Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-12-14

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s, n,' ''''' .''~ 1'"''-!''''icn 10 you IN
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Nou iIid rave yet another nari:apa
which. ] ta%r +. sc cnant 10 cI.ris,
even as sa"ro.iiv az tnc spiritual ..d
civil ana ur,'..,rl liberty already n.rs
T. is cuua'',. me ur'yil"ge ,f ,},. woo.
81" uf Yves, Iir4inil and q vou ami
OF my.y.I 5hat " more !lIn .i.D.as
fDN Ut!n" '.nn~Io a;nnk .ud ;.r,..arvr
VI our &..ii,. !...f,Ga,sc tlr ,i,r,lr.,
knd most Oppressive tongue now
known t. inGn.
We West Nirginilns do not rncok
the English GAohca in modern eng
land with it's ClinbrOuS Ja,ioiyod
JOIN rOnian forms. rcr do We Gains; in
1T; bat We ncn DrcdOminantIy th,
speech h"nGrI down to us nv tho mon
who rallied .r;mNd Elizabeth y,ho
gathered at t." cal Of King jame3 |
and gave 10 tho world that pricct,4s
mOnHmcut 4" simDc, straight-snoScu.
lucid h.umiini, &pceCh-the King .Jamr;
vcrHiCn e ,%n HOLY Bible. Of tho ,o,,
who fell into .anl 1T the weird of O,.
1vcr C!0:aNe.I, and VINO made that ri
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Of Britain. and thcn forever of thn
English-spcal..H g races OF the cnrth
1t Is as ..',@cs Govt TYLER has 90
aptly said. ohio hist0rv Cf our Ian.
suage, like CIR literature nav Io
traced back from the urrscnt ho,r ou
st recedas along the track OF orr M.
tiOnGl life 'brOuph the cnrlv dave NJ
the Republic. through five aenoTa.ione
OF Colonial existence. until in tlie fret
decade Of thc seventeenth century Il
is merged in IT'S splondld nornnt., yn
the spoken and written spooch of IN.
dor hynXl.nh. This birth c10ch ,p mo
tou&,o We tax and write wac ooc of
splendor 1t was amidst the full How
ering macnif}cance of the ,.Ii2,hoth,n
time, a goldon age whose crentjvc W.
tally, whose superb Iruitapc rnarh,1
forward and cast thclr ,lorv ,crosa.
the entire generation succeeding +ha
death Of Elizabeth herself Tho first
words Of English speech uDon ihis
continent were heard along the vaab.
ing waters OF tho James River where
1t mixes and is lost among tho salty
tides of the Chcsaneakc nt the Vnry,
time when tho firmament Of +,ngIish
thought and written and snol1cn enaech
were all ahla2e with the Ijght cg be,.
full-o.bed ana moss wonderful writer's
the wits the dramatists, the scholars
orators, singers, philosophcrs. who
formed that incomparablc grouD OF
titanic men gathered around the r,}It.
tering Tudor court durIng the earlier
years of the seventeenth century:
when London had become splendid
and oD,jlen; canital. whnn no ,,nr'
air Of London must have Become cleo.
trio with tno daily words Of those i'm.
mortals whose casual talk upon The
pavement !, the curb side was q coin
age OF speech richer, moro vjrj)c
more expressive, than has been known
or this planet since tho groot dnv. r.,
Athenian poetry, cloquence and mjrth. -
Of the 1tr,c,;a[ t lou W. 'i10 'e1AA''S""c'
# - fhi,. I1,,-,an ,n 70 t,o 1,,;uo,.,
m ,;1,oc ,,Finh ,tn a,t 'Do''.
th,n 49,, l,than iS ~. IOs'',o lnoie
snoaE;n.r raccr orI VIZ yVa,,t 1!ira;!,
Inns -t0vc ~ n+l,ar, -, ~ ~. .e'
our dui1,, ;,f,,,nn,,-ec ha,,o ,'.1,..' 80:
amonr orr. ,,orntoirl, a,'a - ,,,
as 9 yitol I;viny tnno,n 0''' '"'''' e
We ,nc3,- tho ton,I,o 30 cbo.
spe2ro or oji,+on oF i-i,,,r ',i'''','
how, rorl,. ..,- 80 y