The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-23

! t,,r,,Isos of the human mind. The result
| OF the war was a complete oVerthro" vi
| that order OF things which had eSis'ea
rrior thereto in the whole South. 1he
| old forces have been struggling ever
| since the war 10 secure a proper feeos-
milton. but. confronted with the poverty
thatshe total wreck OF their fortunes py
the war brought on them, they have been
s,oadilv losing ground, until all power
has now. temporarily. at least, departed
from them. II we may so express II, the
not has been boiling furiously all over
the South for the past thirty years. ana
,rulman and Marion Butler are the scum
that has been brought TO the surface In
South and North Carolina. And North
and South Carolina are not the only
southern States that have had to drink
from this bitter cup. The cause is gen
eral. and is operating in all OF them.
Virginia. too, has had TO sit down by
the waters Of Babylon and weep ana
shame. disgrace. and humiliation are
either now the lot or are reserved lot
them all. 1t is the penalty that was
destined for US from the beginning for
hghtjng the furious, desperate and pro-
diglous contest that we fought, upon the
losing side. Nothing more true was ever
said than that the loser pays
Events of this sort are most huinlh-
afing. and exasperating to all 'he SUNS
of the South who love their native laho'
prt what is the lesson that they suS-
gest?
The first resentfui impulse is to br'hs
Thorn to an end without regard 10 the
means. and the first form that thIS III
mise takes is that Of fraud or iofee'
,rbon arises the occasion which tests the
et.ro ~ which we are made. train
robber can shoot ard sneak thiel CAN
cheat. but il takes a man 10 suDihit 10
rcisfortunes and grow stronger and more
rcsolute every hour. The hoholaple'
brave scn-respecung man deals with
ovarv situation in which he finds himself
with a calm resolution and eVer-sharpeh-
ing intelligence fortitude in adversely
and open and candid methods IN ali
things that make him master OF his
nosition sooner or later with a clear CON
science and the appreciation oil MS own
mind.
North Carolina and South Carolina VIII
20 but little way towards improving their
conditions TO rid themselves OF Marion
Butler and THman. and such Legs
lature as gave the vote in question al
ha
the price of a debauched suffrage ana 'he
universal corruption that must ever ioI-
low it when it is allowed.
We look on the condition of the Whole
South now. of which Virginia herself Is
very fair sample, as period OF 'IdhsI-
ton in which political tenets are 10 De
adoptcd that win have d lasting IN
euence upon the character Of the people
1c tho nresent tendency to overcome our
d,Hcultics by tricks and fraud is further
Welded TO the character of our people
will be set upon d downward grade, the
bottom Of which no man can see. But II
our seif-rospecting people Will rouse
themselves now and will resolve to CO.
operate. one and all, to strangle the un-
clean beast that is invading our homes
that dormant virtue and courage OF our
people which heretofore has been under
minded and lost, will reassert itself, and
we shall again become the South Of Old,
| daring to do all things which good men
| may dare 10 do, yielding up to all men
| that which is theirs, open in all trans
| actions, with concealment i'm none. and
| the home OF ;he brayest, because Of the
most self-rcspectng men that have ever
| lived.
The era of the Marion Buffers and Till
mans and of VirGinia's shame, is trans
tory and Will soon pass away. Whether
! it will pass into a darkness that is mid
night, compared even with the present or
whether it will rise to the glory of a
new dawning morn. depends upon how
we shall compOrt ourselves in these diff
fcult times. If Virginians conduct them
selves now as did those who followed
Gettysburg she will again become the
Virginia of old, whose surname was
honor and whose sons were worthy of
their mother III they are to open their
ears though to the trickster and the
5neak-thief, it were better that an earth
| quake should open and swallow up Vir-
] ginia and all of her children.
| May her sons take this lesson to heart.