The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-03
THE RoW oR PRonIsE.

After four years OF terrible strife on the
battlefield, and decade Of discora, the
era Of good feeling seems coming, Ike a
new and better dswnihg, over tins great
country. The people Of the different Sec
tons have q better understanding Of and
with each other than before the tremend-
Gus conflict that convulsed q continent
The bitterness Of collision is swiftly passing
away, and the desire is general and strong
for knitting the bonds of peace and good
viii, and working together for the advance.
ment Of our common interests and our
common greatness. When Gen. Bartlett,
Of Massachusetts,, recently spoke for
his State in South Carolina, his r. wise,
fraternal words awoke1a a response in
the Southern heart which showed that
the chord Of brotherhood was but waiting
for the touch. When Mr., Kelley, who has
for twenty years been radical leader of a
pronounced and even extreme type made
journey through the South, he went back
frankly Fegretting his harsh utterances AID
partisan sentiments, and deplored his vote
in favor Of the force bin. Vice President
Wilson has just completed a Southern tour.
At st. Louis he made speech to large
and select gathering, attesting Southern
kindness and good fellowship. He believed
that the Southern people were making
great efforts to improve the conntry's and
their own condition, and were zealously
cultivating the spirit of brotherhood and
peace. In conclusion he uttered these
ringing words:
We have a magnificent continental en-
pire; we have proved ourselves in peace and
war brave people; we are a strong people
united we stand against the world united
we are to be, and it is the duty of the pa
triot and the Christian to bind every section
of this land together in bonds of love, af-
fection and interest. This country is large
enough for us all, and we should, by word
and act, coEcede equal rights to all men;
we should put into our hearts what we put
intOour Constitution and laws, and peace
and harmony, brotherly love and a rivalry
In doing good and in building up the coun-
try will animate every heart in every sec
tion of the land.
The concilatOry and patriotic utterances
of Jefferson Davis, in his recent triumphal
tour through Texas, are fresh in our hearts
and memories, and come like grand and
fitting echo to these benign words from
representative MEN Of the North and East.
The highest need of this country is
more perfect union of the hearts and affec-
tions of the people. We are outwardly one
nation, and must be one in sympathy and
feeling, working for those benefoent ends
which involve the common good, before we
can attain that grandeur and amplitude of
power and prosperity which is our birth
right. The sorrowful past, its wrongs and
bitterness, should be buried out of sight
nor should its dark memories be suffered to
thrust aside the profered hand of renewed
fraternity. Those who would perpetuate
bitterness, and foster wretched resent
ments and distrust, only exhibit 1ncapaeity
to comprehend the needs of the age,
which demands that fading memories of
war be overgrown with the luscious fruits
of universal good win. 3un