Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-10-10
A Tribute to Southern
HerOiSnl.

i'he London Stdndara, a leading
English newspaper, pays tribute
to the heroism displayed by the
people of the South drring the
prevalence OF the yellow fever cpl
, demic, of which the foil. winS is an
, extract
"Snch is tbs characrer, such are
J the conditions of the country upon
which has fallen this yedr one of
: those awful visitatious with which
England is acquainted only through
history and books of travels. The
cholera as we have known It, no
tttore resembles in horror and de
strnctiveness the pestllence now
affecting our kinsrt1en, than the
mall'pnx Of thes,- days of compul-
sorry vaccination resembles the
small. pox as it was kuuwn-'he
ever over'hanging terror Of fami-
lies, an evil far fhore terrible than
consumption itself--under the
Stdarts. As yet the evil has not
run it's course. There are no slgus
of any relaxation in its violence
Another month or six weeks may
pass before the change of climate
which serves the Southern States
for winter can be e8 -)ected TO
check its course and by tha, TIME
it may we'll hays wrought havoc
not less terrible than the plague as
known id the Levant and at Con
stantinople; or as it once visited
London and lett behind it tradi.
tior of awe aud terror never for
gotten. It may we'll be, indeed,
that this terrific scourge may leave
the South, as the Black Death of
the middle ages lest her mother
land, reft of one-third of her popu'
ialion.
"The younger among us cannot
perh APPS remember the keen, warm
sympathy with which the English
of 1961-65 witnessed the heroic
Struggle maintained by their South
ern kinsmen against the six fold
odds of numbers, and odds OF posi-,
ton, resources, vantage srottd,
simply incaIculable. Even those
who from ympathy with the
Northern States were unfavorable
to the cause of great nation re
Voting against Il real tyranny,
could not but feel proud Of our
uear kinship with that iucompa,-
ablg s0idiery-so designated by
their which, on fifty bat
tefeld>, maintained a contest such
AS ito other race has ever in mod
ern times maintained, and at last
when all hope was gone; held fol
~ix months, with forty-fi five thous
and ti1en; against one hundred and
fifty thousand, slender line of
earthworks thirty miles in length i
who marched out $4,000 strong,
and after six days retreat in the
facE of the countless cavalry and
overwhelming artillery and idfant-
~ pressing them on all sides, sur
rendered at last but 5000 bayouets
aud sabres. 1t is this people, the
flower and pride of the great Eug
lish race, on whom more terrible.
more merciless enemy has now fal
len. Tke:e Can be now no division
of sym pathy, as there IS no pats
sion to excite and keep up the
courage needed for the 6Ecasion
Yet the men aud women of the
South are true to the old tradition.
Her youth volunteer to serve and
die in the streets Of plague stricken
cities as rapidly as they vent fdtthj
boys dud gray haired ttieh, te meet
tho th, eateted sdrprise of Peters
brrg-as they volunteered to
charge again aud agaiu tItB can
non Gto"ted hills of Gettysburg,
and to enrich with their blood, and
honor with the name of new vic
tory, every field around Richmond.
Their sisters, mothers, wives and
daughters are doing aud ST fering
now, as they suffered from famine.
disease, lncessant anxiety and
alarm throughout the tour years OF
the civil war. There may be among
the various hatfohs Of The Aryan
family one or two who could claim
that they could have furnished
troops liks those Hlich foIfBwe3
Lee and Johnston; Stuart and
Stonewall Jackson. But we doubt
whether there be one race beside
our own that could send forth its
childteh BY hundreds to face in
towns desolated by ths yellow
fever the horrors of nurses life,
and the imminent terrors of a
MARTYRS dgath."
Constant Love Rewarded.