Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-30
Bsllster, Brag and Bnlly.


characteristics of cowardlce Courage
laughs at bluslerers, despises brag ga
decio md assigns bullying the lowest
plaee in the catalogue of vmgarian
practices The Washington Belshaz
gar, qnaklng with fear at the discovery
OF the hand writing on the wall,
assemblies his few shonsan - yonets
about his mansion, and his braying
ass of the war department, who never
heard the thunaerings of artill erv
except on festive DAYS or memoria
occasions, is placing his rude throated
engines of destruction around the
capital in pretended apprehension for
its safety from a rebel raid. TIL 9
peace general Of Pennsylvania militia
issues orders for drill three times
week and directs immediate distri.
button Of ordnance stores among his
band~box soldiery. Northern journals,
ambitions of distinction as reliable
news sheets and leaders of wholesome
public sentiment, abound with sensa~
tional stuff about the impending crisis
and prospect of instant war. Poor
craven creatures, whom would they
fight ? Those whom they have plum
dered helpless. It would do good to
the very souls Of the dirty miscreants
who skulked from 81 to '65 to rush
down upon poweress people and
cut their throats, Such a war the
towards would like to precipitate
Only such an one could they prose-
cute. Don Cameron's daddy was a
good enough Secretary of War for
an ION to Richmond i'll thirty days"
but it required little earnestness to
drive him into retirement and turn
his portefolio over to Stanton. Grant
captured 5000 half starved confeder.
ates in '65, and the polluted bloat
would like to satiate his brutal pass
ions by pursuing that remnant to their
peaceful homes and bayoneting their
barred and bereaved bosoms. Miser-
able, clustering, Dragging, bullying
.iackals. Falstatf and Don Quixote
are characters which true bravery
magnifes into heroism when com
pairing them with the vicious perse
cutors Of the South, and Robespierre
becomes patriot by their side when
we pass his purposes to the credit of
his cruelty. Danton could thank the
assassins OF 92 asa minister of the
Revolution," not Of Justice Taft
can assist his by Interpolation and
false construction for purposes Of
robbery and rapine.
To all of this bravado and outrage
the South responds with manly de
meanor and becoming fortitade She
despises the mercy Of men, and begs
for nothing. Implicitly relying upon
a returning. sense of justice, her
people quietly pursue the even tenor
Of their way They are not excited
by idle war rumors, nor can they be
provoked to imprudence by furthe +
prosecutions. Commissions may be
awarded the Iscsriots and Arnolds
whom prostituted patronage has
bought to betray, and carpet-baggers
may be by these commanded to con
time aud extend their ravages; but
our manhood can not be intmidated,
nor that of our children dwarfed
Those twin angels, Peace and Plenty,
which were went to guard the portals
of our homes have been sunplanted
for decade by a Niobe all tears, but,
thanks be 10 the God of our fathers
and their offspring, the measure OF
contempt for the vile aud the mean is
not exhausted Few there be among
Us who have sunk to that degree OF
baseness to which Demosthenes con-
signed those Athenians who kissed
the hand that gave largess to them OF
their own. Those heaven borif attri.
butes-coarage, patience and modera-
tian-are peculiarly Southern. Let
the blusterer buster, TIE braggart
brag, the bully bFawl the time is in
the near future when respect for the
constitution will be coerced from
those who esteemed it league with
death and a covenant with hell. Ours
is the victory now though the fruits
of 1t may not be tasted for a brief
period.