The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-03-15
A New Dispensatiou for the South,


A New Dispensatioli for the South
With the abatement of the feeling incident
to fierce party contest, the reason Of the
people begins to assert itself. Before the
election, and until the result was determined
by the Electoral Commission. scarcely de-
mocrat so recieant to party could be found
that could see any good which might come
out of the Republican Nazareth. Now that
the mind is relieved from suspense and free
to act, it is a common expression with many
who were active partisans, that they believe
Hayes can do more good for the country and
better by The South, than Tilden would
dared to have done. During the progress OF
the campaign, we frequently predicted this
conclusion. 1t was our sincere conviction,
and we SO expressed it. But it was hooted
at. The election of Hayes was declared in
advance to be the ruin of the country. Men,
blinded by passion, announced that they
would retire from business, or seek some
new field OF enterprise. They now see how
foolish they were, and take up the very
thoughts we expressed, and proclaim them
publicly. The country, indeed. narrowly
escaped a great misfortune. The South,
especially, has reason to rejoice that Mr.. Til
den was not elected, for they now have the
assurance of wise, catholic, generous adj.
ministration, Whereas we would have been
afflicted with a narrow, partizan policy, I'M
der Mr.. Tilden, that would have kept the
country in constant irritation, and popula-
lation away from us, protested enterprise
and capital, and left lis to struggle on in the
old grooves, without promise of cheer in the
future.
The principles and policy of the Republi-
can party, indeed, are more in consonance
with the interests of the South than any ad-
ministratiye action of the democrats could
be. We want internal improvements, and
protection. These Mr.. Tilden was commit
ted against. The Republicans will give the
country the Southern Pacific Railroad; they
will encourage the factories and industry of
the South by protective tariff; they will send
capital and enterprise to join in with us in
developing our wonderful resources; they
will purchase our lands, run our looms, util :
ize our water power and timber, and make, a
teeming seat of industry where stagnatjon
once reigned. The Republican party is lib.
eral, it is progressive, it is adventurous. 1t
has spanned the continent with iron raiIs-it
has made the wilderness to blossom as the
rose; dotted the wastes of the country with
busy settlements, developed the mines,
opened outlets for new commerce, ind given
impetus to all the material interests of the
North and West. 1t will do so for the South,
under the stimulus Of its own administration.
1t will recognize the justice Of equalizing the
benefits Of national policy, and will give to
the South what it has given to the North
and West, grand thoroughfare from ocean
to ocean, through the bounteous prairies and
valleys which intervene between the Pacific
and Gulf. The democrats would not have
dared undertake these great national bene-
factions. Their traditional policy is against
them--their contracted partizanism was con-
tHCA. LuC AtpCIetl lildL HAVE
All abnormal identity with the democratic
party will recognize this, and cut loose from
it. 1t will be no longer stigma for a
Southern man to say he is Republican, for
to say SO will be but declaring IN favor Of a
national policy that will lift the South from
thriftlessness and depression into the utili-
tartan atmosphere where progress and enter
prise are the watchwords. The laboring
class will especially be made to rejoice that
the country is under an enlightened, kind
and catholic Republican administration, and
that the enterprises from which he feeds and
clothes his children are to be fostered and
encouraged, and the country pushed forward
in its grand destiny of improvement and de-
velopment. Peace, blessed peace, will spread
her wings over every section-thc rights of
all will be respected and protected, and all
the great interests Of our affluent domain re-
ceive new life and new baptism.
All the people should rejoice that the coun-
try has been recovered from the jaws of re-
volution, and that an able and competent
statesman has been placed in the Executive
chair to direct the affairs of the nation under
the inspiring influences that will light up
almost every countenance.