Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-03-01


trusted these men, and they have be-
trayed our trust. All laws must be adj
ministered by human agencies. Ifyou
have the corrupt judge, no matter what
your laws may be, you will have base
Judgment. Jefreys was just judge
save when the interests of the crown
were concerned. Bacon, the greatest,
wisest, meanest of mankind, took
brides, yet rendered, with one or two
exceptions, just judgments. Hale, al
though refusing to take the civic oaths
of Cromwell, yet was made his judge.
In this electoral commission supposed
sages in their exalted position have
played the part of banded jockeys, and
have done in the face of the world that
which hungry mountebanks would scorn.
| They have done such an act that blurs
the grace and blush of modesty, calls
virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose from
the fair forehead and sets blister
there, and these successors of John
Marshall. to-day how must each feel
his title like a giants robe hangs loose
about. Suspicion is whispered that
certain judicial commissions bear the
dark and damning seal of intrigue and
ring jobbery. and that the first Judgment
of their holders was the price paid for
their promotion. .-a--....-...
You have but a barren sceptre in
your grippe. Your fresh garlands en-
Irvine around your hatehment. Your
party stands to-day surrounded with
such turpitude that the judgment OF the
hour and of mankind must be against it.
Your jugglers have proclaimed your
victory, but it b furnished with shame,
and accomplished by perjury and every
species of fraud, Your party is in the
attitude of
ga cut purse of the empire and rule
That from shelf the precious diadem
stole,
And put it in his pocket" ...,
What of the Southa The conduct Of
her Representatives during the last few
months has refuted the ISLANDERS Of
years. Their votes and utterances
here have been for peace, law, order.
The South has been familiar with mis-
fortune. Sorrow and defeat have MN.
gled in her experience. She has drunk
the cup Of bitterness to the dregs, but,
| thank God, she is asstranger to dishon-
or, and we stand inhexibly for the faith
full execution ofthe bill. Honor says it,
policy<says It; otherwise we drift into
confusion, anarchy and chaos. Our
escutcheon is unstained. We can better
afford to accept disappointment and de-
feat than by parliamentary shifts and
tricks to avoid the orderly execution OF
! the law, against which only eighteen
democrats Of this House and only one
| in the Senate voted.
Something has been said Of bargain
ing with the South. You cannot win
them over by brides. they want justice.
I see before me a distinguished and
cherished friend from the South, (Mr.
Lamar Of the highest ability and I'M
spotted integrity. I speak not by his
authority, but his name has been men
toned in this connection. / say be-
lleve he would shrink from such coali-
ton as his soul would recoil from a cruel
wound of dishonor. The men you
could bribe are not worth having. You
would loathe them when you got them,
They would have no following or influ-
ence at home, and If they were to Join
with this party to sustain it in its past
and present policy, they would find
themselves political Pariahs in the land
of their birth. Nothing will conciliate
the South but justice and you will SO
find it. They want rest. order, home
rule.
There will be no division in the
democracy. Lay not that flattering
JUNCTION to your souls" There is a
difference to-day only among them as
to the policy of the hour. And now
ask you, my countrymen, IN the name
of justice, of peace, of truth, OF liberty,
Of civilization, in the name of all these,
l ask you to halt? Forbearance has
its limits. say it not in menace, but
in sorrow. The manacles must fall from
the limbs of our sister Southern States.
Y gu must call of your dogs. (Whistling
on the republican side as if. to dogs. |
They have been baited and badgered
until the just sentiments of the world
in indignation condemns your policy.
Is yours to be an imitation Of a cele-
bration ola Roman victory, with these
long-sufering States chained to your
triumphal car? a-,
Whilst you stand up for the inviola-
bility ofState rights whilst you cannot
go behind the corrupt return of board
in Louisiana that huckstered the vote
of their State from one end of the coun-
try to the other for a price, you organ
ize the Legislature of that State with
your bayonets. Whilst the gentleman
from Ohio (Mr. Foster) says that s'the
| flag shall float over States andnot pro-
vinces, over freemen and not slaves, -
your President forbids in South Carolina
a peaceful celebration of the anniYer-
sary Of the birth of Washington.
Whilst the gentleman from Ohio says
this, your Senate on the same day,
twelve years after the close of the war,
is refusing amnesty, and your President
has a pardon for every bribe-taker and
every whisky thief, Inconsistency and
contradiction mark the whole course OF
your policy. You have seemed to try
to achieve the lament of .Junius to give
Immortality to the perishable parts Of
your infamy." Why, indeed, your
hollow pageant in the inauguration o.
your President with this record, with
the sun of truth blazing upon the
iniquities by which your power was ac-
Icomplished, instead OF being the day Of
'Iyour victory, IS the day of your death.
The walls Of the peoples Indignation
Twill be emptied upon you. You will
hear the Kisses of scern upon what
Iyou have done. The pen Of history
will record the eternal verdict against
you. Just so sure as a God Of justice
frules the affairs Of men SO surely will
the victories of truth in time come.
| have stood here for moderation and
peace throughout this Congress. 1 &C.
} cept to-day defeat, bitter as it is, rather
than dishonor. I bear the ills / have
rather than hy to those l know not of.
When 1 am asked to give my vote to
resist the execution of this law, my an.
swer is you give me no objectiye point
to which you would move that would