Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-02-01
In the Union-Taken In.

How do you feel since the State has been re-
admitted into the Union? Feel that we have
been taken IN, but, in the lingo of the imam
and brother, /" well not take on much bout
it." We will not shed unavailing tears over
split milk, but will labor to make the Radical
party kick the bucket" They have added
insult to injury" and the injury inflicted will
be forgiven sooner than the insult wantonly Of
fered. A few days since, we asked an honest
Hibernian if he felt any better since the State
was admitted "Diua bit," said he, ~
keynote of popular sentiment Our people
"don't like the way twas done" They de-
sired the admission of the State, but desired
her to be admitted as the equal of any other
State They will not assent to her degrade
ton. The deed has been done without giving
the State an opportunity to express her assent
or dissent She has been taken in nOlens volens.
She asked for bread and they gave her a stone
a jagged fragment of Plymouth rock.
To the Young Men.
We hope that the young men Of this State
will not desert their mother, Virginia, at this
time especially, when she so much needs their
assistance to repair her sad losses. They con-
stitute her sheet-anchor Of hope. She desires
to.keep her sons at home, and We; hope that
they will comply with her wishes. In the Ian
euage of the Norfolk Tirgaaian, I'VE trust they
will Join US in making courageous fight for
the full restoration of their Mother State to
her former power. They can do it if they will
only work with patience and resolution. 1t
cannot be done in day, but the natural advan-
tages of Virginia will rise superior to all the
combinations against her, and it is in this faith
that we appeal to the young men of the State
to hew out careers for themselves at home,
among their own kith and kin, in sight of the
graves OF their own heroic ancestry, among
mountains opulent in histories, and rivers
which flow between banks rich in the memories
of the illustrious dead. Youth is full of the
love Of adventure. Youth hears the same
bells which tolled Tom Whittington's fortune.
Youth looks abroad but the youth of Vir-
GINA owe it to all the high and peculiar con-
siderations to which we have alluded to remain
at home; and there are vast inducements to
them to follow our advice We have mineral
wealth which surpasses the gem-lit caverns
painted in The arabian Nights. We have a
water power which foams seward with force
equal to the manufacturing needs OF CONT
nent We have cattle and embarrassing dis
tricts broader than European principalitles.
We have fat fields which grow the best wheat,
the best corn, the best tobacco, and the earliest
fruits sent either to foreign or domestic mar
kets. We have a submarine mine of wealth IN
our broad bays, and noble rivers, with their IN
Vulnerable tributaries, which furnish inexhaus
tible supplies of food that in other and less
blessed countries men call Injuries, while these
same waters furnish US the cheapest OF all
highways to our markets whether these be at
home or abroad We have, in addition all the
amenities Of an old society whose graces have
become proverb in the land and with this
array of facts before the youth OF this State,
we NAV we'll be excused from any imputation
of selfshness when we call on our younger
brothers to unite with US in resolute effort to
restore Virginia to her former opuence and
power. Virginia has suffered from emigration
in the past. Ste sent forth men to build up
the very States which have been most active IN
destroying her liberties; and now In her voice
less woe" she appeals to her surviving children
to remain within her maternal embrace and re-
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