The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-12-07
Grateful for Northern Aid.

Whether or not we have ever again
to face visitation such as has Just
passed over us, whether or not we 90
onward to the fulfllment of our destiny
in freedom from all affliction and dis
tress, it is certain that we cannot for a
moment, while we live, forget the SPLEEN
did exhibition of sympathy which the
North and West, by one common and
spontaneous impulse, has lavished upon
us in our desolation. No grander spec
tacle than this has embellished the his
tory of mankind. There has been moth
ing in it of half-hearted fervor or halt
ing earnestness, nothing of display or
calculation. 1t has been eager, loving,
warm, unselfish, unstinted as the winds
of heaven, cordial as the kiss of love.
No one can think of it a moment with
out feeling his heart melt within him
ana throb to quicker and truer meas
ure than ever it knew before. There
is no way to tell the story as it should
be told, no means of paying tribute as
it should be paid. No tome that hui
man hands have fashioned could hold
the divine record, no monument that
human hands might rear would fifty eel
citrate the unutterable splendor of the
act. What we can do, and what we all
should glory in doing, is to keep alive
the sweet and sacred memory, with all
its kindred growth of gratitude and af-
lection, as the first and dearest duty of
our lives. 1t should be our proudest
consciousness ten years hence to feel
that the sentiment is as fresh and liv-
ing as it was when we cried out in our
sorrow, and the North, throughout its
length and breadth, sent back the thun-
der of her magnificent response. 1t
should be our secret shame to feel that
we had ever once forgotten or been I'M
faithful to the lesson of that apothesis
of fraternal love and kindness.
In all this we refer especially to the
North and West. Our own people in
the South have been full of sympathy
and good works. The town of Mont
gomery, Ala, alone subscribed and
sent to the sufferers the splendid sum
of $40, 200, and yet Montgomery is small
and struggling, and hardly able to hold
its own. All such things as these, how
ever, were to be expected. We are
brethren among ourselves, in the full
est sense of the word, and have always
taken that for granted. 1t is the glad
ness and the surprise and the gratitude
of finding that the North claims brother
hood also that makes the pleasantest
and most acceptable feature of the
thing we are discussing. That every
where throughout the borders of the
great and bustling and busy North
there should be so quick and hearty
and spontaneous an outburst of good
will, furnishes the dearest and most
memorable ingredients in our present
thought. The knowledge that we are
once again a united people, and that
fellowship and fraternity have swept in
a great and loving flood over the dis
sensions of the past, is the most pre-
cious possession we have to-day.
We wish, if it were possible, that
some acknowledgment might be made
from us which should be as eloquent as
the thing to be acknowledged. That,
of course, cannot be until the North
shall fall into as evil strait as ours has
been, and we shall come as eagerly and
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bring ourselves to hope for that, and so
must be content with declaring that in
our hearts we feel, what language can
not frame or pen express, the full
and significance of the North's
superb manifestation in our behalf.
More than that, we shall keep that
feeling warm in our breasts as long as
the life blood pulses there, and teach
our children to hand the story down the
coming years. Words seem poor and
all inadequate in treating such a theme
as this, yet we know that if the North
could see clearly into the hearts of their
brethren here it would understand that
the seed has been sown in fertile soil,
and that the harvest will be blessing
and glory to mankind. -NeU Orleans
Times.
POTTER, who started some months
ago to trundle a wheelbarrow from
Albany to San Francisco for 81 900, has
reached his destination and won his
money, having made an average of 23I
miles day, or little over four miles
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