The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-29


ed with the sterling men into whose
hands her fortunes are largely commit
ted, doubts that she will move her stakes
much farther out during the next twelve
months. Her growth, as shown by the
census, is unsurpassed by any other Vir
ginia city.
Mr.. Thomas S. Martin, the president,
Gait. Micajah Woods, the manager, and
Judge John NJ. White, the secretary. are
known personally to many of our read
ers and are in fact widely known through
out IL large portion of the State: So are
such men upon the directory as General
Thomas H. Rosser, J. s. b. Thompson,
superintendent of the V. NJ Division of
the Richmond & Danville r. r., Judge
John l.. Cochran, brother of Col. James
Cochran of our county, and other dis
tiuguished gentlemen who are a euarans
tee that this company will be VT II man.
aged. They could not afford to lend their
names to doubtful enterprise.
Mr.. James Blakey. of Charlottesville,
is now in our city soliciting stock for
this company. He informs us that about
$7750,000 OF the stock has already been
placed, though the company only opened
its books q short while before Christmas
t1l after - panic in New York, and
that the F.ck is being taken up very
rapidly. In very short while there
viii be none upon the market.
"CiJizenship''
The Rockingham Register of the 23rd
published an address delivered by j. n
Liggett, Esq, before Rockingham Union
Lodge, No. ~, A. F. & A. NJ, Dec. 81,
$780, st. John the Evangelist's Day, and
published by request of the lodge. 1t is
an ornate and classical production, and
reflects credit upon the scholarly attain
ments and patient research of the au-
thor. We take from it the concluding
paragraphs relating to citizenship
CITIZENSHIP.
Iconclude on af1lliating theories, for our lives
are twofold-fraternal, which have considered,
and civic, appertaining to the State Crossing the
| threshold, and standing in the wild tumults of
the worlds strifes we perceive that our North
American governments are the most perfect ex-
enplars OF q fauitless republican pattern, and
American citizenship the highest type Of politi-
cal manhood, and that yet the seeds of crimes
are terminating in our societies, which if allow
ed to attain fruition will blight with their noxi
Gus vapors all the plants Of freedom nurtured by
the patriotism of seventy-six. Anarchism and
assassination: socialism and robbery; combin-;
nations of capital against the industry of labor
immigration,i injecting social life with the masm
of foreign slums and convict prisons; skepticsm
blighting all religious immortal hopes, confront
American citizenship and menace the integrity
OF all conservative institutions.
| Other evils attract attention. Bunyan's Pill
grins Progress depicts no such Vanity lair as
| that exhibited night and day along Pennsyl-
vania Avenue and within the palaces at our ia
| tional metropolis Fashion in glowing contrast
/ with the brilliant coterie OF scholarly men and
accomplished women which distinguished
Washington society ill primitive days gathers
under its peacock plumage and gorgeous drap-
cries the Representations of every folly and al
most every vice at an expenditure which would
have fed WashinGtons army month in Con-
tinental days; corruption trails It's slime through
the avenues OF the capital political decrepitnde
| cliatters and srImaces in it's halls; moral degen
eracy touches with corroding STAIN the virtues
of statesmen who should be an example Of the
country; lobbyism spreads its net for any bird.
'sThus runs the world away"
! trust properly appreciate the vast strides
made in the material conditions of our country
within the last century so gracefully portrayed
| by DR.. Cox in his centennial address. The steam
| ship, the railway, and the thoughts that shake
mank ind in the multiform devices for the appli-
cation OF electric power, have modified all forms
of industry, whilst inventions in agricultural
machinery have given impetus to the labor ele
ment OF the country, but civilization ia its moral
features has been dWindling to decay. Man in
his finer perceptions ana feelings has not ad
vanced, but suffered decided retrogresson.
knowledge comes but wisdom lingers' and
| the lines OF material and moral progress not
only fail in parellelism but cease almost to harm
onize The cause of this we have no time to dis
cuss, but the fact is even so.
| The statesmen now chattering in Congress are
not the peers of Adams, Hamilton, Marshall
| Tnckney and their contemporaries of our earlier
! history. The men who rode with Light horse
! Harry Lee, and tie pioneers who exuting in
their freedom won, started into the wilderness
with rifle, axe and EIhle to clear homes for their
families we're more capable than the present
| voting population.
! cism so trivial do the menaclng facts appear
when contrasted with the majesty OF the gov
| erninents they antagonist, but that eternal
vigilance impressed on US by the fathers of the
republic as a necessity for its preservation in
high authority, that the people who their
own best sentnels should always be on guard
The road down hill is SO easy when the slightest
impulsion is given, and fdciiis descensus Aperni
is applicable as well to STATES as individuals,
The once proud mistress of the world, standing
now "child'ess and crownless in her voiceleSs
woe, an empty urn within her withered hands, ;
exempliles how sad is the fate of a people which
descend from simple hardy habits to eneryate
/ vice.
Remember too, how our own Commonwealth
so narrowly escaped 1.-The vulture and the rock
IN the tragedy whose curtain was lifted in 1861
! shall not preSumptuously advise you in de-
tail as to means of defense against these menac-
ing dangers, Y0n can stady tho fundamental
laws and you haye the ballot.
On the alst OF October, lSQa off Cape Trafalgar
Lord Nelson, with the British fleet caught the
combined naval powers OF FRANCO and Spain
| under Vileneuve, ana ran up his battle signal
for immediate fight, which resulted in one OF
the most famous victories ON record. ENGLAND
expects every man to do his duty was the pithy
speech which stirred the hearts of British tars
to heroic effort. The pivotal word of that battle
signal, "duty, comprehends all that1 commend
to you. Your own intelligence must suggest the
methods of performance
II any ct the AEieepslean people should be mind
full Of obligations it is the citizens Of Virginia
Above the horizon of her destiny, from colonial
infancy to State independence, shone ennatel-
lation such as never before illumined tie path to
empire. The genius of Raleigh; the tragic story
of Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas; the sturdy
| courage Of that bold frontier fighter, General
Andrew Lewis; the judicial acumen Of Marshal,
George Masans Bill of Rights. Henay's inct IA
parable plea tor freedom, and tie sword OF
Washington have tinged the Virginia life in the
olden time with romantic charm which "war
clouds rolling dun" the desolations Of battle
strife, the malignity Of hate and ting tyrannF Of
Foreign satrap could never effaee or obscure.
lingering among these precious memories Of
the .Old South,' and oblivi9us of the painting
energies which clutch at the guinea and forget
| the sail, make nay parting wishes for happy