The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14

u.nTiinB oniy III tGOSo eXternala which,
all the earth over, distinguish several
communities. That which is wanting ia
US is less of seif-ioye aud more of love
for our country q deeper, sincerer deyo.
tion to tho principles Of civil liberty
which are bound up in the system under
which we live; q self.sacrificing spirit
where tie honor of the nation is at stake.
Io se"tlonalism and partyism we owe our
undoing We shall owe our restoration
to nationalism, and to nationalisn, alone.
The man who was confederate, and is q
nationalist, must feel when treading the
floor of Faneui. hall that he is at home.
in every part of the South tie starry en-.
sign OF the republic must be not only q
symbol OF protection, but the source and
resource of popular enthusiasm. Above
all, The cabin of the poor man, whatever
his color, race or opinions, must be a
freeman's castle. In the North, consti-
tutional traditions must revive in the
South, the old inspirations of the Union.
declare here to-day that the South,
more especially the young manhood of
the South, yearns for national fellowship.
1t stretches out its arms to the national
government beseechingly; it entreats the
North not to build up national spirit
which shall in word or thought proscribeit,
or those who are to come after it. The
present generation of Southern men is in
no wise responsible for the acts of the
last 1t has no antecedcnts except those
which illustrated its sincerity and its
valor on the battlefield; its fidelity TO
its beliefs; its fidelity to its leaders; its
fidelity to itself These are but so many
hostages to the nation at large. Instead
Of Of s,;r tko al. c-f
should throw over the South the flag of
the republic; should place in front Of it
the emblematic eagles of the State;
should fold it round from the dark and
the light with the instinct Of maternity,
tendcrest of its crippled offspring. To
the young men Of the South the country
South. They should carry no dead
weights either in their hearts or on their
backs. The work of physical Liberation,
which is happily ended, is to be followed
by greater, a grapder work-the work
of moral emancipation. a sagacious
craftsmanship, even more than a generous
magnanimity, points to this as the hope
of the white man and the black man
the real restoration of the Union; the
true solution of the problems of life and
labor raised up by the mighty vicissitudes
Of the last fifteen years.
1t is not my purpose to speak ofcurrent
political issues, except these which arc
always current, which are above gil par.
ties-our whole country, our whole
people-the glory of the one, the integrity
Of the other. Those Of us who stood in
front of the battle, who suffered and
endured, settled the account between
ourselves long ago. We may quarrel
never so much, as honest men will and
as honest men ought, about the things of
to-day. That is republicanism which
gives each man the right, as it imposes
upon each the duty, to speak his mind
out freely, to make his wants known
subject neither to bayonet nor ban
limited only by the injunctions Sc. by
God upon the sincerity, no less than the
courage, of all mems conviction. In the
party sense, we may quarrel to-day and
fraternize tomorrow what boots it?
There is &c enc of us who does not know
in the core OF his heart that, us matters Of
fact and truth. such ouarrels have no
bottom to them They make us angry,
abusive, ungcnerous. AS rule, the
| warmest and truest natures are, for the
| moment most intolerant. The most
charitable, the most magnanimous of
| men, believing themselves in the right,
believing all who do not agree with them
in the wrong, become unyielding, and
even bitter. It is an attribute of simple
earnestness. Those who possess it should
prize it, and, after the event, weigh its
conclusions with discrimination. Let n
counter-interest come between, let
common grief, and 10! the mist rises.
Those who worship the same God, who
kneel at the same shrine, who breathe to
Heaven the same prayers, who sing the
same songs, in whose mouths the inspira-
tions of holy writ and the precepts Of
Anglo-Saxon freedom are rs familiar rs
household words, can afford no impassa-
BILE gulfs,' cannot seriously aud perma-
nentIy be estranged. The dead who lie
here; the dead Of all the battle fields,
the dead oc the South and the North,
comrades at last in the Immortality ofthe
soul, can leave us, do leave us, this lesson
only: That we are Americans; that we
are, republicans; that we are blessed
in our condition that we should cherish
it and one another, for Gods sake and
for the honor of the flag The poet put
1t inversely when he wrote:
II think in the lives of most women and me::
There's time when nll might go smooth
| and even,
| If only the tionti could find out when
To come back and be forgiven"
Alas, it is the living who must go to the
dead for Instructions. The brave hearts
that lie about us here have nothing to
ask of us. They, are everlasting, now.
They know all. They are moved no
longer by the fever, the worry and the
fret, the error and tho folly, the laughter
and the tears of this poor world. Tney
need seek the forgiveness of none of US.
They earned their title Of the everything
God on tho field of battle. I would put
upon iheir graves the inscription which
marks the resting g-place of two brothers
i in Virginia, who fell on opposing sides,
(Which was right, God knows?" care
not to know. / do know that all of us
thought vu mere right ....l., feeling no
do, would visit, and revisit, these burial
places, not to illumine the torches of the
past, but, by humiliation and prayer, to
draw from those mystic forces of 18th
which move us we know not how, some
token, some guiding light, for tie future
hope, my friends, that, though speak
ing in the general, and making no effort
at display, put the case with plainness
All of us here are neighbors. We know
each other fairly we'll; we ere moved by
the everyday promptings of our lot
sor,e good. so.ne i'll. We ought not t.
desire ceremony like this to be impos
ing, or grand, or in any way ostentatious
He would be a poor maker of phrase
who ccnld not tern it to sccount. q
come to you, come back TO you, wh'
went hence boy, but who hrs preservet
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