Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-10-10

was monumental.
In the platform on which
Lincoln was elected there was a
covert attack on the reserved |
rights of the State. Only a few |
years previous the Kansas-Ne-
hraSka bill was also a covert at
tick on the Missouri Compro-
mise.
The Republican party has al
-ays claimed that the desire for
the preservation of negro slavery |
IN the part of the South was the |
ctsus belli, but this was only the |
Incident, the real cause being the |
disposition of the Republicans
TO ignore the rights of the States.
When Congress convened, John |
J. Crltteuden, who was a strong
Unnonist, at the same time
p ,triot and pacifst, moved, in
the Senate, that committee on
The State of the Union" be ap-
pointed to consider the questions
then agitating the country. This
was appointed, consisting of
tour Northern Democrats. four
Southern and four Republicans,
and Mr.. Crittenden, as oil on
the troubled waters" at large.
Mr.. Critteuden and the two
Democratic wings submitted
propositions for the settlement
of 'he differences and presented
them to the Republican wing.
which neither considered them
nor submitted any counter-propo-
sition.
They were for war rather than
peace, and they got it.
They were victorious, not by
American manhood, but by en-
llstments of foreigners. The
enrolment of the Army Of the
South being 100000; of the
North, 2,750,O0O
Had this Army of the North
been composed of native Ameri-
cans, the war would not have
lasted year, but the hirellng
foreigners only enlisted for the
bounty paid.
No compromise" was the cry,
and the autocraCy OF Kaiserism
of the Republican party is re-
sponsible for every dollar spent
and every life sacrificed.
No one questions the kindly |
disposition Of Abe Lincoln and |
his ability, but the one vulner-
able place in his armor was his |
failure as head and front of the |
Republican party to give his
counsel to his supporters in the
Congress Of 1860 when the propo- !
sitionS for settlement were pend
ing.
Then when the war ended,
the party condemned to death
WIrz, of Andersonville, and Mrs.
Surratt. Wirz was absolutely
humane, but, if lie had no rations.
he could not serve them; and we
of the Confederate Army were
not half fed. Wirz, under an
agreement of exchange, sent
5000 to Savannah, but they were
rejected, under tlIe plea that, if
exchanged, our men would go On
the battlefront again, whereas
the Northern Army could recruit
more men when needed. The
Confederate Government agreed
to let the North furnish rations
to prisoners at Andersonville. to
be served by Federal agent TO
these starving soldiers. But the
Republican party said mo-; )
that every ration eaten by :
Federal prisoner was one taken !,
from Confederate. g.
The Republicans have shed {
tears of blood over the mu. der of p.
Edith Cavell. They murdered
Mrs. Surratt, and in a more /
vicious manner than the Huns
murdered Edith Cavell. The e
latter was shot. Mrs. Surratt {
was ANONYMOUSLY hung, and for l
no crime. The world has pro. !.
claimed her innocent. History +
te Is us that every person con- c
nected Gas principals) with that q
tragedy died a violent death a
we come next to the carpet ,
bag governments of the South. i
ern States fostered by the Re- d
publicans. Chandler and Moses t
Governors of South Carolina
and Pinchbeck and Wurmoutb =
IN Louisiana, ran roughsllod over, q
the whites of the South. :
Then we come to the fraud" F
Of the party in seating HAYES in D
the Presidential chair in the !.
place OF President-elect Samuel +