Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-05-10
Virginia and the Yirginians.

Hon H. Clay Dean, he said in speaking Of
the military reconstruction bill:
But who are those people that are to be
subject to this kind of government? They
are men like the Virginians and the South
Carolinians Who are those Virginians /!
Since Adam was driven out Of Eden there
never was such an eventful century as that
which commenced with George Washington
and ended with the surrender of Robert b.
Lee. cloud and continued applause.) When
Burke and Pitt and Charles Fox and Sheri-
dan and the great British statesmen were in
their glory, plain, old-fashioned Virginia
farmer wrote these words: &C All the just
powers of government are derived from the
consent Of the governed" (Applause. y
When the American colonies knew not what
to do, (and it is easier to start a revolution
than to carry it through, George Washing
ton, Virginian, was called to lead their ar
mics to victory, to place in the temple of fame
letters written in living fire that will burn
long after the light of the sun has died out,
when the angel of salvation shall dip his pen
in the blood Of Calvary and write forever in
the Lambs Book of Life-George Washing
ton, Virginian. (Applause.) The Consti-
ton of the United States, that bound the peo-
pie of America together for three-quarters of
a century, was written by James Madison, a
Virginian. When the people wanted their
rights secured by a pure judiciary, they cast
their eyes on John Marshall, Virginian.
(Applause.) Virginia! Why, when Charles
the Twelfth lavished empires and gave king
doms to neighboring monarchs, it was
thought to be wonderful benifcence; but
Virginia claimed nothing for herself when
she gave up all this State Of Kentucky. She
did not even ask for money to buy the stamp
or to pay for writing the deed. (Cheers.)
INTERESTING INCIDENTAL gentleman who
was on his way Sunday evening lastto visit the
grave of a younger brother, who died in the
Confederate service, discovered just as he
reached the gate of the cemetery three former
servants Of the family approaching the grave
with flowers and evergreens in their hands.
Keeping out of their view, he watched them
until they reached the grave, when one Of
them climbed over the iron railing, took the
uOWCIo anu tVClSISGuo lIUhl HIS Coll piulOH
and laid them tenderly on the grave Of his
former young master. The gentleman then
approached and added his floral offering of
affection to that which had already been
placed upon the grave. Such an incident as
this portrays more eloquently than words can
the tender relations which existed under the
old dispensation between the two races-a re-
lation so fixed and firm in this case, as in
hundreds Of others, that the exciting and
disturbing causes during and since the war
have not been able to upsettle it, The
fact is strong affection has always sub
sisted between the whites and blacks of the
South, and there is no reason why that feel
ing should not continue in the future as in
the past. Agitators and fanatics are doing
much to weaken it and to create animosities,
but we believe that the good sense and natu-
rally good feeling of the negroes will finally
prevail, and that they will see only mischief
and malice in these efforts They will be
apt to discover who are their real friends and
where are their true interests, and to act ac-
cordingly .-Lynch6uy Tinyiaian.