Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-08-31
NO. 35
SOUTHERN SUMMER RESORTS.

They commend themselves 10 our explorers
into new socjal and natural regions for several
reasons, chief among which is that they are
almost unknown to the present generation of
NOrtherners. The days when the New,YOrk
belle and Philadelphia blue>hlooded lawyer
ran down to the White Sulphur or Berkeley
in August and mingled with the Lees, Mar
shalls, Cabolls and PeylOns, were ended and
forgotten in the war. a new generation has
arisen on either side that knows not Joseph
or his ways The old intercourse may have
seemedsa trivial matter; there were a few
weeks pleasant dallyiug at the Springs; then
the Northern, visitor nine times in ten was
driven from them in great family carriage
with bays aud outriders to some hospitable
Virginia mansion; and passed from one plan
tatiou to another until he grew to believe the
world Jay with the lazy cultured genial life
about him, andpthst every Page or Marshall
was bis cousin as they we're cousins of each
othcr. In Water the Virginia or Carolina
Colonel and his pretty, rOsestinted girls came
up osNew York and Boston, and were guests
in then turn. Probably wedding ondod the
STORY. All tribes, nosdonbt; society matters
on which practical men or rcformers look
down with centempf. Yet 1t was precisely
the brotherhood of feeling begotten by this
kindly Intercourse which made it SO difficult
for practical men to bring on the war.
The war has come It's great object is &C,
complisbed. Now let Us bring. If We can,
the quiet, countless influences Of social life to
hide the ghastly scar. Yawning graves are
not covered by any force half SO we'll as by
the million springipg blades of grass, the
friendly touches of untiring Nature The
Virginia Springs are as cool as before, and
the resort of as cultured and more intelligent
men and women. The hills Of the Blue
Ridge are filled just now with game and
young hunters and fishermen from the South,
in whom our boys will fiud gallant and friend
ly comrades. Tho Warm Springs in North
Carolina, nestled in the mountains, offer land.
scape singularly resembling the picturesque
beauty of Ems, and are frequented by the
best people of Alabama and Louisiana the
North Carolina mountains, almost uuex plored
far surpuss any on this side of the Mississippi
in grandeur and height. There nre qnaint
towns along the soaboard, drowsy little Villages
among the hills, and in all of them men and
women of the same kind of birth, education,
and feeling as our own /; our kiuslolk es-
trapged simply because we DO not know each
other.
There has been a large enough emigration
of carpet baggers aud swindling politicians to
the South. Let some honorable, we'll. bred
people who hardly know how to spend their
summer holiday, go down and enjoy them>
selves among thoroughly honorable aud we'll.
bred people. They may not know that they
are missionaries, bu; they will be, and sue.
cessful ones too-M 7. Tribune
aay- Elections occur this year in the follow.
ing order:
California, Wednesday, September l.
Arkansas, Monday, September 49,
Iowa, Tuesday, October 12
Ohio, Tuesday, October 12.
Virginia, Tuesday, November /.
Kansas, Tuesday, November 2.
Maryland, Tuesdny, November 2.
Massachusetts, Tuesday, November 2.
Mississippi, Tuesday, November 2.
Minnesota, Tuesday. November 2.
Missouri, Tuesday, November 2.
New York, Tuesday, November 2.
New jersey, Tuesday, November 2.
Pennsylvania, Tuesday. November 2.
Texas, Tuesday, December Z.
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