The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-22
onr sS;IneTiandoah Valley.


s.-,sss--S,nr .sSnl,esnandoah Valley.
We are devoted to the Shenandoah mar va.
lao Il ia 40 magnificent In its physician az l-:
,r;au,es Such natural manifestations can
M, fail to make their deep impressions
unon Its Inhabitants. The everything teacn-
ers "a truth and honesty are before tnep'
and cannot be. shut out from tneif .islos !,
unless, indeed, they be wilfuliYt oiihu' 'u ~
this they cannot De. ,.ur nont
Rockingham Is ~ county naturally pen a
WON eopa and prudent economy and averse
70 exrrayagant notions and dissoIu1e napl. :.
Her people are honest, ana pa1len'' a.u
nunctual. They never were inclined :.
,.th,eesness. Punctuality to private ooN'
cations and never-fsiling compliance WIZ
nnblic duty are their traits. 1t eoulo no.
he otherwise. Providence has oeen soo
hopn,iful in showering upon them its bless
;noe Cor It TO be otherwise. That sucn -
neon,e should be deficient in,fdelity to their
dnties to their neighbor, their country anu
tha,r f5ed would be a mark OF human IN
gratitude and deprayity that could haroly
he supposed to be possible. =
Some young and. excited citizens Oh LUG
county have ,impulsiyeiy9 run away wiz
some crude ideas too burriediy formed III :
neriod of disturbance, and, Hurried ana
vain with hearing their own voices haSs
wandered into errors gross ana dangerous
not remembering The cardinal obligations TO
.rutb. honor, and virtue. But then the
sober sense and calm resolution OF the SOUND
and matured citizens will not permit these
Younger members of society to disturb Sc
riously and losg the public propriety ana
social seif-pesscssion. -.
oh. no. They will be brought back to
the right track, and are now being brought
back more surely and rapidly than people
may suppose.
Rockineham's first manifestation OF an
unsettled condition Of moral sensibility APP
peared not very long ago. 1t was disease
that was slightly contagious, and it took
with atew very garrulous and needless per-
sons, who have done some harm. 1t orlgl-
mated in some degree Of pressure in money
matters. There has been good deal OF THIS
elsewhere as we'll as in Rockingham. Where
men lacked constancy and high honor-that
integrity which men raised in civil society
should have--there was a disposition TO
tamper with all teachings and ideas that
seemed plausibly to afford an easy way to
pay old debts. 1t is not necessary to DO
more than to present some illustrative cases.
The leading agitators are rs good rs could
be desired. There are PAUL and MoFFETT.
They propose to agtatc their people into
peace and happiness. DO the people OF
Rockingham dream that such thing can
be done? Do they not rather think that
well-falIewed fields, waving meadows, abun'
dant crops, and their quick and successful
conversion into money, will do more to-
wards that great object than thousand ag.
itating speeches of PAUL and MoFFErT-
roaring with rAUL's rage and shining with
MoFFETT's articles and lodges to make the
worse appear the better cause? An, no.
Such futile attempt to convert passion and
folly into wisdom and advantage cannot
possibly edify and benefit such deliberate
and prudent people. PAUL cannot plant
nor MoFFETT irrigate, and it is only wise
laws, honest administration, and malnte-
nance OF both public and private integrity,
that can make the people happy and secure
them the bene6cence of providential bless
ings; rsc ., ,uy yu,u, menu OF Ipe
paradise of the Shenandoah Valley. The
adjoining county to Rockingham, Shenan-
doab, is twin sister in good fortune, and
she, too, has an Agitator or two. who are
led by RIDDLESERGER, who rants and raves,
and lodges disingenuously to misead his
neighbors, and excite in them alarms and
apprehensions, while they are the most
blessed people on earth. Are they more
fayorably disposed towards the philosophy
Of MASSEY and the finances of MALONE than
are their fellow-citizcns of Rockingham
No other people are more unfit for such
teaching than they are. The disciples Of
MASSEY and MALONE have better fields for
their destructive examples anywhere else
than in the Shenandoah Valley. Such plants
cannot take root in that fertile soil. And as
sure as time lasts will the good people OF
Rockingham reject and despise the political
policy and dishonest morality that will in
evitably lead to calamity and irretrievablc
ruin.
May the blessings of wise. policy and
faithful adherence to virtue never fail to
descend upon the Shenan doah Valley.
Washington County.
We gave a statement Saturday that GAL
liant and able young man had entered the