The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-09-24
Our Future.
An EIOqucnl speeeh ), Cen. sherman

Contrast the following extract from
Lieut.. Gen. Shermans speech at the
annual re.union Of the Army of the
Tennessee, at St. Louis, last Noveh- =
Der, with FraLk Blairs revolutionary
letter.: -r .rr4 s --..u.f .+T
"HoV has this punishment been
partitioDed ty the result of this war !
We Of the North have to mourn the
loss Of fathers, brothers, sous and
fricnds, and are burdcped with a vas.
national debt, binding on US in fact
in law and honor, never 7 hope to be
questioned by any honorable man in
Americastill every cent il paid ''' F
Look to tho Soutll, and you who
went with me through that land can
best say d'they, too have not been
fearfulIy punished. Mourning in
every household dcsolatiOn written
in hard characters across the whole
face Of their country cities in ashes,
aud whole fields laid waste their
commerce gone their system Of la
b OF aunibilotcd and destroyed ruin
DO, ,rty and distress everywhere, and
now d silence adding tn. cap.shcaf
To tlIeir ;. Nek of misery her proud
men begging COR pardon, and appeal
ing for permis.i, n to raise food for
their children; her 4,OOO'Ooo OF
slaves free, aud their 'aIuo lost tc
their former masters foreN 81.
How any Southern gentlem.m, win
these facts before him and pa oao''
everywhere staring him in the faH'
aud recorded forever 10 the book OF
history, can still boast of his " lost
cause" or speak Of 10 language other
than that Of shame and sorrow, pass
es my understanding; aud instead Of
being revived l know that their lost
cause will sink deeper and deeper in.
to infamy as time more keenly probes
its hidden mysteries aud reveals them
TO the liglit.of day. s'i no tsft H..
Now that slavery'is gone, aud gone
forever, with its unhappy wrecks left
behind, and all Danger is p,ssed "oI
any set Of r,en again appealing ia
war when they have courts to secure
their rights aud redress their wrongs,
1 would trust our national destiny
again to those grand old uatural laws
which raised our couptry through
tho long, tedious VRssalage Of coloni
LationI which carried US safely over
the ordeal of Revolution, made euI
flag famous 90 the high seas in 1912
led our copquering army. 70 the gate
of Mexico ia lS47, and has borne u,
glOri0usly through four ye,rs Of al
hard a war as ever tested the mas
hood OF any people, -f s...-r-
Let us revive, as for as lies in oul
individual power that system which
Bancroft tells guided our fathers be
fore the Revolution" the system
which has been revealed in Judea"-
the system which combines aud per
fects the symbolic wisdom Of the Ori
ent, aud the reflective genius o.
Greece-the systeth conforming /,
reason, yet kindIing with enthusiasm
always hastening reform yet alwayi
conservatives; proclaiming absolut,
equality among men yet.no sudden
7 y abolishing the uheq qual Institution
Of society !; guaranteeing absolut,
I freedom, yet involving the ine1orA
Bile restrictiohs Of duty Tin a higl
degree theoretical, yet iu the high
est degree practical awakening tn,
/ inner man to 'couciouIness Of hi
destiny, and yet adaptsda with e1ao
harmony to the outer world at ono
divine apd hanapss This system wa
ProfeEssd IN every part Of our widel!
extended s0untrS and crpdlsd Ou
\ With, such 4, spirit -psryadiug al
our eogntry1 once more.; With ou
population increasing thiTty.tbree pc
cant. eYery ten years; With our o a
tional wealth developing in even I
grsater Fqtio ! j viii EourlI freptisr
pushing back in :eyery direction
with farms and villages aud citie
rapidly covering our vast domain
with mines pouring out wealth Of goli
4 and silver aud iron aud coal, fAyte
than. ever did the cotton fields Of tn
South = with 10000 miles of fnishe,
railroads and other thousands in pro
tgress-cAp any one donbt our pres
ent'streogth or calculate our fatur
destinyg Hour friends at the Soutl
Twin heartily and ohsOtfpII5 joiu witl
us ip.this future career, 1 for on
would Welcome them back our equal
bus nst'onE supsriofs, spd isbd. then
a belpine hand.