Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-10
IN SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISED

school" can't tell. Perhaps he was
killed by the savages, or again he was
munro one can tell.
From the Lexington Gazette we learn
that an unfortunate shooting ARRAY oc-
Cured near Big Island on last Wednes-
day. It appears that Messrs. Burks
and Majors, who were engaged in guard
ing penitentiary convicts, employed at
work on the canal, had trifling dis
pute about young lady, when Burks.
sin fun" as he says, drew an unloaded
pistol and pointed it at Majors. OF
course it went off, (''unloaded" pistols
generally do), the ball taking effect in
Mr.. Majors's mouth, knocking out two
teeth. and lodging in the back of the
neck. Mr.. Burks had a preliminary
examination before Justice Steptoe, who
sent him on for Indictment by the
Grand Jury of Bedford County Court.
Mr.. Olin Burke is a son of the late
Thomas G.. Burks of this county, and
was greatly distressed at the result of
what he AYERS was purely an accident.
SectiOnallSm and Its Fruits.
The Cleveland Herald, the leading
Republican newspaper in Northern
Ohio, in an article of great wisdom and
force, deprecates the policy Of bloody
shirt. ut says "a new series of politi-
cal campaigns made upon sectionalissues
would seriously retard the develope
ment of the country, the revival of its
industries and the restoration of prospe-
rity. All the important economic ques-
tions waiting neutrality-suspicious. of cur
rency, tariff. internal Improvements,
taxation, emigration, foreign trade and
the like-would beindefinitely postpon-
ed. In the angry turmoil of sectional
strife, menaced by the spectre of new
civil war, the nation would come to a
standstill, and would waste the energies
needed FORTS growth in a needless quar-.
rel within its own household"
We wonder says the Lynch5arg Vir-
gilman, that this rational and utilitarian
view is not taken by more of the shrewd
people of the North, who may be una
BILE to realize fully the obligations of a
common patriotism. Practical common
sense must suggest to them the folly Of
keeping up interneine srife, to subserve
the ends of narrow minded, .bigoted par.
tisans, while the great interests of the
country are paralyzed through war Of
the sections! Have we not, in all con.
science, had enough of this kind of agi-
tation to satisfy the most bloody-mind.
ed men in the whole country? What
part from party politics, is to be gained
by perpetuating this miserable sectional
conflict? But, if there is to be no end te
it while we pretend to be members of 6
common government. then, surely. il
were better for both sections to follow
the example of Abraham and Lot, te
make an end ofstrife. five were two Sc
parate nations, we should be compelled
to respect each other. or, at least, to OBJ
serve toward each other that amity
which conterminous nations of nearly
equal strength manifest in their inter,
national relations. We believe, and 81
held in 1881, that it is better for the
States of this Union to live together un
| der one Government. of limited power.
as provided in the original Constitution
than to dwell wholly apart, or to divid,
into separate confedaracies, that would
involve the necessity ofdeeping up iarg'
standing armies, and subject the citi
zens of each to annoying, sometimes de
grading surveillance, when passing the
borders of their respective countries
but Union of warning members, will
each hurting epithets at the other, while
suspicion and hate rankles in their
hearts, is surely not to be desired. Ant
since "the erring sisters' were not per,
mitted to depart in peace" when they
sought to do SO, but were brought bach
by force of arms and held to their allegi
ance to the Union, the question once
propounded alphabetically by the grea
Webster, naturally recurs =" What is al
this worth? ?" OF what real value is a
Union composed of estates discordan
and beliigerent?" as the same grea
statesman asked. Not much. They
had better be apart, and compelled t,
observe towards each other the usua
comfy of nations.
| II we could reach the people of til.
North, we would press these questions
for their consideration. aud demand te
know what good can be hoped from such
a Union as some of their malignant lead
ers propose to have.
| It should not he forgotten that if sec
| tional influences are to distract and di.
vide US forever, there may come time
when the sections that are most nearly
in accord in interest, viz: the South and
the West, will unite to Cypress and an
noy the North, especially New England
that has in the past been the principal
seat of disaffsction towards the South
and the hot. bed of the dsns that have
perpetually disturbed the peace Of the
country.
But we never want to see such sec.
ticnal controversies, and alterations,
and would have the South, equally with
the North, observe every requirement
Of the Constitution, and live in peace
with her sister States
VIEWS OF SENATOR BAYARD.-Sena-
tor Bayard, in conversation with the
Baltimore San correspondent On this