Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-11

| death II is because you prayed at their era
die-side and Taught them early the touchin.
STORY Of the Cross. Cling then encouraged
to your duties, since IL is for you and tbos,
who shall succeed you in loves lender mtn
istrations, that they are 20 anxious. and pru
| dent in council. Take heart and be of good
cheer. since the reason they are so impetuon'
and daring on the field is because they know
| and think what awaits the daughters of tbs
South if they should fail. Still implant th.
early habits of faithful perseverance, In right
doing, teach those early lessons of virtue ant
/ that regard for Whatsoever things are trui
and just and pure and of good repoi T.
which lend such a charm to youth.
These once stamped upon the plastic mind
| OF childhood, by your power and Gods bles
sing, can never be erased or forgotten. Con
tinue in the discharge of your inestimablt
mission. Still contribute, as you can SD well
for human advancement. Sui form your
sanity phalanx of guardis nship and peace
about the consecrated affairs of Home, anC
still so weave the golden threads of yOuI
| love that they shall brighten and simmer
| through all the wool of our after lives
The mould of character to be set on the
manly front OF the worlds great ones-anC
| gladly confessed by them-shali bear you'll
impress. Mother of the Soluble this youI
| reward. IT your brave son should fail. his
dying prayer shall mingle your name close
with GUd's-and through the sounding of the
/ drums and the excited shouting of his com
rades, amid the crash of conflict and the din
| of battle-his last and purest memory steal
ing soft before his expiring eyes shall be of the
happy hours when timid child and kneel-
| ing at your side he learned of mans Re
| deemer and of Heaven.
/ had thought here to end this speech, al
ready too prolonged, but our last words to-
| gether should not be so sad A glance al
| our Country's future and then close. From
| this war our adversary will come forth en-
| feebled. impoverished, demoralized, while we
| shall emerge under suspicious cit cumStances
| The spirit of enterprise in the South has
been excited and every day brings the glad
| tidings of it's mighty efforts and its rapid
progress though begirt as it now is with the
various difficulties incident upon war
Golden opportunity has at length flashed her
| delightsome visions on eyes which had become
| too familiar with the dull routine of our
| ignoble dependence on Northern industry;tOil
| It's, If will be but speculation with so many
chances its favor; and even Poverty refresh
ed at last shall lie down among our fruitful
| fields to dream of bright and plentiful to-
morrow. Be not alarmed because OF these
rapid changes which have taken place. He
who expects stability in methods of govern
ment when the people go forth to newer con-
quests in mind and morals, might as well
| have lived before the Flood. He is not the man
for this day who insists upon his superior Ca
pacity to govern because of his superior IA
miliarity with the past; the right man for the
hour is he who having examined well both
past and present, has also searched somewhat
into the future. The cry sometimes raised
against innovation is as foolish it is feble.
Onward" is law of the Universe, OPERA
ting as resistlessly as gravitation and the tides
always at work, nov levelling and now
lifting up. so that the Pigment OF one age is
the familiar fact of the next--the dream-like
theory of one period is the undisputed &C
complishment OF another. This is right. Re-
form is not to be rejected because ii refuses
to respect errors whose only merit is the sane
tification OF Time, and wrong is none the
less wrong because it il venerable. Let us
do nothing then to retard the evident desti-
nv of our beautiful land, since by its vast eX-
tent, its fertile plains its wide-breasted riv-
ers,its prodigious facilities for intercommuni-
cation and its Oceanic position, it is preemi-
nently adapted as fit theatre for the noblest
consummatiOns of history.
Whe the oppressOr is vanquished and ex
PEELED, when the resistless motive-power of
necessity re-opens our prosperous marts and
when the shores now threatened by blockad-
ing fleets again are covered with bales of
richest merchandise, ours will be the most
unique and gem-like government of earth.
Northern influences have shamefully lowered
the standard of American mind by hard
spirit of constant sef-seeking so that too
many have been led to consider money as
the sole badge of gentility and the wild ad-
ventures of lawless speculation as the high
est reach of the intellect. Let our endeavOr
be to foster a higher orderof thought and fe ell
ing, seeking the vet unfathomed depths OF
those vast empires in our souls which hereto
fore have been shut from view by that conta-
gious Materialism which lately seemed a
part and parcel of our nationality, and doing
all that we can to upset the manifold s9phis-
tries that have led so many to trust things
unworthy aud sordid, and to look at the
earth and like it be earthly when their
gaze should rather have been serenely fixed
on the glory exceeding and eternal"
The most powerful physical levers are fur
nished us for accomplishing some of this.
The valleys and the river lands of the South
and Southwest--the whole broad expanse OF
our country with its gentle and inviting un-
dulations which now await the clustered
drapery of the yine-the grand hills, which
hold locked in the unprecedented silence of
their bosoms. the treasured secrets OF Gen.
turtles. there stored, till we could use them,
in advancing the highest form of enlighten-
ment known among men and in fully estab-
fishing the magnificent and Cob blessed min
istfy of our peculiar institutiOns-coal-be
where the fettered sunshine OF the past re-
serves its magic light and heat to rejoice the
home-fires OF our happy people, and aid in
driving on for them the clanklng engine and
the thunder-like whistlings of the spindle
and the loOm,-quarries from whose marble
hearts Southern genius shall evoke the grand
erections of architecture, and call forth the
exquisite forms which almost breathe at the
Sculptures touch-streams whose powers
are adapted for every variety OF want and
every exigency of need, from the country
mill-houSe where the air is misty with the
floating meal, to the pOnderous factory loom
ing by the river-brim-all these are found
with us.
Here shall still obtain the usages and max
inns of our ennobled sires and the simple
habits engendered by Christian liberty. The
School-house and the Church shall give their
hallOwed light in every vicinage, true SYM
bOls of our peoples mental strength and
moral purity. All between the smooth flow
ing Ohio and the chafed and frettul waters of
the Gulf, our capacity for effort and for en-
terprise shall be stretched to its farthest
limit. On the East and South our smiling
cities shall guard the billowy main, and in
the frontier-forests of the West shall ring the
voices OF our stalwart wOodsmen-whose
cabins smoke and axes measured fall shall
be as the banners and the drum-boats of our
civiliz alton.
When | see thus opened out before me all
this luxuriant promise of my country, and
when think of the deeds of her valiant sous
who in this earnest Present, are welding the
great Past to the nobler Future and when
/ feel that this foreshadowed success is but
another testimonial to the loving kindness of
Him who with wonderful benefcence has au-
theDficated His Droyidence in our behalf nv