Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-03-25
Spirit Of yefffuso1l,
charlcs.own, jefferson County. West Va
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH rs, 1873.
Posture Of Affairs in Kentucky.

The following we'll written article is taken
from the American Christiam Revielo We
republish it that our readers may see "what's
the matter" What is said in regard to Ken>
lucky applies with eguai, if net greater force,
to West Virginia:
We have hard times. financially, in Ken
tucky; great stringency in noneyed affairs.
The reason is obvious. When u mans ex-
penses exceed his income lie is on his way to
prison fer debt. This is our condition we
are consumers rather than producers We buy
more than we sell not hut that we have
ample resources we lack both the capital and
the vim to develop it. It is hard for our
people to adjust themselves to the new order
Of things. The war flooded us with green-
backs. This led to general extravaganza in
dress and equipage and modes of living. The
farmer and artisan quit their fields aud shops,
and set up small stores in towns. aud GROSS
roads. Unlike Solomon, they hsve put on
their coats aud do not know how to put them
of again.
When cotton was king Kentucky was more
closely identified with the South than at
present We raised horses, mules hogs and
grain to supply the South, and the South
raised cotton to supply the North, and thus
money flowed around in circle Now the
resources.
and hence has less need or means to buv our
surplus. This is the great lesson that Ken,
tuoky must learn. She nnst learn to live
more within herself; and the sooner she LAYS
aside her old fogyisn, that, anaconca like has
nearly compressed the very life out of her.
rnd few Of her unreasonable prcirdiccs
against the people Of the North, the better.
1t was with no desi gn to dispara.re his na>
tive State, but rather tn stimulate her to
greater enterprise and self>relunce that in
dnced the writer in 1864. III a published ar
tictc, to call the attention of the people of
Kentucky to the fact that. in mechanic arts,
AMI indeed in most anything else. we were in
part, or 10 whole, dependent upon the States
north of US. 1t will do us no harm to Law
aside all prejudice and look at some of these
facts in the face now. They were brought
out in a conversation with lady friend who
was very unspa,ing, as many still are, in her
abuse of the "Ysnkees," mcsning ,,i those
who live north of ''the line told her that
[ did wish that the people nf Kentucky we're
more independent Of these Yankees; that we
ought to be- and one day would be, but until
then the best way would lie for us to say
nothing ahout them. "For, ma1nu there Is
scarcely phisicnl coinE,rt you have in the
world you nro not depcrdens on these Entetl
Yankees for, you would not have krrtucky
carpenter to build your house. but get Yankee
carpenter you wont walk on a Kentucky
carpet. but must i11por n Yankee c1rrnt : YOU
Sit on Yankee chairs. TGciiDn on Yankee
lounge. sleep on Yankee bed and cover
yourself with Yankee made blankets; yon sit
around Yankee table. and feed vouracif with
Yankee .ponus. knives md forks, and eat off
Yankee plates and out Of Yankee cups and
glasses. you wear Yankee cinthcs and Yankee
horse, Yankee shoes and Yankee hnts and
make them up on Yankee machipe ana sew
them with Yankee needle and Yankee
thread, or pin them up with Yankee piu
you warm yourself ct Yaukre CRATE, with
Yankee coal, and stir il with ii Yankee poker;
you dra" your water with Yankee pump
into Yankee pitcher, and drink il on: Of a
Yankee glass; you take Yankee medicine and
keep timc to the tick of Yankee clock
your husband draws his briefs looking through
Yankee spectacles. on Yankee paper. with
Yankee pen and Yankee ink he walks with
Yankee cane, or rides behind Yankee lo>
oomotve; he cuts his grain with Yankee
reaper, and pitches it with a Yankee fork
he ploT5 his ground with Yankee pillow. aud
snooths it with Yankee harrow Who hut
ankee could teach s:eam to draw lightning
to talk, and the to paint? Who but a
Yankee gave to the South its cot.oh>r to
double it's wealth Who bu: a Yankee could
have brought tho old World and the New TO
sit at eact others feet for evening tete-n-fctc
By means of the ocean telegraph? We send
our raw hides to Boston to come back to us
in boots and shoes We mort pow beams
piow mou!ds and pirw handles from Ohio and
Indiana, while our won's are burslened with
the material of which these are AL rnanufac-
tured. Our fnunderics are at Pittshurg and
prnIh hnr,l- ~, J.. II, I
dred miles away, while we have more iron
and cool at onr doors than we eau ever cons
sumo. We ought 20 raise everything nearly
that We consume. and nIauufacturc it with our
own labor and with implements of our own
lnventing. But it you notice the thousands
you meet on the streets, men and women and
see what they have on, from top to toe from
the skin to their wraps, it is all imported
Or go into the store of your merchant aud
ask him what it is he has to SELL and the an
swer will be the same, Yankee goods"
"Yankee drugs" Yankee>made hsrdw
Or, if you enter the shop of the mechanic,
you will see him driving Yankee plane, or
saw, or boring with a Yankee auger, or
pounding Yankee iron with Yankee>made
hammer, on Yankee anvil, heated with
Yankee coal, by Yankee bellows"
"Well," said my lady friend, 81 do believe
that in this respec, these Yankees are smarter
than we are, and hence they cheat US so badly,
but the brain, the BRAIN" and, suiting the
action to the word she struck her taper fingers
upon her forehead. "Ah, but, my friend,
sm afraid we are too much indebted to these
Yankees for our brains too. With your per.
mission I will examine your library suspended
there on the wall to see where you got your
brains from: "Bsncroft's History of United
States, ,""Webster's Unabridged, ""Americsn
Cyclopedia, ''Miss Leslie's Cook Book" (do
these Yankee women have to teach you Row
to cook p, "Goodrch's Readers" etc. Oh,
madam, these are all Yankee brains" At
last found one book published in Louisville,
at which she olapped both hands. There is