Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-09-02

90 soon thou vert gone, too soon thy spell
Gave way to one of bitterest strife.
one are thy beautiful dreams, oh. youth!
Too full of sweetness thou vert to last!
S a delicate flower of tender growth,
Thou quailed'st before the winters blast.
Craigsville. August 18th, 1879.
'osition Of the Republican; Party OF Vir-
GINA.
The Southern IntelHgencer of Rich
nond in its issue of the 10Th inst con-
aims long and interesting article on |
he position and duty of the Republican |
,arty in Virginia, said to have been |
written by one of the ablest writers in |
he South, and now occupying an ex-
.lted judicial position. The following
extracts will be of interest to every con-
sentative:
so far. the Republican party of Vir-
yinia have assumed no distinct position
upon the question of the public debt as
It now presents itself to the judgment
Of the people; but, arguing from the
past history and present attitude of that
party throughout the Union. it may be
safely asserted that no Republican can
be repudiator, or, to use in the present
the more disreputable
word, a readjuster; and that if that par.
ty shall again act as compact
and united organization, 1t must stand
upon the cardinal canon of its creed
viz, fidelity to all obligations-State
and national. 1t will be, undoubtedly,
wise on the part of the Republicans, in
every county and senatorial district in
which there is a reasonable prospect of
success. to nominate and support candi-
dates of their own, but in localities in
which Conservative ascendency is too
well established to be successfully as,
sailed, and where Republican candi-
date would unite the discordant ele,
ments sin opposition to Radicalism,"
the Republican party will either have
to remain neutral or range themselves
under the banner of one or the other of
the factions Of Of the Conservative party.
1t will not be gainsayed by the most
enthusiastic and aspiring of the read
busters, that an overwhelming majority
of the educated and slaveholding peo-
pie of the State are in favor of squarelv
meeting all her obligations as recognize
ed by the compromise between the State
and her creditors enacted at the last
session of the General Assembly. 1t is
with this portion of the white people
for the most part former shareholders,
or the sons of ave-holders-that the
sympathies of colored voters (constitut-
ing large majority of the Republican
party will be most easily enlisted. The
former ties of interest and affection on
the one hand, and of dependence and
attachment on the other, though great
ly weakened, have not been entirely
disrupted, and when kindness and con-
Citation, instead of denunciation and
intimidation, shall be the necessary po-
Icy of both factions, the negro will be
left free to pursue the natural bent of
his disposition, which is to unite with
the property and intelligence of the
country. Such an alliance of the intel
ligence and property of the State with
Its labor will preserve her from the pen
atty of disgrace and dishonor, secure
her Conservatism in the future not in
name, but in reality, and possibly re-
suit in the total obiiteration of the color
line which is the OpprOprium of South
ern politics. 1t should not be an I'M
comfortable reflection to any Vlrginian
who is anxios to restore his State to the
proud position 80 long maintained by
her of unsupported faith, and unim-
peached honor, that she will owe her
deliverance from disturbing agitation
the end of Which, if unarrested, would
he repudiatiOn-in no small degree to
her colored citizens +; and that in the fu-
ture that ass-Conservative by in
stinct, and impossible to all the de,
mands of truth and right-will be re.
cognlzed not only as an essential ele-
ment in her material property, but as a
constituent part of the protectors of
honor, liberty. and safety. But the re
suit herein foreshadoWed cannot be
reached by timid and halting counsels
on accout of the debt-paying portion of
the Conservative party, and can only
be obtained by meeting the issue in an
animated and aggressive canvass. The
positions which the debtpayers must as
sumo and maintain are:
First, That the State intends to pre-
serve her organism upon an economical
basis.
Second. To pay the interest upon
her public debt as recognized and agreed
upon by the act of 1879, known in re-
adjusting parlance as the Brokers
bill.
Third. To continue her system of
common schools and her charitable and
cuuCdIlOudl DCucldClIOuS.
The necessities of the situation render
it certain that the debt payers Of the
Conservative party must assume these
piring leaders may be disposed to shirk
the issues, and endeavor to withdraw
the minds of the people from their own
immediate concerns to lead them in a
crusade against the financial policy of
the Federal Government, these issues
must be honestly and bravely met, or
else the triumph of the regulators will
be final and complete.
SAVED BY COLD WATER. Hart
for Post tells the following story of a
man in Canterbury, who sick with some
kind of fever, was pronounced by the
local physician to be beyond hope of re-
covery. A neighbor was called in to
watch with the sick man and, as there
seemed no possibility of the patient llv-
ing through the night, the watcher in
sisted that the family should all retire
early, if any unfavorable change occur
ed. AS soon as he was left alone with
the presumably dying man, the attend
ant commenced feeding the patient cold
water, teaspoonful at time, continu-
ing the process until an ordinary water
pail full had actually been administered.
The fever thus drowned out, the sick
man fell asleep, awakening late in the
morning to call for food. He was al
lowed to eat what he wanted, continued
to improve, and in two or three days
was up and about his business. This
remarkable case is well attested, and
there seems to be no doubt of its sub
stantial accuracy, as recorded above
The water used was obtained from a
well adjacent.
HONOR THE SCISSORS. people,
ignorant of what good editing is, imag-
inc the getting up of selected matter to
be the easiest work in the world to do
whereas it il the incest work done on
any paper. If they see the editor, with
scissors III his hand, they are sure to
say: ''Ab, that's tie way you get up
matter, Ell ?" accompanying
their new and witty questions with an
idiotic wink or smile. The facts are
that the interest, the variety and useful.
ness of paper depend in no small de
gree upon its selected matter, and few
men are capable of the position who