines to
he people. His allusion to the
''Iliad of woes" is classically beautiful,
md his manner of binding the Con
ederate brow with GLORIOUS laurels"
while engaged in furtherlnga 'spoliti-
;al crime" would rank him high as
criminal lawyer if opportunity had
'ffered for display of his genius by
few prosecutions for treason after
he war.
Everett weeps over the grave of
,ur departed craftsmanship. md wrings
the sectional, reactionary and anti
national soul with anguish by his
illusions to Greece, Alexander, En-
gland, Scotland, Wales, Ireland,
Germany, Italy, Mexico, South
America and Punic faith. In the
sublimity of his rhapsody he exclaims:
''Behold consolidated Germany to day
he first power on the continent, and
Italy occupying front rank among
the nations" It's worthy of remark
that he entirely overlooked Won
Arnim and Garibaldi in this connec-
ton. H
When Everett writes of his own
State deficiency in his Early educa-
ton becomes apparent tor instance,
he charges the funding bill to demo
cratic account when every radical in
he Legislature but one voted for it
and carried it over majority of the
Conservatives against it. And he
entirely forgets that Coleman is now
in the penitentiary for embezzling the
State funds he talks about, while the
''oficial record shows Belknap's dis
grace the sole result" of his trial by
radical senate All this however is
accounted for when we observe that
Everett has devoted the whole of his
Early life TO the study of ancient hiss
tory and reading biographies of
Wallace, Cromwell and Napoleon. A
man cannot be expected to know
every thing at thirty FIVE. He does
make one allusion, however, to an
American statesman in touching up
the palladium of our liberties but
how could an Albemarle man
help knowing that Thomas Jefferson,
the founder of the Democrat ic n,rtv