The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-08-02

has finally and fairly abandoned the
idea Of setting up in business on her
own account, or il it is admitted that
secession aud slavery are dead past
resurroc'ion, there iB lingering
feeling among us that her people are
still at heart disloyal, and live under
the old flag and form part Of the
Union from necessity, not from
choice. II is this perhaps not unreal
souable distrust that keeps alive tho
ethbers of sectional bitterness, which
are easily famed into a consuming
flame by the breath Of Blaines and
Mortions and Pbillipses aud Wades
who share it, and who would not
havo the fire extirgutshed if they
could do it by q word. Yet we boz
lieve. and the belief is founded upon
observation and experience, that this
distrust rests upon ignorance and the
false views of Southern character and
aims. There is q solid South TO day,
n South more sold than the Confede
racy OF twelve years ago, but it is a
South as solid for union Us that was
solid for secession. In the days gone
by thirteen States were united in an
effort to withdraw from the Federal
Union and establish government of
their own; now the samo States are
united to demand for themselves the
rights and benefits Of members Of the
same Union. The struggle for re-
cognition as members of tho Federal
family began ae soon as it was known
and acknowledged that the struggle
eor separate nationa! life had ended,
and it will continue until tho North
aud South agree that the Union is
really restored and that the Statos
forming it are not inseparablo, but
possessed of the same privileges there
under. There is nisapprehension on
both sides. The North distrusts the
South's loyalty; tho South distrus,B
the North's good will. When all
this distrust is dissipated there will
be no lack of loyal or fraternal SEN
timent ON either side.
These reflections arc suggested by
q perusal of one of tho most notable
speeches of the year, although hith-
erto almost unnoticed. 1t was de-,
Iivered by an ex-Confederato General
before his old comrades at q reunion
Of Hoods Brigade at Waco, Texas.
The orator was General T. M. Lo-
gan, the youngest Major General in
the Southern Service, but now lead
ing lawyer and author, and one of
the foremost thinkers in the South.
His subject was "The Nationaliza-
tion of America" and there is not a
line in the address that might not
have been spoken as appropriately
and have been we'll received in Penn.
sylvania before an audience of Union
veterans as in Texas before an audis
enCe Of Confederate veterans. The
proposition was shat no nation has
ever been permanently established
without common ties to unite its
people, without some bond of union
to hold the people together. There
must be social cohesion, whether re-
sulting from past associations, and
the attachments of ancestry or from
future hopes and the sympathies of a
common destiny. The first condi~
tion of national unity is q national
ized people, but tho American peo-
pie have been nationalizod. Differ
encee Of interest destroyed the con-
ditions which seemed favorable to
nationality when the government was
established, and these differences
embroiled the country moro than
fifty years. The alternating differ
ences being destroyed the greatest
obstacles to national unity no longer
exist. They were due to conflict Of
institutions, not to those inherited
principles which arc ineradicable.-
There is no irreconoilable political