The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29

trust, lay upon the holy altars of our lib
critics the trophies of their industries.
To demonstrate in diviner amplitude
that fraternal and chivalrous sentiment
which inspired the heroes of Fitz Hugh
Lees Palmetto Legion and those of Mas
sachusetts to bury their enmities in the
classic soil Of Bunker Hill, our associa-
ton opened wide the doors of its hospi-
tality. They had not forgotten that
Robert Toombs, accepting on time the
invitation of the citizens of Massachu.
sets, discussed the "Divine right of
slavery" in old Fanueil Hall, that cradle
of our national liberties. The fact was
fresh in their memory still that Horace
Greeley, after the cessation of hostilities,
accepted the invitation to address the
State Agricultural Association of Texas.
There were no indignation meetings, no
bitter remonstrances from the soldiers in
gray to heap personal insult upon the old
philosopher, or revive in his mind MEM
ories that would be painful to bear. Yet,
for half a century he waged violent
crusade against the policy and institu-
tions of the South, and hurried the
fercest invectives against her political
representatives.
Our industrial association, in its invi-
tation to the honorable and venerable
president, the impersonation, in an
eminent degree, of the genius and aspir-
ations of the South, aimed to unite the
industrial interests and cooperative
spirit of both sections beneath the pro.
tecting banner of restored and united
nationality. Ten long years of bitter ac-
ceptance of the irreversible results of
civil war upon the part of the South
should be sufficient to write law of gen.
eral amnesty, higher than Presidents can
grant, upon the heart of every Northern
citizen-an amnesty embracing in its
broad philanthropy the restoration of all
rights and immynities that existed when
Northern and Southern blood mingled in
q common sacrifice on Mexican soil.
Both sections of our common country, in
their geographical position and their
varied productions, united also by broad
and navigable rivers, are inseparably as
sociated in their commercial and indus
trial interests. If the fertility of our
prairies fills the granaries of a continent; /;
the capacity of your soil in its cotton
supply feeds the manufactures Of a world.
In behalf of our nations centennial,
which has recently passed-in behalf of
our diplomatic relations with the great
civilized nations of Europe, which respect
governments in proportion TO their
strength and unity-in behalf of our vast
undeveloped resources, which should in-
terlink our States in bonds of mutual
sympathy stronger than steel, we appeal
to the patriotism and magnanimity ofthe
whole country to bury in one grave of
eternal oblivion their sectional animosi-
| ties.
Personally, it would have afforded me
the greatest satisfaction to have extended
to the venerable ex-President the hospi-
talities of my humble home. In the re-
visitation of the old tramping ground of
his earlier years, it would have delig GIFTED
his heart to have realized the rapid de-
velopment of the West in those illimita-
BILE reaches of wild, rolling prairie trans.
formed into fruitful farms and dotted all
over with fourishing homesteads, and its
magnificent water courses resounding
with the anthem of our mechanical in
dustries.
1t would have kindled my enthusiasm
to have sat down by his side and listened
to the recital of his eventful experience
| in the musical cadences of that voice,
which, on great occasions, had aforetime,
hushed the chambers of the national
| capital by the irresistible pathos of its
eloquence. I fain would have enriched
his experience with the realizations Of
the fullest hospitality that the reminis-
cence of his pleasant sojourn with us,
might hereafter, steal in upon the quiet
evening of his life, like remembered
strain Of sweet and delicious music.
Did the invitation of the Winnebago
County Agricultural Society, to the dis
tinguished ex-P President, so illustrative Of
the diyiner qualities of our humanity,
| compromise in the least, the loyalty, the
magnanimity or the Christianity of the
North? If it did, then life of perfect
Christian integrity would compromise
the Sermon on the Mount"
Under the classic civilizations, it was
prohibited that any inscription commem-
| morative of the struggles of internecine
war, should be sculptured upon iron,
brass or marble. Has our civilization
gained nothing of magnanimity and
principle in the progress of two thou
sand years? Has our American repub-
lie reversed the law of national progress
and adopted the law of retaliation of the
federal times?
Our industrial Association, that took
the initiative step in the cause of recon-
ciliation, in its invitation to President
Davis, on more recent occasion made
conspicuous its strong fraternal feelings
to the citizens of South Carolina in its
hospitalities to your distinguished Gov
ernor, the Hon. Wade Hampton.
You remember in the Oriental legend
how that the Magil discovering star in
the East followed it until its benignant
beams shown down, Illuminating the
birth place of the infant Messiah.
The eyes of the whole North, intently
watching the changes in the kaleido-
scope Of public events, discovered star
of the first magnitude, rising in fall
orbcd splendor, above the political hori-
zon of South Carolina. This planet
genius possessed quite an eccentric orbit
| On one occasion it flashed out in marvel
Gus brilliancy from the meridian at Au-
burn, n. Y, and on another, at White
Sulphur Springs, Va, it diffused its daz-
zling splendors.
Under the instructions of our official
managers, 1 determined, by the assist
ance Of some principle of physics or met
aphysics, to divert this luininary from its
orbit and compel it to revolve around
the northern section of Illinois.
When I wrote my first letter of invita-
tion to your Governor, I must have felt
as Mahomct did, when he addressed the
mountain. 1t was highly complimentary
that one or the other should accept to Sc
cure the interview. continued sending
invitations, and telegraphic dispatches,
and to be relieved of my persistency, and
for the good it might accomplish, the
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