The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-01-10

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W. Don, sent me 4 copy Of yonr late
anniversary edition. which gave me
much information about my old home
and was H4ercttrEn pleasant reading,
accompanied as it was BY pictures Of
familiar Z and faces. You may
readily believe this when ! tell You !
babe Martinsburg good bye the Inst
time 25 years ago last November.
congratulate the old town through
you on lis material progress and wealth
though rmust confess the idea of my
old time friend, DIR. j. w. McSherry,
being transformed INTO, the president
Of a bicycle factory is rather startling.
His picture, too, looks so young and
prosperous / could scarcely believe il
WAS the same rather smoke dyed coun-
tenance Of my brother Confederate
soldier, but on looking closely ! saw
the smile Is the same that be had
patented in early life. was glad to
sec too, the picture Of the candy nan
d my boyhood. Mr.. Mattbai, and that
he looks but little II any older than in
1867. Long may both Of them pros
per-. The II among your citizens
who interests not only those acquaint-
ed with him but9all 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
yalne 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 viii long be remembered in
Southern States as a 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.
Wen ! 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, trampled its every bond
and sacred principle under unholy
feet, that while Boosting 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 i fraudulent
banking swindie robbed himof 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,
0O0.0 600 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, Ball Bah American
citizenship is cIieapened till it has
neithes honor nor value. The laborers
of the country, once its boast
and its bulwark, have TO be kept at
work and at peace by nm 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, I was terribly anxious
for a few days after Nov. 9Th 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 | have neyer
been a 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 a bastard,
still ! 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 I'd doubt which party to
support-her dead sons, her scattered
and impoverished families and her de-
wasted fields should be anyeternal
warning against anything born Of New
England fanaticism.
Texas is booming along IN her great
march toward her manifest destiny,
which is 10 become the most populars