Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-18
THE NORTH AND SOUTH,

Talmage in his last Thanksgiving sermon
said
THE land is struck through and through
with peace. The warmest eulogies of Gar
field uttered at the South and the hcartiest
appreciation Of the deceased Senator Hill.
Of Georgia, uttered at the North. and Wen.
dell Phillips and Robert Toombs, if they
happened to meet, would shake hands with
each other, and the former could lecture to
an applarding audience in Savannah. and
the later could call the roll of national
n crcies at the foot of Bunker Hill Gov
crnor Coquitt's last signature before lea, :
ing the executive mansion i'll Geol ia secur-
ed S5,O00,000 of Northern capital to that
State. There is hardly Il Northern CITY
whC &c there are not Confederate generals
III lis law Offices or commercial establish
ments or insurance companies. There YOU
sit or stand to-day, side by side-you who
wore the blue and you wore the gray-you
who klndled fires on the opposite side of
the Potomac in the winter Of lS62-you who
followed Stonewal Jackson toward the
North and you who followed General
Sherman toward the South. Why are
you not breaking each others heads i?
Ah =! yor have irreparably mixed up YOUR
| politics. The northern man married n
southern wife, and the southern man mar
rled a northern wife, and your children are
half Mississipan and half New Enclander,
and to make another division between the
North and the South possible you would
have to do with your child as Solomon pro-
posed with the child b.odght before him in
Judgment. Intcrmarriage will go on and
| consanguinal ties will be multiplied. and
| the question for generations to come will be.
how we people in this generation got into
| such an awful wranSle and went to digging
srch an awful grave trench. But there is
now-look no blood OH the cotton, no mark
OF cavalry hoof on the wheat. Twenty wears
ago. could the wheat shcaf and the palmetto
| have stood the same platforms No
Every grain OF this wheat would have been
bullet, and every leaf of the palmetto a
sword. Peace on earth good will to men.
! We are better off too, than other nations in
matters of national debt, Our debt is less
than one half that Of England and not more
than third that of France We have for
16 years, every day, paid $4,000 toward
the liquidation of the national debt. II is
going all TO melt away like snowbank un-
der an April sun. We have better climate
than in any other nation. We do not suffer
from anything like the Scotch mist or the
English fogs, or from anything like the Rus
sian ice blast or from the awful typhus o!
Southern Europe or the Asiatic choleras.
| Epidemics here are eNccptional-very cx-
ceptional Plenty Of wood and coal to
make q roaring fire in winter time Easy
access to sea beach or mountain top when
the ardors Of summer come down Michi-
gan wheat for the bread Long Island corn
for the meal, New jersey pumpkins for the
pies. Carolina rice for the queen of puddings,
prairie fowl from Illinois. fish from the Hud-
son and the James, hickory and hazel and
wanuts from all our woods, Louisiana su-
gar TO swecten our beverages, Georgia cot
ton to keep lis warm, oats for the horses,
carrots for the cattle and olcomargarinc for
the hogs. In our land all products
and all climates that YOU may desire.
Are your nerves weak and in need OF
bracing up? Go North. Is your throat
delicate and in need of balmy airs
Go South. Do you feel crowded and want
more room Go West Are you tempted to
become office seekers? Go to jail Almost
anything You want you can have. Plenty
to eat. plenty to wear. plenty to read