The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-12-25


CHAHE0TTNsYILLEs VA.
Nh. EDITOR. Your efforts towards the
restoration Of fraternal feelings between the
Two crest sections of our country 80 lately
q war ought to be appreciated most widely
in tais Stare. for every interest here is sui
fertng by the continuance Of this bitter feel
ing. What are the causes OF this continued
arrangement Is it not largely caused
Dy the tone OF the Southern papers.
teaching the gospel Of hate instead OF peace
and good will :? Every unfavorable criticism
or comment Of the Northern papers is adj
duced and spread before readers-many of
whom never have any other light to. guide
them-as evidence Of Northern hatred and
malice. Everywhere the great National
Republican Party is stigmatized by the
press and BY oratorsa as sectional. party bent
on opposing the South, and to intensity the
ieenng the epithet Radical ia employed to
designate the men and measures Of the great
party (which has SO often found itself the
conservator Of nationality, sound finance
and pm bile honor.
how was 1t, or how is it now. sectiona19
It Is true that in many places in the South
ern States it has been made unhealthy for
Republicans to dwell and very unsafe for
business men whose success depended upon
public patronage, to act with that party.
II Is equally true that the capital OF our
country contains hundreds Of refugees from
the South, driven away by intolerance, lpro-
scription or violence.
Yet the changes are rung on all sides
against the Republican party as sectional.
Even the eminent Bayard is reported to have
Just declared that ''the Republican party
should be disqualified, because of its section
0lism.:
On wad some power the giftie to gle us,
10 see ourselves IS others see u.s.
says the great Scotch poet. but ssnone are so
blind as those who w,l not see.''
Perhaps the "veil' which the ..Immortal
}. NJ so often referred to and tried to lift
needs to be raised. The late uprising at the
North appears to have lifted one corner
Of it,
The South may mass its forces and BY
fraud, intimidation and violence run out all
opposition with the open and declared pur-
pose OF attaining supreme power, by the aid
OF few Northern allies, but il the people
OF the North rise and resent, through the
peSs.I1s ballot box. such assumption of
power througGrch methods, it is, forsooth,
an evidence Of Radicafate and sectional
ism.
We would calmly ask Sthern men to
Tor moment place themselveseetlhe other
side and carefully review events since tn'
war, and especially since the 14th amend
ment to the constitution was offered will
its five simple articles, only to be defantl.
rejected byevery Southern Legislature saw,
that OF Tennessee, at the behest OF the North
ern Democracy.
Well did Mr.. Garfield tell his Southern
friends in Congress: ''Your evil geniu
since the war has been the Northern Democ
racy." How their action at the late extr,
session of Congress has emphasized tina
declaration sHold out little longer, jus
little longer and we will wln!'' 1--WE ar,
gaining everywhere North, and the peopI
there are Intent on business gains and vii
give way p
What supreme folly when very vital in
terest at the South was suffering from th
want OF confidence and the revivifying influ
ence of peace and order to listen to sucl
promises. AS though people capable O
making such efforts and such sacrifices 10
natural unity could be oyer-borne by an
such means or any such men.
The Republican party has saved US th
Union, it has waved back the tide Of infia
ton and all the wild financial heresies G
the times, and established the credit Of gu
country in the face o.. fierce opposition I'll
now it is second to no other nation, an
returning prosperity for all the great indus
tries Of the country seems assured.
Is the South to be continually to be KEEP
from It's share of this prosperity and good
to crafty Its political leaders? 1t is nc
alone the threatened dishonor of repudiatio
that keeps back immigration and investmen
but the political intolerance SO common.
liberty loving people never will submit
that long, and it is about time that the tr'l
Conversatives OF the South should realize il
tyranny over the mind of man. was decla
ration OF the immortal Jefferson which ough
to be remembered by every American citizen
and when it becomes q part OF the politica
creed of the great body OF the people, W
shall indeed have freedom and prosperity
for prosperity cannot exist without freedom
10 our country. We have recently had al
exhibition OF this spirit Of intolerance towar
other than Republicans, and the bitterness
with which it is being resented in curren
political events.
II Is all wrong and not only reacts upol
those who are guilty Of it, but affects tn
whole material interests OF the State. Will
land equal to any North or West and an in
siting climate and mineral possessions Of in
ealculable value. we see the tide OF immigra
ton turning into the West, while our land
cannot be sold at half the price poorer land
are sold for there.
This is a matter which concerns ever!
property holder and ever citizen of Virgins
and Of every other Southern State.
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