The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-05-30

results of these mighty principles as
wrought out by the terrible tornado
and bloody tempest which left these
graves here under the Kennesaws
and filled a thousand such acres
from Gettysburg to the Rio Grande,
l. A better understanding of each
other between the North and the
South--a cooling of the fires of
Southern anger and a sweetning of
the bitter springs of Northern envy
visits of representative men in
large numbers from section to sec,
ton, and the full awakening of un-
curdled f7eternal feeling. =
2. A willingness to concede the
dues of each to the other and an un
biased effect to know what those
dues are. For example, Joseph
Cook told Boston on the first day of
April, instant, only twenty-five days
ago "a Boston man told Boston
audience, what he would not have
said few years ago-that at is a
highly suggestive fact that the South
claims that it has a greater number
of pupils in its classical, professional
and technical schools than New
England in proportion to its popu.
lation." And added the following
statistics from the census of 1870 {:
Il abbreviate from 'The Indepen~
dent of April II, 1879 "In the six
New England States there is white
population of 3,455,000. In Ten~
nessee, Alabama, Georgia, Louis.
lana, South Carolina and North
Carolina, there is a white popula-
ton of 3,47G,000. But, although
possessing nearly the same number
of inhabitants, this group of North
ern States has only $4,000 pupils in
classical, professional and technical
schools, while the Southern group
has 10000, or more than twice as
many" We of the South never did
make the claim that the negro was
taught letters and hence it was I'M
fair TO count them against us 10 es
timating the comparative illiteracy
of North and South. We thank Mr..
Cook for this statement, but you
will remember this was on the basis
of the census of 10 only fire years
after peace, add to that five another
eight and bring us down to the pres
ent, and assuming that the proper
ton among the whites in higher
schools remains the same, and count
with the white children in the com
mon schools the thousands Of colored
children in schools of the same
grade, and the dark mark will have
to be drawn elsewhere than across
the face of the map of Georgia and
some other Southern States look
for census of 1880.
3. In the fearful peril of civil
strife, the peculiar institution"
slavery, went down, and |, for one,
thank God it did. We and our
children will be all the better for it.
The political outlook is bright and
cheering. Bayonets no longer rule
in South Carolina or Louisiana, each
State is controlling its own affairs in
its own way and all are together up
holding the Constitution of our coun
try. Corruption, whether Republi>
can or Democratic, is under the ban
it is giving way in all its fastness>
es and even the gigantic fraud-if
fraud it be--Uf the Presidential steal
is being unearthed, that the people
may know their wrongs and know
ing promptly rectify. And here
take pleasure 10 Offering, as an ex
ample of Southern good will, my
own opinion with regard to Mr..
Hayes remaining in the Presidential
chair,-where he was placed by the
consent Of the north and without
violent opposition from the south =
which is, that could my vote decide
the question he would be president till
the fourth of March, 1851. But no
longer. The Southern States are
represented for the most part, and
soon will be entirely, by her own
galaxy Of brilliant sons among whom
there is none more noble, none
more grand, none more universally
admired and respected than our own
battle SCARED Gordon.
4. The spirit Of true brotherhood
is on the increase as evidenced by
the late grand gathering from every
State and Territory and from the
British provinces at the Information
al Sunday School Convention in At
lanta, Ga. Our Gate City was re-
cognized by Gen Fish Of N. Y, be-
fore that convention in an able
speech, as the Jerusalem OF the pres
ent to which the faithful flock, -
There was in that assembling no
no cant, but genuine
flow Of christian sympathy and out.
burst of christian speech. And this,
the word of God, is to be the plat>
form, and christian love, the princi
pie which will yet bear all our feet
and fill all our hearts. Such are
some of the present results which
bat point to the Aurora of political
promise for peoples President in
1881, to go on widening and deep
ening, and gathering and strength
ening from political to social, and
from social to christian prosperity
aud fellowship till we are bound to
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