The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-03-14
Communicated.

EDIToGs or VALLEY VigGiNIAN~=Will
you permit ne to say in your columns that
l entertain no hope for the general pros
peIity of Virginia so long as the Rich
rnond Dispatch is the most widely circula-
ted newspaper published within its Dor
ders. and its views are accepted as those
of the people Of the State
Read its leading editorial of the 9Th
inst. and say in al candor, was its like
ever seen before?
The Philadelphia Times one Of the ahlest.
cleanest, and most readable of the papers
opposed to Mr.. Harrison. politically, speaks
in this wise of his inaugural address:
$50 far as President HARRISON has express
ed his view of Executive duties. he has
made his deliyeranGe as free from objtc
tion as any ike address that has ever come
to the American people. aid it is fair that
long % he shall sustain The fairly inter
pretea pledges of his inaugural. He starts
well: let him be faithful to himself"
That's manly, hopeful, cheerful, while
the iorebodngs of the Dispatch are old
womaliish, foolish, and without excuse. l
have taken occasion TO read the cOmmenta
upon the inaugural from many of the
papers of the land, and can nowhere fad
such Wholesale whining as | do in Viz
ginia's bnos5 generally read paper. If the
people. mean the sensible people would
read the President s words as vel, as those
OF the editor. | would feel nc such con
Germ as now do, but | know this they
IN RI, ,>T yi..,,.l h1xsa h,
time SO to dc, and to ba furnished with
evil fore bodings. feaifgl prophecies, shad-
ows Of gathering gloom must result in
such mental conditions as will promote
| material Ill. What can lie done TO correct
this evil? Would thgt we could have tie
NIRGINIAN every morning. and in every
home in Virginia. ! elbow fever is dreaded
in Florida. but. and weigh we'll Iny words,
such editorials as the Que | have alluded
to are more to be dreaded in Virginia.
What an effort it must have been to twist
the words of President Harrison so out of
shape. to mistrapslata plain English, to
miscoDstrue advantageous language. to
torture patriotic utterances into partiZan
.iihemas, and how lonely the writer
must feel. now, that he hasn't an elbow
touch from knight of the Quill from the
Gulf to the lakes. Bat the mischief has
been done IN Virginia. and it will lie re-
peated 80 long AS such stuff finds its way
into Virginia homes L. Is no more certain
in the realm of nature, that frost kills to-
baceo than that The editors of the Dispatch
are destroying Virginia's very life. This
is no fancy sketch. bnt a solemn fact.
Rcsser's Baltimore bleating was silly
Lees New \ ork lorration was imprudent
hut tue editorial of the Dispatch on the
inaugural of President Harrison was
''losded'' and aimed at the hest interests
of Virginia lii presence Of such evil
Influences. about the most appropriate
thing to be done by one who loves his
State, is to Guo'e the prayer of tie Sheriff.
and continue to say, God save the Com.
monweath." EIKGINIAN.
A citizen of Buckingham county, "had
an engagement TO be married" on Satur.
day. the oath nit. and his bride was Is
miles away. All Efforts to secure con-
veyance aiing, he set out on foot, walks
ing Is miles, and after the ceremony was
performed the bride and groom together