Clarksburg, September 8th,
1874. The Republican
Now that the insurrectionary excitement is over, and night is
no more
made hideous and dreadful by big bear tales, and white men
have
learned not to give credence to fallacious lies, gotten up
for the purpose
of widening the breach between the
two races, and keeping up hatred at
its boiling point, now since this has blown over the people of this section,
both white and
black have settled into a quietus scarcely known
hitherto. We
hear no more of depredations and designings of murders to
be
committed upon the whites by mobbing Negroes, and all these
stories
said to be divulged by some old Negroes living in the
neighborhood who
was favorable to the whites. No, nor nothing
that we have ever heard of
being plotted has been committed by
the Negroes. It is true, perhaps, the
Negroes did some things and
said some things that were alarming to
some people at that time;
but at other times it would not have been
noticed. But now that the
excitement is over, and quiet restored, it is to
be hoped that the Negroes
will no more cause offense to be taken at their
actions or talk, and that
white men will learn something from past
experience. The firms of Johnson, Walker & Parish, and Smith & Carnal
have been very busy this week invoicing their stocks of goods,
preparatory to a change of the firms. Messrs. Johnson and Walker
retiring from the former, leaving the firm styled Jamison & Parish. Smith &
Carnal have sold their stock to E. Smith. Smith and Carnal
will be
retained as clerks. The new firms have adopted the cash
system strictly.
We are conscious of the fact that this will bear very
hard on the people
who have been indulged so long on credit, and are now in debt more
than their entire present crops will pay – yet they will have to stem the
tide. Perhaps they may anchor over, by
and by; and then they may say
that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” – keep out of debt and be
freemen. There is but one thing that is
flourishing here now, and of
course
you want to know what this is, it is our academy, under the
supervision
of Prof. Bledsoe, who by his amiable manner and kind
disposition has
won not only the respect of his students, but of his
patrons in general. Through his courtesy we were permitted to attend the
exercises of the
Academic Society last Friday evening, and after seeing
the deportment
of the members and hearing their essays and speeches,
we are happy
to say the hour was well spent. The Society is composed
of young men and ladies, who meet every Friday evening at 7:30. The
young ladies
read essays, and the young men speak, and it is truly
entertaining to be
there. The young ladies by their presence give grace
and harmony to the
meeting, being also and excitant to the boys, who in
turn speechify like
thunderation. The exercises were commenced by two
beautiful girls who
read essays, one on Intemperance, the other
Education, both of which,
in nicety of language and beauty of diction,
would be hard to excel. The
debate then commenced by the champion in
the affirmative. The question stated was, “Resolved, That railroads are
an advantage to the country.”
The speakers on both sides made very
good speeches, and we would
say continue to SPEECHIFY, for perhaps
among them are some who
may be able “The APPLAUSE OF LISTENING
Senators to command.”
The Chairman did not decide the questions, but
was decided in the negative by our young men last Tuesday morning,
who started to Texas in a two-horse wagon.
Thereby showing that
railroads are useless to them.
