Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1865-11-21
THE VIRGINIASS.

In speech delivered in New Jersey, du-
ring the late Gubernatorial campaign, Hon.
HENRY CLAY DEAN, of Iowa, made the fol-
lowing beautiful allusion to Virginia and
Virginians =
81 dare speak one kind word for the op>
pressed in the very teeth Of the oppressor.-
Since Adam took possession of Eden, no part
of his heritage has given such an hundred
years of history as that of Virginia, beginning
with the public life of George Washington,
and ending with the surrender Of the armies
Of Gen. Robert Il. Lee. The great orator,
Patrick Henry, whose spirit lighted up the
first great Revolution, and whose mild sweet
voice called armies up the valleys and down
from the mountains to defend New York.
New Jersey and Massachusetts from the in
vader's hoOt, was a Nirginian George Wash
ington, Tho led these armies, was a Virginiau;
Thomas Jefferson, whose great soul cncom-
benighted age to teach it liberty, was Vir-
ginian James Madison, who cnvironed our
rights by fame of living fire which the most
ilIustrious periods in the past and present
century preserved unharmed all that was sa-
cred i'll life and precious in hope-the Con-
stitution of the United Statcs-was {. Vir-
ginian John Marshall, whose luminous mind.
guided by immutable justice, gave being to a
profound and comprehensive judiciary, the
bulwark of American institutionsathem marvel
efslna1kit1Et, was a giDian = 48g1ry Gay,
whose commanding majesty of soul drew after
him Whitkc-sOever he went one full half of
the whole moral and intellectual power of
America, who did obcisaCcc to Lis name, was
a Nirginian; the Lees, Richard Henry, Ar
thur, Francis Lighttoot, Light Horse Harry,
and his illustrions son, Robert +. Lee, were
Eirginians Thomas Jonathan jackson. the
great military genius of the western hemi-
sphere: born on my own native Mouongahela
was Virginian. The courts, and lcgisla.
lures, and forums, and puIpits of every State
in the Union and every government on the
continent, have been adorned by Virginians.
Their blood, shed in noble defence of liberty,
has tattened every valley, and their bones
have bleacEed on every mountain from Bunker
Hill to the city of Mexico. With such @
history and such a race of freemen, Henry
Wilson, Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner
would aisfrahcRisd this illu$trious people, and
place them under the tutelage Of barbarian
negroes Proud, glorious old Virginia, what
American, with American pride. whether
Abolitienist or Democrat, would not rather
be StOnewal Jackson, buried in the bosom of
Virginia.. dead and immortal, than to live
and be Butler, loathcd by mankind? The
negroes can never be taken to the polls in
Virginia, until they have been at the same
time in every other State. In New York. a
rich negro is as good as poor white man,
and can vote, but a poor negro Is no better
than horse, and can't vote and Mr. Greeley
tells you squarcly that they need the ne
groes' vote to secure the payment on the
bonds to help the rich grind the taxes from
the poor. This is the last feather that will
break the camel's back, and hcncci6rth the
Republican party will be no more They
now appeal vociierously to the soldiers to
come to their aid"