The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-11-04
cannot be effectively made. unless harmony

cannot be effectively made, unless harmony
and unity prevail. If portion of our
strength runs out after the Re-adjusters
and portion after the Funders. we would
fritter away our strength and become the
ization compact and determined, we would
inspire respect, and could enforce the de-
mands of justice. humanity and the Con-
stitution of the country. We must fight
our own battles. and form no alliances I'M
less the great object we have in view can
be accomplished, beyond question, by an
alliance. If we can better secure such just
legislation and the modification of the State
fundamental and statute laws so as to cor
respond with the letter and spirit of the
National Constitution, by uniting with the
Funders, let such coalition be made. If
the ends we seek to reach can be more eff
fectively encompassed by cooperation with
the Re-adjusters. let our column move as
support to them. But in no case should
the Republicans OF Virginia surrender their
party identity or organization. With petty
dissensions abated and personal ambitions
made subordinate to the great object to be
achieved, the Republican party may become
a great conservative power in Virginia and
be so welded as to work out equal justice
to all, liberalize public thought, give new
life to the energies of the people and start
the Commonwealth upon a glorious and
progressive career, drawing the sympathy
and the cooperation OF the intelligent en-
terprise OF the country.
One hundred and thirty thousand rotes
we can command, as the party stands to-
day. if every Republican will prove true to
his convictions. The contest of 1881 will be
merely supplementary to that which we
have just concluded, and pregnant with
interests as vital as those which we have
aimed to secure in the Presidential election.
In no way can our power be felt so eff
fectively. and in no way can the purpose
we have In view be so well accomplished,
as by thorough organization, united pur.
pose and aggressive, yet conservative inten-
tions. Without the moral suasion such a
power would exert, we know from past
experience that we could receive mo con-
cessions from the Funders and without it
we know, we could receive nothing from
the Re-adiusters. The design,as manifested
at Staunton, in April last, and as more
plainly developed in the recent attempt to
drive from the field the Republican cleo
tors, ON the part of Malone, should arouse
every Republican to sense of his duty,
and determine him to adhere to his own
party organization as the surest defence OF
the rights at issue. and the cause OF human
enlightenment and progressed civilization
| itself-as presented in the Constitution OF
our country. The State debt question is
subordinate to these great ends; it is a
mere hobby for designing demagogues to
play with. Our cause rises infinitely higher.
We are demanding equal rights before the
law--that the laws of the country, as they
affect the rights of persons. shall be re-
spected, and that the moral forces which
should flavor the agencies of government
and control its legislation, shall not be
arrested by the hates of sections and the
| nreindices of race.