Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-01-27
m, .KapaWha Republican and TIE W.
taI Interests Of the South.

III ihteItstsvi Wy swan 81
We would not wish to obtrude Ourselves
upon the notice Of our neighbor Of ne
RepaUiean, or say anything to disturb
him as he calmly and quietly reposes up
on his lofty dignity, with his brow en-
circled with all the laurcls won duringan
eyentful editorial career Of fifteen years !;
yet notwithstanding eur repugnance to
doing an act, apparently 50 ungenerous,
we feel that.we would be faithless Jour
selves as We approach into the presence
Of our august neighbor. We know his
fastidious taste. but despair of pleasing
it. We hope however, we shall not dis
turb his dignity by appearing before him.
clothed in the plain habiliments Of i7rutd,
advocating the "true and vital interests"
Of Virginia.
The Republican says, ''These writers
for the Star seemeto have an orerwet ming
anxiety to make it 1.-THE Star, an extreme
Southern paper, adopting and advocating
all the wild and impracticable schemes for
the advancement and independence Of the
South, which are regarded BY all practi!
cal and conservative Southern men as
idle and futile? This is a general and in
definatc Charge railing accusation
and need be replied to, only by denying
its truth. 1t is easy to make such a
charge, and it is generally resorted to, by:
persons who are attempting to defend a
DESPERATE cause, Aand who cannot, or who
dare not make amy specific allegation.
We challenge the Republican to point
a single measure ever advocated by the
Star, or a right ever asserted by it., as be-
longing to the South, as an integral p9t-
ton Of the Union, which is regarde9fby
'tall practical and conservative Southern
men as idle and futile" (-aiways ex-
cepting SUCH conservatives" as the Edi-
tor of the Republican and the teW indi-
viduals wE.o agree with him on the sub
ject ii slavery.) What does the Editor
mean by ''practieal and conservative
Southern men 90 Does he mean such
men as himself, who would set with fold
ed arms and refuse to raise finger or
utter word, to resist Northern aggres-
sions, while the sound of the hammer
was ringing in their ears; forging the
chains which were to make slaves Of
themselves and their children, forever,
to the Roundheads of New England = If
such be the meaning attached by him to
the words practical md conservative"
and we think no unbiased man who has
carefully read his paper for the last ten
or twelve years can doubt but it is, them
we wonder not that the course of the
Star is gall and NORWOOD to all such
''practic cal conservatives" : j..
The Editor Of the Republican says We
have attempts to place him and his pa
per in a "false position" which he de-
nounces as "unproroked, unfair and H.
liberal" and says the ground upon
which we assume to make the charge Of
his in6delity to the South, and to all her
vital interests is false"
-; We emphatically deny that We have
ever attempted or desired to place either
the Republican or its editor in false
position" and We defy him to point out
a single instance in which the Star has
ever attempted t. do so. Our sole object
and intent has been to place both the
editor and his paper in their true and
proper position. =
We our efrorts:o exhibit him and his
paper in their true position" ''unpro-
voked, unfair and ilIiberal ?" Was the
fact that he has published, through Che
columns Of his paper for years, copious
extracts from Freeson and Abolition pa
pers, inimicaf to4the ':true and vital in
terests" of>~Virginia and of the South,
no proTocation for a Virginia journal,
devoted to Virginia interests, TO exhibit
him and his paper in their true light be-
fore 'the people Of Virginia or was it
"unfair and illiteral" for US to do so p
Duty and patriotism, and the highest and
best interests of Virginia, forbid our be-
ing silent under such circumstances
Hrd we remained silent while his paper
has insiduously instillinga poison into
the mind Of its readers calculated to un-
dermine the very basis of our social and
domestic institutions, then, indeed might
it have been said, with some show Of
FEASIBILITY that "no true Virginia BLOOD
coursed in our veins. ~ .e.-....
Were. the grounds which We "as-
sumed to make the charge of his infdeli.
ty to The South, and her. true and vital in
tai interests false 90 What were the
grounds we assumed % First, that