Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-27
THE SECTIONS uNiTED.


Facts That Grants Death and Barial Hav0
Msde Prominent :.
The evidences of reconciliation b.
tween the North and South, which
Grants death and burial have so salts
factorily developed, ought mot lightly
TO be passed over. Never before IN the
recorded history of the race have such
passions as the Civil War raised in this
land been so quickly allayed. Never
before have the conquered mourned &C
the grave of the conqueror. admitting
that he saved them from the conse-
quences of their own acts. Never before
has civilization achieved so great q tri-
umph in subduing the fiercenesss, the
revenge. the maddening resentments OF
hot and merciless struggle between
brother men.
This is q glory to the American Ma
ton in both parts, in all parts, Of this
common country. 1t is q tribute to the
nobility of the American character, to
the good sense of the American temper.
1t betrays q common heritage of wis
dom and practical insight; sensibility
to what is best and most urgent in life;
a devotion to the 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.
1t is the best prophet though silent
and spontaneous one-of the country's
future, that has yet arisen to predict its
coming grandeur. No eloquence, NO
oratory, no poem, no essay can pro-
claim the hereafter with the power aud
intensity of this event. 1t brings with
it its own credentials. The vital unity
and harmony that are hoped for and
longed for, 10. they are here! They
speak their own existence in the COM
mon respect for the dead hero; of ten
derness 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 is not great
enough to put its discussions 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. If it is incapable OF
4Cc1iuS tudt GSciy SleiLCh -
terested in the best government, equally
deserving, according to his merits, OF
sharing in its responsibilities and hon.
ors, then. its doom is sealed. Its in
stinct of self-preservation 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
North and South. The alienation has
been SO bitter that there has been grow
ing up kind of half-formed notion
that there is some radical race differ
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 attenuated ones stretching--es-
pecially in after-dinner speeches-across
the Atlantic. This fact Grants death
and burial have brought prominently
forward. Henceforth its truth will be
more and more emphasized, as 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 to exist in un-
suspected strength. Detroit Free Press.