The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-28
OPENING MS EYES.


Effect OF Uis Recent Trip Hollow Mason
ana DlSon's iiur--The Southcrncre NJ oral
Heroes. ii
In recent sermon Henry Ward
Beccherspoke of sectional strife as
, follows:
One other element. From this state
of public sentiment how easy that
there should grow up sectional dis
likes, race dislikcs! We have more
than 100000 foreigners, more than
4,00O,OO negroes. Out of O,0OO, 900
or 50,OO0,000 people nearly onc-third
are foreigners come here with al their
foreign institutions aud habits and
social customs-come, In to minglc
with us. How natural for rcpugnanccs
to spring.up, misunderstanding, pre-
judiccs, hatrcds. This people was
divided by an invisible linc-morally
visible cnougl.-and this great nation
was separated, the North from the
South, and stood in bloody antagonr
Ism through five years. And now my
own Judgment is that when you con-
slider human nature; what it is to hold
property ofany kind; for people to
have that property swept out Of their
hands, the rich among them reduced
to absolute poverty, y great bulk of
men who never knew how to work
left to subsist by learning how to
work; when you consider that tho
ascendcncy Of tho despiscd slave was
established by-to thcm-torcign pow
crs; when you consider what the effect
OF legislation was: of the interposition
OF foreign influence; when | sec Il
great people, proud, jealous, pushed
out fpolitical power, out Of wealth,
reduced to the very bottom with /,
scrVilc class put over their heads, their
whole industry revolutionizcd-I
should not have wondered if there had
been great deal moro of resistance
than there has been ut the South. |
90 say that in the whole history of tho
human race there never has been an
example ola people that bore such
rovcrscs, on the whole, with as much
patience, as much grandeur, as much
patriotism rs they have done. GSub-
ducd applause. The spectacle of
moral grandeur in this revolution, the
substantial patience, the substantial
good sense ofthose so terri(ically bo-
rcavcd is without parallel in human
nature, and any meanness tending to
stir up a spirit of animosity between
the North and the South, or between
the East and the West, or the German
and the Irish, or the white against the
black, that spirit is most mischicyous.
We are all one, all united. When
there was need that the North should
be ncrvcd to great eXertion in order
to counteract the arrogant assertions
or plantation supremacy, | was not
wanting in courage to speak. Now,
when that time is past, and the time
has come for peace and love and
union, | speak again. We arc all
united together on ono ship; we sail
oil to a prosperous voyage together, or
We founder altogothor. What we
need is love, sympathy, communion.
Although | hated slavery, I never
hated the slave-owncrs; l loved the
slave andI loved his master; | love
mankindi love them, because Christ
loved them; l love them not for what
they arc going to be; l love them
because every one Of them is u man
for whom Christ died, and when wo
rise and stand before Him in the iudp-
ment, II will be bad for us to look
backto Single thought that struck
at the heart or life of any human be-
ing, and it will be bright beam of
light Ill our memory to sec how by
love we have overcome hatred"