Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-03-21

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Massachusetts,, by whom he had beer
invited to attend the celebration o
Washington's birthday, and deliver ar
address on the present and Future o
| Virginia, has heen made public
Through the enterprise of George Cor
hams Washington Republican, thi
put on exhibition. 1t is not ove
menagerie contains such wonder Th,
letter for practical purposes Is worth.
less, but as literary rebus, twill puzzle
philO.Dgists. Here is one of its Sound
ing. brass and.tinkling cymbal' SEN
fences:
Virginia sees no Justification for pc
litical alignments based upon sectional
array or. sectional menace; she dis.
owns all political alliances based upon
fundamental questions disputed before
the wsr between the States. such 81
have grown out of the results of the
war, or such as have arisen from the
Ii. easures of reconstruction
We would give Il handsome price to
se+ u performance in which all these
postures, situations. conditions, and
w
show, to say the l+asr,s would be start
ling! a - "a Is f'E
I s'War" and Reconstruction" are, per
haps, the only words that have any sig
Dificance, as they may vaguely hint at
WARP and "recUnstruction" interest
which the Mahoneites have so quietly
disposed of. GEN Mahone has biogra-
pliers, secretaries, writer's, aud host of
- - II AZ IL
an Interpreter. tr aNR ssse0,. =
The Boss approves of what he calls
''fraternizatioD''- ugly, squirning
word it Island thus wriahes in the ag-
onies of his fatally diseased rhetoric:
added TO the ,leas ur- bora OH a pa
triO.ic reunion SIT dramatic owoulGebe a
public expectation OF snphatic recogni
ZION of the altered place of political Ills
cussion, and especially Of the final han.
ishnent' FROM our politics of sectional
strifes aud jealousies SIS re sl,aR8e EDS
THESE sounds are uearer articulate
than the groans and sigbs OF man In
great pain, They call forth not patriot
ism, but pity. tN nW strs asa
But the Boosts snhjeet was, perhaps,
the worst that conid have been chosen
for biEl. and it seams TO- he more of q
suare than a compliment The Boss.
however. hides this troublesOme theme
with he faitest and thi,.nsst Of p!ati!-
tudes He says:
The great Webster Ormulated the
faith of Massachu u etts in the declara
ton that her past il, secure.'n With
pardonable pride the Virginian avows
the genius and the vaI0r which have
cd 10 ~ tf> hxsp h6,
tage of fame which is the property OF
all Americans
But the revolution by which Wash
ington became the Father Of his Cogn
try had nothing to do with reputation,
by which Malone became the Boss of
his party.
In short, the BOSS letter is without
form and void r. is as impossible to
grasp it as the air. 1t can be likened
only TO some foul mi2sma which we can
neither see nor hold, but whose' sicken
ing presence we feel - Richmond State.
The Boston Post in an editorial on
Senator Mahone'- letter to the Boston
committee on "Virginia- Her Present
aud Flu pre," says:
"Of the present. all who run may
read Fur the future, il Is ths prayer of
every hu,,2st heart that she may be de-
-livereai frru, the burden of shame that
has beer hers since This Claude Duval
of politics captured The machinery with
which sp ,arture n.sg'fide and throttle
her reputation" - ts-
Ard .he, HaHey Virgi,s5d7s says:
As IL piece of col. position it is grace
fnl ard perspicuous; As the expression
of sentiment it is all that could be ex
,,actot Of a rourpse f,ta.ivo of Viruinju