Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-18
The Raeels not to the swift.
Messrs. Editors of Herald.

Messrs. Editors of Herald.
The time has come, when
every man that feels in his bosom the
glow of love, and respect for his country
should at once come Toward upon the
stage of action, and claim the liberty OF
freeman.
Liberty has given us a greater meas
ure of national freedom than any other
people ever enjoyed. Liberty has placed
us among the powerful nations of the
world, with nothing to fear but our own
follies and crimes, and the judgment of
a just God. Liberty has spread an in
telligent, happy, a contented, and a
virtuous population over our hills and
valleys, all claiming the proudest boast
of life to be freeman.
Grant being an exception to the gen.
eral rule, he claims to be the President
of party only, and not for the whole
people, and he claims to be a man that
has but little respect for law and order,
for he has said he did not care for the
decision of courts.
Washington in making choice of his
confidential advisers, and the various
appointments to office, duty so inn
portant, and sought for men fit for
office, not for offices which might suit
men, his was a plain straight forward
matter, mere honest Oh dice. of good
men, for the public service. Has Grant
pursued the regular choice of rectitude
above party considerations ? The an
swer is no. He selected men for
offices, retailed offices for favors and
party OBLIGATIONS.
election, uttered the deliberate purpose
of the deesprate republican leaders,
who would vastly prefer an overthrow of
the institutions of liberty and freedom,
to the Inauguration Of Samuel J. T1lden
as President. The idea that change
of administration will open their fraudu-
lent records to faithful and careful
scrutiny fills them with fearful terror.
But the name ofTilden is great, and
greatly to be praised, a man without
spot, OF blemish. Samuel J. Tilden,
who has been elected to the high Office
of President, by the voice of the people
fairly and squarely, claims the special
attention and consideration of the great
masses Of people at this hour, that he
be made the president Of the people, a
man having all the prerequisites neces-
sary for a president, a statesman by
faith, and tried counselor by practice,
man ripe in years, with profound
Judgment, political and civil, having a
pure heart, and noble impulses for the
good Of his country, possessed Of all
these good qualities the nation can rally
around him. and trust him for their
leader with confidence.
When elected Governor Of the state
Of New-Yo rl under peculiar circumstan-
ces, he took a stand point. and drove
out the thieves and robbers in the state
| by the hundreds, and when Samuel J.
Tilden is inaugurated president Of the
United States on the 9Th day Of March
next, be will like Sampson, of old, drive
out at Washington D. G. with the jaw
bone Of an ass, thieves, corruption, car
pet-baggers, and plunderers of the
! Government funds, by hundreds and
thousands. Then and not till then can
the people Of these United States return
to tie old land marks Of prosperity, and
the enjoyment Of peaceful happiness.
The force Of circumstances calls upon
the aged men OF our country by the
shades of their ancestors, by AL you are
and all you hope to be, to resist every
project Of fraud, and corruption. attemp'
ted to fetter our public institutions, by 6
party who claim 10 respect for the
great principles Of Government institu-
| tons. A. G.. W.