Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-03-05


Those scraps are good deeds part; which are de-
As fast as they made. forgot as soon as done
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, forgetting their
history, and regardless of the lesson that nbv.
sical geography should teach them, even if
experience had done SO, have arrayed them~
selves side by side with the New England
states In their effort to bring ruin upon the
southern States. In spirit of unparalleled
hberality, Virginia ceded to the United
States ~ the Northwestern territory. ont of
which were carved the three great States we
have named. She did not cucumber her sift
with any conditions calculated to cmbarrass the
Government, or to lessen the full generosity
OF the act. 1t was peace Offering ON the
national alter, that has been foully and blood
liy requlted, as the sequel will show
Year after year the North Increased in
strength, and when at last she felt that she had
aSlants power, she used it, like one. The South
watched and waited long, in the hone that
after while the voice of Justice would be
heard; but this hope, always deferred. always
growing DINNER, at last made her sick. and
behevIng the Constitution already ovelthrown
the Government already rcvolutionized-
she sought to preserve within her own borders
what was left of American freedom. Vir.
ginia knowing full well that she would be the
FLINDERS of the war, took the standard of the
South and the whole world knows the record
the she made, as we'll as we do. But the
struggle Is over-the issues upon which il
was fought are settled, and now this grand
old gealth-grand in her necrology
beginning with Washington and ending, for
the present, with that ''inheritor of unfulGll-
ed renown, Stonewall Jackson-grand in
the calm dignity with which she accented the
ShaH iDI,,
pie of the Northwestern Terrtory-tLose
whom she enteOfed with such magnificent
domains-to be allowed a voice in the conn
ellis of the nation.
but there arc other memories that should
iinger IN the breasts of the people who front
us across the Ohio. After Virginia gave un
her claim to the territory of which we have
spoken, a heavy emigration set in towards it
from Kentucky and Tennessee. The Indians
had already been driven from their hunting
grounds south of the Ohio. and were resolved
to make final stand for sovereignty in what
was then the far Northwest perilous and
detenceiess frontier. In 1872 war COM
menced between them and the Government,
and it is needless for us to recall the history
OF the struggle. The old settlers of Ohio and
Indiana know that while their ncw-made
friends of Connecticut and Massachusetts
were hanging out along their coasts Signal
lights to warn off or welcome British ships.
the men OF Kentucky were fighting Indians,
British, cold and hunger in the SHOWS of Can
ada, to protect their wives and children from
the scalping knife The new States could
then spare but few of their settlers for the
battle field (they were needed in the clearinrs
at home.) aud New England did not furnish
single soldier i'll the war. On the other
hand, she tried to secede from the Union in
order to rid Of her portion Of the charges in
CURED IN Its prosecution; and yet we now
lind Ohio and Indiana Senators and Congress-
men in full political fellowship with the de-
scendants of the Hartford Conventionists.-
Ben. Wade is cheek by-jowl with the lIly-
livered Sumner, and Ashley plays second
hddle to that practical nlisccgcnationist, Thad
Stevens, and all OF them are full to overflow
Ing with hatred not ouly towards the excluded
States, but TO every living thing in the loyal
Border States that has feeling of love or
even of pity for conquered and plundered
people.
Well times change, and we change with
them. The most powerful, as well as the
most VlndIctlve enemies, are those whom We
have benefited and confded in the most
Lear Is played over and over again, and will
De through all time. We cannot say, there
fore, that we feel any surprise at the unna,u-
raj and suicidal course of the Northwest ny
at anything else; and even if we did, we hone
that our good breeding would not permit us
to eVlnce 1t. We have somewhat better opin
ION OF mankind than the FrenchmaD. who
SAID that he had no respect either for men or
women, and who justified his misanthro1y on
the p!ea-that when there were only two
brothers iu the world. one Of them took it in
to his fraternal heart to kill the other and
that when there was only one married couple
here below, the female member of the firm
having nobody else to coquette with, in de.
1ault OF better sport, was content to have n
little intrigue with the devil but still we 90
far enough with this atriblious old plepircn
to enable US to understand the immense conoc-
tiles ct the human heart for revenge and mn,
charltableness, and to know absolutely that
we can expect nothing from the s:northard''
OF the line, except inasmuch as fostering care
OF Southern interests will conduce to the nros-
perlty OF the victors. Not having seen their
side OF the slate, we cannot tell how this
problem of profit aud loss will be solved
That genuine simplicity of heart in the ad,
mlnistratlon OF government, which Edmund
burke justly characterized as healing and
cementlnE principle, is wanting in the coun>
CHS OF the country 1t is the age of triumph
ant Scoundrellsm, and, if We are saved at all.
1t will not be through the calls of Justice. the
prompting OF magnanimity, or the reIentinos
OF love, but through the atoning grace of ne
cuniary considerations alonc.-C Columbus
(Niss) Sentinel.
FUNERAL OF A BEE.-A correspondent of
KtoH