The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-04-02

ONCE, OF removing anu leaving tneIn uncdil-
ed for, is pf'tnta facte evidence of Intentional
fraud.
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Few communities are SO poorly off
that they cannot boast of at least one
constitutional liar.n He is fellow
who lies without rhyme or reason, in
season and out of season, with or with
out cause, and when the truth would
serve his purpose better than a lie. He
lies from impulse, force of habit, and by |
instinct. He cannot help it. 1t is as
natural for him to lie as to BREATHE
TO his credit be it said, he seldom lies
maliciously. AS rule, he is what is
called ''good fellow" ready TO treat |
or take drink at any time, has pleas
ant word for everybody, and will often
do you favor quicker than a man of
truth. Every body knows he is liar,
and one would say that he must know
it himself. But this is by no means cer-
tain. II he have not what may be pro-
perly called self-respect, he has certain
;y good opinion of himself, And how
could he have that if he knew he was an
habitual, ineessant and inexcusable IL
ar? Let the doctors of ethics solve that
problem. The poor creature goes
through lille unabashed, contented, often
happy, and apparently quite uneon-
scious of the light in which he is regard
ed by the community. He is looked
upon as a halt idiot, halfhappy-amus
ing and irresponsible. Does he come
to his sense in eternity?
Archbishop Dulle was in the habit of
saying to himself. "You think your
self true Christian you tcel your
heart at times glow and melt within
you at the consciousness of your own
goodness. But suppose now you were
restored to the glory ofyour youth, that
you were strong, brave, handsome, rich,
powerful--so powerful that nothing in
heaven above or in the earth beneath
could stand between you aid your will.
And suppose, further, that you knew
there was no account TO be rendered in
the life to come OF the deeds done in the
body. What would you do under those
circumstances? Whatever you would
then do, ycu soould do noao, if you had the
chance. Whatever You would then be,
yoat are non, in your iamost soul
oh !! my soul, put thou thy trust in
Christ alone, for He alone is good"
Children born in Missouri OF Virgin
ian parents say then" in place of
sheen" In Washington city, you will
see servant girls with strongly unmarked
Irish features, whose accent is that of
the New England Puritan. Rosecrans,
of German descent. is Yankee in
thought as he is in speech. In the bor-
der counties of Virginia, the people do
not indeed say "keow' for 'cow' and
~sheow" for show" but they do say
4.Paowcll'' instead of @Powell." Vir-
ginians who live in New York acquire
: readily the Northern accent. They
do aot s'reckon,' they ''guess;" they do
not say 'sNew York" they say en-
Yark." In the Southwest, particular
1y in Memphis and New Orleans. the
Northern dependencies unm istaka-
bly, over the Southern accent. In all
of the Gulf States, the pronunciation
has more or less of the N Northern tinge.
Year by year, the Yankee patois en-
croaches. 1t had reached Manassas be-
fore the war; it now threatens Culpep-
er G, H. We know a youth born and
reared in Orange county, Va, whose
speech bewrayeth him as full-blooded
Yankee. Such he is not. His is case
of sporadic Yankeeism. Negroes are
eager to acquire the Yankee twang, and
are rapidly learningit in the freedmens
schools. On the ether hand, we do not
find that Yankees who come south ever
fall into our mode of speech. They
never say athar" and "whar." In the
third generation they may; not before.
Barbarous as the Yankee jargon is,
hateful even to the cultivated Boston
ians, it is the only progressive tongue
on this continent. A single drop ofink
is sufficient to dseolor whole tumbler
full of water. The substitution of one
Language for another is the unerring
sign of subjugation completed. The
sign is equally true when applied to i'd
IONS of the same language; for if Ian
guage be hkened to a musical theme,
the idiom is the key in which :t is play
ed. Language carries with it the ideas
of the race from which it originates, and
the accent is the Interpretation of the
feelings OF that race. The form of
speech is from the intellect, the pronun-
citation is from the emotions. He who
adopts and uses habitually the Yankee
jargon, will think with the Yankee head
and feel with the Yankee heart. And
when they see with whatrapidty Yam
kee slang traverses this continent,
thoughtful men know what is coming.
Grants cabinet presents quite an ar
ray of Northern Lights--in fact it is
sort OF Hoary Borie alis.
Did you find the namc of Sherman in
the list of Senators who withdrew from
the anti-releal caucus
Able--the review of Winslow's ssForce
and Nature" in the last Statesman. Who.
in Raltimorp is canahIa Of doi,o