Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-11-03

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principles, and that therefore we have no
occasion for any general stirring up
of feeling. This remedy, however, VIII.
not answer for contests Of undoubted I'M
portance. When men are fighting 1of
religious freedom, to depreciate the i'm
portance of the cause is to weaken their
hands. They must be aware Of how much
is in peril or they will not make the Sacrl-
fees they ought to make. Only those who
are themselves Indifferent will preach in
difference to others. And even whei. t. e
issues are unimportant they ought lot to
be neglected. Religion does not teach us
to attend to the great things and neglect
the little. Were thisso the charge against
it, of diminishing the activities OF life,
would be just, and its progress in q COM
munity would interfere with the growth
of the community. Undue excitement over
lawful public interests may be hurtful, but
we are not to seek a remedy in Indifference
to those interests. Our proper remedy is
to be found in the thought of God When
we find ourselves going too fast, the remedy
is for us to listen to Him, who says, 'Be
still and know that [ am God"
The thought of God is, in brief, the
thought that there is a God. We estimate
the chances of success, let us also consider
that there is q God that He controls every
heart and every event that He can change
the sentiment Of the country as easily as
the direction of the winds. Those party
leaders who think that they are managing
the canvass and the course IF affairs, are
like the children who, sitting in their pa
rents laps, think that they are driving be-
cause permitted to handle the reiDs. God
presdes at the ballot-boX as well as at the
mercy seat He subordinates to His will
the frauds of the wicked as well as the
honest efforts Of the righteous; He makes
even the wrath Of man to praise Him.
We conclude that d certain result is neces-
sary to our political we'll being; He may
see the very opposite result to be best Tor
us. The man who habitually hears the
voice, ''Be still and know that I am God,''
| will retain his composure, ''though the
earth be removed and tho the mountains
be carried into the midst of the sea.'' He
will net be negligent in the use of means,
nor make one speech, nor gain one vote
the less but while doing his duty to the
utmost extent he will be free from anxiety
about results, and be able to rest the cause
with God.
Whatever may be the result of the gen.
eral election, let US each one endeavor to
make our own particular election sure. The
world and the fashion thereof passeth
away. In a brief time, the matter will
be-not what has become of the country,
| but what has become of ourselves. The
greater victory than at the polls, which
we should seek TO gain, is the victory ovsr
our own self-indulgence, pride and passion.
MYSTERIOUS CAsE.-Two Or three days
ago Overseer of the Poor, Harlan, saw,
| lounging about the streets young Span
| ish girl not more than sixteen, with dark
complexion and good face, her associates
being negroes. He instituted inquiries and
| found that she was from Charlottesville.
| He took her in custody by direction of
| Mayor Balthis to be returned to that town.
In the meantime two or three negro men
who had been associating with her appear
ed and claimed that she was their ''cous-
in'' and employed counsel to obtain her
release. The girl speaks very little Eng
lish and Mr.. L. Eisenman who conversed
with her found that she spoke the mixed
French and Spanish spoken on the from
tier of those two countries. She says that
she was first brought to this country by
| her fathers clerk from Spain and after
wards went back home and again returned.
She was taken to Charlottesville by a man
! named Patterson and put to school at Mr..
Harris. She reads and writes Eng fish but
! speaks it SO brokenly that she cannot be
understood. She knows the names Of all
the prominent citizens of Charlottesville.
She denies being any relation of the ne
groes who sought her release. Mr.. r. T.
Larew, of the Committee on the Poor
made arrangements to return her to Char
lottesville but Wednesday evening having
been permitted by Mr.. Harlan to visit a
colored family that claimed to know some
thing of her, she disappeared. The girl
had evidently commenced a life of prosti-
tuition and the authorities should take
some steps to rescue her and arrest the ne
groes claiming an interest in her.