The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-06-03
[From the Christian Observer.]
The Greatest Loss in tn e
South

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clients, that the most sublime
spectacle on earth, and one which
the gods contemplated with de-
light, was that Of a virtuous man
struggling against adversely. If
this be true of an individual, how
much is the sublimity Of the spec
tacle increased and heightened
when the struggle is made by a
whole community-an entire peo-
pie.
! At the time ofthe surrender by
Lee and Johnson, in 1865, the
Southern people aeauiesced in the
necessity of yielding to superior
force. They in good faith, re-
turned to their allegiance to the
old flag. Expecting equal good
faith and an honorable observance
| Of the terms of surrender and the
implied obligations of a parole
given on the field Of war, the
Southern sold:ely laid down their
arms and returned at once to the
| avocations of peace,-while like
conscientious men and true paattri= pati
OTIS, they sighed over their lost
cause, they, as honest men, with
a self.reliant spirit, fell back upon
their former pursuits with the
hope &C repairing their lost for
tunes and rebuilding their desola:
ted homes and improving their
ruined country. Not one of them
then believed that the consequent
ces would fail to exhibit unusual
nagnanimity and Justice always
expected from the strong to the
weak-the victor to the van
quished. ~
NaM for three laase-5yeHrs-tt5hoy 5eHr--t5
have persistedsia their endeasors
to fulfil It'd duties and discharge
the obligations of good citizens
unwilling to believe that their
conquerors could become the op-
bpressors of their own countrymen.
And even, now, when the rights Of
citizenship in the Southern States
are invaded or. withheld-when
virtue and. intelligence are dis
| franchised-when the best men
the most enlightened patriots
and the purest Christians Of the
South are allowed no share in the
counsels of the country, the sub
lime spectacle is presented OF an
| entire community with no arms
| in their hands, with no feeling OF
hostility to the existing govern
ment in their hearts, patiently
struggling against their adverse
fate and virtuously accommoda'
! ting themselves to the wrong
which they are enduring! Such
a spectacle has never before been
seen. There is a true moral sub
Unity in the exhibition. 1t is the
grandeur of heroism, 1T is the
sublimity Of respect for law and
order. Poland, Hungary, Ireland
and Greece, can show no parallel
no analogy to it. The gods
may contemplate it with delight
Not to mention the more erdi
nary instances of suffering-re
sulting from the calamities Of the
battle feld-the desolations o
Sherman's barbarous. INVASION,
the starvation, and pillage, and in
cendiarism, and brutal outrage
that followed his army every
where, one specification only will
be here made in the long catalogu'
of Southern misfortune and ruin
And that is the total annihiiatiol
of that grand old Order-the No
BLESS of the Confederate States
The bare mention of the Orde
will excite the ridicuie and pro
woke puerile and sophomore re
mark from the ignorant and un
candid elsewhere. This Orde
had a few representatives in ever.
Southern neighborhood.. Why ar
they here designated as the Nc
bless of the country /? Because {
their Christian benefactions, thei
, enlarged public spirit, and thei
private charities. They deserv
a, the epithet we'll. This is know
: both to the church and the Stat