Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-09-22
WAR-R-R.

The country Will be distressed to know
that the Widow BUTLER is going to have
war. War! Bul-luddy war-r-r. She
has taken an extra reef in her carriers and
put her bonnet back for the fray. Says that
worthy girl, s'every lawless, riOtouS, blood
thirsty wretch in the South" is armed
with Senator BAYARD's opinion that he
may fuse such force and intimidation as
he pleases against every voter" Horrid
isn't it !? And so horrid that the widow
thinks it will lead to thew slaughter of
our sons and brothers. New Gettysburgs,
new Vicksburgs and Petersburgs," and she
was about to add new powder burnings at
Fort Fishers and new Bethels. but the
widow forgets her victories, or is too mod
est to mention them. To be followed by
new Credit Mobiliers, new whiskey ings,
new Soldiers Homes, new corrupt secre-
taries Of war, the Widow BUTLER ought
to have added, tor that is what she and
those like her have in their eye. A good
deal must be allowed for Mrs. BUTLER S
nerves. 70 her the war has already bro
ken out in her own Congressional district,
where the better class of Republicans won u
support her nomination, on the ground
that she isn't respectable. The Boston
''Post" libels her, the n. Y. "Tribune"
the leading HAYES journal says she isn't
even decent, and in the other Congress
SIGNAL districts Of the State, there is gen.
eral cutlery at the outrage OF her nomina
ton. With rebellionssin Massachusetts,
against this recognised moral and intellec-
tual leader Of the Republican party of the
country, is it surprising that the Widow
BUTLER peering over her glasses into the
future should behold Few Gettysburgs and
new Vicksburgs, and propose to hold up
her skirts and dart into the cellar of the
Soldiers Home?
We take it that the human mind under
every sun is pretty much alike, and that
the mind of the North is not to be deceived
by such talk as BUFFERS. If every South
ern journal was to commence tomorrow
and abuse the yankees and rehearse the
cruel history of the war from now till the
end of the campaign it wouldn't poll TWEEN
ty more votes for Tilden than he is likely
to get on the common sense of the case
ana the pinchlngs of poverty and heavy
federal taxation which makes our people
SO anxious for a change, and we cannot be-
lieve that the Northern mind is so differ
emit from ours that it can be influenced by
| the oft told tale OF the rebellion and An
Jacksonville and the treatment OF Union
men in the South. Ten years have been
| lost indeed to both sections if they have
progressed no further than that in their
| approach to a national feeling. If under a
Republican administration with full sway
for ten years, the country has been &C.
mented no closer than that if the clay in
the hand of the Republican potter has
been poorly worked as that; if the end
Of decade finds the people of the nation
so dissatisfied with the Republican Admin
istrators that there remains to keep them
| i'll power, only an appeal to cruel memories,
| fierce passions and craven fears, then the
Republican party has fully earned its dis
missal from the peoples confidence.
/ L liz CUulllGlD OiOC vi udpIOllitl dPI}lti
| tree hasn't been towards the sun in the last
ten years. The South has ripened hardly
and slowly. It las locked most Of the
| time like the black worm in the fruit, was
| TO be preserved by the horticulturists at
| Washington if the crop was destroyed in
the process. 1t hasn't been a pleasant side
Of the tree to live on. And yet we never
| have represen tative men, like BUTLER is
in his party, trying to bring people to the
| polls by clamor about sufferings long past,
| or dangers far ahead. About the only dan
| ger held up before our people to incite them
| to vote in national elections, is Il common
one, in which if it came the North woul,!
| suffer equally-a Capitalization which
would destroy the liberty of the country
We cry oui against the corruption of the
| government-so they do in the North; We
protest against the heavy taxation that
| corruption entails On uS-so do they at the
| North we clamOr for craftsmanship and
honest government-so too at the North
These are no ''rebel'' lies that come from
the South-no threats Of war if We should
fail in making a change. These come alone
| from such pen as the Widow BUTLER and
! MoRTON and LOGAN and from the news
| paper organs of the administration the
widow always i'll the lead.
The widow with her filter up, her reti-
cule for 4 h&versack, and her parasol for Il
sword, is waiting for war-r-r. We arc
| waiting ballot in hand for Uncle SAMUEL