Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-28

We accept the epithet, and the gen
ujne sympathy it embodies, not without
a sense of mOurnful pride Beyond
question we are poor, beyond question
there is great misery among our help
less ones; and our undving gratitude
will ever 20 forth in recognition OF
that true charity, which, as in the case
Of the Baltimore ladies, has been so
muaifcently bestowed upon us. We
are not ashamed of our poverty and
misery, nor of the aims that have been
50 generously lent US, because Of them.
Those who are despoiled must needs
be poor; those who are trampled upon
must needs be miserable, and we can
not deem it to be any crime Of our
own that the spoilers hand has been
upon Us, and his heel has ground us
into the dust.
But there IS q sort of compassion in
the tone with which the Northern press
lavishes pity upon US that is quite IN
called for quite supererogative, quite
thrown away The sheer does not
hurt US, since it is misplaced, aud we
can laugh at an excess Of sentimental
sympathy for which there is not 8
shadow of occasion We are not poor
CT nov than we were weak when Pat
rick HenTy's clarion awoke the dawn
Of the revolution in the House Of
BuTgesses, nor are We poor in fact
No one can look around with half
glance at the eEuberant and iuexhaus-
uble resources of our great State and
call Virginia poor No where has ma
ture been 50 kind no where, in river,
mountain, slope and forest and plain
in the bend of the sky, in the mellow
filth or grassy veTdue of the soil, and
in the deep and secret bowels of the
earth, no where has the hand of ma
ture been so lavish Of her good gifts
as in Virginia The kindly sky of
ours Is itself an endowment and 8 per
petual possession; one hour Of Vir-
ginia sunshine Is worth more than
week soj0urn under those palIid rays
that gIimmer over Cape Cod and lend
q sickly yellOwness to the murkv fogs
OF Massachusetts Bay.
Nor have these good and generous
gifts Of nature been thrown away upon
Z poor and mean spirited people
Virginians are emphatically a race Of
neu-of men who stand erect and
honor the sunshine and look kindly
nature right in the face We have
the pride, the energy, The physique,
the endurance Of q governing race
The pure oxygenatrd blood that flows
in our veins, makes our hearts strong,
our muscles firm, our minds serene
and self poised. Despair and despond-
euCv hide themselves ab. shed from
the presence OF our composed healthy
spirit, and obstacles and difficulties
yield before our TeSOlute assault
Look at our men and our women, and
iare 10 think Us poor. Were those
men and paupeTs who stood il the
trenches all the long months, starving
and II rags, but uafinchiHg and in .
1onitab.ef Were toUse women pau
Jers who smiled at home and still urg-
Ell Us 10 battle, in their scanty suits OF
l0mespan, while the children cried st .
their knees tor bread when there was
none, aud eve.y mail brought the .
news OF another loved one slain AZ his (
post Of duty; Nay, we are rich in
Iced il cur men and women; doubIy
,.ch II that remnant of heroes who .
walked away from tue lest field of bat
lie and calmly bestowed their hands
% labor; in the sweet patience and (
christian faith Of our women. cheering
Is on with smiles 10 this task SIS they
cheered us on 10 thai. one
We are rich II the examples our
heroes have set Us, and It is perpet-
.al riches TO US and q grand legacy to
,ur children, that VIC can point 10 the
noble old man there at Lexington,
.almly sitting down teaching the CON-
ng men OF Virginia, lessons in the
ruth and honor that mGda their faith
RS Ives illustrious.
And We are doubly rich in our
acred memories. There at Lexing-
on, beside the living hero, sleeps
mother, dead indeed, but teaching Us /;