The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-11-11

the Republican press, there would have been
kindled resentment, fierce hostility, that
would have arrested the flow of generosity,
stiffled magnanimity, built up an inn
passable wall of prejudice between the sec
tions. and frozen the currents Of inter State
business communication.
From the outgi wings already seen from
the Southern press, AMI heard upon the
streets in our daily intercourse, we are sat
isfied that the great mass of the Southern
people, who are identified with business
pursuits and understand the springs of hui
man action, are satisfied with the result,
and look hopefully to the future. OF course,
the constipated politicians, the place-hunters
and strife-breeders are exceptions. Their
little schemes and plans have been nipped
in the bud and they will have to shrink
back into their selfish cells, feed upon their
own insignificance, and realize the scorn
and contempt of the honest masses who
have been deceived by their falsehoods and
ISLANDERS and mislead by their appeals to
passion and prejudice But the intelligence
and enterprise which move the business in
terests of the South, and more particularly
of this portion of Virginia, have already
caught the inspiration of more prosperous
times, as they read the liberal sentiments
given out by the Northern press, learn of
the movement towards our State by North
ern capitalists, and realize the assurance of
continued stability in the basis of business,
and the methods which have brought the
country to its present unparalleled pros
perity.
The kindly expressions of these Northern
journals are not only assuring in themselves
but they foreshadow the spirit of the admin
istration of Gen Garfield. He would dis
| dan to think of any other than q broad
national policy. embracing all sections.
generous alike TO South and North and
East and West. and comprehending all the
diversified interests of the Union. One
condition only will be demanded. and that
is that the laws and { constitution of the
country, in spirit and letter, shall be OBJ
served. wherever our government has juris-
diction, and with this conceded, we may
| look forward to four years of peace, pros
perity, justice and law, and mutual SYM
pathy and cooperation. building up all sec
lions, and augmenting the grandeur and
glory of our common country. This is the
meaning of the verdict recorded on the I'd
of November.
President Hays, in his speech at Cleveland,
Ohio, the other day, grouped some very re-
markable facts attending the history of Gen.
Garfield He pointed to the truth that
Franklin, Lincoln and Garfield, in their
humble births, early struggles and final tri-
umphs, reflected the benefcent character OF
our free institutions. He referred to the re-
markable instance of General Garfield being at
this time member of Congress, serving out
his 9th successive term; United States Senator
elect by the unanimous choice of his party, and
President elect by two-thirds of the electoral
college, and a majority of the popular vote,
Notwithstanding the suppression of the voice
of the majosities in five or SIX OF the Southern
States Such honors have never before been
crowded upon any one man-honors thrust
upon him, without any agency of his own, ex-
cept his commanding ability, his great learn
ing, his broad patriotism and eminent philan-
| thropy Yet it is such man, who has SC
largely inspired the confidence first, ofhis OWL
district, one of the most intelligent in the
Union second, that of the people OF his OWL
great State, and third, that of the people of this
great country, wherever free ballot and fair
count was allowed, that the speakers and press
ofthe Democratic party have plloried as thief
a liar and hypocrite
Notwithstanding the vile denunciation and
SANDER which have been heaped upon him
throughout the country by his political oppo
nents and especially in the South and here il
Virginia, we expect to see him rise above the
resentments such persecution would ordinarily
provoke, and condoning the great wrong
that has been inflicted upon him, in magnan-
imous, patriotic and truly national administra
ton. The masses of the people, who have beer
mislead by the pestiferous partizans and selfisl
demagogues, should not be held responsible
for the sins ofthe few corrupt and malignant po
iticians. The people constitute the government
and run the business of the country and should
be separated from the vicious and malicious
marplots who shaped and conducted the can
vass against him. All we ask in the South
and in Virginia particularly, is that he shall
give wide berth to the prominent retailers o.
the ISLANDERS concocted against him for partizar
use; that those who know him personally, and
knew when they peddled these vile falsehoods
| Al Dc Of tlo
most unfounded kind, shall be made to under
stand that he has no use for them and thai
they must keep arespecttul distance from him
This much is due to his own self-respect, as wei
as to those who stood by him and maintain
ed the cause he represents. These wilful Sian
derers should havene countenance either from
the President or the Republican party. Theil
meanness and malignity are beyond palliatior
or forgiveness, and they should be made to fee
that it is so They have committed double
crime in retailing what they knew to be Sian
ders and in educating the people to believe
them to be true. Such moral turpitude should
not be passed over, but discountenanced and
condemned by a freezing contempt for the
perpetrators.
The fact that Gen. Hancock lacked ex-
actly thirty-fve votes to give him major
ity in the electoral college, is seized on
by the Democrats as the occasion for abus-
ing John Kelly, by attributing to him the
loss of New York. John Kelly was just
as powerless to place New York in the
column of Democratic States. as any of his