Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-08-09

nave tried TO get for Virginia n
part of what is going"
That part of the Senator's re-
marks escaped our attention at the
time, or we should have expressed
our earnest dissent and protest.
We have endeavored to deal fairly
with sill the candidates for Demo-
cratic honors in the pending con
test, and we have neither cham
pioned one nor opposed another.
But we have never intended to
hold our peace and refrain from
expressing our diSapproval of any
utterance of any of them should
we deem it worthy of reprobation.
In his Reflection on the French
Revolution Edmond Burke in
closing his beautiful apostrophe to
the Queen of France, and his grief
at her tragic end, said:
Little did | dream that | should
have lived TO see such disasters
fallen upon her in nation of gal
liant men-in 4 nation of men of
honor and of cavaliers. thought
ten thousand swords must have
leaped from their scabbards TO
avenge even a look that threatened
her with insult. But the age of
chivalry Is gone; that of sophistevs.
economists and caiculators has sue
ceeded. The unbought grace of
life, the cheap defense of nations.
the nurse of manly sentiment and
heroic enterprise is gone.
God forbid that such lament
should ever be made over the
South, the land of chivalry and
manly sentiment. God forbid that
our men and statesmen whose
hearts are full of sentiment, and
whose actions are moved by it
should give place to cold-blooded
sOphisters. economists and calcu-
lators. " God forbid that it should
be deemed a more excellent thing
for a Virginia representative or
senator in Congress TO get for
Virginia part of what is going.
than TO stand in his place when oc-
caSion demands and proclaim the
lofty sentiments which have emo
bled and inspired us as a people.
and for which all manly Virginians
have ever been ready to fight and
to die.
Without our sentiment, we were
as wine without sparkle. rs flowers
without color or fragrance, as the
body without spirit. Without sen
timent the noblest painting would
be daub, the noblest poetry but
Jingle of words. the noblest music
but sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals, and love and chivalry
and even honor and virtue would
not be at all.
We dissent from the view Of
Senator Martin that southern SEN
ators have spent too much time
talking about sentiment and the
Constitution If Washington and
Jefferson and Patrick Henry and
their contemporaries from the
South had not talked sentiment
and inspired and enthused the peo-
pie with 1t, this grand republic had
never been builded upon such sure
foundations. 1t is sentiment that
has preserved TO us our liberty and
made us nation of manly. indie
pendent, self-reliant sovereigns.
instead of a collection of serfs with
a Gar to rule over us.
Sentiment may not provide food
and raiment for the body, but it is
as the bread of life to the soul and
its god-like ornamentation.
We do not ignore the practical
part. We want Virginia to oct
whatever she is entitled to get.and
we have commended Senator Mar
tin for the practical work he has
done. But if appropriations are
to be had at the expense of that
sentiment which exalteth a people.
whatever is gained will be but to
make us poor, indeed"
Thatthe junior senator's remarks
have wounded the noble sentiments
of other southerners is disclosed by
the extracts from editorials of the
Raleigh News and Observer and
Montgomery Advertiser, which we
print elsewhere. Indeed. some of
the remarks of one of the papers
were so severe that we deemed il
unfair TO the senator to reprint
them Richmond Times Dispatch.
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