Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-04
NAHONEIzING MISSOURI.
IFron III. s.d,lis Democr,t I

Never Cossuck-hibernatim in his
sheep-skins through ali the stern and
sterile winter OF his steppes-dream-
ed more fOndly of the hour when he
could ride far into the south and eat
his dsts-palms and his pomegranates
where the blue of the sea aud the blue
of the sky were glad together, than
the average greenbacker bud repub-
lican yearns to wrest Missouri from
the hsnds Of the democracy. (,
WhyI Because the treasures of
most of the counties are full Debts
have been lifted everywhere; mort
cages have generally been paid off.
Because the generous lands, made
iall0w by. honest administration, are
fat with harvests. B cause the poll
tical property that might be admit
istered upon is rich beyond coinpari-
son-richer than any thin ever known
or imagined through all these long
and latter years of their hunger and
their utter banishment. Because in
the mouth of each ravenouy dsma.
gogue there still abides the luscious
tastes OF th0so stolen fruits Of the
evil days when the registrar put .
ban upon the property of the state
the better to enable the, aliens, the
carpet-baggers, and the county courts
70 cOnfiscate it.
Virginia is the text. Every scala
wag,- and every gray old rat of rad.
ical who breaches Mahone at all,
breaches from this. But they do not
know everyth thing about Virginia. 1t
bore for four terrible years the W hole
brunt of the tremendous civil con.
f1ict. There destiny. in the fire and
the agony of incessant battle, wrought
out for the north its triumph. 1t was
Richmond or Washington, and Wash.
lngton had the heaviest battalions-
therefore, according TO Napoleon, God
Was on the side OF Washington. The
male population Of Virginia went
into the was en- naasse. Everything
was given up with an enthusiasm 50
holy that it seemed like u conseera-
ton. After Appomattox Court House,
and when Virginia had called the roll
OF her children, it was found that
seventy-eight thousand of her preci-
Gus ones had fallen on the field OF
honor. They had died everywhere,
and in every msnrer. In tie ditch,
tho trench, tae hospital, on parapets,
by the covered ways, by Lonesome
roadsides, i'll the Lot. lit foreground
of the furtherest battle; and while
they were thus dying, and gladly dy-
ing for the land they loved best, the
negroes were breeding like rabbits,
ana the .shirk ers, the scallawags, the
play-outs aud the deserters were hid
ing securely, and keeping out Of all
harms way against a day of Malone,
1t was both fitting aud appropriate
then that with ssventy-eight thousand
Of her heroic sons dead and past all,
power to help their, mothers more,
the robbers, the baggars, the bum
mers, the negroes, aud the conspir..
tors of all shades, colors. aud coudi.
tions generally, who had succeeded
to the possession Of Virginia, sh ou.d
spring out upon her, all defenseless
as she was and covered with q multi
tude of wounds, and tie her hard and
fast to the muddy chariot wheels of
rspudi.tion. The very essence aud
flower of Virsinia's manhood were
under the earth, or this bitter cup
could never have been pressed to her
lips, much loss could she have been
forced to drink it to the drcgs. She
was unarmed in the face of an onset
like the onset the Vanda!s made when
Rome was inundated. She look ed In
vain for those mighty men Of war
who had held hercapital city for four
years againstthe world. Where once
were serried ranks of born Virgin
lans-heirs of all her glorious tradi.
tions and owners of her soil-there
were only graves and desolatlon. The
towards and the ecamp-foliowersw were