National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-07-08


the hand and sound judgment of GEORGE
WASHINGTON. This may be regarded as q
Fourth of July freak of the Herald, which
will pass off when PHILIP drunk appeals to
PHILIP sober and reason RECEIVERS its health
ful equilibrium. st. Louis and the great
West, which have relinqushed iruitess
crusade at Capital moving, will simply
laugh at this crotchet of the Herold, and
will ask it, "Dont you wish you could?"
con CILIaTIoN AND PACIFICATIoN.
While the Georgia Democrats, through
their organ, the Savannah Rccordc, are lu-
gubriously suing for a hand-shaking with
the North over the bloody chasm and are call
ing for surrender of Northern sectional
take u glance at the other side of the pic
turc and see whether or not the South Is
surrendering any of its sectional feeling aud
prejudice. We have before us copy of n
memorial address which was delivered not
very long ago by the Rev. WALKER LEWIS,
at the Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga. We
have not room for the entire address, but
will make sufficient extracts therelrom TO
show that the fires of sectional hate burn
as fiercely since as they did while lighted
up by the torch of war and rebellion. The
reverend Confederate opened his bitter and
unrcconstructed and unreconciled ieremaid
in this wise:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: We meet here to
commemorate our fallen heroes and emphasize
our loyalty to the cause for which they died
Mindful of their herOism aud selfimmolaton
in our behalf, we should greet every Memorial
Day with the symbols Of veneration and abid
ing gratitude. The clay that sentinels their
sacred dust from proiano intrusion is greatly
! honored, aud privileged in no common way arc
| the hearts that mingle tears and flowers upon
their silent graves.
The motives that impelled our dead to take
the sword need no aid from men to insure sue
cessiul defense; from the heights of their sub.
| lime holiness they can never be disodged. No
thirst for blood, no greed of gain, no instinct
to plunder, was the impusive cause of thor
| arming; and not before their country was in
vaded and their rights were imperiled did they
appeal to wars stern arbitrament.
AS ABRAHAM spoke in the olden time to his
| kinsman. Lot, the South, before her sword was
drawn, had said to the North, Let there be no
| strife, pray thee, between me and thee. Is
not the whole land before thee? Separate
! thyself, / pray thee, from me if thou will
| take the left hand, then | will go to the
right: Or if thou will take the right hand,
then | will go to the left" Oh, if the words,
Let us have peace" hypocrtically spoken of
| late years by the retiring Executive of in-
famous notoriety, had then been the answer of
the North to these pathetic pleadings, this
| continent would not have been shaken by the
| rude jostle of coliding armies nor would our
skies have been rent asunder by the sobbings
of an oppressed and bercaved people.
Her intercessions disregarded the South
called upon her sons to draw the sword and
maintain their rights. The gallant dead TO.
sponded, and, standing before the altar of
| their self.respect and manhood, with unCov-
cred head they swore to vindicate their rights
or die in the attempt. Did they ever repudi-
ate their solemn oath and promise? From
the angels that witnessed theirdying struggles
at Shiloh, ut Frankfort, at Murfrcesboro', at
| Sharpsburg, at Malvern Hill, at Gettysburg.
| ut the bloody Wilderness, and wherever the
battle flag was unrurled the unanimous re-
sponse comes ringing down the skies, They
were faithful unto DEATH"
They, whose moral sense is inverted, OF
whose perception of wOrthiness is obstructed
by malicious prejudices, call these men "reb'
els" If spirit to contend for right and strug
gle for sclf-goyernment unto death make men
'rebels," we accept this title with immeasure
able PRIDE and thank God for so glorious O
distinction and so enviable a pre-eminence
and we tell these miscreants that tho spirit
which sprung the South to " rebellion in
1861, exists among us STILL now and forever in
| supprcssible, with the maj jesty of such unqucs
| toned authority as to command the following
Of true men for thousand generations.
The reverend orator then reminds the
South that though the Confcderacy
sis dead, the cause it embodied has no
"perished; it is imperislable" This, VIZ
suppose, is a good reason why the Nortl
should rush up to the brink of the blood,
chasm and shake the rebellious hand whicl
yet clings to the spirit aud principles of thC
rebellion. Let US shake Then he pro-
ceeds:
Mon of the South, If we obstruct not thi.
cause, it will send the gospel of deliyerance Il
its former prosecutors and present detractors
and unless they are given over to Hardness o.
heart and reprobacy of mind it will ultimate
ly bring them to a knowledge of tho only truti
by which the Union can be perpetuated, with
out which its demolition is certain. Stand
then, to your principles, and give the presen
hypocrtiCal Administration the tribute of you
immeasureable l0athng. Its head, If not him
self q thief, Is knowingly the receiver Of stolel
goods, aud neither previous worth nor subse
| quent conservatism can condone the injuSliC
of his Infamous Inauguration or cover til
shameless degradation of wearing the stoe
honors of another False to his own party
false to the stupendous villains that gagge
States In his behalf, false to the Blacl
Commission and its perjured Judge all that h
does with seeming decency Is only the bid o
hypocrite for tho treachery of Others Claim
ing credit for slowly doing what legally an
deccntly he could not fail TO do with haste, Ii
speaks Of "poliCy," but is silent about principle
Tho light flashed over the States that lay bu
recently in darkness was not kindled by hin
but was struck from his hinty sehshness b.
the steel Of Southern manhood and the right
of outraged people now enjoyed again were no
conceded willingly by him, but were oxtorte
from his intriguing soul by the force of a rC
; sistless cause. A political PECKsNlFF, he
, barely less despicable than his Infamous pre-
decessOr, whose low aud brutal instinct
prom iNed such conduct as gives JUDAS
chance to vndicate his character, aud whC
had he only gone from the Executive Man
sion aud hanged himself for his betrayal {
decency, would have broken the low monoton
; of his life, by one time doing well. We cOul
: have borne our bereavement with unmurmul
ing resignation.
True men will never bow the knee to thl