South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-04-03
A Favored People.

Gays, we are a favored people and
ought to be duly grateful Ia Divine
Providence and the Continental Con.
gress for the many advantages we
enjoy.
Look across the Atlantic and what
do we see? France fighting with
China; England getting slaughtered
in the Soudan; Turkey battling with
the Albanian insurgents; Egypt at
war with the Hahdi; Russians aud
Afghans facing each other with arms
IN their hands; Great Britain and
Russia ready 10 fly at eact other's
throats; France under the shadow of
Communism; Ireland sullen and
angry; and every where the terrors of
Nihllism and Dynamite threa tcniug
nations with destruction from the
palace 10 the howell.
turning our eyes TO this eide Of
the ocean, what spectacles do they
behold? Barrios bullying bis neigh
Iors; Mexico massing troops again.t
Barrios; a revolt in Columbia. and
Chill aud Peru st:ll with unsettled
troubles
Yet here we are in the United
States laughing and growing fat,
crazy for skating. settling our
strikes by conceding better pay for
labor, looking confidently for bust.
ness revival, reforming our Govern
.ment, discarding some of our follies,
and Oh eading nothing bu, cholera and
taxation. We arc even prepared 10
defy tn, sc enemies-the one b, clean
liness and sanitary skill aud the other
by honest reduction of our expenses.
The only fighting we hear of
among our own people are the battles
Tor the epoils, and. like all battles.
they are described az terrible and
destructive only through the vivid
imagination of war correspondents.
Actually, they are very harmless
sklrmishes, fought in good temper
and without fatal results. Only slIgnt
wounds are received and the wounded
lind consolation and comfort i'm tn.
easy-golIg ambulances of Civil Ser
vice reform.
We recently cast vote in n great
Presidential battle which was n mag
nlhcent symbol of the strength and
Endurance Of our Republican govern
ment leu millions of freemen deci-
ded in day, intelligently and peace
July. the political destinies of the ma
non Tor four years to come-ten mill
hon OF treemen so evenly divided in
tneIr opinions and wishes that only
small popular vote was found on the
side OF the winning candidate. Yet
the Government was peacefully and
cheeriully transferred. In what 9th
or country could 80 grand spectacle
lie witnessed?
Yes. we are favored peoole and
that citizen is an idiot who is not
prepared 10 exclaim with sincerity,
THANK God, | am an American.
PEARSON Has Ir The New York
Sun OF the LIST inst. says that President
CLEVELAND on Tuesday last nominated
Henry @. Pearson 10 be Postmaster o!
this city. This he does after careful
consideration Of the whole case. We
are bound to believe that hi. motives
were conscientious, and that he thought
it to be right to prefer this Republican
over any Democrat that might be found.
In our Judgment this appointment
will produce considerable shock in the
Democratic party Of New York yet
perhaps We are mistaken. 1t will Ger.
tainly please tne Independent Repub.
licans, il fact, it is tho one thing that
they have asked for AMI insist ed on.
Considering that without them Mr.
Cleveland could not have been elected
their recompense is not very large.
Our Democratic friends may console
themselves with the reflection that,
while they have Republican for q
Postmaster, he will make as good a
Postmaster as any Republican could lie
expected TO make. 10 borrow the
language of the G incse poet:
we NAV be hsppy yet,
You betp