Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-05-30
.Clinch Valley News.
FRIDAY, NAY 80, 1890.
TIE BLAsPHEMOUS EDIT
OR.

up to tho time OF Cleveland's cleo
ton to tho presidency of tho United
States there were many Republican
papers in the North that lost no op.
portunity to wave the bloody shirt.
South hate WAS their great distin,
gushing characteristic, and cruel
lies about the South constituted their
stock in trade.
But Mr. Cleveland made such an
excellent president, and the country
thrived 30 well unner him, that most
ofthe rabid Republicans had to turn
their attention to something more
profitable than Islander. Tho people
OF the North were getting along very
well with the people of the South;
were finding new trade in the South
And the South hating papers could
not afford to keep up their policy Of
abuse any longer.
But there is one paper in New
York that continues to foam at the
mouth whenever the name of dis
tinguished Confederate hero is men
toned or Confederate battle flag is
displayed. It is the Mail and Ex-
press, owned and edited by one of
tho Vanderbilt sons-in -mw-a person
OF the name of eliot IT. Shepard,
called "Col." Shepard in derision. Ho
ia church member, and one of the
sort that docs the cause of reli4 ion
much harm. This fellow Shepard is
pharisaioal blatherskito, wolf in
sleeps clothing; hypocrile of the
hypocrites. In recent copy of
Shepard's paper We find printed at
the head of the editorial column this
Bible text:
1.-THE Spirit himself boareth wit
moss with our spirit, that we aro the
children of God"
And in long article the blns-
phemer prints an editorial, from
NhiSh w zip ChO iOllOWlD
Our advice to the people who will
assemble at Richmond is not only
not to fly the Confederate flag on the
18th instant, but TO make the occa.
sion truly funeral one, and bury
their miserable, bloodthirsty, patri.
otism smothering, traitorous rag in
the same tomb with tho rotting bones
Of Lee.
This Congress should como TO tho
rescue OF the nation by passing the
most stringent laws against that rag,
having it i'll possession, displaying it
or naming it; and forbidding the as
sembling OF people in honor OF dead
sraitors, or the erection of monu-
ments to then; and requiring only
the Stars AMI Stripes to be used on
public and private occasions.
The fearlessness displayed by trea
son In the Southeastern States should
strike alarm into the rost of the coun.
try, and lead them to unite speedily
to save the Union.
If gallant Ben Harrison wants
million of mon to prevent the desc
Grafton of our sacred American soil
by the proposed Qualification of troa.
son and the Confederate flag on the
18th instant in Richmond, let him
sound his bugle and he can have
them.
Congress can even now pass the
necessary act toprevent the proposed
outburst at Richmond on the goth
instant Of hatred to the Stars and
Stripes and treason to the Union;
and the nation will find great relief
il it will do so.
If it were not for the brutal words
in the first paragraph quoted South
ern people would laugh heartily at
the rawlings of the Mail and Express.
Ninety-five per cent. of the intelli-
gent people of tho North have faith
in the South's loyalty to the United
States Government. The Southern
people are Americans through and
through, and they are also true to
the memories of those great South
orn men, Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
Lee, Stonewall jackson and others
who worked and fought for the Lost
Cause. The Southern people would
not deserve the name Of Americans
II it were not so. And no men ap-
prsciated more thoroughly this no
bic sentiment on She part of the
South than q. s.. Grant, w. S. Han
cock and James A. Garfield. No men
appreciate this sentiment more thor
oughly today than Admiral Porter
Z and Gen. Schoield, who have them
selves, but recently, in letters ad
dressed to the State, expressed high
admiration for the character OF the