Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-09-21
COMMUNICATED,
NEAR MtDDLEwAy Sent !

Uu' 'ne "nOie country there was rejoicing at
that happy event. But, to-day, when We are
upon the eve of Presidential election, We
are told by Radical demagosuos. the disci.
plcs of tho bloody shirt, that it is not over
that 1t was of no avail aud that it settled
nothing, and that these doughty heroes. who
sought bomb, proof shelter for their precious
carcssses during that struggle, are now trv>
ing to infame and poison tho minds of the
people with the most bitter and violent
abuse of the South. by the revival of those
i'teiess issues which mao with a grain of
sense above that of an idiot. dnes MT know
and behave, were settled when Gen. Lee
surrendered his decimated, bat brave and
gallant army at Appomattoz. While the
whole Radical press from the slope of the
Pacific to the shores that are washed by tho
@aters of the Atlantic, take up the strain and
repeat the inseusats balderdash of these
blatant demasoSues, whose only motive is
their own Acknowledgement aud psrpctuution
OF those aggressive principles thew have
propsgated from their induction into ofica
until the present time-principles at v.ri>
anoe with the constitution, inimicaI 10 lib
erty, and Identical with those which our
torstathsrs resisted in the days Of l776. and
FOR the success of which one of the most dss
psrate efforts that has ever been made sine.
the organization of the Government will be
made by these enemies of popular rights and
which will decide whether Democratic nrin,
clptes. tho,e for which the natrio,s of thr
revolution oontcnded. through lsn1 and
dangerous war, without any other ties 10
unite them than those of patriotism and a
common cause, shalt continue to be the
sheet anchor 0f our existence and the palia,
oiun OF our liberties, or whether they shall
be supplauted by those of the Radical party.
n n yhT,r,- ~
having for thor object the destruction of
the Union. And yet the lenders of that
party. the Blsiues, the Couklyns and the
Camerons, who are picking tho constitution
to pieces. and setting tho laws at defiance.
nave tho brozcn audauity to charge the
Democratic party with want Of fidelity to
1t But lot the history Of tho Democratic
party speak. and in the seventy five years Of
Its control of the Government was there ovor
single Intracti0n of it, or did it ever sock
to abridge. or extend it for base rrd p.rt7
purposes? No; it has always been the loht
and guide of oil ihs prcot statesmen of that
grand old party, which ia coevrl with orr
political existence. Thsv looked upon it as
the ark OF the covenant between the National
and State governments. as the &c lis Of our
ttSo institutions. and not aa n covenant with
hell, and a league with tho devil Thev
made no such allegations, nor charged those
self sacr fcing trainers of it-theso sR"cs
whose memory will always be rcvered by the
wise and good. with no suoh wicked com.
pan'nnship, and what the Bible is to the
Christian, the constitution is to the Demo,
crot. and as the learned thcolDpiap cxpornds
the scripture, so the profound Democratic
statesman expounds the constitution They
take nothing from it. nor Mdd pothnr to il
And az the Christian leaves tho PROCLAMATION
and the destruction of tho Bible to the inf
del aud unbclieVer, tho Democratic
party leaves the proclamation aud Geatruc-
ti"n OF tho constitution to the Radi
cal sca'awsc and carpet .hngger. IF il is
defective, or imperative, there is ram.dv
prescribed within itself 1t indicates the
mode by which it shall be changed TO the
StStes belong the power a breath Of theirs
made 1t, and breath "f theirs can alter it.
And no Democratic President or Congress
ever venturod to transgress it to violate its
provisions. or circumscribo tho power which
the States reserved to themselves They
l"okcd npnu it the work Of the assembled
wisdom of the untion. perpetual bond Of
union. tho strong link that hold them tovothcr.
the great ties between the State and general
government in which the boundaries we're
mapped out with master hand and which
both parties were bound. by oil the soiem.
nltiea Of hon"r and fidelity sacredIy to oh
serve. Now, by tho same standard, We will
try the Radical party. The party that now
controls the government, aud by which party
the constitution has boeu interdicted it's pro-
visions violated. and the laws snhiugsted
While their acts of usurpatiou, their fre>
quent inTOsd1 upon it, and their iDvstprate
hatred OF 1t, is SO p.lpu5y plain that the
w0yfar'ng aAn. though fool, may read as
he runs, and blind man may SEQ at q GAL
iop. And. yet, VIC hear this party, who vic.
late 1t with impunity. prate about the sane
tlty OF 1t. A single instance will suffice to
show their hypocriticaI cant and base dis
stimulation, and was there ever a more tanpi-
bic violation of it than in the seating of
dayes. The constitution was then entirely
set aside, and an act Of treachery committed
that had its counterpart only in that of
cesar In bis atteDpt TO overthrow tho iiber
ties OF Rome, tur which presuuptuoua to-
merlty lie lost his life. And here tribunal
vas constituted By them in which nlsiori,v
OF the political instruments Of that par,v
| hgured. aud Rutherford B. HAYES was Do
cIsred the President Of the United States
when the popular vote showed TINT he wac
2oO, OGO in the minority, and the clsc,or,l
votes of Louisiana, South Carolina and
FLORIDA we're declared in his favor through
'rSna aud corruption, and by the razcaity uc
ViliaInouS and perGdjous Returning Boards
sustained by the functionsries of the Su.
prems Court the highest judicial power in
the United States. in which body the Radi-
cal element has the preponderapce. portion
OF which sat in judgment upon the case, and
by their adverse decision sanctioned one of
the greatest frSuds that was ever perpetra,ed
upon free. intc!ligent, enlightened aod
| c"ndd'nR people, and by which Nr TlIden,
the choice of that people, was illegally. un>
lawfully and ourrsseon<iy deprived of his
seat. But the day of resribation is cunning
| when these usurpors that sspping tho
| foundation of this grest Rrpuhlic. and have
3" grossly violated that sacred in-tramest