Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-01-20
& Noble P5roration.

We should be pleased this week to print
the whole of Mr. Stephens speech in the
House Of Representatives, on the Civil Rights
bill, but our space precuies. The pororation
was as follows:
If you who call yourselves republicans,
shall in obedience to what YOU consider
party hchcst pass tli- bll in the vain cxpec-
tatiou that the republican principles OF tho
old aud true JetFersouinn school me dead, be
assured that you are injulging ia a fatal do
lusiOn. The old Jcifvrsuuan democratic To,
publican principles are not dead and will
never die So long a. a true devotro OF liberty
lives. They may be buried for period, us
Magma Chmta was lrodGen under foot in Eng
land Tor more than half century, but these
principles will come up with renewed cnergv,
did these of Magma Charta, and that, too,
at no distant day. Old Jcffrrsouiau demo-
cratic republican principles dead . Indeed /!
When the tides of ocean c"aso to obb aud
low; when the winds Of heaven ure hu,he4
into perpetual silence; when the clouds un
longer thunder when cs,th's electric bolts
are no longer felt OF heard when her internal
fires 90 out, then. aud not before will these
principles cease to live then. and not before.
vii! these principles cease to animate aud
move the liberty slowing masses of this country
The WHIRLIGIG OF TIME-We notice
that our old aud valued friend. and former
companion, Simpson X. Douavin, Esq Of
Delaware, Ohio, has been elected by tho
Senate oi Ohio chief clerk of that body
Mr.. D. is n native of Shirrensburg, Pa,
graduated in a printing Office in that place.
and subsequently read law in Charlcstowu,
West Va He afterwards became editor Of
ka tyiyy !, 10, tL,t g.,
whence he went t, Baltimore aud worked a4
a comDosi'or. and afterwards became local ed
tor of the E.cchuDpe now the Ggzdfe--
Simp. WIS uuadulterated Democrat. and
being closely watched during the war In re-
tired.to his old home 10 Pennsylvania From
there he went to Delaware, Ohio, eupaped in
the insurance business and by his intelli,
gence and steadiast adherance 10 Democratic
tenonts has so eDdearcd himself To the people
of Ohio as to have secured this marke recog-
ntion of his vorh 4 friend of other days
waits to Simp. hi- sincere congratulations
lLv"cLJ"rq R,p"Lhean.
MARRIAGES or BLuOD RELATIoNs. Ns.-Sta-
tistics presented t. the French Academy show
that the marriage- Of blood relations form
about two per ceut. of all the marriages ia
France. and that the deaf aud dumb sf-pring,
at birth Of consau guuiou- marriages. are in
proportion to the deaf and dumb born In or
binary wedlock at Lyons, full % per cent.
st least % per cent. in Paris, aud 30 per cent.
at Bordeaux; the proportions Of the deaf and
dumb by birth Increasing with the degree Of
blood relationship The data obtained show
that, if the danger of having deaf and
dumb child in ordinary marriage represented
by figures, is one. there will be eighteen III
marriages between first Cousins thrty-seven
in marriages. tctween uncles aud nieces, and
seventy in marriages between nephcws and
auuts. Il appears too that the mrst healthy
parents. If related in blood, may have deaf
ard dumb children while deaf and dumb
parents if not related, very rarely haze deaf
and dumb children.
DoN'T GIVE LIQUOR TO CHILpRES Ore
Of the first literary men IN the United States
said to the writer after -ueakiug on the sub
ject Of Temperance: There il one thing
which, a. you vi-it different places wish
You 70 DO everyWLere; that l., h eDiremt every
mother never 10 give a drop "f strong drink
10 child have had to fizh; it a. tor my
life all rpy day- to keep from dying druuEard,
hecau-e wa- fed with spirits when a child.
acquired tsste Tor it. Ny brother, poor
fell5w died a drunkaTd. ! would not have
a-child Of mine take a drop Of liquor for any,
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