The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-02-06
The Only Cure,


the old pleasant and profitable relation,
between the North and South can be re
stored in a few months or few years
Equally vain is the expectation that mere
Legislation can accomplish this result
just as there arc "griets which lie too deer
for tears" SO there are evils and sorrows
immedicable by laws. The Struggle has
been too long and too deadly-tbere have
been too many outrages committed on
one side, and too many. bitter taunts and
revilings uttered on the other, to allow
the maxim Of Forget and Forgive" to have
full play as yet. Until some more po-
tent corrective is applied there is butIittle
prospect Of differentiation between two
sections, one Of which believes that it can
suffer nor further loss, and the other that
it can attain no higher glory. The South
does not see that the North can in any
way contribute to its happiness, and the
North has forgotten in IFS sxultation that
the South is so necessary to its prosperity
The South isslow to believe that it las re
turned to 'sthe best government the world
ever saw" when it is denied representa-
ton in its councils, and only knows Of its
existence from the tax collector and the
military supervisor. The North is afraid
to admit to power a people who have but
lately shown such anxiety to seger all the
bonds which boual them together. The
South stilllistens to the bitter repinings Of
her old politicians-the North follows too
readily the crude propositions Of her new
ones. La avoiding Disintegration she has
become enanored Of Consolidation
equilibrium has not been regained and the
whole machine" is still subject tie alarm
ing oscillations. The South is SO utterly
exhausted that it cannot find the means Of
resuscitation-the North is SO bloatedwith
unwholesome wealth that it scorns to as
sist its PROSTATE sister. The war has
ceased in the Field, but alas we fear it
still RACES in the Heart!
The best plan is, as when friends some
times. get too warm On politics, to stalk
about something else" Let us endeavor
to reunite the broken fragments of trade
let us invite the Northener to take up his
abode amongst us-let us watch his ha-
bits Of thrift and industry aud Scleave to
that which is good" let us always be
mindful that Pride and Poverty make the
worst company in the world-let us teach
our former adversaries that neither our
dignity nor refinement nor energy depend
upon the possession Of scores Of slaves
let us teach those who were once slaves
that while we can be kind and Just, that
we mean to be free ourselves also-let us
Light the torch Of Hope at the lamp of
Experience and the future will no longer
be darlening before US. In this way the
mighty interests ef the country can once
more be blended and beauti6ed- North
and South, divided for a time, like our
great Mississippi, b. some thwarting is
land, will mingle their currents, again re-
cover their mighty music, aud flow in ma
jesty and power forever.
"WH1N1Na" WOMEN Brigham Young,
Of Utah, has been blowing up the women
of that free-and easy Territory in manner
once awful and unique. He accuse them
Of whining" and says that they must
either ''stop that sort Of nonsense" or else
start for the other side Of Jordan, at once
and he tells his own forty wives that he
means them, as well as the rest Of the
feminine Utabyans. He says that the
kernel Of the whole difheulty-the direct
occasion Of the disagreeable and unbeata-
BILE winnings" lies in the fact that '.the
women expect too much of the Saints !"
He says that the Woman-eyen his own
lorty-are SO weak minded as to suppose
that the sanity elders Of the Mormon
Israel can make heaven on earth for
them-and that after WON IN has enter
ed Saints family, and finds that after all
he is not able to make heaven on earth
for her she begins to whine and talk
about too many wives, and the evils of
polygamv, and such like 'blasphemous
twaddle. Bingham also says it is his
opinion that any woman who ever lived
would be disappointed in the best Saint,
in Utah should marry him-and on this
point We unreseryealy agree with Brigham.
The Governor gave all the women warming
that two weeks from date Of his. sermon
against whining" he should call upon
them either to promise never to 'wiine"
more, or else to leave the Territory, bag
and baggage, saying that he would even
send off all his own wives, and soto heaven
alone, sooner than take such '.,ghining
crew along with him.