Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

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inco otinence of public officer was
rare, and when it occurred, dalnning
Its mon were men counting honor
more thar life or riches.
1t had a peculiars.r. institution, slav
cry. Twill not discuss it furthe,
than to say, whatever else tho wal
did, it vindicated the. benefcience OF
the institution to..."tle subject race
Our own race found the, blacksman,a
wnnderer in the wilderness and gave
him home; it..found him naked and
clothed him; it found him savage. Il
cannibul ahd II heathen and it ma &c
him Christian; it found him NUT
terlng gibberish and it gave him n
language; it found him empty minded
aud it filled him with instruction.
when he ceased to be,a slave. 70 had
he been elevated from, his burbarous
state thatS he WIS declared fit to as.
sumo the great prerogatives and re-
sponsibilitios of ansAmericun citizen.
The old South had done much for
and gloried i'll The Union. Tho war
OF the revolution, the war of 1872
and the war with Mexico and the
Texas revolution had each of Them
been lead by n Southern general.
The fabric of the Union had been
woven, as 1T were, largely by South
ern hands. The territory north of
the Ohio to the great lnkes, the ter
ritory of Louisiana, stretching TO Or.
egon, the territory contained in the
acquisition of Texas, CONSTITUTING
three fourths of the United States.
was chiefly the full age of measures
framed and deeds done by Southern
lenders. Andrew Lewis, George Ro-
gers Clark, Patrick Henry, Thomas
Jefferson, james Madison, Andrew
Jackson, james X. Polk, Winfield
Scott and Zachary Taylor. The ge
MUS of Democracy flat filed the
Southern henrt WAS quuffed from the
fountain of American independence
and the patriotic traditions that in
huenced it's infancy were those Of our
grand American story.
We turn our faces to the past.
There rises before us land as fair rs
any that ever dawned on human Wis
ION. 1t stretches from the Potomac
to tho Rio Grnnde. Its western
frontier lay fur in tho woods beyond
tho Mississippi. Its eastern and
southernacourso is washed for 900
miles by the Atlantic wave. -Four of
the original cole MES o; Great Britain
which proclaimed themselves at Phil,
adelphin in 1776 to be free and indc
pendent States, are embraced within
1T, Vi:ginia, North Carolina, South
Carolinn and Georgia. To them are
added Tennessee, Louisiana and Tex
as, kentucky, Maryland and Missouri
divide between it and its northern
nel9hbor. On it's map yon may read
the name of Alnmance. where Amer
Gun freemen first deiied the power OF
the English King, before Concord or
bunker Hill were heard Of; of Neck.
lenburg, where first was sounded thu.
note of independence before tn,
proclamation of Philadelphia; of Vii.
lininsburg. where the first democratic
convention in America was held and
the first State declared it's indepcnd
ence. There, too, you may read the
nnmes OF Moultric, Kings Mountain,
Savannah and Charleston. There
you may see Yorktown, where Corn.
wallis gave up the ghost of conquest,
leaving his sword to Washington.
There you may see New Orleans,
upon soil which Jefferson negotiated
from the empire OF Napoleon to tue
Republic of Washington, where the
herce democracy of Tennessee and
Kentucky, led by Andrew Jackson,
gave the quietus to the veteran regu-
lars of Great Britain fresh from the
glories of Waterloo. There You may
see, too, Bentonville and Appamat
tox, where vulor, unawed by fate,
paid to it's flag the last salute and
Haunted the colors of victory to the
evening of surrender.
Your work was not lost, your sac.
rlfice was not vain. You have taught
the world great lessons and hayo
yourselves learned great lessons