The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-01-13
ALETTER FROM TEXAS.
The Worlds Trade Edition ELECTS Letter frozl
aFurmer Virginian ofthe Old School.

Martinsburg, W. Va.
Some time since relative, Mr.. C.
W. Doll, sent me copy of your late
anniversary edition, which gave me
much information about my old home
and was more than pleasant reading,
accompanied as it was BY pictures of
familiar scenes and faces. You may
readily believe this when l tell you l
babe Martinsburg good bye" the last
time % years ago last November.
| congratulate the old town through
you on its material progress and wealth
though must confess the idea of my
old time friend, DIR. j. W. McSherry,
being transformed into the president
of bicycle factory is rather startling.
His picture, too, looks so young and
prosperous | could scarcely believe it
was the same rather smoke dyed coun-
tenance of my brother Confederate
soldier, but on looking closely | saw
the smile is the same that he had
patented in early life. was glad to
see too, the picture of The candy man
of my boyhood, Mr.. Mattbai, and that
he looks but little if any older than in
1867. Long may both of them pros
per. The one among your citizens
who interests not only those acquaint-
ed with him but all true friends of the
South, or indeed all true friends of the
whole Union, is your young Senator,
Hon. Charles James Faulkner. We
who live where the effects of the
threatened Force Bill could be fore
seen and estimated, recognize the
valne of the efforts made by him and
Senator German to save the South
from the irreparable disaster such
legislation would have wrought here
in the South where we are just getting
on our feet after the devastation of the
war. He will long be remembered in
Southern States as friend in need.
And he, being quite a young man,
may some day receive ample evidence
of our gratitude. The South never
forgets either friend or enemy.
Well well the great but peaceful
political revolution is over and the
party founded on envy, hate and pros
cription-that while claiming to save
the Union, tfampled its every bond
and sacred principle under unholy
feet. that while boasting of its love for
laboring people drained the very life
blood of the people by taxation in or
der to build colossal fortunes for the
Goulds, Wanamakers, Dorseys and
Elkins. that claiming to be the friend
of the negro, through fraudulent
banking swindle robbed him Of his last
dime, and while giving the ballot to
the Russian anarchist, German social
list and French communist, denied the
same to the worthy descendants of the
men who made the Union possible -
who wrote the chart and guided it
through the most critical years-this
party has gone down to endless night.
Thank God Thank God As any
party should which not only asserted
patriotism to be a marketable COM
modify but proved it by paying $780,
600, 900 annually thirty years after the
war ended to the so called patriots who
claim to have fought for the Union
and human freedom from natural love
for them. Bah Bah American
citizenship is cheapened till it has
neither honor nor value. The laborers
of the country, once its boast
and its bulwark, have to be kept at
work and at peace by an army of
soldiers just like the petty Republics
of South America, and the great and
wealthy Republic bankrupt and sueing
at the feet Of European nations for the
privilege Of issuing her own money
dug out of her own mountains. Though
all this is true, was terribly anxious
for few days after Noy Sth for fear
West Virginia had gone Republican,
while former Republican strongholds
such as Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kan
sas and Colorado, were returning to
Democracy and common sense and
honesty. For though I have never
been child Of any other State than
the Virginia of my fathers and have
never considered myself related to
West Virginia, she being according to
the constitution naught but bastard,
still l did not want the home of Ell
kins to fail in rebuking him and his
kind Virginia should be the last State
in the Union to doubt which party to
support-her dead sons, her scattered
and impoverished families and her de-
wasted fields should be an eternal
warning against anything born of New
England fanaticism.
Texas is booming along in her great
march toward her manifest destiny,
which is to become the most populars
and the wealthiest, as well as the
largest of the "A states. We are hay
ing little scrimmage on the Rio
Bravo with a few Mexican smuggler
and political exiles, but it scarcely
creates ripple here where the facts
are known, though it is quite amusing
sometimes to read the Northern and
Eastern papers on the subject. Why
is it you folks back there don't seem
to know anything about geography or
history +? We ought not to feel proud
though, for of course no State can
! hone TO eOua1 TEXAS in educational