The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-18
rp1roR1AL CORRESPONDENCE.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
SEPTEMBER /, 1868. !

IT was a stroke of excellent good for
tune when the Mcssrs. PEYToS secured
Major SuTHERIlN of Danville as their ST.
lent partner. Executive talents and
experience thus united TO admlnistra-
tive ability and ample means formed a
combination which ensured success Ill
advance. The prosperity OF the present
season was not u matter OF luck. Dut OF
well-laid plans; executed faithfully by
the proprietors. There are some who
90 so far as to say that RosECRAN's visit
was nothing more than happy concep-
tion of MesSrs. PEYToSs 81 Co. BE that
as it NAV. their plans for the future are
bold and of wide scope-no less than to
make the White the grand political, So
cial. religious, educational, industrial
and agricultural sum OF the
South.
Ifcourace united to strong practical
sense can accomplish this daring design,
it vir be done; and these annual reun-
ions of the intellect and worth OF the
country amid our glorious mountains
and beside our healing waters, will OF
themselves 90 far towards the ma'nte-
nance of Virginian supremacy-an OBJ
iect dear to every true son OF the soil.
In times past, the collision here OF the
best political minds constituted, for ma
ture and cultivated persons, the chief
charm and best recreation of the
Springs; and there is no good reason
why su h meetings, instead of being left
to chances, should not be systematized
and made to embrace the religious, edu-
cational, industrial.a l.andagricultuial ele-
ments as well as the political.
In truth, we have seen during this
very season the iirstfruits of the system,
as shown iii the presence of SO many
ministers, teachers. editors and lailroad
men. For myself { can say that con-,
tact with these gentlemen has been OF
the greatest personal benefit, in dispell-
ing doubts, infuslng new hopes, lmpart-
ing light (the great needy and opening
up broader views in the industrial and
moral not less than III the political
world; in one word. giving appetizing,
Wholesome food to mind which had
been starving over its own crude
thoughts.
Mr.. STUART showed me clearly how
the election of SEYMOUR would revive in
the North and particular ly in New
England the doctrine of State Rights,
the cornerstone of our system and
the conservator of community in de-
pendence--the essence OF true llDer-
ty. Commodore MAuRY unfolded his
plan of emigration, by which the great
difficulsy--the linquistic-is overcome,
nuclei established and the emiglants at
tlacted by the most powerful of all mo-
tors, affinity, and by enlightenment
from sources which will neither be un-
lteeded nor discredited. Nj. STEPHENS
revived nv dropping but not yet fully
resuscitatcd faith in the federative sys-
tenn. and almost persuaded INC to be-
lieve that governments by consent may
be permanent. Col. BoLIvER CHRIS
rIAN,. though not himself teacher, dis
closed his sensible plan of restoring
Virginian ascendency, by making our
seats of learning truly great, by educa-
ting the youth of the South and the bet
ter portion of the youth of the North,
thus giving the i'm press of Virginia to
the mind of the whole country, and rul-
ing the land by our ideas-the sceptres
OF the only true and lasting sovereign
ty. Col. BuFoRD, taking down his map,
pointed ont the airline road from Char
lotte to Atlanta, whereby a distance OF
more than 200 miles is saved between
the Gulf cities and Richmond in whose
welfare all Virginians worthy of the
name feel the liyeliest interest. The
completion of this AIRLINE road Fl ON
Atlanta will make the Danville road a
feeder as Important as the Chesapeake
and Ohio road. and place the beautiful
CAPITAL ofour State again on the great
high way to the North.
The foregoing make part and but a
small part of the hopeful Information
which | have gained. Indeed | have
heard so much from so many different
and oftentimes conflicting sources that
i cannot remember the half. ] do re-
member, though, that Mr.. STEPHENS
disagreed with Commodore Maury and
held that there would be no great
amount Of emigration so long us the
negro remained. Get rid of him. and
all would be well, in the border States,
aud especially in Virginia. Nor does
he believe that the negroes VIII die out
or be exterminated very speedily, but
rather inclincs to the opinion that they
will eventually gravitate into South
! Carolina and Louisiana, leaving the
oher Ststes free of them. In this L
think he is mistaken. No State in this
country will, in my Judgment, ever be
surrendered wholly to the blacks. The
creed of the white man is far too great
| to permit such thing.
RosscRANs has his hopeful view also.
An ingredient of his Ready Relief, not
yes made public, isa pet scheme to place
the primary meetings and even the eau
cases undei. the restraints law, so that
no candidate shall be brought forward
in secret session by the wire-workers,
but only those whose names have been
| openlv published for weeks and months
before hand.
When objected that, 'sunder the
broad franchise which obtains in this
county and brings the demagogue ever
uppcrmost, bad men would quickly un.
| -. '...l,.,t ,.l,nI man hnl dome y he re.