The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-05-11
Cincinnati Convention,


to this inviting field
Cincinnati Convention.
The conviction is being fastened upon the
consciousness of the American people that the
National Convention of the Republican party,
1T Cincinnati on the 18th of juno next, will
lame the next President Of the United States.
1t is for this reason that more than ordinary
interest will centre upon it's deliberations.
There is a wide spread and growing sentiment
that the standard bearer of the Republican
party must represent in all their fullness the
principles which have signalzcd its history,and
the enactments that have illustrated It's devo-
orous power in the struggle for the s'life of the
nation" and receiving its baptism iii the blood
of the sacrifices to freedom, it would be false
to history and false to the ycarnings of the
popular heart, did not its assembled represen-
tatives at Cincinnati crystaiZe the national
sentiment it asserts and the broad ideas of hu-
man freedom and equality it has secured and
defended, in the character and achievements
OF the nominee it shall present for the sutfra-
ges of the nation. The developments in Con-
gress, within the past five months, too plainly
proclaim that the idea of nationality which
triumphed in the conflict of arms and which
was accepted by the country, is to be antago-
| nized by the insidous approaches and persis-
teht presentation of the dogma of State Sever
eighty, and that the two theories OF govern
men are to be championed respectively by the
Republican and Democratic parties. The is
sue is to be again joined whether the national
government is subordinate to State autonomy.
and whether the right, OF national citizenship
are to be protected and defended with all the
power of the rational authority, wherever its
jurisdiction is recognized. The annals of no
country present q darker page Of persecution
and prescription for opinions sake, than is
furnished in the history of the Republican
party of the Southern States. From the time
that Longstreet and Orr boldly proclaimed
their purpose 70 practically acceptthe results OF
tile war, end carry out in good faith the cond-
| tions of amnesty-recognizing national fealty
and national authority-to the present. no ma
tive Of the South, has Identified himself with
the party that supports the laws and Constitu-
ton OF his country, who has not been the OBJ
Ject OF the most malicious Misrepresentation
and SANDER from the foul-mouthed demagogues
who never comprehended convection of right
or responded to sentiment Of honor. 1t mat
tered not however scrupulous his observance
OF all the duties of citizenship, however circnm-
spect his private and social demeanor and life !;
If I,ao nc
can party, from sincere belief that it's policy
and principles were in harmony with the true
spirit and genius of our institutions, that
moment the dogs Of WARP were let loose
upon him, and the poisoned arrows Of SANDER
and yillficaton directed against him. Re-
pnblicahs OF the South have bravely confronted
this split of cowardly brayado and pusillani.
nous effrontery, and have stood firm to their
convictions, while their motives have been
questioned and their purposes msrepresented
by men who were never stirred by an emotion
OF duty or stimulated by an earnest sentiment
of NATIONAL obligation.
Not only must the nominees of the Cincin-
natl Convention be an earnest and honest be-
lever in the right and power of the national
government to protect and defend the rights of
citizenship, of whatever rsce or condition,
wherever they are claimed, but he must be
fully in accord with the popular yearning for
purity and economy in government. The
times and the country demand craftsmanship
OF the highest order, elevated above the suspi-
con OF partizanis.n, and commensurate with
the vast interests Which attach to a govern
ment of forty millions of people, diversified
i'll their pursuits and progressive in their aspi-
ratons.
Fortunately for the country the Republican
party has within its organization men who
are true to the letter and spirit of the constitu
ton and laws, and who sympathize with the
demands of The people. The Cincinnati Con-
vention will doubtless present such a man as
the representative Of tire party, and with that
accomplished, the contamination of his cleo
ton will only await the close of the polls, on
the first Tuesday in November next.
Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise has created