Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-03-21


Never Cosssck-hibernating in his
sterile winter of his steppes-dreamed
more foDdly of the hour when be could
ride far iuto the South and eat his date
palms and his pomegranstes where the
blue of the sea and blue Of the sky were
glad together, than the average Green.
nacker and Republican yearns to wrest
Missouri from the hands of the DemoC.
racy. ,--e.r
Why? Because the treasures of most
Uf the counties are full. Debts have
been ,lif, ed every where; mortgages have
generally been paid off. Because the
generous lands. made fsllow by the
hOpest Administration. are fat with
harvests. Because the political property
that might be administered upon is rich
beyond cOmparisOn-richer than any.
hing ever known or imagined through
all these long and latter years Of their
hunger and their utter banishment.
Because In the mouth of each raveDous
drnagOgue there still abides the lus.
cious lastes Of those stolen fruits of the
evil days when the registrar put q ban
upon the State the better to enable the
aliens, the carpet bsggers, and the
county courts to c0Dfiscate II.
Virginia IL the text. Every scallawag
aud every gray old rat of Radical who
breaches Malone at all, breaches from
this. But they do not know everything
about Virginia 1t bore for four terrible
years the whole brunt of the tremen.
dous civil conflict. There destiny. IN
the fire and the agony of ihcessant bat
tie. wrought OUT for the North its tri.
umph. 1t was Richmond or Washing.
ton, and Washington had the heaviest
Observation-Disclosures, according to Ma
pOleon, God was on the side of Wash.
ipgton. The male population of Vir-
ginia went Into the war en- masse. Ev.
erything was given up with an entbusi.
asm so holy that it seemed like coDse-
Grafton. After AppOmattox Court.
house, and when Virginia had called
the roll of her children, 1t was found
that $1,000 of her precious ones bad
fallen on the field of honor. They bad
died everywhere and In every manner.
In the ditch, the trench. the hospital, on
parapets, by the covered ways, by lone.
some roadsides. In the hot, Lit foreground
nf tie furthest battle; and while they
we're thus dying, and gladly dying for
the land they loved best, the negroes
were breeding like rabbits, and the
shirkers. the scallawags, the play-0uts
and the deserters were hiding securely
and keeping out Of all harms way
against day of Malone.
1t was both fitting and appropriate
then that with 78. 900 of her heroic sons
dead and past all power to help their
mother more, the robbers, the beggars.
the bummers, the negroes and the con-
spirators of all shades. colors and con-
ditions generally, who had succeeded
10 the possession Of Virginia, should
spring out upon her, all defence.
less as she was and covered with
u multitude of wounds, and tie her
hard and fast to the muddy chariot
wheels of reputation. The very es-
sence and flower OF Virginia's man.
hood were under the earth, or this bitter
cup could never have been pressed to
her lips, much less could have been
| forced to drink it to the dregs. She was
uuarmed in the face of an onset like
| the onset the Vandals made when Rome
was inundated. She looked in vain for
those mighty men of war who had beld
her capital city for four years against
the world. Where once were serried
ranks of born Virginians-heirs of all
her glorious traditions and owners Of
her sOil-there were only graves and
desolation. The towards and the camp
followers were on top. Her honor was
in the hands of those cadaverous rene
gades who live by the herring catches
Of the Potomac and the persimmon
crOp oi the idle lands turned out to sas-
ssfias. Do not condemn Virginia. It
was 10 fault of hers that those who might
have saved her from the YOKE of the
aliens, the robbers and the beggars, had
already passed over the river with their
immortal leader, jackson, and were
resting in a placid sleep under the shade
Of tie trees.
Missouri, however, came out Of the
war Scared but not stricken to the soul.
IShe Was full of lusty life. No Yankee
was ever more provideDt and practical.
She felt the iron heel of reconstruction
trampte her down into the very mire Oi
. prescription and con flscatiOn, and when
.he arose che had lived fifty years In
six. She learned then-and she will
. remember 1t while there still remains
alive the honest mans innate hatred Ol
the rogue-whxt the despOtisIn of igDor'
auce, poverty end fanaticism meant Shs
+ understood to her hearts c0ntent ther
what the alliance of the beRgar anC
del.agngue meant. The counties knew
and know yet what an administration
of their affairs u:eant in the hands O
aliens. ecallawags and carpet. bsRgerl
who bad LO earthly use for the Offices
except through the means of them Il
rob the people To expect the Demo
cratic tax payers of Missouri to briDl
. about the same condition of thing
which existed before enfranchisemebt i
to expect that poor, little human naiur
wil, suddenly become Christljke
: Adopt the processes of Malone, an,
the tax payers will surrender to the tax
eaters. Adopt the processes of Mahon
. aud every beggxr In the State will pu
] ON brosdciOlh, and every impecuniou
I devil, with q glib tongue, would be
! candidate for Compress. Mahopeiz
Missouri! Never! Lice and clean kin
cannot live where there yet renal
}. the children Of the pioneers and thel
u hOmesteads on the prairies.
Always rise from the table with o
IonOotitn nd mil oik AnVv