Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-07-19
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ties of the University of Virginia. AT
ter speaking Of the necessity and honor
of labor, he says:
depend upon it there is no cure for
low spirits like being hard at work; and
never was their need for it greater than
now and here. In no country and in no
generation are considerations like these
to You of Virginia and the other South
ern States. The ravages of war have
destroyed much of the accumulation of
the labor and industry of your worthy
ancestors. Your social fabric has been
rudely shaken from turret to foundation
stone, and few are the homes through
out the beautiful region which Provi-
dence has assigned to the people of the
South which do not bear more or less
the traces of sorrow and desolation and
the rude impress of adversity's iron hand.
81 am not one of those who would
ask you to strive to forget them. They
were meant as lessons for your benefit
and elevation. 'He that lacks time to
mourn lacks time to mend Where
sorrows held intrusive and turned out,
there wisdom will not enter, nor true
power, nor aught that dignifes humani-
ty.
"Virginia, we'll named the, Mother
of States and Statesmen the renowned
home of generous hospitality and cul-
ture, the scene of light-hearted mirth
and easy enjoyment now wears robes OF
graver hue, and in the faces of her wor-
thy sons and daughters may be read
traces of the trials to which they have
been subjected, and which they have
borne SO nobly; and which it is true they
cannot render back
THE golden bowl that's broken at the fountain,
Or mend the wheel that's broken at the cistern
Or twist again the silver chord that's loosened;'
vet, thanks be to God, something i'm
mortal still survives the wreck of so
many hopes, and bound together by ties
of memory and hope, her selfrespecting
people stand in quiet courage and re-
solve ready to meet the times as best
they may and would, and fashion them
as best they Can.
''But few weeks ago it was my good
fortune to make an excursion of some
900 miles to and from the broad bosom
of Virginia, sweeping through the vast
expanse of fertile valleys, with their
bubbling fountains and fat Hocks, shell
tered by lofty forests, and all inviting
the care of husbandry and promising
ample reward. Even more wonderful
were the exhibitions Of her mineral
wealth, filling the mountains and crop
ping out in grand Development, offer,
ing an unequalled field for the skill OF
the engineer and remunerative employ
ment for capital and labor. Medicinal
springs of wondrous efficacy were scat
tered everywhere, in countless numbers
and in endless varieties, inviting inva-
lids to their cure and the jaded denizens
of the cities to recreation and repose,
and all this enveloped in temperate
cline, in which alike are unfelt the win
tiers of the North or the enervation of
the extreme South, making it fit home
for vigorous and healthy race.
"Such and so grand is the inheritance
Of the people of Virginia. But great
as is all this wealth sootteied from
the fruitful horn of nature. You
have moral inheritance infinitely
greater and more valuable in the mem
DRY and character of the great and good
men whose forms have once again been
clasped to the breast Of the land that
gave them birth, and which so many OF
them died to defend.
az would not give my dead Ossory
for any living son in England, was the
proud cry of bereaved English mother.
we would not exchange our dead
Lee for any living soldier, is the proud
response of every true Virginian'"
Senator Bayard then ended his re-
marks rs follows
"Peace his triumph shall be sung
by some poet in summers yet to come.
Were to picture the youth at West
Point you would turn to Lee If l
pictured kind and loving father, friend
and husband, you would say | meant
Lee And did describe good and
great man struggling against adversely
and exhibiting all qualities that adorn
and dignity humanity, you still would
say meant none but Lee ! Let me
leave YOU with him, and bid you now
farewell in the words of one who dashed
falsehood and meanness with sharp Sc
verify, but whose love of all that makes
youth lovely and age respected, was
sincere and constant,
"Who misses or who wins the prize,
Go, lose or conquer as you can,
But if you fall or if you win,
Be each, pray God, Gentleman"
UAzARpous FEAr.-A Natural Bridge,
Va. correspondent relates the following
as occurring at that place
On Monday afternoon, July 7, a gen.
tleman named Mcdonald, whilst leaning
over the cliff at the Natural Bridge, in
the vicinity OF the late Cedar Stump,
accidentally dropped his pocket book,
containing a considerable sum OF money,
valuable papers, sc, which lodged on
the shelf of rock about hundred and
twenty feet from the top. After con
sultation he determined to lower his
brother, Master Hunter Mcdonald, of
Lexington, youth of about twelve
summers, and the latter, nothing 10th,
entered into the spirit of the thing as if
it was matter of fun. Having procur-
ed about two hundred feet of inch rope,
which was doubled, the young man was