The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-09-25


other products are being produced in
large and ID. psrea Is quantities, and
inanllplffactiires furnaces and fonndries
are springing up ia all directions. For
the cotton factories and iron furnaces OF
the South, the raw material is produced
on the spot, and labor there is to be had
at mach less; cost ~ ...s....
= s GOV Cameron's Letter mus -
The Monday papers is 81 Richmond and Peters
burr, contain the following letter from Hon. W.
+. Cameronfwhich speaks for itself: i'ss :l9H
III SD ss PETERSBURG, VA, September 49,
Until now any reply to your favor of the Goth
OF August has been pr'ecluded by a painful nj
ness from which have had, as yet, only partial
queries to give not only my views as to the duty
OF Southern men in the political crisis now rap
Idly eliminating, but to set forth at length the
AS 1T IS, my physical condition preScribeS the
utmost blevfty that is consistent with clearness,
soifndiess Of my opinion and the proprety %. Of
my position to some more convenient season. Ii
have been taught by the events of eighteen
months past that men of our antecedentS and
convictions can no longer, with self respect
lend our voices. our votes, or even the negative
is expounded by the organization in this State
or as tits administered by the present executive
and legislative departments Of the United States
The Republican party preserves no longer the
sembiance of speaking for the entire country,
but bases its claim to- supremacyon sectional
plrejudices and sectional interests, pure and
simple. Not only so, but the directors OF its pol
icy. have not hestated in attainment OF their
ends TO prostitute the plghted faith OF the party
in sight OF all the world, and to renounce intheir
IL III Geago Az Tse s0 stan
self.conyicted, not only. of false pretense and
pllnic faith but of mathematical nlalignancy in
seeking to retain power by working the war
sentiment at the North and West, and by respr
rectins all the stock phrases OF fanaticisn and
SENTIMENT and retort Their Object was ana rs Is
to force theitighting between a solid North
an ana g sold south and at the same time to use
the SmaH contingent of Southern Republicans
III Congress to minimize the power of the South
by such political denominations as the Lodgebill,
and by SCREAMING a tariff law (under pretext OF
projection to American labor and American
prodtlpts as to increase every burden of tliecus-
toms upon gne weaker section, and to have. in
force III all its shameless inequality the revenue
tax upon the tobaecoof Virginia, Carolina, Ten.
n is, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Flor
The;utteranees of MIR. McKialey ON the floor of
the House Che the patron of the Chicago platform
ana the chairman Of the committee which
Trained tile tariff hil, and the action OF the Sem
ate en- Monday ~ regard g the tobacco
clause, constitute an open declaration of war
againstSonthern development, and we must re-
a q that this action apart from its Inherent
falsif1cation Of a solemn promise given to the
tobacco States BY the national cony ention.
tThefecord on the Blair blair bill is no. better,
and the tariff act, with its so-called revision and
equalization of import duties hristles with dis
t erina d satnst the south and those indus
cans have the same interest as Southern Demo-
Tie Lodge bill is mis- called s.the force bill >,
because in operation it would be impossible of
enforcement to the ends pretendedly sought.
progress of the entire country, ana to set back
Southern development, in Which Northern cap
tails largely engaged, a half century. But the
main sufferer would be the negro, who by this
viciousieH fort to neutralize Inevitable conditions
would be deprived Of all the safeguards which
now surround him. Personally and POLITICALLY
he would become the scape- goat in local strife
in which Mr.. Lodge and Mr.. Reed would have
no concern and no influence The passage of
this act into law would be a public Calamity. It's
passage by the majority of the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes fixes the responsibility on the Repub
The sail for a halt by Senator Quay in the SEN
ate only voices the protest of a frightened imam
Mr., Quay is afraid to risk the campaign on an
issue Which one SectionsWould regard as a blum
der and the other a crime. So. ff5
/ see no reason to believe that the President
mas not! been IN active sympathy with all that
his party has done and left undone, III Congress-
His own performances have not, however, been
nent; BE has dana notilins so5ith Of Mason
and Dxon's line since his Inauguration except
recognize, with reluctance, that any such coun-
try existed His appointments, with just few
enough norable Variations to prove the rule,
nave been or men not representative in charac-
ter,s influence OF capacity. He has shown utter
inaptitude to square his action with his utter
ances, his performances with his promises; his
principles With his mejudices, or his status with
his stature.
He has been the. instrument. willing or I'M
willing, of bhe machine. elements of his party
andfor the want OF bold and brave and catho-
lie action, he has made himself responsible
divided Republican party, and that in the
Southern States there is none worthy of the
After, less than two years of his Gadministra-
with which we had hoped that the Republican
party by fostering an American policy by
subordinating the past to the present, by equal
consideration for all sections, by removal of I'M
self the restorer Of the Union as we'll as the
preserver of the Federal government.
1t IS not worth while for one man, or one
Thousand men, to seek to stay the current of
its legitimate moorings, But one thing remains,
III my Judgment, for US to do--for men who re-
cognfzeFa higher dnty than that which can be
expressed by party name-and that is to free
ourselves rom all part and lot with a party
which has no faith toasacred for violation, and
recognizes no pledge as too solemn to be broken.
cannot lend''myseM to the oppression of my
people, ana It there is no political organization
winch meets the full measure of our approval,
we can, at least. leave that which violates, our
every idea OF right and ser tment.
Not presumiHg to'set up for any other man OF
set offlneI}sa standard Of duty, and willing to
concede to every one else that freedom of
thought and action have always Claimed for
myself, my resolve, founded on a desire to be
true to myself and my country is to refuse All
sympathy or CO operation with the Republican
party III the crusade against the section which
1t now. eSpOuseS, and under the leadership to
which it submits.
sA Sincerely your friend, ssM si5
- .s..f4ss44 Il. III 80 Il w LILLIAN E. CAMERON.