Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-10-27

clenJ TO carry cOnYlctlon w HolieS1 lhln'o.
This was the
GRAvEsT ISSUE EVER PRESENTED TO |
THIS PEOPLE.
The issue Of 81 was not so important.
Then we were armed for the conflict-We
each counted our artillery, and wereready
for the fight.
Now in the halcyon days OF peace con-
f1ict more dire was upon us. His hearers
would ask where is the danger? Who is
the enemy ? The danger was in our own
government, which was in the hands OF
the Republican party. He did not propose
to speak of all the corruptlons OF the party
in over, The Congressional candidates
and the newspapers had exposed them
fully, nor to speak Of the enormous in
crease Of the public debt and the number
of otflce-holders, the disgrace of our coun-
try in foreign courts, the corruption Of the
seat of government and the abuse of power
by military usurpation. All these things
were too familiar to his Intelligent au-
dience. He was not here to deliver a sec.
tionaI speech, he intended to make union
speech and to do what in him lay to pre-
serve the Union and the Constitution, and
asked
TO BE HEARD FOR HIS CAUSE.
He had seen. since he came to Staunton,
two banners standing over against each
other, one inscribed Tilden, Hendricks
and Reform, the other Hayes, Wheeler
and Reform, and would ask wherein they
differed. Could the Republican party re-
form itself, if SO, as the party already in
power he would advise all to vote the
Hayes and Wheeler ticket. The Repuu-
lican party was not constitutional party.
1t did not attempt to discuss the principles
of free government at all. It was not d
political party, but a fanatical party, and
a fanatical party was a
HYPOTHETICAL AND A CRUEL PARTY.
1t could not stand still, to stop was it's
ruin, to be defeated would be its DEATH
What would be the next step if they re-
main in power ? They will educate us.
MI. Wheeler had said, that the people
at the South were so far behind the North
in the enlightenment Of modern civilization,
| that
| SOME SYSTEM FOR THE EDUCATION OF
| THE MASSES SHOULD BE ADOPTED.
! Yes, they will take charge OF our public
schools, prescribe the books to be used,
send us teachers Of their own choosing
and by national laws compel attendance
| On mixed schools and thus enter the pri-
vacy Of our homes, trample Oh our dearest
rights, and desecrate the sanctity Of our
| fresides.
The speaker said he would not unburry
the dead issues Of the past, nor rake up
the dead bones Of slavery, it was dead let
it lie buried. The Republican party had !,
for party effect, adopted the negro, made
| him the nations ward, invested him with
suffrage and citizenship; but if he did not
exercise those rights for the agrandiZement
of their party, they would be deprived OF
those rights. Ii the colored man exercised
the rights of a freeman and dared to
| desert the party which had taken him up,
the party Of no principles would abandon
| him to condition little better than that
|
drawn no color line. Let them draw it as
they were striving to dc and
DOWN GOES THE CoLoRGD MAN.
| Speaking Of the superiority OF the color
ed man to the carpet-bagger, the repre-
sentative Northern man, who had been
sent among US and left his country for his
c0untry's good, he was not, he said, worthy
TO unl0Ose the shoes OF the colored man.
And what had they done for them, we
| clothed them, and fed them, and educated
them. and not one single act could be
| pointed out which they had done for their
| benefit.
The speaker then alluded in strong Ian
guage to the policy Of the Administration
| party which acted On the principle that s.
! State had no rights, no lines that what
| the government gave, it could take away,
| and could as well deprive u citizen of his
| liberties as q State. He, the speaker, would
prefer a king to such d government. If he
| had to be ruled by Beast Butler, as leader
| of majority in Congress, or as king, he
WOULD TAKE KING BUTLER
| and cry "Come Caesar, help me; [ sink. :"
Going back to the origin of the Republican
party, whose fanaticai leaders character
lied the constitution as a league with Sa-
tan and covenant with hell, Col. FL.
then rapidly reviewed the unhealthy state
Of things. which nurtured the growth of
that party and resulted in the election Of
Lincoln. Having no fault to fnd with the
war Democrats, who were fighting for the
life of the Union, while we fought for the
life of our section, gave in terse language
the history OF emancipation, and other re-
suits of the war, and pausing to throw a
wreath on the grave of Andrew Johnson,
who, though he had been regarded by us
as traitor, was afterwards for a long time
the only
WATCHMAN ON THE TOWER OF CoNsTI-
TUTIoNAL LIBERTIES.
The birth of little West Virginia, the
emporium IN anperio, and the organization
of the Peirpoint government, was next
commented on, and the tyrannical policy
which placed old Virginia under the con-
troll of 35 of her western counties. Then
when Virginia had accepted the situation,
the breach Of faith on the part of the adj
ministration, when our bastard State gov
eminent was taken from us, and as sudden
as the sound Of fire bells at night came the
order forming Military District, No. l.
He made a sarcastic fling at Virginia IS con-
stitutional convention (Which ELECTED from
the audience a burst of derisive laughter),
made up mostly Of negroes, and citizens OF
other Sta.es. Col. Holiday took occasion
to pay an eloquent tribute to old Virginia,