The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-31
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900 Internal Revenue tax and Virginia alon
paid s7,0o0,Ooo. and he knew when he said
it that the same law governed both sections.
and if Virginia does pay seven-eighths as much
in taxes as the whole Of New England, it is SO
much the better for her. for it shows that IN
| just that proportion does she manufacture the
! taxable articles. The only things which Viz
ginia pays an Internal Revenue tax upon are
whiskey and tobacco, and the manufacturers
of these generally manage to accumulate for
tunes. With equal propriety he might have
said that New York pays greater amount OF
State taxes than Virginia, therefore the laws
OF the Empire States are more oncr Gus.
He claimed that the National Government
WIS sectional in its par,lons and punishmants,
because sixty-thrcc men were confined in Al
bany and Sing Sing penitentiarics for the ku-
Kux murders, and proceeded to relate an
instance where negro in the South had viola
ted Il white woman and his cNecutioners had
been tried rs Ku.kluN. 1t was an Isolated case;
one thai we had never heard OF before, nor had
some half dozen intelligent gentle man whom
we afterwards interviewed. II the Incidents
were true as related. the negro mcrltcd ten
fold the punishment Inflicted, but it cannot be
claimed that all the bloodshed in the South has
been provoked in u similar manner, nor can IL
be denied that in not few instances political
luminosity has been the controlling cause. AS
TO the Incarceration OF sixty-three men in Nor
them prisons. we ask in all caAdor and calm
ness, does that appear to men Of high sense OF
justice and right, to be extreme Punishment
for the 1926 slain and wounded, even after
deducting those whose deaths were provoked!
The speaker justified the South in assuming
its sectional position in the Presidential con-
test, and said that the precedent had been set
by Dix, in organizing his boys in blue. 1t is
co Just s;.cll fanatics as Mr.. Riddleberger, that
the country is indebted for this sectional issue,
and at St. Louis, in pledging the South to the
support of any man whom the Democratic par
ty might name, they struck chord which VI
brated everywhere in the North and West. and
have impaired to the canvass complexion
which, but for them, it would never have pos
sesssed.
He asserted that the South since the wlr had
been the object of tue most malignant hatred,
abuse and persecution. She had been plumber
ed, robbed, her legislatures disbanded and her
lands laid waste. There was no outrage she
had not suffered, no indignity that had not
been inflicted upon her, and no cup OF poison
with which she had not been baptized. Her
history had been one long record OF oppression,
and not in the annals OF Ireland. nor yet liz the
darkest days of Roman despotism, could
no. 1oI IN his hear
ers to rise and shake. off this thradom.
Turning to the galleries he told the darkles
that the Conservative party OF Virginia haa
given them free schools and civil rights six years
in advance Of the time required by law, anu he
knew when he uttered those words that the Con
sentative party had no alternative than to act
as it did, 1t made virtue OF necessity, anu
il was the bitterest pill it had ever swallowed.
Ge acknowledged that 100000 had been
stolen from the school fund and applied to the
interest on the State debt, but tried to cxtenu-
ate the ohfensc by claiming dereliction on the
part OF the public officers. and that they had
made Il mistake in the application of the fund.
He then said that the amo unit had been return
ell to hesclool fund. but if it has, nobody but
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ditor has certainly made no report to that effect.
He closed by declaring his devoti on to State
sovereignty, that old doctrine that precipitated
revolution, flooded this fair land with the
hearts blood of her noblest children and left
her PROSTATE in her woe. 1t cursed the South
before the war and its agitation would doubly
curse her now, and yet these men who pretend
to have the interests of Virginia at heart, ex-
hume this fostering corpse and flaunt it once
more before the people. God help the South
if to such men as these she is to look for her
future!
ELECTION OF STAUNTON AND BEVERLY
MANOR DELEGATES TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
CoNvENTIoN.-On Saturday last the election
for delegates from Augusta county to the Con-
grcssional Convention which meets in this city
tomorrow. was held. At one O'Clock the vo-
ters of Beverly Manor district assembled IN
the Courthouse and Col. NJ G.. Harman. was
called to the chair. and the democratic editors
present requested to act as secretaries. After
considerable debate as to the best manner OF
securing the sense of the meeting, it was de-
tcrmined that all voters fayoring the nominal
ton of Harris, headed by their candidates Tor
delegates, Messrs. W. Fl. Pcyton and Il. A.
Fulcller, should stand on the left hand side OF
the Court house, and those favoring Bumgar6-
ner, whose candidates were Messrs. NJ. +.
White and W. A. Burnett, should stand on the
right. Tellers were then appointed and the
count determined the sentiment OF the meet
ing as follows: Peyton and Fulcher, lo9
White and Burnett, 80.
At five o'clock the voters Of the first ward,
also assembled in the Courthouse, with Gen
Jno. Echols as chairman. 1t was an
nounccd that the vote should be taken by bal
lot, each man placing his name on the bac k OF
the ticket, but when the ballots were counted.
large number were found to be blank on the
back. This little departure from the rule
which had been established, however, didn't
make the least difference in the world and
they were all accepted as bona tide. The Har-
ris delegates were Messrs. G. G. Jackson an d
p. N. Powell, and Messrs. A. B. Cochran and
R. w. Burke represented the Bumgardner fac
ton. The vote stood: for Cochran and Burke,
10; for jackson and Powell, 81.
In the second ward the Harris men entered
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