The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-12

u' II another sample of Jarvis
speech: =
There may be. my friends. here and
,hore scattered over the South, some
nan now md then who sits by the dead
asnes of the nast to brood over them.
There may be now and then at The
North. a man who will point to such an
,dividual as the representative OF the
south. But | declare here to-day thai
neither of this class of rersons reIre-
ems either one OF the sections. And
ask YOU to turn with me your backs
mon the past and leave all such things
behind u.s.
Ia this aimed at President Jefferson
Davis. and the o~ne-hundred thousand
.allant Confederates who have refused
~ bumhle themselves in dust and deg
relation even to win the smiles OF Beast
Butter, or the thrift OF JAY Gould. Cakes
Ames. Bill Sprayue. and other types OF
New England greed:
For Us. we believe 1t to be as much
the duty of Southern Manhood 10 stand
up for the Past as TO work for the fu-
ture. Did we lie TO our noble dead
when we told them. with all the solem-
nity Of the Death-Hour. that if they
would 90 to the front. and fight, and die.
they should never be forgotten! Nay,
should be held in highest honor? And
that. too. no matter whether we won or
lost?
Alas. the war is far from over with
many of our people. Tens OF thousands
of them still culver and bleed from its
effects. Day by day. the crippled rem
nants of brave men crawl about our
streets, seeking aid, but only too glad
to get a crust in charity CHARITY,
indeed.n There is scarcely a home
that does not have its victim. physical
or mental. of the war. It's Night still
withers our whole Southern land.
1t is rue that some men made money
by the war. Sonle got fat contracts, and
Kept them Slne had a large amount of
Confederate property in their control
when the war suddenly collapsed, and
have never been made to dls-Gorga.
Some used their military commands as
a st~epping-stone to tat office since the
war. Some find it profitable to "~frater-
MISE and parade through Yankee land,
singing Yankee Doodle!
Tor our part, we favor peace, har-
monv. and reconciliation. just as we have
urged. by tongue and pen, for eighteen
years: but not at the cost Of n lot |
of Southern manhood, or pride in the
past.
1t is time our people were rejecting
on these things. Experience for ages
shows that it is the conqueror who
writes history. and puts the blame on
the conquered. There are thousands oil
Confederate soldiers children who al
ready believe their dead fathers were
not heroes, but 'straitors,' aud barhar-
Gus 'slave-drivers.' There are thous-
ands who believe the Yankee to belong
to an higher type of civilization - and
that the North conquered, not by reason
of her twenty millions against three
millions. but because she had God OF
her side! Even our schools and churches
are being Yankeeized.
Bah! such talk, such speeches, recall
the. words Of a Southern writer who is
lead these ten years.
1T is to be feared that in the present
.onditi IN of the Southern States, losse>
will be experienced greater than the i'm
mediate infections of fire and sword.
r The danger is that they will lose Their
literature, their former habits of thought
their intellectual self assertion, while
; they are toe intent Upon recovering the
mere material prosperity, ravaged ano
r impaired by the war. There are certain
!, coarse advisers who tell the Southern
people that the great ends of their lives
now are to repair their stock of ~nationa
wealth: to bring Ill Northern capital anC
E iabour to build mills and factories ano
giided c~aravansaries /; and to make them
!. selves rivals in the Gathering and garisf
! enterprise of the North. This advice
5 has its prOpc place. But there are
higher objects han the Yankee magma
r bona of money and display, and lottiel
aspirations than the civilization of mate
: rial things. In the life of nations. as IL
that of the individual, there is some
, thing better han pelf, and the coarse
prosperity of dollars and cents. The
lacerated, but proud and ambitious hear
Of the South will scarcely respond to the
mean aspiration of the recusaDt Govern
. Or OF South Carolina-Mr. Orr: Il an
tired of South Carolina as she was.
court for her the material prosperity O
New England. would have her acres
TEEN with life and vigor aid intelligence
as do those of Massachusetts,
e There are time servers in every cause.
there are men who fill their bellies with
. ho-oos ohN AOthO h tlIClt 1dSSS duO ulC
but there are others who, ia the midst o
public calamities, and In their own scanty
: personal fortune, leave behind them the
memory of noble deeds, and a deathless
heritage of glory.
Defeat has made "all our sacreC
I things profane." The war has left the
South its own memories. its W heroes,
: IFS own dead.
1T would be UNNECESSARILY the wors,
consequence of defeat in this wal tina,
the South should lose its moral and intel
lectual dlstInctlveness as a people. Tha,
superiority has been re :ognized by every
+ foreign observer, and by the intelligent
everywhere.
The war has not swallowed up every
! thing. There are great i terests which
+. stand out OF the pale Of the contest.
which 1t Is for the South still TO cultivate
and ma ntaln. She must submit failI,
ana ~truthtuliy to t0hdt the Cur has prop
, erly dec'dad. But the war properly de
! CT ei only what was put in issue the re-
stordUon Q! the Union and the excision
: OF slavery and to these two conditions
the south submits. But the war did pot
decide negro equality it did not decide
negro suffrage it did not decide State
Rights, although it might have exploded
their abuse 1t did not decide the orthO
doxy OF the Democrat party it did not
lecide the right of a people to show Dig
atty IN misfortune, and to maintain self
respect III the face of adversely. And
these things which the wal did not de-
;ide, the Southern people will still cling
to, still claim, and still assert in them
their rights aud views"