The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-30

country drasbetter established, they will
come to us. avsiing themselves of the
open CONGRATULATIONS aud faller know
ledge which will then become available
to them.
Kind ana Noble Words fsr the conredc-
rate Dead.
The published threat of tue ''Grand
Army Of the Republic" to prevent by
force sympathi4era with the Confederate
dead from decorating their graves on this
their memorial day, has called forth
leader of unusual beauty and power
from the New York Tribune. It is so
full of noble expression and broad and
catholic charity. that We have concluded
that we could not better pse the space
than in giving the following extracts.
The Tribune says:
"Oi course, We discover in this de.
monstration OF indignation at the pro-
posed ''insult, the evidence of profound
patriotism and earnest loyalty. We
should, perhaps, be thankful in such
times as these for the nice sense of
honor, the exquisitely sensitive love of
country, the reverent patriotism, the
constancy OF devotion to the Union and
the uudying hostility to it's dead and
buried enemies, OF which We have here
such tokens. For it must be confessed
that many things of late have made Us
skeptiesl Of any such keenpess of sus-
oeptlbility. For really, when We cell our
seats In the Senate, and our Senators
har al ~
our judges haunt the lobbies of Congress
eleotions are carried by fraud, and the
perpetrators Of fraud are. protected by
Executive pardon; when we peddle out
our honor and trade upon our dignity in
the face OF all the world; when we are
scandalized in all department by venali-
ty. corruption and incompetency-we
should perhaps welcome anything that
seems on hon cHt burst of indignation,
for whatever cause that has in it some
thing akin to pride of land or race.
And yet, shall We be deemed unpa-
triotic or dialoyal if We say that there
seems somehow in this bristling up of
resentment at the decoration Of the
graves Of dead enemies something trivial
and narrow; something not entirely
worthy great and magnanimous peo-
pie? In the year following the close of
the war, before the bitterness of the
long struggle had begun to give place to
a more meilowed and tenderer feeling, it
would not have been natural il we had
protested against such a mingling of
tributes and tears to the memory of the
fallen on both sides. But eight years
have passed since then. Surely loyalty
ls 40 such .nngracious, churlish virtue
that we should nurse forever the ani-
mosities it eDgendered: nor is its quality
so feeble that to let little magnanimity
grow round and blossom over it will
overshadow or destroy it.
Let US be- grateful to time, that so
mellows and softens the past. that ame-
llorates the bitterness and smooths the
asperity OF old contests, bringing us out
OF our selfish narrowness and littleness
into the largeneas and catholicity Of hu-
manity. into sympathy with the univor-
sal brotherhood of man. Hero and to-
day the pettiness Of our lives engrosses
ns; our struggles and our trials, our
triumphs and our failures, our toll, and
sweat, and tears, are nll the world to us;
we magnify and dwell upon them; VIC
draw away from them and they grow less
and less, and fade away behind us. We
shall'exercise sound philosophy as we'll
as Christian charity, if We gather only
tender memories as we look back over it
all-tender, kindly memories, not alone
of those We loved, but equally of those
with whom We differed, who were Of our
race and our blood, and whatever their
faults or their mistakes, were our bro
thers. Be sure we shall be doing no
mans memory an ipiuBtice, nor any good
cause harm, if on the same day, and
even by the same hands, the graves of
the Union and Confederate dead. lying
SIDE by side in all the South, are made
fragtant and beautiful with the blossoms
OF tender and affectionate remem.
brance
The wretohed father in Memp}is who