West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-08-30
JYESI VIRGINIA ARGUS.

kINGWooD, AUGUST 90, 1879.
THE everlasting epetition of a set
Of 'alaenoods by the so-csl,e hut
misnsmed Republican newspapers
and speakers of he country, has re-
suited in so far belonging the minds
Of The least informed as to give to
these talsehoods the practical OBJECT
Of truth. These suborned witnesses
swear 20 uniformly to the same set
of lies that the u0,linGiuc are de-
ceiyed by it, aud conclude that their
agreement in statement is owing TO
The truth OF that statement, never
thinking that there can be such a
thing as consistency in lying as well
rs in telling The truth.
q 1t will be remembered by all how
Tor fourteen years the leaders Of this
rack have sounded the cry, which
hiss been taken up and repeated in
every KEY in the scale Of sound, from
the deep base of the Tribune and
Times, of Shurtz, Garfield, Sherman
and Blaine, TO the equeaking treble
or the little yelping initiative cur
and terrier, that the Democrats
brought on the war: when every man
woman and child knows, if they
know anything, that the war was the
result OF a sectional! issue, aud not q
political one, in any party sense; aud
that this Issue, in two words, was
;leRro slavery.
1t will further be remembered how
all along through these fourteen years
this same yelping pack have
continued to howl themselves hoarse
"A denouncing the whole Democratic
party as rebels, traitors and revolu-
tionists, because, forsooth it has dared
10 oppose their usurping and central.
izingechemes byasserting the suprem.
acy Of the Constitution, and declar-
ing with that great and sacred cove
nant of States, that Tie poaCerS not
delegated to the general government,
are reserved to The people. This
manly assertion of theinherent rights
Of the people is treason, accord ng to
the political code of these bowling,
advocates of despot'sm.
We charge it home upon you
that you howled "ne or o .
till you involved the coun-
try in iratricidal war, and by your
howlings you aggravated and inten-
sifed the horrors Of that war; that
when the war was oyer, and the reb-
ell armies had disbauded and return
ed on parole to their impoverished
and desolated homes; when all over
this broad land the living borrowed
for their kindred dead by kindred
slain; when the smoke of burning
cities, towns, and peaceful HON es yet
hung ike pail over blackened ruins:
when the South Jay PROSTATE amid
her own desolation, you, by your
deyilish howiing, INSTRUCTED the re-
turn Of peace and good feeling. You
howled till you caused the State
governments at the South to be over
turned, and Others, worthy Of your
making, TO be arbitrarily get up in
their stead, supported and upheld
by federal bayonets. You howled
til' the army was prostituted TO the
base Office Of corrupting elections
and overawiDg, badgeriug AMI dis
persiDg State legislatures.
And now, after you have, by your
hcwling, wrought all this woe and
wretcneduess, srrayed section against
section, and kept old wounds open
and bleeding, which, but for you.
would have healed up years ago
WOW, when you have been for your
crimes repudiated By the people and
driven by them from power, you
whine about a "Solid outb."