. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. tmorelands splendid his-tory, are at hand to represent her in the councils of the State andnation. Her women are lovely, gentle, and queenly. When Alexisde Tocqueville, whom Mr. Gladstone termed the Burke of hisage, visited America in the last century and wrote his ^Democracyin America, he said: If I were asked to what I attributed thegreatness and peace of America, I should say to the sanctity of homeand to the purity of the women. And the Hon. James Bryce,Ministoi Plenipotentiary to this country
. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. tmorelands splendid his-tory, are at hand to represent her in the councils of the State andnation. Her women are lovely, gentle, and queenly. When Alexisde Tocqueville, whom Mr. Gladstone termed the Burke of hisage, visited America in the last century and wrote his ^Democracyin America, he said: If I were asked to what I attributed thegreatness and peace of America, I should say to the sanctity of homeand to the purity of the women. And the Hon. James Bryce,Ministoi Plenipotentiary to this country representing the Courtof St. James, says in The American Commonwealth: I haveheard keen American observers predict that these Southern Stateswill be the chief nursery ground of statesmen in the future, andwill thus assert an ascendency which they can not yet obtain by theirvotes, because population grows more slowly in the South than inEastern cities, or in Western prairies. Mr. Gladstone, in his Kin Beyond the Sea, page 204, said ofAmerica: She will probably become what we are now. the head. Board of Supervisors, Westmokicland Colntv, \ .\. David Hungerford Griffith Hun. Wm. Mavo, Chairman, Kx-State Senator \Vm. H. Sanfokd WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA 10;} servant in the great household of the woi-ld, the employer ol allemployed, because her service will l)e most and ablest. lie alsosaid: No hardier republicanism was generated in New Englandthan in the slave States of the South, which produced so many ofthe great statesmen of America,—Life of Gladstone^ by Dr. J. Curry, page 214. What has Westmoreland done since the war, and what is shedoing to-day in the march of progress and civilization, in energyand the activities of life? The efficient Board of Supervisors of Westmoreland stand forthe economy of good roads. They advocate the economical aspectof good roads reform. They have adopted, with the States aidand the State Highway Commission, the sand-clay system, and are
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