Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-10


listlessy into habits of inactivity and ease.
Have they awakened to the new order of
things-the new life before them that demands
the exercise of their utmost energies, or are
they dreamily feeling around soft places where
they can doze away their lives in comparative
idleness.
Many, we know have gone earnestly to work
and are reaping for themselves and those de
pendent upon them the rich fruits which are
the inevitable results of industrious labor.
But are there not many others who are living
upon inadequate salaries, or under the plea of
finding no employment suited to their taste, are
doing absolutely nothing
1t may be true that they can find nothing
that suits them but can they not suit them
selves TO something that will amply compensate
them for the sacrifices they make.
Do young men consider that in wasting their
time they are throwing away the fortune and
It's comforts that is within their reach? We
know that in a country like ours no young man
with health and strength need be without EN-
ployment, or dependent upon his friends.
Look to the cry for labor that goes up from
day to day all over the South. Look at the
| broad fields that are running TO waste for tie
want of cultivation Look to the metals and
minerals that are latent in our hills for want OF
development, and the timbers that stand in our
forests inviting to be felled.
Young men look around you-ponder the
situation You have made many noble sacrifices
heretofore, make them again. Go to work and
bring back to our shattered old State the days
of prosperity and comfort.
Now thatthe struggle is over, says the Balti
more Gazette it becomes the Democratic par
ty to endeavor to hope for the best. Let it
even try to believe beforehand that it may be
mistaken in its estimate of the character and
| aims of its antagonists This is their country
as we'll as ours, and now that they are in the
secure possession Of absolute power it may be
that they will yet hesitate before they utterly
and irreyocably consign ten States, with their
millions Of inhabitants, to humiliation, ruin
and despair While We cannot without further
experience alter one single opinion that We have
honestly formed and uttered, we do not hest
tate to say that the party in whose defeat we
| share should await with calmness the advent Of
General Grants administration and judge it
with patient candor Nothing can be done by
it now to avert any impending peril that may
await the country, and in this hour of distress
and danger the party which has gone down In
the struggle for constitutional liberty can only
stand aside, prepared to make one more manly
| e., tbar Oh
and occasion call for it. General Grant has now
an opportunity before him such as is accorded
to but few men in the lives of nations IF he
is the man of comprehensive intellect ana pat
riotic impulses that his friends assert him to be
he can quickly sweep away the embarrassments
which now surround the country, and restore
her again to her olden prosperity. 1t behooves
the Democratic party to hold fast to this last
| hope With General Grant it rests to restore
or to overthrow forever our time honored Re
| public. The Democratic party then should
cease to Judge him further for the present and
look with anxious socitude for the first indea-
tons of his capacity and his intention to save
| the country.
Richmond Enquirer, was never intended by
| God and nature to become the mean prey of
unpriDcIpled adventures, and by the aid OF her
own true sons she never will. Our adversaries
dare not yet discard the forms of Republican
government, and by the proper use Of the means
We have In our power we shall still make those
forus avail us for salvation, at least until the
whole country Is caught up in the tide OF the
| coming revolution We shall soon find our
metle, our determination and our endurance
tested in iercer fire than ever, GnIess we do
not read Alright the signs Of tue times.
OF the Immediate future, which is big with
events only little less in Importance than those
which will succeed them, we need hazard no
predictions. The whole country will listen with
ears erect for the earliest outgiving Of the pur-
poses of the President elect In the hands Of
| the men who put him forward, We laar it is
hardly probable that he will manifest any dis.
position to deal with the down trodden South
In the spirit Of true patriotism and elevated
craftsmanship. Still we have many notable ex-
amples where the possession of power has
developed new born conservatism, and we can
but hope this may be the outcome OF General
Grants policy or rather his lack of such
| thing lift turn out SO. We shall .rejoiee.in the
fact, and take it for sign that the God of Ma
lions has not yet directed his angel TO enter up
on the record Of time the Last Days of the
American Republic.
| The Lynchburg Nrginian says that as Gen.
Grant was instrumental in bringing the war for
| the Union to termination, he may seek to
round off what he would doubtless desire to
have in future-a great historic character, by
| bringing the Radical war on the Constitution
and the South, to an end, with the restoration
Of an enduring peace on the basis of fraternal
Union. He will be able to accomplish more in
this regard, than any other man that could have
| been invested with the Executive functions of
| the Government and if he will repudiate the
eounsels Of the extreme, malignant Radicals, We
shall have a near prospect Of peace and return
ing prosperity to the whole country. We are
| not without hope that such may be the result Of
Grants administration ); and sound policy would
suggest the propriety of making no factious war
upon him, in advance For ourselves we may
say, that while we think as badly Of the Radi-