The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-06-26
The Onward Course.

ever be the disturbances and temporary
impediments in its course. Men get al
armed occasionally, and fear thatit is to
be turned away from its channel, and that
it will uproot and destroy everything in
its way. Butin little whilotheir fears arc
quoted because their apprehcnsions are
not realized, and they find that if things,
are not as they wish them to be, they arc
certainly not as as they might be.
Most events of these days arc Of the
character Of temporary disturbances which
will have little effect on the future Of this
country. The one great event of the
abolition Of slavery will be enduring in
its consequences but all the partisan
movements and the cxcitcments Of the
day will in short time cease to have any
influence and be forgotten. Abolition will
have no permanent bad effect upon Viz
ginia and the adjoining States, and may
not have such an effect upon the Gulf
States. Indeed, it will prove beneficial
to Virginia, and help to increase her ma
tcrial resources, and increase her popula-
| ton and political power. But all the class
Of movements and disturbances growing
out Of party ambition and greed for office
and cmolumcnt- all the tricks for the
qualification Of these, which are now alien
| ating the two races in the South and pro-
| ducing anxiety in the public mind, will
after time be frustrated and brought to
an end, leaving us not much the worst
for the achievements. The current will
continue to flow on and present so smooth
surface as to bear no sign that it had
| ever been disturbed. efsa
We must, have peace. A party sus-
tanned by hostility and hatred cannot ex-
list in peace. The public mind under a
condition Of peace cannot be agitated to-
the height Of passion and malignity The
| Office hunters and placc-holders cannot.
work up the public feeling to that point
when all is quiet and order, under re-
stored equality among the States. Every
| body does not want Office, and cannot get
it, So a whole community is not going
| to lash itself into rage because one man
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trading upon sectional animosity, will find
their capital gone, and their manufactured
stories about southern disorders, cruelties,
and brutalities, Of no avail when the South
is able to deny and disproyc them-whcn
indeed, she will have power that will com
mand respect; and it will be neither poll
tic nor safe to undertake to malign her.
Thus the war for office and power by
warning on communities will break down,
and white and black in the South will be
left, as they ought now to be, to manage
their own affairs without the intervention
of outsiders They will divide without
distinction, and express their preferences
without respect to the prejudices and
passions engcndercd now under the delu-
sive pupilage Of selfish and unscruplous
imported partisans.
In this way We shall pass through a
period of annoyance and trouble and reach
smooth water in short time. All that
is necessary is calmness and fortitude. A
straightforward, dignifcd policy, while
trusting in the justice of an overriding
Providence, will insure a triumph. Vir-.
gInia has the men and the material ad-
vantagcs to insure also a prosperity and
growth in physical power that will place
her among the first, Of States in that, as
she has been in moral grandeur. This
is ccrtainty;yet there is that in her
latitude, atmosphere, and topography,
which protects her from that other Ger
tainty anticipated by the Charlottesville
CAroaicle-yiz., the being overrun by
northern sentiment and morality. The
spirit and genius Of the people will
be Virginian as long as long. as she re-
mains State. There is every reason
against dependency. No man should
think thatthe world was created at his birth,
and will end at his death. Our brief ex-
periences are nothing. The river Of
events will flow On, and all traces Of the
I things we deem SO momcntous in cur day
will be washed away.
How to Divide up your Big Farms.
Some farmers say s'they can't divide
their big farms, because there is no one to
sell to-" This is all stuff. There is not
a town in Virginia that can not furnish
from ten to one hundred, to one thousand
men, anxious to own small farm, if you
will only give them helping hand and
little time to pay in. Then there is hard
ly plantation, OF farm, that has not a half
dozen grown young men, members Of the
family, living Oh the cold man" or rather
waiting for him to die, SO they can get
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