Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-10-28
What is Needed

Elihu Burritt, the ''Lesroed Blacksmith -
says:
It may seem disloyal to our Republican insti-
tutions to say it, bat when it is said, let the
candid reader see if he can disproQe it: what
this country most needs at the present juncture
is the element that has been displaced by the
political ostracsm Of the South. | do not say
We need Southern aristocracy, but we need one
which shall resemble and exercise some of its
best characteristics. and such we need impera-
lively, North aad South, East and West We
need class with as fine an esprit de corps with
as high sense Of hooor, of personal and family
dignity, as England ever produced or the South
claimed to possess. We want such men as the
JeffersonQ. Madisons, Lowndes, Pinckueys. Cal
houas. Ciays and Bentons, and other statesmen
whom the South has contributed to the struc-
ture and glory ef the nation, whether they come
from one side of Mason & Dizon's line or the
other. We want men.who shall walk through
the obbies Of Congress and wear the flower
of blameless life, and Of blameless thought,
though each ball and every step we're beset
with the gift bearing Greeks of c0rrupting
rings seeking to place their gold where it
shall do most good" You may call such a
class an aristocracy, or by any opprobrious
name; but it is class We most need in every
section Of the Union. to stand as bulwark
against the overthrow Of Shoddy, which threat
ems to drown the political probity and purity of
our national life and character"
DECISION OF AN IMPORTANT LIFE INsU-
RANCE CASE. RICHMOND, OCT. 14-In the
United STATES circuit court to-day the case of
Hancock vs. The New York Life Insurance
Company was decided against the company, and
a verdict was rendered for $I,371. This is a
case Of general interest In the South and TO in
surauce men, as it settles the question of the IL
ability Of Northern insurance companies for the
amount of premium paid before the war on pol
icies which lapsed during the war, if the com
panles refused application for renewal after
the war closed The verdict was for the pre-.
NUNS paid and interest thereon. The compa-
ny's agent here declined to receive premiums
from the plaintiff because unable to oommuui-
cate with the home Office.
Our speakers aud canvassers have been bust
" engaged for weeks past in travelling over the
State and sowing the coed seed of Conservatism,
The harvest will soon be at hand, and the crop
to be gathered will be Of the highest importance
to US all What will be the good of our corn,
wheat and tobacco crops if that other fails us ?
Let Radicalism prevail 10 Virginia and there
will be an end Of her prosperity. The substance
Of the people would be devoured by the Radi-
cal swarm as all green things are consumed by
lOcusts. Farmers would have no inducement
to improve their lands and raise good crops, for
the pressSre of taxation would bear crusbingly
upon everything. Whig
Those who deliberately or through negligence
stay from the polls and thus endanger the re-
suit will not thereafter deserve to be called Con-
seryatives, and if Virginia shall be lost to Us
and transferred to the mougrels by their means
they will have such weight of responsibility
upon them as would sink navy. Should thew
fail of their duty, and thus cause the ruin Of
their State, let them be prepared to face the
frowus of their outraged race and bear the on
probrium that will be visited upon them. Neu-
trails in such contest will be more despicable
than-carpet- baggers even.-RicH. Wing.
The Hon. Jos. Segar 10 speech to his rad
ical friends. in Alexandria. last Wednesday
night, said he, as a legislator of the Old Do
minlon tor 40 years, bad contributed more than
any other son to make her State debt the
large amount it was, and be was most proud of
it. for it was by contracting this Indebtedness
that the old State is now ahead of ali her South
ern sisters.-Fred Herald.