The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-08-21
John Randnlph's IerSe SAVINGS.

uuNH AhhNNtfh ~ t'N 'NI ''B''
"rhis is union Of purse and sword ,
with vengeance, one which even the
slgacity Of Patrick Henry never anti
cIpated in this shape at least '
"Ne,er sir, never. ] will neither
wear what they make, nor eat what
they raise, so long as my tobacco crop
will enable me to get supplies from
old England, and shall employ John
Bull 10 bind my books until the time
arrives when they can be properly
done South Of Mason and Dixon's
line"
"Take my advice and don't read
any Of The novels, and when you get
home, sir, tell your father that /
recommend abstinence from novel
reading and Whiskey punch. Depend
upon ii, sir, they are both equally in
furious 90 the brain"
"Pluuder is the Order of The day
shop-keepers, lradesmen, but above
an inn-keepers. walters. postillions
osilors and chamhcrmaids fleece YOU
without mercy all is Nenal. Pray re-
member the boots, Something for the
waiter. sir. and this at coffee housf
where you have only stepped ia L
take glass Of hegus, after play
and have paid double price for it,
"l can not help Il, sir, / am all con
fusion this u oruing. even my mem0r,
has gone q good wool gathering ! an
lust writing "a farewell letter 10 M,
constituents. and would YOU believe
Il. Sir. have forgotten the cXac
words of quotation from the Bible
which want 10 use, and a. / Away
quote correctly, can not close my let
terunii find the passage, but strange
To say, ] forgot both the chapter anC
the verse. never was at fault before
sin. what shall do?"
Except few of the English
with which people Paris swarms,
have Tot seen, either ia The streets o
el.ev here, anything that by posi-
1ili.y might he mistaken for a gentle
man The contrast in this respec
with London is mo striking indee,
I would a. soon compare the Iotten
tots with the French as these last viii
the English"
Of viii 90 back to the bosom Of m!
constituents, TO such constituents "a
ma never had before aud never vii
have again, aud shall receive ffon
them the only reward ever locke,
for, but the highest that man can re
ceiyc-the universal expression o. theil
appreciation, Of their appreciation, %
their thanks ! shall read Il in theil
beaming faces, shall feel j, in thei
graduating hands The very children
will climb around my knees 10 vel
come me"
81 have determined 10 receive with
out returning Clay's fire, nothing
shall induce me TO harm a hair Of his
head. / will not make his wife ,
widow or his children orphans. Their
tears would be shed over his grave,
but when the sod of Virginia rests on
my bosom there is mol in this wide
world one individual TO pay this tri-
butte To- me-"
"Am | to blame man for being
what nature and education made
him?'
"I am against all colonization So
cetes, and for the good old plan of
making the negroes work aud thereby
enabling the master to feed and clothe
them well and take care Of them in
sickness and old age"
81 wished all the free negroes re-
moved, with their own consent, out
Of the slave States especially but from
the institution Of the Passover To- the
latest experience of man, it would be
found that no distinct people could
occupy the same territory, under one
government, but in the relation Of
master and vassaln
81 have ever looked up TO Virginia
a. 10 mother whose rebuke was
bound 10 receive with iilial submits
sion, and no instance Of her displeas-
ure, however severe, shall ever cause
me 10 lose sight Of my duty To her"
"Ihe day is wet and dirty, If there
be such a word, aud We shall lose
nothing by staying at home"
uIhe weather is excessively gloomy