The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-02
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY JULY 2 l875-rRIPLE SHEET

! whicn we're based the staIesmanshlp OF New eng.
/ land, as manifested by Seward, the phlan hrOpy
| Of New England AS represented by sumner, and
the Christianity OF New England as pracused Dy
! Plymouth churches, and winch made her people
In the oden time accessories AID principals IN
called the foulest blot OF modern cyili8a-
ton. In perpetratlng this crime the Ply
mouth Rock descendant outran the KING OF Congo
m catching the slave, and outsailed the sailors OF
Nasco al Cana In fetching MIN oy the ''middle
/ passage second, iouler blot stamped oy this
same Plymouth descendant on this nour IN which
we i've to-day ID that. being the joint
town temple or liberty IN pure accord with
his original attributes, he set himself. with
emancpated slaves, TO destroy The temple and 70
slaughter the men, women ana children, and de-
vastate tine LAND OF the jamestown Descendant
as the eliminating olazonry o. tue patriotism, the
pety, the valour, the civil and religious conscience
OF New England-ln the language OF their great
General sherman, under the supposed soemnity OF
an oath 10 declare mat the desire oil their hearts
and conscienees was 10 eXtirpate ito destroy the
species OF the people OF the South and scatter
salt over their land" One people first erect
upon the land noble structure and
dedlcate IL TO true Liberty, stamping her
image and engraving her rescrlpis on It's portals,
ana then snare all its uses with another people,
That OJher made strong by these uses, first dis
pule the liberty. then violently wrench it from
glorles on them. Then, In the mortal
struggles which the creators ana benefac-
tOrs make TO retain the substance and forms
the assailants destroyed all Institutions SUBJ
verted The foundations of human society, violated
and established system In which neither social
bonds nor public faith are venerated.
Nil crit Quod nostrs moribns addat
Poseritas Omne IN pr9clDIu vltium 6teut
A STRUGGLE WITH FANAr1oIsM
History Is the gazette and revelation OF the past
''nU3btE0 Uetstdtts ~ the master OF the present,
''nldOtStrG UitCP" The best knowledge granted TO
is tnat which inspires the soul wit reverence
Tor vIrtuous ancestry-with gratitude to those
VINO have sacrificed themselves that their pos
terltY may possess the truth. Tne grand privilege
n n uflp m
dutlful sentiments which bind men to emulate
tner oeneiactors, TO justify tnsir sacrces ana TO
eagerness and devotion thar they 10 from danger.
IL is only BY a true knowledge OF the past tnat
those who come after can be made the patriots
and the heroes whose high destiny II may be TO
condect their country to delivcrance and liberty.
! II these wO4ds Do true, then | dare avoucl II as
! the most imperative anu sacred duty OF THIS asso-
! citation OF the Alumni OF the university OF Vn-
gina 70 transmit TO posterity the true narration
! OF the facts and me irreVerslDie logic OF these
/ three score and ten years, and with " TO eX-
hiolt the seemingly dying effort OF moral, civil
/ fierce mIoerance and greedy lanatlclsm, sus-
! tanned by merely mechanical and physical
! forces and energies, and thus TO Justify before
| God and posterlry now valiant. how Vrtuous and
! how heroic men. women and chiluren may DE
/ who, mnerlting the promises OF Gods holy spirit
! to an INDUSTRIOUS ancestry, lmpelled by
1 nDal piety and sustained by the divine
| sentiment of patriotism, in asserting that
/ other mems cOnsciencesl In tnis record you are
/ to tel What you yourselves have borne In vain
/ oppOslgiOD to that mtoigrancel which mas swept
away yonr inheritance. Wat the ministers OF
that intolerance have done and whaE they are
now doing to destroy human hope you may
leave TO mat Coo whs, IL Ais Own hoiy ways,
avenges His own truth.
IN the corrupted currents OF this world
offences glded hand may shove by Justice;
But It's not 50 above.
There Eternal Jpsuce honors Caesar's less than
CaLos SWORD. There CerttGs seHsptterpdJ 4ens
THE FOUL CRIME
IT, then, this junction 10 duly performed, our
vocation is 20 unYeil the foulest crime which
stains the annals OF human history, by
folding the causes and relating the facts and re-
suits OF the recent war between New England and
the Confederate states, that war having swept
from national existence the majestic truths OF
civil ana religious liberty, ana set upon th3r
runs the mercenary fctlons OF ianatlcism, dlso-
bedience 10 che laws Of Nature ana re-
we must give the proof OF prodigy which
staggegs Dellel by facts which compel lis avow-
al 1t must there be puT upon your record,
Tor posterlty, that less than seven decades and a
lustrum sufiiceG TO uproo5 ana Gispel all venera-
tion for the past countless centuries and 10 en-
graft upon the chronicles and the civiliza-
ton OF the nineteenth century OF grace,
as It's most vital attribute and essential
element and power the most unnatural
crime COD has permitted man TO perpetrate.
This crime Is the triumphant blazonry OF the Con-
stituton OF tie United States, tue triumphant
record for the gaze OF nations, thab the liberties,
the lives, the consclences, the affections, the
Immortal hopes OF eight millions OF Christian men,
women and children, that our Liberties, are
judged by other mems CONSEQUENCES. There Is no
need here to-day, reeking as we are still under
unnatural domination, to Tecite the detaiis by
which IL came over us. Your Land Tor a thousand
leagues StTeaked Win the graves Oh our DfOtAefS,
and silent with the common OF terror, Is
the poor, dumb witness. You yourselves are
the living, present Witnesses, wearing the blood
bolt on your orows and the scars your hearts,
and can testify OF yourselves tnat all this Is the
quick lob OF a lustrum, worked by powder ana
steel ia the hands OF leutonlc and lr1sh brelngs,
"rnUldt JCsces," hired by promises and gnIaed by
brains under the moral Development OF the
'rlpening Influences OF humanitY.n Let your his
rans tell this to pOsterity, and your poets sing
OF 10 In funeral chant. Bus let them with 10 say
we were not suodued when Lee surrendered his
Qf 4 ".
suDdued wnen they scot thelr Sa1raps 10 plunder
ana degrade US. Let them say this in truth.
But, brothers, comrades, may not stand here
to-day In these holy places, at our baptismal
font, and say 10 you-conJure you py the ma
lesJic truth OF our cause-Dy all that Is sacred
In human nope ana iattn-Dy your trust in
Ihe promises of The immutaDe God, That your
historians shall not record or our cnlldren's chll-
dren, we are subouea, when with humole and alb
ject spirit we swallow the le-that Coo ana hui
manity demand that our religion. our liberty Shall
be judged by the emancipated negro and MS New
England master. ls mat tue civilization to be re-
corded Oy toe legatees OF Jefferson ior tne vene-
ration OF posterity-that " ion pended knees and
humDed hearts we PROSTATE cur souls, and thank
GOD that our lioerLles judged oy other mems
oonscences-that we have tue bastard heritage
nom Washington aud Lee, 10 cr3Wl on our bellies
20 negro and New England temples ana a. the
outer gates pray them-n0g to give US back our
happy homes not TO give Us back our slaughtered
children, net TO give US back our perfect liberty,
ont 60 lei US be Of them, that we, too may cee-
brete their altar with warnled hymns and forced
Ealelujahs and breathe Tor them amDros3l doors,
our base and servile offerings
peers Of Lee, this Is your liberty and your con-
science this day:
Bondage Is hoarse, and dare not speak aloud.
Else would tear The cave where Echo lies,
Aud make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
with repehtons.
TaE POLICY OF NEW ENGLAND.
Suppression, then, Is the policy of the represent
taJlves Of victorious. triumphant New England.
What Is the policy. or It's 50 nOnym ana compile
ment the duty OF the defeated, detected elOn and
rebel tation-open-wide manifestation.
To tell the world ana pOsJerly why We fought,
for what we fought ana how we fought, ana GOw
we nave struggled and suffered. To tell ali, sup
press nOgnlne, and let the bright record OF trutn,
valor ana nelOic fOrtitudetne SAD story OF defeat
and aDeCtiOn--gO 10 these children as an exam
PIE ana as warning mat
Whatever sa-es taught
genius could inspire must fade away,
each fair virtue wither tue blast
Oi Northern domination,
what, then, my brothers, we're our stakes IN the
ugHy conilct the arena OF which Was nall .
continent. ana tRe spectators world OF anxious
NATIONS
LAND AND LIBERTY.
Our STAKE was not only land and liberty, but