Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-01
SHUT OUT FROM THE coon Rrr1r.

III was England, merry England which
gave us DOthebOys Hall; and it is the old
pay state which gives us a Tewksbury
almsh0use. As the one raised up a Dick
ems, so the other has raised I'D a Butler
and thus the course of justice and reform
goes on, as it should 20 on. from within.
1t seems to be the ill-starred South which
is alone shut out from this good rule. and
made TO carry not merely its own load of
lmperfectiOn, but an added load of exter
nal reproach, born Of the spirit of inter-
ference, and equally hurtful whether the
intrusion OF misguided friendship or the
emahallon OF prejudice and ignorance.
= In the matter of crime each commu-
NIFTY has that which is peculiar to itself.
ana Will have its hands full if it devOtes
Itself vigorously to its own criminals
There are dreadful crimes common to
New England which are unknown to the
south, and vice versa, and we should all
admit this, if the two sections would only
look at one another out of clear ewes.
There is thanksgiving class in each sec
ton, and these classes are undoubtedly
dlnerent in many respects. But the re-
suits are much the same. In each section
the slayer and the slain are, as a rule, of
the worse, not the better sort of peOple: i'm
each, however, good and innocent folk oc-
caslOnally Iall victim to the murderous
devices of the rObber class or the rash
passions of the fighting class. With us
.the stranger is exceptionally safe,
THE RACE Is ONE RACE.
"The notion that there is radical diff
ference between the inhabitants of the
two sections of the Union is false There
are, in fact, no differences of race; and if
single generation of Yankee bows could
be sent South to be educated, in exchange
for an equal number of Southern lads to
be sent North for like purpose, the very
conceit would be laughed to scOrn We
are most homogeneous people; we
naturally love, not hate, one another:
and, if stop could be put to the knag-
ging, the terms North and South would
become the simplest of geographic ex-
preston.
''Much of the ill-repute which is visited
upon the South is traditional. There was
time when what was called 'the code of
hOnor prevailed among us. 1t was the
fashion for public men, particularly for
journalists, to go out and fight.
"TO-day no Southern man of character
and responsibility would send or accept a
challenge. He would shrink not so much
from the encounter as from the disgrace.
and less from the disgrace than from the
contempt which has fallen upon the bel
lgerent correspondence, the mock heroic
settlement on paper, and the reciprocal
publication of mutually satisfied honor.
THE MILLENNIEM NOT REACHED.
"We have not reached the millennium
yet in the South. No more have the peO-
pie of the North. But the fighters have
had their day. Just after our great war
there was childish effort made in certain
quarters to revive the tourney. 1t was a
dismal failure: The spirit of chivalry
was met by the genius of labor. and the
struggle was for an instant only. Work
won it, and so the heroes of our time are
fast becoming the victors in mans and
wOman's fight for human freedom, and in
tellectual, moral and physical develop
ment. In the popular Imagination, Salad
din Is replaced by science; our trouba.
dOur is the trumpet call of religion: and
the music of the lutte is hushed forever by
the deeper music of the loom.
Gwen among warriors it is not the
bloody butchers of old who are held up as
model Captains, but the Havelocks and
the Lees, the StOnewal Jacksons and the
Garnet WOlseleys, men who have Joined
to sOldiership scholarship, and to both
gentle manhood and simple truth. Every
where the world is seeking to rescue itself
from feudal darkness. At length the man
is saying to the woman ''help me-" and
10! the wOman-nO longer handmaiden-
is taking her place by the side of her COM
rade, not her lord, and, heart to heart, the
two are hewing out of life larger and
richer fields of happiness and usefulness.
The spirit of the age is movement: and
nowhere in the world is it more earnest or
more active than it is at this moment at
the South.
TRUE COURAGE AND MANLINESS,
You, too, my dear young friends, are
going presently out into the world. Each
of you is to bear his part in the movement.
On the threshold you will be met by the
charge that you inhabit a region where
murder is loved for murders sake. | pray
you heed the charge to this extent, that
you throw your learning and your valor
upon the side of peace and order and law
Put behind you the false pretense that
honor requires that british words shall be
answered by brutal blows. Seek to con-
struct a society where he is Outlawed who
first fOrgets that he is a gentleman. Seek
to establish and maintain a code of man.
hood which shall honor him who saves,
not who takes, life. Seek in moments
of prOvOcation and hot blood self-forget-
fulness, which is the highest and purest
self-cOmpOsure, the very heart and soul of
real courage; for hath it not been written,
and truly so, that
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