Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-10-30


No more cigars and julepsl No more card
parties and club illness No mare omen
retreats IN summer and city halls In. winter
HE hard necessity which presses down nnon
our people may change the character in some
lamentable respects, but 1t will also banniIy
strengthen Us in other important points. L
wall dispel some weaknesses which thoupb
grand and noble impeded the power and pro-.
gress of thestaff. Of the old Vireiuian It
may well be said High,miDded he was ever.
and impro0ideat--
t'But pitifuI and perverse TO a faplt
Pleasure he would but honor as his idolSs
To young Nirginians would say:-High-
minded, pitiful and generous ever be as were
your fathers; honor must ever be your idol !:
but, be Jltst before you are geael oRs /; and let
life of mere pleasure aud all ,Inpr0rGofence now
cease! Now 1t Is to be life of work work!
work until you are weary, and stia weary. and
stllf work on And blessed be God work on
and work ever until the waste places are all
repaired. until our honor is redeemed. unril
debts old and new are paid, until the ssold
folks at home" shall all sing and be happy
again-untii the slogan of s.oId n irginia never
tire" can. be- raised again with shout that
the heaven of heavens shall bear and the Con-
tederate saints above shall approve as Iustify
ing the ways OF Providence to usI If COM
prehend Alright and fully the meaning of Par
adise itself, and our first parents expulsion.
1t IS In part to make us know that a .pIeasure
ground OF perfect innocence even was not
best for man. Dis06e9teace was punished by
expulsion, but the punishment was SO tenn
pered by the Mercy, mot the curse, that we
should earn our daily bread by the sweat of
our brow-blessed be Godl-that our tasks.
II well done, will make US happier and hap,
pier the harder they are Work. oh Young
"
Stonewall men You are not Virginians
worthy OF these graves Work or you can't
be happy
The speaker proceeded at great length to
speak of the resources of the State, and the
advantages presented by her toy the develop.
ment of enterprise, and the investment of the
proper capital-work He also elaborated
the system of internal improvements necessa-
ry to place Virginia where she belonged-in
the front rank of prosperous and wealthy
commonwealth. He thus concludes 81
But, do you say that this is all Hercuiean.
aud we must starve whilst waiting for such
openings and results 2 Do you urge that YOU
have naught left but lands to live upon, aud
that we haze no labor, and that this willlow.
er them in price and drive our population
away L reply that now, and notwithstand-
ing this Is all true, still Virginia is the most
inviting territory for settlement on the CONT
nent. Her lands will lower in price for wears
to come, and why! Our prOprietoEs all owned
too much land before the war, and now do
not require one acre where they required ten
then. They can sell or settle nine.tenths Of
their acres, and then have left abundant for
curtiIaSe And this very prospect of low
price OF lands itself invites young men to re-
main and labor at home. If active, indus
trlous, frugal, and content with small gains at
~ 10 10 l,..I
up can purchase abundant fields at low price!
The low price of lands will exactly accommo.
date young meu without capital, but willing
to work. This poverty itself becomes q
strength and profit. And when hundreds
and thousands have set and followed this ex>
ample. the lands will become thiekly settled.
and their price will appreciate beyond all
present anticipations.
The State has been stripped, and vet ssshc
as an old State Nth all tie undeUeLSped re.
sources at u me'O ,Stukc and IN the condition
IN mis respect NJ u me,o .Stahe ,ciA all tie
3ntet'o'"ti0Hs Of an oa State" She invites
Immigrants by every interest of settler, and
the question is whether our own young men
VIII not profit by her advantages? Don't
they desire to own and occupy h.r soil. and
not let strangers fill the places of their faith
ers Her lands are cleared of the virgin for
est which requires so much labor for coal. and
iron, and limestone untouched she ha~ mines
OF copper ore of unknown extent she has in
Vulnerable and exhaustless springs of salt
she has naptha and gas for all uses of light
and fuel; she has luxurious pastures of more
than ten thousand hills and valleys now un-
cropped by horses, cattle, mules or swine; she
has sheep walk for wool wealth uneaualied
In Saxony or England she has an extent of
4,OOO square miles she has forests of great
timber, and the lumber of the lowlands grow.
ing In the salt sea air, the fttest known for
ship building; she has immense fist cries of
every variety she has jas pubkicunl of more
than 1000 square miles of shell fish, Welding
more than thirty millions of bushels per au-
mum; she has every variety OF soil for apri,
culture, horticulture and arboriculture, in ey-
cry variety of climate for sites for the turuiu
the strawberry, the peach, the pOmegranite,
and tor the fig, as sweet those from SMYRNA!
If she were waste from the sea board to
the Ohio, without this garden Of fruits and
flowers, still the back country beyond her
westward, is iDterminable and cxhaustless. and
her track for its produce to the ocean, and 10
the wants of the world, is the most eligible
upon earth 1t is simply Mediterranean. IN
the temperate line of 379 North latitude. due
west from the Chesapeake 10 the Olfo. from,
the Ohio to the Mississippi, from the Missis
siPpi to San Francisco, and to enumerate
nothing more. would add two months OF labor
TO the States of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Mich
igan, Iowa, Wisconsin,, Missouri, and the
whole northwest, against their distractions of
frost IN the winter ON the northern line TO the
Atlantic. aud against the low stages of water
in the western rivers in summer; and would
save millions worth OF western -four from
souring, and of western pork from spelling.
by being sent through temperate climate.
instead of going to market down the alissizs
sippi to New Orleans. and though the GfnIf