The National tribune., 1883-03-01
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Reunion In Baltimore on MaSh.u-touS $
Birthday. It's principal feature was an ad-
dress delivered by General JuhaI A. Early,
/ ID, the conclusion of which he gave uttcranee
To the following r-narkabIa sentiment:
81 Tfrr-. tibet ry.ry f#hm soldier r-tlc lm.y
.t Northern Nr-tn.# is ready to c>nIaiu. with lo-.
'It ever a..s... r...u3...n. or apaugIzn Ter the
,.r-.. n.r which I.. Gaa.'. .nI jackson died. l.l
tho un-htur.- ur H.a1.. nIa-. rlp and tI" -earn oG
.E good fn.a auI .rul. women no my portion.
! Tins sentiment, j, appears. uas received
with great applause. The Baltimore Saa,
in IFS report. says:
The har raarol with wild ,I.arr- which, COM
i"- largely fran hl- srn.r comrades iu arms,
reminded ,h, hyro @. .ne mtrticulaIc battle cry
with which thn rrH..i.r,..- were Wont tu advance
GO the .Naggrs score O.. yrar- ago."
We have characterized this sentiment
as remarkable, not so mach because it is
roaljrmatjop of the right Of secession,
but because il bctrays the existence Of such
:e1amcntable degree of stupidity and ignor-
auae on the part of its author, 1t is almost
iuaomprehcnsiblc that any American, at
this late day, should have the shamcIcssnes,
20 stand mp before an audience of intelligent
men and renew his allegiance 10 the cause
that went down forever nearly eighteen
/ years ago. 1t is incomprehcnsiblc because
. if there is amy section Of the country which
ought 10 rejoice in The overthrow Of the
rebellion it is lhe south Cursed as it was
with slavery, its permanent separation from
the Union would have been a far-reaching
calamity to It's people. Having no resources
within itself except cotton and sugar, COM
ParatycIy destitute Of capital, lacking the
skilled labor necessary 1or the establish
meut OF industries of its own, ii must in
eyitably have rc rctrograded rather than have
advanced in prosperity. Had it succeeded
in setting up a government of It's own, it
would have been only to see it topple over
with its own weight. The spirit which ami
mated the leaders of the rebellion against
the Union would have manifested itself in
intTigues against the government of their
own creation, and the partition of the first
coniederacy into smaller contedcracics would
have followed as a matter Of course
1t was never the expectation of the South,
it viii be remembered, that it would be able
to establish It's authority over the North
The utmost that it hoped for was that it
would be able to force us to let it secede in
peace. Had that hope been realized, the
South would have been the first to repent It's
folly. As it is, what las been the result?
The emancipation of the slaves has proved
a blessing instead of an atiliction to the
South. Free labor has brought about de-
gree Of prosperity unprecedented in its his
tory. Not only does the South produce
more cotton and more sugar than in the
palniest days Of slavery, but ii is no longer
wholly dependent upon the North and the
West for It's grain and clothing. 1t has
come 10 be what otherwise it never would
have been-almost self-sustaining. Northern
capital has planted mills and factories in the
very midst Of its cotton fields, constructed
new systems of railways, opened up its
mines, founded great schools Of learning
and everywhere, indeed, given an impetus 20
thrift and enterprise. A change no less re-
markable has taken place, too, in the char
acter of the southern people themselves
Necessity has developed the manhood of the
South, and the dignity of labor is at last
understood and appreciated. The poor white
is no longer ground under the heel Of the
planter. Schools are no longer maintained
solely for the children Of the wealthy. The
spirit of progress, which twenty years ago
was to be found nowhere south OF Mason
and Dixon's line, has penetrated to the
Gulf, and northern enterprise has reclaimed
even The waste lands Of Florida The man
who can contemplate these changes and
still affirm his belief in the doctrine Of seces-
sion, is not simply traitor to the Union but
a traitor 10 the South. 1t matters little to
rs that the sentiment to which General Early
gave utterance was applauded to the echo by
a few hundred ex-Couiederate soldiers IN Bal
timore, but it does matter great deal to the
South. We can afford to laugh at such
voice from the tombs, but the South cannot.
The only obstacle to the full realization Of
its hopes is the survival Of the reasonable
element Of which General Early is the most
conspicuous representative. Itisonly because
this sentiment still Nists, and now and then
manitests itself in some ugly form, that i'm
migration still shuns the South. When
General Early, and such rs he, have passed
away forever and not until then the
South viii attain the full measure Of its
greatness. Poor, miserable, unrepenting and
uUlorgetting Old man, he lives only to real
ize that hc is a luan without a country"
Good Manners.
Essays on manners are voted dull reading
in these days Of advanced ideas, and were
Lord Chesterfield TO re-appear in the social
world, he would, doubtless, find occasion