Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-02-10
COMMUNsCArED.
THE ELECTORAL LAW. OR BOND
HOLDERS SURRENDER.

Mr. Elitor-For nearly sixteen years
this Republic has been in the hands OF
lis enemies, whose administrations have
been growing from bad to execrable to
the present time aud now the great
moraire of corruption has detiled and
perniciously contaminated the whole
moral atmosphere of government.
The sacredneSs of the ballot has been
desecrated by unblushine vilainy, aud
defended by the preterders of honesty
in the Senate. All deserving minds
have long known that the sboli,ionis,s
enfranchised, for a despicable purpose.
the plant servants of their power, as
ignorant tools for their partizan designs
To- wit: Their election aud continuation
in power, even il causing the suicide Of
the Republic.
Republican party! What political
sacrilege, to call the ace;dent-begotten
aboltionists Republicans
Every plan utopian, and every act
pestilential to peoples government,
they came into power as scourgc, and
have continued as blight, and should
be driven from tho institutions they
have contaminated by their touch, ~
pestilence before the storm Of an out
ragged constituency. Bat, 10 perpetuaie
this nausea beyond all these deporable
wears, the machine electors are convert
ed into vassals, to perpctuate In power
the exemplifed rognes under gnlse Of
law. But, like all wrcns and all l.r-
amy. the emboldened successes reacted
upon the minicnS in power, and an out
ragged people have repudiated the SC.
called Republican party by two hundred
thousand of popular majority, and
have dccrced that the Illicit gaiEs shall
stop, aud that fraud and corruption shall
be purged from the American halls and
cabinets of public functionarics. Not
wilhstanding all this, the fires Of pollu-
ton are burning Oh the altars OF the de.
feated rs brilliantly as if iDfamed by
Justice, by right and by victory. Aud
how is it nett How is this iawning.
cringing, blatant, tyrannical, bastard
power to be removed' 7 Its votaries in
power persist in overriding the peacea-
bly, expressed will OF the whole people
at the recent elections. And two on
three whole States are 20 be manipula-
ted by self-seeking adventurers. The
peoples victory Is unsettled, or TO bo
settled by a novel commission which
smacks of bondholder's seasoning Acd
Tildem's victory may be crushed in tho
legis!atve.judici mill, erected under
high pressure to grind out technical
ties to cover as shrouds Our country's
death.
Shall the frauds that glare in tho
nooa-day be hidden beneath the erminc
and the scrollf Shall the cess-pools Of
Florida, Louisiana and returning boards
be covered up by respect Tor so-called
legal forms, created by usurper's lcgis-
lation, acting under instructions from
Washington Shall the tens of tbou..
ands of honest voters, both white and
! black be robbed of their fair and homes;
! victory, when that victory is for tho
saving Of the Nation fear, and vet i
know, that fraud when discovered un.
locks every Judicial bar, and re-opens
the most solemn decisions But know
too, how deaf parlizsn prejudice is, and
how it warps mems understanding, and
that Matt Carpenter aud Ben Butler
are to help the democratic cause through
the deep fog and gloom Of predetern,in-
ed returns. Well may patriots cxclaini
"from all these good Lord deliver us. "
Not many years ago Justices were pu,
upon the bench who would not scare AZ
constitutional barriers, if in the way Of
"war necessities !; perhaps those per-
sons are living yet. Whether political
necessities are as potent rs war Becessi.
ties, do not know. But it is easy 10
make a pretcxt where one is needed
If popular Indignation had been less
tame since the election, aud the ayeng-
ing rod Of popular displeasure had ,ecn
lifted, no recluse ascetic was ever more
drawn from public gaze than this fever.
ish question would now DO.
Ais WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Charlesown, February, 1877