The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-07

in Virginia it is disgraceful to go to law
A man in civil quarrel will shoot his
antagonist or settle the case by single
combat, but it is low and tradesmanlike
to appeal to court. They love politics
so did the feudal spirit. These people
to President, indifferently. The army
and politics are the only professions
patent and Indigenous here.
The ruin of treason has changed the
character of the race. People who used
to go to church have grown supersti-
tious; they tell OF springs that have
ceased to flow and of trees unaccounta-
bly, blasted. The old men carry the
curse in their eyes. Their physical
growth is gone; their eyes and skins
are ash-colored. The race of Virginians
is bound to die out. The North will
flow in here with its ideas of labor, and
these people will disappear among the
neighboring States like the Indians
Their cardinal traits have disappeared
there is no more fight in them. We
have had the last rebellion amongst these
people. For the original Virginian in
Virginia | see no prospect whateverW
''Ifave you no fears of the negro ele-
ment? Will it not be corrupt ?"
mo; have no fears. 1t cannot be q
more miserable element than that which
our politicians controlled before the
war;"
(Here ':Porte Crayon" showed me a
capital sketch of certain old local
character of Winchester, who was pre-
pared to demonstrate the overthrow OF
the Democratic party for the sum of one
dime.)
"The negro" he proceeded, "will make
a good, docile citizen. 1 have no trans
cendental notions that he will make the
dominant race here or anywhere. The
stream cannot rise above its fountain
The war was not the vindication of the
black mans power, but of the principle
of nationality, the supremacy of free
labor, and the victory of the ideas rep
resented by New England over those of
the South. The victory is more com
plete than the battlefield or politics.
AS n separate sentiment the South is
dead"
FACTS ABOUT GRANT AND LEE.
You must understand that 1 was no
newspaper correspondent, holding an
''interview" with .Porte Crayon."
knew him before and it was not till he
had talked unsuspectingly for long
time that it occurred to me that l might
make some use of his conversation.
asked him as much. Said he: mo
L
can be of any use in any way to in
form you upon the new era here, OF
course that information is public prop
erty."
So asked him about Grant and Col
fax, the impeachment trial and Gen. Lee.
"The impeachment trial, on common
sense principles" he said, Il looked up
on as a swindle and bIunder. 1t was
natural that the hot-heads should under
take it, but it was an attack upon the
Executive position,-a bad precedent.
johnson had a little while to run.
With no feeling for him, am glad the
trial resulted as it did. l like Grant
he has got character. There is no fun
merry in him, but force. His whole Ca
reer inspired me with respect. We don'i
want education, or experience, or sug-
gestion so much IL the Chief Magistra-
cy as we want character, by which
mean manhood, the assemblage of traits
which make one an individual. Far.
ragut is a man of character, too. / re-
member when Banks objected to his
passing Port Hudson. Said Farragut
"My God! General Banks, this i:
disgraceful, sir! 1 am an officer of the
United States Navy, sir! We mms
, pass these Forts! What does it matter
if your life, and my life, and all oul
| United States? Do you mean tC
| let these traitors come down, sir, and
! fire Oh United States vessel. sir, and
we stand to our cables, scarcely reply.
! ing, sir? We must meet the rebellion
and strike it wherever we see it.
must pass these Forts, sir!"
And" said Porte Crayon. "the ole
fellow was so much of man that they
couldn't hit his ship. Seventy guns
blaZed at him all at once, and drove
back or sunk everything but the ole
mans vessel, and she went by. AND
that is the kind OF q Elan that Grant is
, He will make a President of character
The ticket is Il national one, and we
here in West Virginia, like it,"
I asked General Strother what he
thought of Gerritt Smith and Henri.
! Ward Beecher subscribing money Il
| Washington College, the institution o
Gen. Lee.
1t is criminal folly" he said. "Tha
school is the fashionable monument to
treason, and they are educating again
! the sentiment that made the war cos
nearly all we had to put down. 1 dou't
say that Lee is indiscreet enough tc
talk politics, but to send their children
there is the only way that Northern
| f1unkeys and the more manly rebels
have left to show their pride in trea-
4 son. In that school, labor and the
trades-man are dismissed with the old
cavalier sneer, and Ben Woods sons
/ Join those of the First Families in de-
crying the North and its principles. II
is a premium put upon overthrow
rebellion to make this school a mode
| to Northern fathers. There your
| turnkey Northern feeling manifests
itself. What has a victorious empire
based upon Northern principles, to dc
with Robert E. Lees college? Thai
kind of humanity is worse than child
/ ish. 1t shows that you still hold il
! your souls a sympathetic feeling fol
the traitors you defeated! Of all mean
miserable beings, the Northern Turnkey
is the meanest. Richmond is a city Of
/ giants compared to Baltimore. l car
always meet the defeated rebel upon
fair terms but the renegade Unionist ii
the meanest of Gods creatures. He il
a poor searcher for Virginia recogni
ton. Our little remnant of pride findi
fat in his fawning."
"What of Lee, personally
i "Lee is a worthy fellow, left to him
self. He comes of anomalous cross
breeds, the Lighfoot Harry Lees ane
the Carriers of Shirley. The Carter
were amiable drawing-room poodles
Lighthouse Harry was man of militia
ry genius Bob Lee inherits the weak
ness of the one stock and the miIitar,
!, cleverness of the other. He though
. the experiment of the United State
was failure, and being encumberet
with the improbable estate of old Gus
tus he went over to Virginia. Hi