Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-09
PROPHECY ON THE FORCE
BILL.
PUBLlsHED IN TnIs PAPER IN 1890,
WHICH HAS CONE 80 ABSOLUTELY
TRUE That We Now REpuBL1sH.

WHICH HAS CONE 30 ABSOLUTELY
TRUE That We Now RgpuBLIsH.
The first streaks OF light are dawn
ing upon the political darkness that
has cast shadow over our land for
so many years.
The darkness that has converted
men of intellect into demagogues
and tho masses of the people into
howling rabbles is passing away; and
a power stronger than brute force,
and mightier than armed men is at
work.
The power that placed General
Grant ut the head of the grandest
armed force the world has ever known
and MIR. Harrison in the capital of a
nation that have known aught but
the glories of triumph, admonishes
all men and all parties that tyrants
and tyranny cannot find congenial
soil or climate in tho land of Ameri-
can liberty. That same force has
wakened into life the peaceful cult
vators of the field, and the busy arti.
sans of the workshops. The colored
race, now wiser than their slothful
sires, can no longer be duped by
false promises nor fierce incepdiary
speeches. That same power is
abroad everywhere, and oil on whom
one glimmer of light has fallen, all in
whom one generous desire can be
kindled will speak in that voice which
conquers wrongs and despises op.
preston.
That monstrous outrage, the force
DILL, was but the natural child of lux
ury. blinded by arrogance::and deaf.
ened by avarice. But thank God at
it's birth its infant wall was henrd all
over this land frem Maine to Cali.
fornia, and thousands of men whom
before its Infamous birth remained
quietly at home during political con-
tests, will in the future be linked to
any party that opposes tyranny, and
await but the opportunity to show
that parties to rule our country must
be ruled by the people.
The birth Of The force bill voices
the death of the party that gaze it
birth.
The party that will in their AFRO.
gance set at naught the will CT the
will lose their cause by their
own rashness. But we tremble at
the storm the enactment of such a
bill will raise; for we know it cannot
succeed unless it be purchased with
blood. Our fathers were freemen,
and will the people now have their
liberty stolen from them by fraud, or
wrung from them by fierce hands
without struggle ? Will the people
that gave a party power be outraged
by such compensation for the pow
er they gavel
1t is not in the power of presidents
and senates to make our nation great
and glorious; there is but one way to
maintain our greatness, and that is
by the voice of free people. The
American ballot box does not like
the air inhaled between bristling
bayonets, and demands freedom, the
lawful heritage purchased by the
blood of our fathers; and the people
will not allow it filched from them by
any party or power
Mr.. Reed, who fills the honorable
position of the speakers chair, or.
dained to preserve order and give
"equal privileges to all and special
privileges to none," has instituted
aggression and misrule in it's stead.
But when liberty is threatened the
people will unite in one cause; death
to tyranny and life to our republic
will be the watchword. The great
Republican party, once the pride and
glory of half the freemen of our ma
tion, has become intoxicated with its
own power, and in its drunkenness
and thirst for more is squandering
tue money wrung from the people by
unjust taxation; aud the vicious de
vices of their party leaders have NOR
titled and insulted the liberal hand
of love in their eager pursuit for per
petuation in power; and that same
hand will, at the ballot box, in 1892
resent the insult; and il tbs death oI
the Republican party we read the re-
generation of American politics.--Ab
inCdon VirpiDian.