The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-04
From the MetropoHtanRecord.
1,rue Southern Feeling.

on the face of the earth than man who
is false to his country. And depraved
beyond all measure must be he who un-
blushinlyly proclaims himself 80 in the
face of the world. The Southorner who
can truly say, that during the last four
years, he never felt Che first emotion of
sympathy with the Confederate cause,
that aia heart throbbed exultingly at the
ncws Ola Southern victory, or sank at
the runlors of a Federal triumph, is a man
we would not care to trust. He who
could live in struggle, see the courage
with which it was sustained and the sac
rifces unmurmingly endured, that it
might prove successful, who could live
amid the fluctuations of the war, mark
the tide ofsuccess ebb and flow, sec socie-
ty breaking up around him, feel the agi-
tation and upheaval caused by the throes
of the nation in it's agony, and remain
unmoved, his equanimity undisturbed,
his pulses even beat unaccelerated or un-
retarded, is moral phenomena, or man
to be marked and avoided forever.-The
veriest schoolboy as he pores over the
pages Of Greek and Roman story, takes
side unconsciously, and the calm philo-
sophie student of history glows as he
reads Of some brave deed, or glorious
struggle. Every one who can remember
for himself the absorbing interest with
which he followed the course of this or
that hero of antiquity, how real was his
interest in Caesar, how genuine his SYM
pathy for Hannibal, low glowing mis- ad-
miration of Aristides. And are the
qualities we admired in the men of old to
excite no enthusiasm when found in our
contemporaries
Are the virtues that challenge our rev.
erence in the patriots of other times and
other lands, to be sneered at when illus
trated in the lives and deeds of our fellow
countlymen? We say, without fear OF
contradiction, that the Southern man who
took no part in the glorious struggle OF
his section, who felt no interest in the
result, and no pride in the noble qualities
displayed by his .countrymen, would nov-
er hare shouldered his musket in the
Revolution, never have starved with Ma
rion, nor triumphed with Gates. Such a
man would have bounded Washington to
death had he been unsuccessful, he would
have been parasite to Howe and a
liclzsrittle to CORVALLIS, he would have
blazoned forth his "loyalty" to his King,
by denouncing his countrymen as rebels,
and proved his foalty to Britain by trea-
son to his native land. There are some
such men in the South today, but not
many not many who would purchase
place or preferment by befouling the
names of the Confederate leaders, or in
sulting tho memory of the Confederate
dead.
Tie Southern people have nothing to
be ashamed of in their struggle, and moth
ing 10 be sorry for but that their sacri-
fees were made in vain. Even the true
hearted Unionists of the South glory in
the lorowess, endurance, and the dash Of
theil. people, their energy and actions,
their fertility in resources, their modera-
ton in triumph, and their fortitude in de-
feat They exult in the deathless fame
they have acquired, the lofty qualities
they have displayed, and the immortal
names they have added to the worlds
roll of fame. They reverence the hal
lowed spots
"Whero the veteran dropped beside the springald,
Who're sank strength and symmetry in line."
They sympathize with the victors of
Charlottesville; and they stand where
stood the few and fearless followers OF
Lee and Johnston when they surrendered,
and realize with sense of sympathy,
that is painful in its genuineness, chow
patriots fell when all but life and honors
lost" Ten thousand times better are
such men than those who fought through
out the war, and at its close fall in with
the victors and cry peecerui.
PHGN1x1ANA-sJohn Phoenix" has
been lecturing on Astronomy in Calitor-
MIA. The following droll illustration oc-
culs in his elucidation of the working of
the celestial machinery, to the citizens Of
the Golden State: