Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-09-05
Not For Missouri.
SOME ELOQUENT REASONS WHY THAT
STATE WON'T MAHoNEIZE.

| ma ior John Edwards In the Sedalia Democrat
Never Cossack-hlberOatiu in his
shecpskins through all the stern and
sterile winter of his steppes--dreamed
more fondly of the hour when he could
ride far into the South and eat bis dale
palms and his pomegranates where the
blue ofthe sky were glad together, than
the average Greenbacker and Republi-
can yearns to wrest Missouri from the
Democracy.
Why Because the treasures OF most
of the counties are full; debts have
been lifted everywhere; mortgages have
gen orally been paid of; because the
enerous lands. made fallow by the
h onest Administration, are fat with
haryests; because The political property
that might be administered upon is rich
beyond comparison, richer than any"
thing ever known or imagined through
all these long aud latter years OF their
hunger and their utter Punishment; be
cause in the mouth Of each ravenous
demagogue there still abides the luscious
tastes of those stolen fruits OF the evil
days when the registrar put ban upon
the property Of the Stale the better TO
enable the aliens, the ''carpet-baggers,
and The county courts to con6scate it.
Virginia is the text. Every scala
wag, and ever gray old rat Of Radi-
cal 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 tremendous civil conflict.
There destiny, in the FIRE and the agony
of lncessant battles, wrought out for
the North its triumph. 1t was Rich
mond or Washington, and Washington
had the heaviest batalioss-therefore.
according to Napoleon, God was on
the side of Washington. The male
population of Virginia en- mdsse.-
Everything was given up with an
enthusiasm so holy that it seemed like
consecration. After Appomattox
Courthouse, and when Virginia had
called the roll OF her children, 1t was
found that $4,000 Of her precious ones
bad fallen on the field Of honor. They
had died everywhere and IN every
manner. In the ditch, the trench, the
hospital, on parapets, by the covered
ways, by lonesome roa1sldes, in the
hot, lit foreground of the furthest battle;
and while they were thus dying, and
gladly dying for the land they loved
best, the negroes were breeding like
rabbits, and the shrkers, the scala
wags, the play-outs and the deserters
were hiding securely, and keeping out
of all harms way against a day OF Ma
hone.
1t was both fitting and appropriate
then with $4,000 Of her heroic sons
dead and past all power TO help their
pother more, the robbers, the beggars,
the bummers, tha negroes and the
consrretors of all shades, colors and
conditions generally, who had succeeded
to the possession of Virginia, should
spring out upon her, al defenceless as
she vas and covered with multitude
of wounds, and tie her hard and fast to
the muddy chariot wheels of repudia-
ton. The very essence and flower OF
Virginia's manhood were under the
earth. or this bitter cup could never
have been pressed to her lips, much less
could she haye been forced to drink 1t
to the dregs. She was unarmed in the
face Of an onset like the onset the
Vandals made when Rome was inun-
dated. She looked in vain tor those
mighty men of war who had held her
capital city, for four years against the
world. Where once were serried ranks
of born Vlreinians-heirs of all her
glorious traditions and owners OF her
soil-there were onlyIgraves and deso-
lation. The towards and the camp.
followers were on top. Her honor
was in the hands of those cadaverous
renegades who live by the herring
catches of the Potomac and the perslm-
mon crop of The idle lands turned out
to sassafras. DO not condemn Vir.
glpa. 1t was no 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 10 a placid
sleep under the shade Of the trees.
Missouri, however, came out OF the
war scared but not stricken to the
soul. She was full of lusty lie. No
Yankee wac ever more provldent and
practical. Size felt the iron heel OF
reconstruction trample her down into
the very mire of prescription and con-
6scation, and when she arose she had
lived fifty years in SIX. She learned
she will remember it While
there still remains alive the honest
mans innate hatred Of the rogue
what The de> >potism OF ignorance, poS-
erty, and fanaticism meant. She UNDER
stood TO her hearts content then what
the alliance of the beggar and dem
agogue meant. The counties knew
and know yet what an administration
Of their affairs ment in tue hands oil
aliens. scalawags, aud carpet-baggers {
who had 10 other earthly use Tor the
offices except through the means OF
them 10 rob the people. To expect the
Democratic tax payers of Missouri to
bring about the same condition ofthings
which existed before enfranchsemeut
G,;fo huraon no.