The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-06-12

from schools, colleges, and courts {
law they came; they came with blu
coats on their backs, with eagles o
their buttons and muskets on thei
shoulders, timing their high foot
steps to the music of the Union, an
making this streets of the great Me
tropolis like rivers of FURNISHED steel
Never was there grander call t.
patriotic duty, and never was there
more enthusiastic response to such
call and both the call and the re
spose showed that q Republic will
no standing army to fight its battles
could, nevertheless, safely depen,
upon It's patriotic citizens for defens
and protection in any great emergen
cy of peril Brave and noble spirits
living and dead. May your memory
never perish We tender you OF
this memorial day the homage of .
loyal nation, and the heartfelt graft
tude of emancipated millions. If the
great work you undertook to accom-
phsh is still incomplete if the law
less and revolutionary spirit is still
abroad in the country if the prin
ciples for which you braveIy fough'
are 10 any way compromised oil
threatened; if the Constitution and
the laws are in any measure dishon
ored and disregarded; if duly elected
State Governments are In any way
overthrown by violence; if the elec
tive franchise has been overborne by
intimidation and fraud if the South
ern States, under the idea of local self
government, are endeavoriny topsra-
lzye the arm and shrivel the body of
the National Government SO that it
cannot protect the humblest citizen
10 his rights, the fault is not yours.
You, at least, were faithful aud did
your whole duty.
THE EMBERs OF THE REBELLION
Fellow-citizens, | am not here to
fan the flame of sectionsi animosity
to revive old ;scnss, e.} to stir np
strife between races bat no candid
man, looking at the political situation
of the hour, can fail TO see that we
are still afflicted by tie painful con.
sequences both of slavery aud of the
great rebellion In the spirit of the
noble man whose image now looks
upon US we should have charity ID.
ward ell, and malice toward none"
In the language of our greatest sol
dier, twice honored with the Presi-
dency of the nation, Let us have
peace" Yes, let Us have peace, but let
US have liberty, law, and justice first.
Let Us have the Constitution, with
its thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, fairly interpreted, faith
fully executed, and cheerfuIly obey
ed in the fullness of their spirit and
the completeness of their letter.
Men can do many things in this
world, some easily and some with
difficulty; but there are some things
which men cannot do or be- When
they are here they cannot be there.
When the supreme law of the land is
Systematically set at naLght when
humanity is insulted and the rights
of the weak are trampled in the dust
by a lawless power; when society is
divided into two classes, as oppress-
ed and oppressor, there is nc power,
and there can be no power, while the
instincts of manhood remain as they
are, which can provide solid peace.
| do not affirm that friendly feelings
cannot be established between the
people of the North and South |
do not say that between the white
and colored people of the South, the
former slaves and the former masters,
friendly relations may not be estab-
lished. | do not say that Hon Ruth
erford B. HAYES, the lawful and
rightful President of the United
States, was not justified in stepping
to the verge of bis constitutional
powers to conciliate and pacify the
old master classes at the South; but
l do say that some step by way of
Cancellation should ONE from the
other side. The prod gal son should
at least turn bis back upon the field
of swine, and his face toward home,
before we make haste to fall upon
bis neck, and for MIN kill the fatted
calf. He must not glory 10 his shame,
and boas. his non-repentance. He
must not re-enact at home the excess
es be allo wed himself to commit in
the barre, and desolate fields of re-
bellioa. The last commanding ut
terence Of Southern sentiment is from
the late President of the Southern
Confederacy. He says: "Let not
any of the survivors of rebellion
impugn their faith by offering the
peni,eDtial plea that they believed
they were right" There is reason to
believe that Jefferson Davis, in this,
speaks out of the fullness of the
Southern heart, as we'll as that of his
own. He says, further, that Hero
ism derives its luster from the justice
of the cause 10 which i. is display
ed" And he holds, and the South
holds as firmly to day as when in re-
bellion, the justice Of the cause. and
that a just cause is never to be
abandoned
THE FEELINGS OF THE coLOREp RACE.
Ny own feeling toward the old
master class of the South is well
known. Though / have worn the
yoke of bondage, and have no love
for what are called the good old times
of slavery, there is in my heart no
taint of malice toward the ex-slave-
holders. Many Of them were no.
sinners above all others, but were 10
some sense the slaves Of the slave
system. for slavery was . power in
the State greater than the State it.
self. With the aid of few brilliant
orators and plotting conspirators, it
sundered the bonds of the Union and
insugurated war. Identity of inter-