Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-03-25

| soune'y Oh Neorge washington conquered
directed, and secured it. Thomas Jefferson
gave II an impetus, to break down mere forms
1t needed perhaps. James Madison created
defended and made it reverential as writer
out. Their power, their vitality ended witt
the peace of 1915, when America started on
a new race OF material and business enthusi
asm. One Thomas Richie then gothold o
tho real relns of the Government, its leading
Press, and Virginia has not Of herself, ad van
ced step since. He has discouraged nearl,
all enterprise. He deems all things uncon
stitutional that are for good. For nothing,
he is against every thing. He is the great
head of all things ..7nfi.'' HIS sunamun, DO
mum is to make the world stand still. He
trigs, and trips, and deems this statesman
ship. Dead himself, Virginia. he intends
shall have no resurrection. Thus Virginia
is hardly year ahead Of where she was in
1916!
1stand upon the front ofthe Capitol, which
| overlooks James River, the falls, and the roll
ing country beyond. New England is lock-
ed in frost, (Feb. 22) and the SHOWS deeply
cover her soil-but here, summer sun, I'M
comfortably warm is over US, and James Ri
yer runs rafting over the rocks, all open, all
cheerful, all joyous in its welcome rays. 1t
mas been almost unconstitutional to plant
manufactures upon these rocks till within
the few past years,-and when ii was done,
ii was in spite of storm, hard names, and
odium too. l ought to see 100000 People
from this point of view. i ought to see Low
ell, Waltham, Providence, and more combin-
ed. The adventurous Yankee though, who
pioneers in enterprise, has been assailed, ca
Illuminated, and abused by Ritchie's Press.
and he is gone to Pittsburg, Cincinnati, New
Orleans, st. Louis or Galena. His kith and
kindred have been ridiculed, and he is of.
Daniel Webster himself could not speak mas
honal sentiments to Virginians from this IA
cade of the Capitol, but that Ritchies press
must inhospitably attack him. While our
Northern hearts and homes are wide open to
Virginia Orators Of any school, Ritchie's press
assails, attacks, calumnates the great New
England man only because he Is a New En-
gland man. Within the walls of the Capitol,
too, he stimulates these attacks. Abuse Of
US and cur race flies hot and swift under his
instigation. hear from the gallery Of the
House Gen'l Bayly sowing the seeds ofdis-
order and disunion, upon the \ ew York con-
troversy, eliminating all but his own Acco-
mac Mankind, and Ritchie's pen drops, and
the smile runs over his lips, while to the ma
tonal sentiments of Mr.. Coles of Albemarle,
delivered with asoundness and elegance wor-
thy OF Virginian, only "a frigid look is given,
-ior he is an American as well as Virgin
ian. Such man, such writer depopulates
the country around him. Its chivalry emi-
CRATES under Its whitening influence. The
chivalry of other lands stops but 30 alirht
where so inhospitable Press bears sway.
Yearly indeed, as the census shows, Ritchie's
Virginia is depopulated. If a century more
were given him, around Richmond would be
but the Roman Campagna. All the meas
ures of the Federal Government, just or un-
lnc fl,aff n,,A fni 10 a.. L
Pre-cmptiye to drain of his People: Gradua-
ton and Cession, as if presumption were not
enough: no distribution, for that would bring
back what takes from while all the while,
what is left of the People they are harrassed
by fanatic cries of "Northern Abolition to
scare oil People, 1t would seem, from their
proximity to the Potomac River. He teach
es them to believe all others are their enemies.
He inculcates and sustains all the preiudices
of People peculiarly agricultural. If
things get off, over, or beyond '9S, and what
'9S is, nobody knows, why all things are
gone to destruction, as if civilization, the hui
NANTES, the world We're perfect when he
(Ritchie) died in '99-for dead in many SEN
SEES he has been since ;-as iftoo, in 40 years,
Mankind had learnt nothing al all
We Northern people know nothing of the
resources, the natural grandeur of Virginia,
unless it be the few who NAV have travelled
in it, in nearly all its parts, as have, often
too, among its glorious mountains, and not
less glorious valleys. From the Blue Ridge
to the Ocean, it might be Lombardy it might
be teeming, abundant Italy. Over and among
the Alleghanies, it is Switzerland almost
There is a race OF men among these noun
tains, In whose form, stature, robust, vioo-
rous health, the world knows 10 superior.
If, after the war, De Witt Clinton, the EN-.
bodied genius of America IT peace, had been
frglnian, and could then and there, as in
New ork, have broken the trammels of all
prejudices, Norfolk would have been the en-
porlum now of the commerce of the Ameri-
can world, and canals and rail roads, prof Ia
bic too, would have threaded every important
valley of Virginia, teeming with the rich
trade OF the vast and fruitful West. 1t is an
unnatural circuit OF trade that draws the Ohio
valley to New York by the Lakes, and il
would have been easier far to conduct it thro'
the Alleghanies to Norfolk i'm Virginia. All
this, it thought of though, would have been
Unconstitutional" with men of Ritche's
calibre. 1t would have created "National
Debt" A shocking thing indeed 1t would
have made a monopoly" federalism
perhaps, though Virginia herself, when it i;
twenty years too late, attempts feeble imi
tation of it all. What Of the poetry of thi:
earth that ever runs in the veins of men O
the Ritchie school, is the poetry of the past
The future never fills their aspirations. 1'bet
dwell upon the land marks, not as guide post
In the track of time, but as anchors to cint
to and drown around. The whirwind o
events sweeps over them and they are buriet
in the sand. Not so with our Clinton. VI.
} committed himselfto the spirit within him
, and it led him to wealth, and his own cit
to be the Rome of America
, ADDRESS OF VICE PRESIDENT
TYLER.