The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-10
For the VALLEY VIRGINI.
"A ErlVnlnus Pe0nia .

lndes appeal gives its own views OF the sur
posed contrast between the Northern an
southern people. Here's sentence:
anoagh We Do not pretend that tile model No
W communities are incapable of fhe productio
% sallesI, able and determined men, it has ofte
seemed 10 rs that they all more or less peryade
by d aoaie OF excessive emotionalisln and morbi
n,tef alef novelty and change, that render thel
rathef ridiculous in the eyes OF the sober simpl
@ people of the southern section.
tine ana nevermake an alteration in its construt
floh ae IS content with ii it wasin the days
MS 'cestors ana so his children and their chiidre
1 receive It from him. When Northern man buys
ms St proceeding is to pull all to pieces
associations of the place. introd ucing what are III,
padty caied the modern i'm pro yements and M akin
noise.Y 80 49, iie u''oe 'n
me above remarks furnish an iterestin,
suolece lof contemplation. A careful exami
nation OF the United States census reports, he
ginning with the report for the census of 1900
ana the SIX following Which includes tho re
port tor 1870, will demonstrate what "a Friy
olo1s Teople" have done for the North, East
anu nes6 and What a ''sobcr, simple and con
serVatiVe people, have donc for the South
L nc figures and facts, no doubt, will appear
s'rather ridiculous in the ewes of hide bound.
''iltfactable and interchangeable Southern Dem.
ocrll, put to live, energetic ard progressive
niaii the change in population from thousand
~ d hiiiioih from poverty to wealth, from TO-
'ultucc anu superstition to knowledge and
science, from the slow and wind-bound sailing
/ Grant, TO IL swift and commolious steamboat.
.lolh u stage coach to Pullman palace car
lloil q post-Doy to q telegraph, will appear
iii' . grand and worthy of imitation
| NOW iet us see What excessive emotional
ism and Il morbid hunger after novelty and
| change has done for New York during the
past seVehty-sIN Years, and what a morbid. in
| inherent anu llfeless Democracy has done for
virginia during She same period. In 1900.
virginia was the Empire state of the Union:
she had population Of 100000 more than the
STATE OF New York, and about 100000 more
'hil'l the state OF Pennsylvania. Virginia not
Only eAceleu Ill population, but in territory,
III 81 ioi soil mineral resources. commercial
advantages, saitlbrity ofsclimate. midland short
winters, and everything else needed for mans
happiness and prosperity, yet the good old
! state mas not prospered; she has dropped down
from the 7tfst in the list of States to the elem
| emu. let the inactive. simon pure Democrat
Is supremacy satisfied. 'Hei is content with il
as a: 1t was N the days, of his ancestors; and SO
ms children and their, children receive from
MN lie Is content with population of one
anu u h'lii mlilion, while New York has pop
| uiltion OF four or five millions He is content
| That Virginia has bat nine members in
| congress, while New York has thirty-three.
| lie Is content that Virginia Democracy snould
create State debt OF SIC, 900 900. while the
| great State of New York has only n debt of
SS,oOO,0OO. He is content that twenty-one
counties in East Virginia have less population
to-day than they had in $780, scventy-six
years ago. He is content that Democracy
should appropriate s62. 900 annually for a mi,
versty and military institute, to educate rich
mems sons from this and other states. but not
dollar Tor schools to educatethe poor white
native OF the state; and the poor white man
Is content. and supports ard votes regularly
fof q Democratic arstocracy that robbed him
and his children OF the blessings of a common
school education And Furthermore, the Door
white 'iiian Oh virginia IS content to remain ig
norant OF the fact that his children are indehf
ed to tie Republican party for the present free
school system i'll this State; and again there
are $4,000 voters in Virginia who cannot read
o. write, content and happy when voting for
party which placed them in that humiliatino
and lnconvenien5 condition. Truely s.where
ignorance is bliss, IT'S folly to be wise.'' And
again, the poor white man was content to re-
main III q condition lower and was less respect
ed than the negro slave. and now bitterly Oh
poses the Republican party which has raised
nlnl, not only to an equal with the former
slave, but an equal to the learned and wealthy |
Democrat, who, III former days looked upon
him with scorn, and treated him as a serf. The |
poor white man may be content to close his |
eyes against these facts, but his children will |
see 1t, and thank God that the Republican par
ty existed long enough to establish free schools
throughout the land, and re-establish and car
ny into effect the noble sentiment that all men
were created free and equal "a Frivolous
feople" are those VINO are content to remain
IN ignorance and degradation who adore and
support party that always oppressed and
neglected. them, anu most coEtenIed and hap
Ply when opposing and voting against party
rat hpC allxrnxrs h,lf,. tl,,l. I
them tronlserfdom TO respectable p. si6ion in
society and educated their children without
money aud without price.
"A Frivolous People, are a people who can
not OF Will not see the utter .Worthesspess of
such rules, but vote to keep them in office year
after year and generation after generation to
the ruin OF the State, and the Bankruptcy OF
its citizens. Il
"a Frivolous People" are constantly look
ing to Washington for aid to develope aud en-
rlc!lthcir State and community, whell common
sense should teach them that financial relief
and prosperity must come from Richmond
and outside Of the men who hold, or may Sc
cure an office, Virginans will receive no ben
eft by change OF the Federal administrations;
that the cause OF Virginia REORGANIZATION can
not be traced to q Republican government at
Washington, but from Democratic stupidity
and misrule at Richmond. 6Sss
"a Frivolous People, are people who do
not manufacture the. commonest articles and
implements for the farm and household use.
but send to Yankeedom for axes and han dies.
10 New Hampshire for common betsteads and
chairs, to Connecticut for wash tubs, buckets.
md clothes pins, to New York fol- cut bales Of
nay, to New Jersey for sweet potatoes, to Ohio
-or butter and cheese, to Pennsylvania for ;
abroad iron to lay a track over beds of iron
ore, and fields Of undeveloped coal. A people l
who send millions of dollars out Of the State to
ouy Kentucky whisky, and New England
wares, deserve to be poor, and will retrograde l
IS fast under ssEildena and Reform as they
lave under. 'Grailt's corruption and, extrava-
sance" e, .li5 r. +, II, ,5is.5a. s' = Fl
! "A Frivolous People,. the, most stupid and
)rainess are those who expect to Improve their t
condition in life, to be more respected, to be
more happy and. contented under d Democratic
administration than under Republican rule.
Fifty years of almost uninterrupted Democrat
C rule in the Old Dominion ought to convince
ny man of common sense, common observa- +
ion, that Democracy IS a very poor founda ton t
n which to build the prosperity Of a State, !
nd the happiness Of its people.
.fiEf @%ag&3 4g3 lf PROGRESS
WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOU KNow.-Col.