National Republican., 1883-09-21

Labor had won; the south had bccn cmanci
pated from foudalism. lt had been drawn
into harmony with tho worlds progrcss
Agriculture, though one Of the noblo3t
occupations of man. is not the best calculated
to develop his faculties and advance him in
| tho scale of progress. Only when cOnioincd
| with the mechanic arts does 1t play its full
| part in the great drama Of human develop
| ment Already we see such conjunction in
the SOUTH The factory is taking its rightful
| place beside the farm tho shadow of the mill
minglcs with that of the mansc And with
this now condition of affairs upriso the indus
| trial difficulties of tho present. These arc
simply problems IN tho great question of
labor--problcms certainly not easy but GER
tainly not beyond solution. Tho south will
soon become familiar with what tho north
has long bccn trying to adius the question
of labor reward. The southern mind must
soon learn from practical experience all tho
pcrplcxitics Of strikes, "lOckouts" aud other
| industrial difficulties that have beset the
north. Our course as n nation for the next
quarter of u century must be in contcnding
with nature in the solution of these problems
There was no danger of war. We have no
vital questions of politics before us, such as
has Europe, from which war threatens
With the development of southern indus
tries will come not loss but n change in tho
character of northern industries. And
then the two great sections of tho country will
move on in ono harmonious plane.
The social and economic forces being thon
the agencies with which We must deal it may
be asked whore arc tho great statesmen who
must lead us? Thoro are none such in poll
tics. There at present none such are de-
mandod. When the occasion comes the states
men will come with it. Our true statesmen
are the great intellccts now organizing and
conducting social AMI economic matters all
over the country. The affairs of grand in
dustrial corporation in all its details require
the exercise of tho highest order of abilities,
aud for such matters we have abundance of
great and guiding intollects.
Passing on from these topics Col. Wright
touched lightly, briefly but comprehensively
upon those other phrases of the social and
economic questions of the day which deal
more generally with tho applied results of
labor Fortunes belong to men, but tho
principle of their values is with God. Van
durbilts millions are mere dross without a
moral community for whose boueft they
must really bo invested. The best men in
tho community are gradually coming to tho
conclusion that the moral forces should be
recognized in tho conduct of industrial
affairs in other words. that the best paid
labor is at once the best and the cheapest. 1t
Is bong gradually perceived that property is
OF no value without an industrious, contented,
anl moral community around it. In the
grawth of this sentiment is tho solution of all
the labor problems. With its full develop
ment will be adjusted tho economic problems,
and the antagonism between labor and capi-
tai forever disappear,
The speaker very briefly alluded to the
Chinese question as one of tho disturbing
factors i'll the present aspect of our indus
| trial problem. When labor saving machin-
cry is introduced into China, the disturbing
element of that people among us will be re-
| moved to their own land.
In the idea Of nrOnnrtv ia thn fountain
head of our civilization. Hence, socialism
aud communism as popularity understood can
have no place in our economy. Communism
is not accepted BY u property holder. Hence
the facilities afforded in this country for the
acquisition of property afford US II safeguard
against all the evils of that disturbing elc-
ment.
Then, with an eloquent appeal to the pa
triotism OF the soldiers, both of the north and
the south, to 2ea lously guard the institutions
of their common country, the speaker closed
as follows:
Heroes are sleeping side by side in holy
graves, and they sleep in peace. The nobler
part of man may succumb to u temporary
madness, but he is nevertheless % man, and
when the cloud has rolled away he Is restored
to mans rights and privileges; so, DER the
grave foes have struck hands and proclaimed
truce forever. Over brothers graves let
| brothers quarrels die. Let there be peace
between us, nay, more, let there be amity be-
| tween us, that tho arms we learned so well TO
| use, if ever used again, may strike only ut
tho common foe. God spare us the eXpe-
rienco but some of us may 1.-Two to celebrate
the valor of American arms after some day of
glory, when the sons of rebels and the sons of
federals shall have fallen side by side in some
common cause OF foreign war, as their siros
fell side BY side under the eye of the great
rebel, who had no treason in him, tho Vir-
ginian, Washington"
Representatives of the different regiments
represented in the excursion consumed an
hour or SO in narratives of the part their or
Gali2ations took in the conflict Of Sept. 10,
1864, after which the veterans formed in
double ranks and marched to the National
| cemetery. Arriving there the inclOsure was
| found to be thronged with the best people of
the city. drawn no doubt, mainly by curios-
| ity, but ready to give respectful sympathy to
| those who had come so far to do honor to their
dead. We are familiar enough with the eXer-
| ciscs common to the annual decoration of the
| graves of our dead soldiers, but time and GUS
tom combined have so served TO deprive the
ceremonial of May 80 of the element of grief
rs to render it rather an occasion of
pleasant duty. But here it was diff
ierent, and it is difficult to do justice
/ to the heartfelt and tender pathos Of the eN-
| orcises held above the graves of the Now
| Hampshire dead by their surviving comrades.
| Tho solemn music Of the tanu, ana the CN-
quisitc singing of tho veterans quartet
caused the crowd to press closely about the
| little group surrounding the monument, and
| when melted and moved by the pressing
memories evoked by the day, tho place, and
| the names of men on the monument who had
been near and dear in the days of peril, ono
| veteran after another stepped forward, and
| in low, trcmulous tones paid tribute, warm
| from his heart, to those who lay beneath
| their fcct, and when finally those stern,
! bearded men simultaneously knclt around
| the monument with unrestrained tears pour
ing down their cheeks, the magic of human
| sympathy had overcome the great crowd, and
| the men stood with barred heads the
women with moist eyes. The solemn
and touching beauty of the scene
and that which followed made
almost every man, woman, and child in Win
chester n friend to the veterans, no matter
how they may have felt before, for when they
had arisen Col. Carroll almost Immediately
announced that, having paid tribute of love
and respect to their former comrades, they
would now proceed to the confederate cemc-
| tory and decorate tho monument of foes who
! had fought them bravely and died for the
| faith that was in them. Very fcw, if any, of
tho people of Winchester had known of such
an intention on the part of the Veterans, but
the news seemed to spread through the town
with electric rapidity, for by the timo the
| procession and the large crowd accompanying
IL had reached the gate of the other cemetery
people were hurrying from all tho street;
| leading to il, and it was n great crowd
| indeed that heard Il northern chap
lain pray over tho southern dead
sawsurYivors of thounion army strow flowers