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 Noble motto, noble sentiment ,1 This should be the governing motive of the heart In no day or age has there been more need of strict unbend;ng integrity than now. We see and feel the want of it at home and abroad. Our blessings have cost us a vast amount of blood and treasure, and we are therefore under the weightiest of obligations to use them properly and gratefully. As a people we do not prize our heritage as we ought. we are toe willing to compromise our principles and our honor. As individuals we must resolve that we will stand up boldly for the truth, for law and the right
 There must be full determination to sustain those instrumentalities that are the most pow erful for good. Among these ws find the press, the pulpit, and the laws of our government. = When these organs of influence are well sus- tained and properly yielded, you always see prosperity, virtue and thrift. If there is any defect here there will be . deficiency through every grade of society. An able and patriotic editor. is very great blessing to those who read his productions. How cheering and en- livening to gee him use his influence for the benefit of his race. He deserves our patronage and our praise, Never in the history of the world was loyal editor doing more good than now. His position has it's trials, for which reason wsshould give him our most cordial support. i At the present time he is great beacon light to keep the people from drifting on shoals and quicksands. As our vessel has been near stranding, let us not forget what was the cause of our grief, sorrow and bloodshed. Yes, brave patriots, stand up for the, right stand up for principle and truth. Be as firm as the Eternal Hills. It is your privilege and your perogatiye. The past teaches us great lessons of wisdom that VIC cannot forget. As you have shown yourselves brave and unainch
 ing ih the hour of the nations deepest agony, do not allow your armor to rest because you have no use for the sword at the present. If we feel that the bonds of slavery have been cut, that the greatest of moral evils have been sub dued, that the. majesty of the law has been vim dicated, at such an infinite expense, let us not lose sight of the fact that there are moral evils in our midst that need to be put out of the way before, we become any greater sufferers We soon shall be called to mourn the loss of many of our noble young men, as victims of wrong habits, unless we take a higher stand as tsflU IN UrIn snan we now occupy. We have lost quite too many already. If you wish to stand high, honor your mother. If you would prosper, honor your mother. Smart women are necessary to make smart men. The moth CTS of the North deserve nations gratitude for their merits and noble deeds. Willingly have they sacrificed their all, in many instances on the altar of bleeding liberty. The poet and the historian must be faithess to their task, if they fail to show their worth and to sing their praise. Where women's influence is what it ought to be, and is properly felt, there will be no plots of treason or assassination.