The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-31
Sound Logic.

And I'll give to thy father the inn for his own
Let the sign be ..The Fish and the Ring.
Sound Logic.
A Federal officer recently assigned from the
lower Valley to post in the interior of the
State remarked to us the other day that he
had been gratifcd and surprised at the kind
manner in which he had been received, and
referred to the contrast it offered to the feel
ing manifested towards him at his former
post.
The thing is easily explained On the
frontier the people were divided in sentiment;
there were unionists and Sccessienists, who
were exceedingly bitter against each other
during the war. These feuds have been kept
up since the war Such division of senti-
ment exists in Alexandria, Winchester, Har-
per's Ferry, Martinsburg, and to some extent
in Norfolk.
There was no division of sentiment in the
interior; all were Confederatcs; and when
the war ended they surrendered The Fed
eral officers have uniformly, so far as we have
been thrown in contact with them, acted in a
just, humane, and eonsiderate spirit. We
bear them no luminosity. Asa general thing
they have not been called on to a grcatcxtent
in a social way, because our people felt that
this would look like an attempt to ingratiate
themselves. They felt the natural reserve of
beaten party to seek the company of the vic
tor We know that this has been miscon-
strued, and in some eases Federal officers have
taken it as an affront. 1t was no aGront, and
intended as nome For we feel under OBJ
legations to these officers for their kind and
just administration, and they have evoked
the most kindly feelings on the part Of our
people towards them as a class. But where
citizens have kept aloof, it was because they
did not feel that they could associate with mil
itary officers put oyer them on terms Of equali-
ty. Good taste certainly required this course
just after the termination of hostlities.
While on this subject, another observation
occurs to us irresponsible persons are much
more violent than those who have to act in
any matter Of difference between themselves
and others. We see this in the Northern
Democratic press; it is as bitter as gall; it is
as bitter as gall; it is loaded with denuncia-
ton Of Congress and the Republicans; it
urges the non-acceptance by the South of the
Reconstruction bills. But the South, which
has to act, which has tc feel the consequences
of incorporate language, which has to weigh
the whole business calmly as practical ques-
ton affecting its very existence, is quiet and
silent The same, fact is illustrated within
our State limits Suddenly the Valley has
become our South Corolina The press Of the
Valley is much more ssunfeconstructedo than
that of the East. The Staunton papers Eek
cepting the Jnyiniea.) call on the people to
vote against a Convention. Why is this
At the North, the Democracy can afford to
talk and to denounce, and set up race of
martyrs The radical storm can only burst
on their heads in the shape of an election.
No military will rule iii their households no
negroes will upturn their social structure. In
the Valley there are few negroes, and this ex-
plains why they are not as much disturbed as
the people south Of James River. This is
why Mr. Baldwin is not as flexible as Mr.
Flournoy. Mr.. Flournoy has to deal practi-
cally with a great social cloud Mr.. Baldwin
only looks at it like an astronomer through
glass 1t is the difference between playing
the martyr and writing on martyrdom.
1t is the same thing in Maryland and Ken
lucky. They are the only Confedcrates left
-,olc If Congress takes them in hand,
and ruins them, they will become as mellow
as the Charleston Mercury.
This is the reason why our ladies and The
clergy have been so violent. They do not act
4 the clergy are comparatively withdrawn
from secular affairs.) The ladies merely give
vent to generous standardization with no
sense in them. They did much by their
thoughtless ardor to bring on the war, They
did much to prevent an adjustment during
the war. So with the clergy. These classes
dealt with the abstract, and not with real
controlling difficulties. The ladies took it for
granted the thing would end like novcl-in
some pleasant. heroic way DR.. Dabncy is
writing on secession now.
There is no calculating the mischief the
Northern Democracy are doing US now The
Republican there naturally concludes that
the Philadelphia Aye or the New York Day
Book, or the National Lute2liyenecr talks as
the Southern press talks The inference is
that We are rife for another fight, and still
struggling and kicking It's a great mistake.
Charlottesville Chronicle.
Fields Cook is entirely mistaken when he
says the negro race will increase in the United
States. It is perfectly obvious that it will
not remain at all great while in the present
United States. II there were not single
white man to-day south of the Potomac, in
the lapse Of short period the whites com
ing FROM Europe and the North-would-ha
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