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

WOODSTOCK, VA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER Is. 1866
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The, General then spoke at some length
Of the change in the labor system of the
State, and the. new duties It imposed upon
the people. He then addressed the young
men as follows:
I You need not fear that there viii be too
many Of you in the field. Mining, Manu-
featuring, Commerce, Mechanic Arts, will
now open. avenues for the skill ind enter
prise and improveiiiehts in all these viii
Soon pay professional avocations higher
/ fees and wages than ever compensated
them before Have. your fathers thou
sands of acres. of lands,y which now yield
no income and cannot afford to pay labor
for their cultivation Lay off the garden
spots, compost your wasted manures for
the little you can fill, or sell, or rent out or
let lie out every Impoverished acre. Aye,
/ do better advertise to select Immigrants
that you will gladly give to them one-half
your supeTfuous lands ard help them build
and fence them, if they viii come and
settle, Their settlement viii make the
other half far more valuable than was Or
+ is the whole They viii give you neigh
borhood and life, bring to you new lights,
and be your source Of most affective labor
and Of. richest returns. Abandon .'one
ideas here it is wheat, there it is to-
bacco, yonder corn and potatoes land
somewhere else it is Brandy and Goober
Peas. Go to the fields and be taught by
your own experience, learn Of other crops,
and prepare your own fertilizers from the
forest leaves and pine tags. and straw and
cattle and pig pens. Don't stand on the
rivers bank like the fool Of Horace and
wait for the waters to pass by before you
cross this Rubicon. Don't wait to manure
until you can get capital 10 buy guano!
Borrow not at all, but work and you will
Soon have wherewith to lend. The faith
Of jackson Saw this that the war would
put our young men to work No more fox
hounds No more large morning horns )!
No more cigars and juleps! No more card
parties and club-idleness No more syren
retreats in summer and city halls in winter.
The hard necessity which presses down
upon our people may change the character
in some lamentable respects, but it will also
most happily strengthen us in other i'm
portant points. It will dispel some weak
nesses which though grand and noble, i'm
peded the power and progress of the State.
Of the old Virginian it may well be said:
| High minded he ever, and improuident,
g But pitu and perverse to a fault
Pleasure he would but honor was his idol"
To young Vrginians would say -
High-minded pitiful and generous ever
be as were your fathers: honor must ever
be your idol; but, be just before you are
generous !; and let life Of mere pleasure
and all improUidence now cease! Now it
is to be a life of work work work until
you are weary, and still weary, and still
work on And blessed be God work on
work ever until the waste places are all
repaired, until our honor is redeemed,
until debts old and new are paid, until the
sold folks at home shall sing all and be
happy again--until the slogan of sold
Virginia never. tire can be. raised again
with a shout that the heaven of heavens
shall hear and the Confederate saints above
shall approve as justifying the ways of
Providence to US! If comprehend Alright
and fully the meaning Of Paradise itself,
and first parents expulsion, it is in part to
make us know that a pleasure ground of perfect
i nocence even was not best for man. Disobedi
ence was punished by expulsion, but the punish
ment was So tempered by the Mercy not the curse
that we shonld earn daily bread BY the sweat
OF our brow. Blessed be God that our task, if
well done, will make us happier and happier the
harder they are Work, oh! young, men, or you
are not men You not Stonewall men You
are not Virginians worthy Of these graves !
Work, you can't be happy! e.
| The Governor here recounted some of the causes
which led to the impoverishment of the State.--
He. said that when Virginia shall have completed
her lines Of internal improvements, her prosperity
will begin, and then industry viii be capital. He
ended his address with the following peroration:
There is still stamina and strength, and moral
prcscience enough left in Old Virginia to save her
honor, and mere than insure her pristine pre-em-
inence, il there is faith like that OF Stonewall
jackson among her sons and they will only stand
by her as did her Heroes in the war
l. Wecatch the inspiration otthis Faith, this Hope
this Life and Strength, nom tho halo OF these
Heroes. The great good chat they whose remains
tenants OF these graves did, lives after them
blessed be their sacred memories | would not /
call them, ii | could back to me, save in their ex
amples / divine not why |, or any, We're spared !
when they were taken, but to bear testimony to
their truth and excellence, their innocence and in
yincibilitv, and to try to live worthy OF their
Deaths and be more ready when the Creator calls I
to meet them in Heaven M
Moan no funeral drge. but with exulting an
thems high and Clear swell the note OF praise, !
and our prayer that we may
"Mark each motion OF our swelling hearts
Lest we attempt to extricate ourselves
And seek delvelance BY forbidden ways
TO keep our hope and innocence entire,
Till we dismissed to join the happy dead,
Or Heaven relieves us here
Bring, then, no cypress here; bring laurels to
these graves spread them-heap thenm thick all
over and around and, as s'virtue isthe only
aranthine flower on earth; the lasting treasure
TRUTH" bring
t.Immortal Amaranth flower which since
In Paradise. fast BY the tree Of life,
Began to bloom.''
Bring with '.Joy ofGfief.'' flowers of sweetest
perfume and budding, blooming beauty, and make !
s.Flowers their couch,
Panses ard vioets, and asphodal,
sif Aad hyacynth: earths freshest, 'softest lap!