Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-03-28


Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud
| wrap life and beauty in their misty shroud?
AND passing, like a dream of heavenly birth,
Above the darkness of this lower earth,
Leave the sad soul. with feelings soft and tender
10 muse upon their vanished light and splendol
Are we not born for higher things than earth
Hath not the soul sense of heavenly birth
shall We not lind at length, amid those bright
a, And starry worlds, that gem the brow of night
those visioned forms, which mock our bein
here,
And reign and revel in brighter sphere2
Reply of Dr. Thos S. Creigh, of Greer
brier County, W. Va. to DR.. ]. q
Phares, of New Jersey.
The following letter was written by DR.. Thos
Crelgh, In reply to one received by him fror
DR.. Phares, sending biographical notice 9
Ihad Stevens and telling him it was intende
to train the rebels into loyalty.
LEwIsBURa, GREENBRIER COUNTY.
West Va, 4th Feb, 1871.
| received your present and will keep it as
medieval literary curiosity, and was strangel
pleased to hear you were going to "train til
rebels into loyalty" Training horses and ami
mails and men is sometimes dangerous expert
ment, especially when there is good deal o
antagOnism in their habits and their feeling
and intellectual developments | wish to sa.
in the first place, that ! think that the South
eEn statesmen and people have a high and hol.
sense of civil freedom have q true and oorrec
perception Of constitutional liberty and gave t
the constitution under which you live its legit
innate, natural and philosophical Interpretation
and construction. Xour ideas Of liberty art
consolidation and centralizatiOn--th South
ern liberal, democratic and restrictive. You
theory is that all power is IN the Government
The Southern is, that power is vested in the
people. There are other differences beside, o
which l have not tune 10 write. | mention
this merely to show thai The people in tn,
South know what libefsy is, and that they neee
no training from the North, either in their un
derstanding or Interpretation of the constitu
ton, politics OF religion, Your reading vii
supply you with numerous instances in ancien
and modern history, sacred aud profane, OF the
dlfhcuIty, not to say anything OF the danger, O.
training people in certain ideas and primer
PIES liz modern times Charles and Laud at
tempted to train the people 10 certain ideas auc
principles, and lost q aingQom and a crown.
The Parliament caqle next aud attempted tt
train and actually resolved that the House
would permit 20 one to hold an office uules.
they were satisfied OF his vital godliness. -
Charles failed-the Parliament failed in thei
training. | have no doubt you know many
other instances of the like. lily own opinion
is, that the training business is rather dan
gerons kind Of business and has been tried or
people before who we're living quiet lives under
governments | thrk you will bear me out
that history teaches Us the danger Of States
and governments is to be estimated not By
what breaks out of the public mind but by
what stays in it. | can conceive of nothing
!. Ia ho1 bn of
ment, which rules without an apprehension o
the character of people who have been borne
down by its oppression, which is fattered out
wardly by press and cursed in the iune
chambers of the soul; which exults in ths
peaceable condition OF the people withou
knowing that they gre in league against it in
freemasonry of hatred, the sign OF which il
conveyed in the glance Of ten thousand eyes
in the pressure OF ten thousand hands and ii
the tones Of ten thou and voices You belons
to the radical wing OF the Republican party
as belong to the radical wing of the Rebe
party, both acting in concert and harmony fo
the destruction of an oppressive government
in order to place truth aud justice and right il
their proper place in the minds of those wh,
voluntarily submit to oppression and 'accep
the situation" quiet the fierce and turbulen
spirit of those who struggle against it dispe
the dark clouds of leaden and dreary despot
ism and establish and develop true and high
er appreciation and apprehension Of constitu
tional liberty and the inaienable rights of man
Yours. THOS. CREIGH.
DIR. J. Fl. PHAREs. New Jersey.
RULES OF ETIQUETTE, Before you bow to
lady In the street, permit her to decide whethe
you may do so OF not, by at least look Of re
cognition.
Excuse my gloves is an unnecessary apol
ogy, for the gloves should not be Withdrawn t
shake hands
When yeur companion bows to a lady, yo1
should do so also. When gentleman bows t.
a lady in your company, always bow to him il
return.
A letter must be answered, unless you wisl
to intimate to the writer that he or his subjec
is beneath your notice.
A visit must be returned in like manner, eve
though no intimacy is intended.
A smiling coun.enance Is pleasant. but ez
cess of laughter should be avoided, especial
when it is possible for any one to suppose him
self derided by it.
Whispering in company Is always offensive
and often for the reason that persons presen
suspect that they are the SUBJECTS OF 1t.
NARROW GAUGE kAtLiUAU speaking c
this subject, the Baltimore Gazette says :
would it not be advisable TO consider ho'
far narrow gauge railways may be substitute
for our common roads, and steam supersed
the ase of horse power? We have all learned
of late, what these narrow-guage roads are CT
pable of doing how economically they can b
built; the little dead weight they carry, an
the comparatively small sum required to equil
and work, and keep them IN repair. AS trit
| utaries to a trunk line or as independent loo;
roads, running directly to city not more tha
| twenty or twenty five miles distant, they woul
prove of intellectually greater service to the di
tricts through which they pass, than the be-
common roads that could be constructed. Til
time saved in reaching market, as compare
with wagoning, would be equivalent to shor
enng the distance at least two-thirds, and tt
value of the lands along the line of the roa
wonld be increased in the same proportion. ~
-e~
The Legislature OF Virginia must ''hur,
up" the business which is behind hand. TT
course of the last month has caused great di
satisfaction throughout the State. Too mue
time has been wasted-there has been tt
much fighting words words-word
There is no reason why railroads should or
dominate over every other interest. The
should have their time, and place, and spac
But they are not to use UP all time and s
space. The legislature has strangely misu
derstood the people Of Virginia in supposir
that they were mhol?y interested in railros
quarrels 1t is not So "Oo the contrary, d
rectly the rererse" Railroads are very impo
tant-but there are some other matters to
thought of.-Aler. Gazette