The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-09-04

Facts That Grants Death and Bariai Have
Made Prominent.

Made rrominent
The evidences Of reconciliation bc-
tween the North and South. which
Grants death and burial have so salts
fac.orily developed. ought not lightly
10 be passed over. Never before in the
recorded history ofthe race have such
passions A. the Civil War raised in this
land been 80 quickly allaycd. Never
before have the conquered mourned ut
the grave of the conqueror, admitting
hat he saved them from the conse-
luenccs of their own acts. Never before
aas civilization achieved 80 great tri-
umph III subduing the iierconcsss. the
revenge. the maddcning resrntments Of
hot and mercilcss struggle between
brother men.
This 1, glory to the American Ma
ton in both parts. in all parts. Of this
common country. II Is tribute To the
nobility of the American character, TO
the good sense OF the American temper
II hetrays common heritage Of wis
dom aud practical insight; scnsibility
to what il best and most urgent in life;
devotion to- he historical spirit Of the
Republican Institutions established here.
and proof Of solidity OF conviction
and harmony Of temperament, whose
absence would make such Govern
ment here, or elsewhere. wholly inn
possible.
II is the best prophet though silent
aud spontaneous one--of the country's
future. that has yet arisen to predict its
coming grandeur No cloqucncc, no
oratory. no poem. no essay can pro-
claim the hereafter with the power aud
intensity of this event 1t brings with
il its own credentials. The vital unity
and harmony that are hoped for and
longcd for, 10! they are here. They
speak their own existence in the COM
mon respect for the dead hero; II ten
derncss for his memory; Of gladness
that his grave closes over all that hate
full part of the past which is TO BE- buried
with him.
No nation can hope ever to
achieve greatness that il not great
enough to put its dissensions under its
feet; which can not, from border to bor-
der, throb with the same patriotism;
which is unable TO feel that the whole
country Is to strive for and reach the
same destiny by mutual help and
mutual struggle. II il is incapable Of
feeling that every citizen i equally in
terested in the best government. equally
deserving. according to his merits. Of
sharing in its responsibilities and hon
ors. then it, doom is sealed. Its in
stinct of self-prescryation is gone. Its
dissolution is near.
Much has been said Of the common
blood. the common ancestry Of England
and the United States. Little of late
years Of that which exists between
MOTH and South. The alienation has
been so bitter that there has been grow
ing up kind Of half-formcd notion
that there i some radical race diler-
ence making future reconciliation inn
possible
Yet SO far from this being true the
ties OF blood and kin which unite the
two sections are tenfold stronger than
the attenu.sted ones stretching es-
pecially in after-dinncr speeches across
the Atlantic This fact Grants death
and burial have brought prominently
forward Hcnccforth It's truth will he
more and more emphasized. a the COM
mon speech. the common literature and
the common business interests Of the
two sections affirm and strengthen the
union which Is now seen 10 exist in un-
suspected strength. Detroit Free Press.