Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1866-12-22

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ready, wth ibs great man Who rules lbi
land today, 10 sldks hands 10 Iu'i anl
equal reconstruction
And nov. lufn from tbpso lhougbtl
TO ih0 duties ~ tho hour that we mas
lgofn lessons VI wisdom from this solomf
scene. 70 what are We osboned to-day
answer dBtY land know speak ID
tho name snd with the spInt OF your be
loved dead, could they, bending from lbii
oulspfeaa sky, address gyg-wo ufc cx.
hoted 10 a great palle8co--to patience
which, like the possession Of n lofty spirit,
/ Is tho bubrghl u bold and noble souls.
\ patience like 10 tho courage which NO II.
Illustrated during tour long yeufs OF weary.
log and eventual war, Great peoples arc
consistent and unique IN lbe proportion Of
their great qualities. They fight heroic.
ally; ovcrborno, they yield graudly, We
fought for separate nulionaIityj wo failed.
Oar aASrsnries, themselves being the
Judges, ~ proved "foemen worthy Of
their steel" As said your honered Gov.
ernor, Misssslppl's veteran son, our spir-
it in the iigh, is the guarantee oCr honor
gives. 4 give his sentiment, not remem
bering his words.) And our full, and
clear, aud honest yielding has sustained
that guarantee. So quiet, 80 complete, so
enlre has 1t been, that the party DONNA
ling in the North cannot appreciate it, can
not credltit. Against their force we are
powerless; and if unconvlnced aud unre-
IenIIng, they pursue US with still further
woes let US oppose TO these that which,
while 1t is Tho last resource OF proslrate'
people, is also their browning glory-an
unconquerng patience. humanity looks
with reverence upon great man calm
amid adverslIles; men and angels honor u
great people who, quiet, seIi-polsed and
contained, bear great and continuing
wrongs.
Another lesson that we shouIdread to-day,
is this: God gave US great trust. -Four
millions OF bondsmen and bondswomen
were ours, 70 teach Them, 10 elevate them,
TO chnstlanlZe them; these were our PLAIN
duties. WedId not discharge these duties;
had We, ihls trust, in that very form, had
been ours TO day. Oar relations to that
people are changed, but the trust in an-
other form, aud with like duties, remains.
Lei US "s'n no more lest "a worse thing
happen unto US We are the only true
friends thai this ignorant, feeble, depend
ent people have IN all the world. And
while their elevation to a social and pulit-
cal equality we Will ever oppose, never
consenllng TO our own degradation, yet, to
instruct, to counsel, to help, and to save
them, is high and sacred mission, worthy
the hands and hearts OF christian freemen.
And here we may take courage when we
remainder that six hundred thousand men
in the Two great States reaching from the
Delaware and Hudson to The lake, and
| thou,ands upon thousands in other North
ern States, men who are no longer ad-
lverslries, stand with us in the utlerance
of words like these. All honor 10 the
men who battled at the ballot box to ex
tend to US the rights due to States and
men the" consent OF the governed" and
the naIlenabe birth right of white men !!
But the lesson that should most impress
our hearts to- day lis this: and is the last
ofwhlch shall speak. You are remem-
berng the dead; and it is we'll. Do not Tor
get The living. | can shew you how to
: build q monument more enduring than
marble Erect 1t 10 the hearts Of widows
and orphans. When laborlng as chaplain
in the army, as good men as ever bore
musket would come TO me, their counselor
and friend, with words such as one of them
used, whose trimming eyes moisle ned
mine, as he said: "Parson, (ah!lhat plain
word Of The country will ever be sweet 10
my ear,) my family have lived for more
than month on corn bread an d water
and not always enough OF that; and have
nelghbors who have plenty. What must
dol" All! don't build monuments to these
dead men and leave their wives and chill.
dren to suffer. See to it tina, they get food
oHu SHo'toI dhd lultIloht, anu mat tneSe
boys and girls, whose fathers and broth.
ers' names are engraVen on this shaft, gel
the nurture and admonlton OF The school
house and The church, This will honor
} the dead and ennobIe the Lost Cause
far more than shaft and urn and tablet
And your own hearts will rejoice as or.
phans' eyes sparkle and widows hearts
sing for joy. And chiIdren's children will
} "rise up and call you blessed"
| know that this lie to you day of sad
dest re:olleclions. You live amid desola.
lions despoied and bereaved When
read oil lenoncy to the conquered, as that
word sometime appears, think of thai
wholesale act OF coniscaton, which at one
blow, Oeggared people. An mpoverish.