Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-11-15

character Of jackson in an eloquent man
ner, and drew many illustrations of what
we should do at present, from Jackson's
actions whilst living. i3 @
The Orator discouraged desertion Of
Virginia. III this time of her great need,
7 and asked her youths whittier would they
wander? Where on earth could they End
people so Free. Without capital, and "a
strange land their condition would be
worse than at home. '
We must renounce luxurious idlehess.
and not be ashamed to work at home and
among our friends Stonewall Jackson
was not ashamed to work, and by the
earnest labour Of his own head and hands
earned immortality, and hallowed his
native land with reflected glory Out Of
the naked nothing Of poverty and natures
materials he wrought out by patient toll,
little by little, tho levers of his life. and
then Archimeue he founded them on
a flllcfum which moved a world His am
bition vaulted not !; his genius had no van
ityLhis power was the. moral power of a
will and purpose, and looking onward and
upward for Gods guidance He worked
here in Virginia and for Virginia, and his
work now speaks for her and to her, words
more precious than pearls That is pay
That pays! i'4 3s '.26i ~
r. And Oh! what land 50 lovely and be
Floved to work in and for as this holy
mother Of us all. | feel as fresh as ever,
and would make you feet: i'eii2e- 7'it
"With what delight we breathe our native air,
And cad the genial soil that bore Us first!
1t is said the arid is every wise mans country,
/ Yet alter having received its various notions,
am weak enough still to prefer my
To all Eve seen beside.' 9.45 va sx.iM
T speak not Of any mohgrel virginia.
of no illegitimate offspring of political ra-
pine. l speak of that honored ,.Old
Dominion embracing fun $4,000 square
niles, from the Ocean to the Ohio--from
the line Of Pennsylvania and Maryland to
the lines of North Carolina and Tonnes
see! speak of the land which gave birth
to the first Of men, and gave to mankind a
race of heroes and sages, orators and
statesmen, scarcely less than the first
which formed the nation aud gave it's
magma charter and Constitution and Laws,
which led its armies and councils for three
fourths Of Il century, which asserted its
sovereign rights, and maintained the
rights of all a longer period of time and
which finally maintained its honor if no
more IN contending for the rights it had
asserted and failed to establish after dis
astrous and glorious struggle I speak Of
Virginia-Lowland, Piedmont, Valley
and Jrans-Alleghany | speak Of Vir-
gina entire as she was, and still is, and
will be, undivided and still unspent. True
her bosom has been torn, and rent, and
soiled, and stamped upon by the iron heel
of the raiders and invaders, but she is old
Virginia still, sacred to Liberty, sacred to
Laws, full Of life,i and full of ground for
hope, and the future grander than even her
glorious past Her Chesapeake Bay is yet
unquenched by the fires of war; her catar-
acts still profoundly fail to move heaven
and earth for her resuscitation; her Pied
mont plains are yet verdant with grasses
for the focks and herds of thousand hills ];
her Ridge is yet blue in Heavens azure to
nurse race of mountaineers isldnmitable
and yet strong her Valley is yet the very
marrow of her spinal column and the staff
of her life her Alleghanies are yet back
bones Of strength ); her Western hills are
yet beef-stalls Of fairness and plenty; her
mighty rivers still roll on to old ocean,
and to aqueducts no less than the mighty
Mississippi; and the change that has come
over her is but the harbinger Of the higher
aud holier hope of Empire and Progress.
Her mines are full of coal and iron richer
than gold and diamonds She is still Viz
ginia, stripped, oppressed, overwhelmed,
overcome for a moment but unconqaered
and unconquerable. She is not without
means, resources and power, and her pride
and pre-eminenee over all States, and
State of States, shall keep her head higher,
and finally far above her invaders and en-
emes. God bless her God guard her!
No land upon earth opens such a field for
industry skill and enterprise, profit and
profusion, as she now spreads out with a
wide welcome to the youth of master minds
like that Of Stonewall Jackson. Her very
poverty is now ii capital for noble sons to
CUuHt Upuu tOI q NtditH Ue yoHu tlC -DdI ou-
les that once made lords OF her gentlemen.
Her weaknesses are Overland past; her de-
velopment is now just about to begin. Her
woe is wooing her to her brightest days;
her privation is about to be her wealth,
and Providence to guard and guide her in
a higher and holier destiny than that Of
the sold Dominion" If her sons will
indeed serve her and save her. she shall be
indeed all over one and indivisible and new
Virginia, greater, stronger, grander than
ever was old Virginia.
In this connection the General referred
to the foreign embassy Of the .lamented
| Ballard Preston to the commercial men of
| France, and the letters of credence which
he as Governor gave HIM, in which he
traced the causes which made Virginia
both manufacturing aud uncommercial.
Foreigners and strangers could not under