Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-09-09
THOS. A HENDRICKS FOR PRES
IDENT.
BEanYvILLE, CLARKE COUNTY. Va, |

BERRYvILLE, CLARKE COUNTY, Va,
August 25, 1879.
ERtor Spirit of Je6erSon.-In your issue
of August Goth, see that 5ou advocate the
election of Thomas a. Hendricks to the
Presidency in 1880. The reasons that you
give strike me as being conclusive.
believe, as do many others, that there is a
strong under current of sentiment in favor of
Mr.. Hendricks throughout the entire coun>
try. A prominent gentleman from the city
of Indianapolis, writing to the Sentinel pub>
ished in that city, from Saratoga Springs,
New York, stated that there was strong
feeling, even in the State of New York, in
favor of the nomination of Mr.. Hendricks.
1t is great mistake to suppose that the
State of New York will refuse to give her
electoral vote to any but New York man.
There are numberless ties that bind that
State to the West and South the sections to
which the country looks for the election of
the next President New York is under no
obligations to Mr.. Tilden that will compare
with her obligations to those great centres of
the South aud West whence she derives the
bulk of her trade and commerce.. States, as
we'll as individuals, inevitably gravitate to-
wards their interests, and if New York were
to look to tho icc>clad hills Of Now England,
rather than to the sunny plains of the South
and tho magnificent valleys of the West, she
would furnish an example of stupidity that
has not heretofore characterized her course.
The signs of the times propitious and
point unerriugly to the fact that, with Wis
dom on the part of the Democratic party,
there will be on overwhelming Democratic
triumph in 1880. Tho Empire State, fed, as
she is, by thousand arteries from the great
| West, and bound by ten thousand ligamcnts
to the South, will throw her thirty five clec>
toraI votes, without hesitation, in favor of
Democracy This sho will do whether the
nominee hail from her own horders from
| Ohio, Delaware or Indiana. This question
settled, the next question is what candidate
will be most available for the South and
| West. Mr.. Bayard has great strength, and
doubtless, if prudence dictated the following
! of high and chivalric sentiment. the voto
of many States would be given in his behalf
| in convention. Mr.. Thurman, in tho gran
dcur of lofty proportions, stands like a Sam
| son amidst tho cmbattled hosts of Democracy;
| but like that Samson his head is in Doll,
| lah's lap, and the power, treachery aud cun>
ming of tho uncircuncised Republicans will,
! We fear, shear him of his strength ia the
coming Ohio contest. We must, therefore,
look further for standard bearer in 1880.
We desire to make no evil prophecies in re-
gard to tho coming election in Ohio 1t may
be that victory will perch upon the banners
! of Democracy, but it will be a victory bap-
tized in blood and wrung from conflict
over every inch Of ground. All honor to the
intrepid Thurman, the impetuous Ewing and
the chivalric Bayard for their heroic deeds
in the grand struggle; but they arc as
Soult at Austerlitz, Desax at Marcngo, or
IIanncs at Montebello, whilst the eye of q
Napoleon sweeps the field. We believe that
Thomas Il. Hendricks is the grand and pre-
siding genius of Democracy. Wherever the
Gght has been thickcst wherever the fight
has been ficrccst, there has stood, undis-
mayed, tho gallant Hendricks When defeat
and disaster caused the Democratic banner to
trail everywhere else in tho dust, then Hen
bricks, with the State of Indiana, stood uu-
moved and untcTrified in the ''imminent
deadly breach" Like the plume of blurat,
his presence is tho token Of victory upon
every field. Under his lead, Indiana wheels
gallantly into line. Ohio, tardy though she
may be, catches the enthusiasm of her sister
State. Illinois, stern and sullen, hears the
Gabriel trump of resurrection, and aroused
to ncwucss of life, starts upon the proud and
brilliant career OF Democracy, whilst New
York adds new laurcls to her chaplet as she
unites with the "mighty West" and the
''so!id South" to place the diadem of success
upon the brow of Thomas A Hendricks
View the subject we may, the Damo of
Hendricks is a tower of strength" 1t is
whispered BY the "taI Sycamore of tho Va
bash" murmured through the branches Of
the Palmetto of tho South, and echoed
through the sturdy pines of Maine With
tho election of Mr.. Hendricks in 1880, the
base conspirators Of 1876 will dare not inter-
! fere. Let US resolve to rebuke the treason.
able spirit that. for four years, has deprived
tho country of the country's choice; but let
it be done By the nomination of man who,
es the "lion shakes the dewdrop from his
name" ," WILL by tho sanction of a people
| worthy to be free, shake the first polluting
touch of the foul hand of Radicalism from
the "tcmple door" of our liberties
AS the "Waves roll along the troubled Bal
tic," even so now roll the waves of popular
wrath to sweep from place and power those
who have usurpcd the government. The sun
that is setting in gloom upon the graves of
men whose only teachings have been of Bit
terness and strife, is already rising in glory
to illuminate the triumphal progress of peace,
and, in 1880, the name of the great Indiana
statesman must be the rallyiug cry to assure
the hearts Of patriots everywhere that
America is again redeemed ,regcnerated and
discnthralled :" ALFHA.
COTTAGE BAKED PUDDING.-Two eggs,
two cupsful of sugar, half a cupful of but
ter, ono teaspoonful Of soda sifted in two
cupsiul of -four and three cupsful OF butter>
milk. Stir this last into the -four, etc, aud
mix lightly. Bake an hour in q pudding