Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-01

lHDOT was ulHnlted ana 10 he q labOrer was 10 be
king-a country that could produce from the hum
BILE rail splitter the martyred Lincoln, the kindest,
noblest, grandest man of modern history. The
wonderful development of the nor,h is a simple il
lustratlon Of the power of natures laws. The
ideas of the Purians grew because the climate
was propitious, even As in Europe Ptotestantism
developed above the sothermsl OF forty lone de-
grees.
What a contrast in the sunny South! The heat
OF 40 IS changed to 100. The murky sky be
comes smiling goddess that fairly laughs at la
bor The solemn oaks and dreary Dimes give
place to the PEI fumed magnolia and the dark
snge groves, gilded with the brilliant ies'amnr.
In winter the melancholy twittor Of the half
starved snow bird there find. voice in the saucv
chatter of the hooking bud, revealing in the pro
fusion OF nature Man can laugh at labor and
command nature to protect him. The struggle
for existence Is 30 slight that labor tends to be-
come ignphlc Plan alton life and its detes able
conc0mltaut. slavery, grew a. naturally as weeds.
The neEio il true child of the hot climate 70
the force of climate the South owes ITS industrial
bond of anion cotton, and its political bond, slav-
cry, we may add too, and the characteristics of
its people, brlancy, enthusiasm, personal indie
pendeuce and an insane adherence TO the PERM
cious heresv of States rights.
ofher di1erentist'ng causes due largely TO Gil
mate were also at work The north opened the
famous "red school house-" to the children Of the
poor. Rldicule the Puritsn4 YOU NAV, snccr at
the stern ascetclsm that scorned To- have fires in
e. urches because they sought comfort for their
souls, not for their bodies. They gave Us thai
priceless boon, the common school, and their chill
dren rise to call them blessed.
10 the South educat ion confined 10 the ar.
istocracy The "poor white" learned nothing
save the lessons of unlettered nature. To teach
the negro was statutory crime. Climate caused
tins, for education az the North fitted men for Ia
Dor, at the South none but property owners felt
its need.
Is slavery to he ignored altogether No. It
has played It's part 10 the gigantic drama. The
curtain has fallen upon the sckening scene Let
it remain. The South is not to be accused too
harshy Quetelet SAYS, "SOciety prepares the
crime, the culprit onv executes it" Slavery
pros peIed there because the climate favored it.
1t died natural deah in the North, because the
climate was such that it didn't pay. Roast not too
much Of your Puritan ancestry The Puritans
stole Indians and sold Quaker children into bond.
age Jefferson, speaking of the omission from
the Declaration OF Independence, of his celebrat-
ed denunciation of slavery, said, "Our northern
brethren, believe, felt a little tender under the
censure, for, though their people had very few
slaves Themselves yet thew had been pretty con-
siderable carriers of them 10 others" Auti-savery
ideas forced their in spite of Puritanism.
The agitation the Missouri question originat-
ed in party jealousy. Said Jefferson, at is party
trick The leaders of Federalism a,e taking adj
vantage of the virtueu. feelings Of the people to
effect division Of parties by geographical line ="
The two elements were approaching collision.
In 1916, when our ancestors were free traders the
a boomerang that returned to smite its projectors,
and taught us the blessings of prot ction. Afttr
the cowsldly compromise Of notification, Calhoun
boldly proc aimed the right Of secession. Horn
hle as slavery was it merely furnished pretext
for Southern leaders to agitate the insdious ques-
ton OF States rights.
Different in their early colonization, different
socially. intellectually and industriallv, two ma
tions, the North and South grew no to occupy
common country The North believed Andrew
oh riuht ha 4 f,,th no
Constitution of the United States forms a Cover n
ment not a league" The South claimed the
right of secession Each doctrine the legit-
innate outgrowth of the surroundings of its be-
levers. As Seward said in 1858, it was IAN ir-
repressbe conflict between opposite and endur-
ing forces"
Nothing but blood could settle question upon
whose decision hung the very life of the nation.
While the right of secession was debstabe ques-
ton. there could he no perfect union. Crush 1t
and the union would be insepa' able. Think you
the war fought to abolish slavery 1t was a
grander issue, the perpetultv of free institutions,
the existence of the nation, The greatest question
of civilization was at issue. the capacity of a peo-
pie for self-goyerDment.
What a war! A million men on land and sea
fought for national unity. Fought and crushed
the csncerous doctrine of secession forever.
Truly we can saw as did Pericles of his Athenan
countrvmen, that 1--WE are the only people of our
times who have been found to be greater by ex
perience than by report"
" hat prevents another collision. if this dagno-
sis is correct : Mr.. Lincoln answered the question
wears ago by saying, after YOU cease fighting,
the ident zeal questions rs to terms of intercourse
again upou YOU" To reard these tendencies
of climate to form race varieties, to bind seem
ingly discordant elements into "a more perfect
union these are the problems for the statesmen
of the future. The best we do is to control
the natural antagonsm az to subserve the best
interests of the whole country for IT must always
exist to a certain extent All the Fourth of July
orators, Southern policies. cancellation theories,
Boston literary clubs, and Bunker Hill cele
brstlons to the contrary notw outstanding.
Climate opposes US, but the topography of the
United States fits them to he the home of one
people. While the ordly Mississippi flows to the
sea. treason can never prosper in the imperial re-
lie.
Again, the antsgonism will he largely diminished
nv more frequent intercourse betw cen our reo.
pies.
Thank Heaven in al sincerity that no antagonism
now threaten the life of the nation. Secession
is dead buried in the graves Of a hundred Thousand
victims No matter what storms may come, the
States of the future will saw, "Onr constitution
forms government, not a league"
To our msrtyred dead this cor fideuce
10 the stability of the nation, this certainty that
oh dren and our chiliren's children will look up.
on the same flag and count upon its siken folds
the stars that shine in splendor there to-day
and with them behold sister stars vet Uniformed.
God forbid thst we should forget their price less
give and forget We willing to forgive
everything, the sorrows, the wounds, the tears,
the blood ,-chrisian charity could hardly do
Otherwise. But thet say, these new lights,
stir np old memories lest YOU retard the great
work of RECONCILIATION" Grieve not too much
for your heroic dead, saw they, save a portion of
vonr flowers and tears for the men that robbed
YOU of your dear Has it come to this
Forget Forget that rivers of blood and oceans
of tears have flowed from Northern homes to
cleanse and purify the nation Forget that the
story of our martyrs sacrifices is inscribed upon
the bleeding tablets of hearts burnt in by the
red-hot iron of experience When the blood-red
clouds of rained down their devastating floods,
when strong men bowed before the fury of the
tempest. little thought those war-worn veterans
that in few short years these literary dilettsnti
would call on them to apologize for wearing the
blue. Away with such mawkish sentiment
We will none of it. To forgive is gener-
Gus. To forget is insult to the heroic
dead. The empty sleeves that droop in mute
appeal. the snnken cheeks Of the poor victim
of Andersonville, The rusty Grape upon the
widows silvery hair, the trembling step Of the
aged sire, the folded hands of the stricken moth
mourning for her lost darling, pc haps her first
born son, CRY out in accents louder than words,
"Rememher your defenders forever. Remember
that every flag on Wonder graves nsrks tai
unpha arch through which hero passed TO
ceve upon the other side chapet of laurel for