The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-12-18


ed for, is rrinid fdcte evidence of Intentional
fraud.
BLEDsoE's reply to STEPHENS is as la
boured, muddy and weak as his attack
was Incorporate, unjust and uncalled-
for. The last number of the Prince
Georgian has good article on the sub
1ect of this controversy, part of which
we wish we had room to copy.
From TURNER of Richmond, we get
The Round Table. A tirst-class paper it
is undoubtedly, but il has been over
rated. The contributions surpass in ia
tercst and force the editorials. The re-
views,o books are done by very unequal
hands. The political acumen of the pa
per is not the best, as its predictions of
last summer proved. On constitution
al questions its positions are in the main
cminently sound, and the quadrangle
lar controversy which has been going
on for some time between the editor
(Mr. HENRY SEDLEr) and "a Veteran
Observer" Mr.. HENRY ELMER, of Michi-
gan, and Mr.. G. N. FEATuERsToNE of
Rome, Ga, is full of interest. Mr.. F's
last letter is admirable, the whole OF it,
but especially the closing paragraph.
We are surprised. that no Virginian has
a voice in this dispute. Has the scep-
tire departed from udah, or are editors,
who get it as an exchange, the only Vir-
ginians who ever see The Round Table?
Oh ! dear oh dear What's the mat
ter! Why those plaguy Congressional
Proceedings are filling up the papers
again. Do you suppose anybody ever
reads them? Yes. Whom? Proof
readers, poor miserable devils.
A skeptic is inclined to look little
deeper into the Bible when he makes a
discovery of this sort.
In the Prolegomena of Geo. Henry
Lewes, who is the ablest living expo
nent of the Positive Philosophy, and an
intelligent atheist, We find the follow
ing compact summary ofthe most adj
vanced atheistic doctrine.
&c auses are first personifie6 next
raised into Deitles; then, by gradual
elimination OF the personal qualities,
transformed into entities; and finally re-
solved into Forces, which are opponents
of relations"
Now turn to the eleventh chapter of
the prophet Daniel, to the passage
which is thought by most commentators
to refer to the great Antichrist, whose
appearance on earth precedes the end
of all mundane things, and we find these
remarkable words,
"Neither shall he regard the God of
his fathers, nor the desire of woman,
nor regard any god; for he shall magnify
himself ab0ue all. But in his estate shall
lie honor the God of forces, and a god
whom his fathers knew not shall he
HONOR" &c.
Here modern humanitarianism and
scientific atheism are fnretold in the
plainest possible language.
The Round Table speaks thus of Mrs.
Terhune's last novel. 1--WE shall not
venture to say that Rubys Husband is
absolutely the worst novel we have ever
read. But this we will say, that if
among the other celebrated works of the
greatest American novelist, one can be
found that more exquistely combines
greater poverty of imagination with
more curious vulgarity of style, we
shall agree to read the entire list from
beginning to end"
1t then cites two or three passages
which prove it's criticism, SO far as style
is concerned, to be not less harsh than
unjust.
Brick Pomeroy receives this compli-
lnent from The Statesman,
'He has published more absurdities,
more shameless blackguardisms, more
controversial filth, than has ever passed
through similar medium in the histo-
~ OF journalism among u.s."
The Jeter Phillips, Herndon, Pol
lard, Burton, New Kent and other MUIR
ders which have happened in Virginia
during the past twelve or eighteen
months, show an alarming influx of dia-
bolism. During the "barbarous" days
of slavery, a similar amount of crime
rarely if ever occurred in a decade
Free Society in Republic is hell liter
ally.