The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-11-02
Triumphant Dem racy.

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I'd the American people by the Con-
stitution; but it's exercise is tLeI
highest duty man ows to himself,
his family anl his God. Here iii
America, where the breath of free
dom is breathed from every noun
tain top, and sparkles in every llmpid
stream; where despotism and the
pn,onarchs sway arc totally unknown,
we know but little of the suffering
that has cnsued in those countries
where freedom docs not abide. These
blessings that we enjoy were promnl-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and byDemocratic
Virsnians. 1t was our great ')cffer.
son who drafted the Declaration OF
Independence; it was Nirginia's son
George Nason who wrote the Bill of
Rights, and all Yirginians, no matter
what party they now align them
selves with, feel a. just pride in their
achievements.
The Republican party has always
been, is now, and will die that way,
in favor of construction Of the con-
stitutiol. that suits their own mcr-
ccnarv ends. BY process of cvolu-
ton from the old Federal party
where it got it's ideas and principles,
it stands to-day the representative OF
those principles, though perhaps I'M
der different names; but they arc os-
sentially the same. The first par
ties in America were the old colon
ial parties Wing and Tory. The
representatives of these parties owed
their allegiance to the fact that their
ancestors in England belonged to one
or the other. The stamp Act in
HOS defined the issues well. The
Wings were the patriots opposed to
this Act: the rorys were in favor OF
! it. Next the strong government
,Whigs joined TIC Fcdcrallts.
The parties wcrc:thcn Fedcralists and
anti-Fcdcralists. The FedcraliStt
led by the most gigantic intellect OF
the age, Alexander Hamilton, met
their downfall when jefferson and
| Burr were elected President and vice
President respectively. The FEEDER
aistS ware in favor of strong cen
tralized government At Washington
and from these same fcderaists==
breathing and intoxicating almost
idcntically the same IDEAS sprung the
Republican party.
The Republican party really came
into prominence during the civil war
1t built itself up upon the ruins OF
the South, and perpctuatcd itself in
power for twenty-five years by Haunt
ing the red flag and invoking sec
tional hatred During the recon-
Struction period it warped and twist
ell the constitution to suit its own
selfish ends. it made amendents
to that instrument by cocrciny ten
SouthcrnStates to adopt them by pre-
senting to them the alternative of ac-
ceptng them, or remaining out OF
the union.
They arc there to-day, but they
were not placed there lawful v. 1t
is the party that turned loose that
African swarm upon us, and it is the
! party that sought to forever pcrpetu-
ate Itself in poMer by !le passage OF
the Infamous Force Bill. 1t is the
same party that has dcbaScd our
currcucy-thc same party who adj
v'oC'atc the greatest fraud Of the age
npon the neutrality-suspicious.
1t was bora in iniquity, and has
become 'dcbascd by power. Can any
Southern ,snan: can any Vlrginian in
the face of these facts. lend ashelpins
hand to further them in their infamy?
In Virginia we have opposed to us
Pnpuists-under that guisc they
posc-but the rank and file of the
Republican party are supporting the
candidates of'that party, and the tail
end Of their ticket has endorsed all
the iniquiteus laws placed upon the
Federal Statute Books by the Repub'
cans. If anything should forever
bury that ticket this fact alone
should do it. \ Viryinian-God
save the mark-so far gone in polit-
ical corruption as to bctray and turn
traitor to his State.