Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-15

BILE fortress to light the path OF the com.
merce and wealth of peace. 1t was in
this city that the war against the North
| had its birth; IL was here that the first
hostile gun was fred against the flag, and
! il was here that the last and saddest sac.
riices OF war were felt. The people Of
| south Carolina are nothing if not heroic
and right or wrong. they are sincere,
earnest and brave. 1t was in Charleston
that rebellion was organized against the
Lords Proprietors of King Charles in
1913; il was in Charleston that rebellion
against King George began in IVA;
1t was in Charleston that opposition at
tempted notification of the revenue
laws in 1881, and it was in Charleston
that resistance eliminated in civil war
IN 1861. The heroic qualities ofthe Cavalier
and the Puritan have written these mo-
mentous chapters in the annals of Amer
lean history, and the same heroic quail
Ties are now leading in the restoration Of
the South TO prosperity, aud on basis
That must speedily give the reconstructed
states a degree Of substantial wealth and
power that was never dreamed of before
the war. On April II, 1861, when the first
gun was fired from MOultrie at Sumter, it
was the proclamation not merely of fra
ternal war, but it was the signal gun OF a
political, industrial and social revolution
IA buS nVbttbb anu btIOuktSb GONtI
or the world. Like all such revolutions,
it brought sad bereavements and fearful
sacrifice. On Feb. IS, 1865, the next
proclamation in the irresistible progress
OF the great revolution was made as
the signal gun OF Sherman ordered the
advance upon the then defenseless city
The next proclamation on the progress of
the ripening fruits OF the seed sown in
the fierce tempest of battle was when
Un1a IFav 49,
Columbia and joined his old battle
SCARED comrades in the Senate, and now
all the well-springs of fraternity, of peace
and OF united energies are fastening the
grand contamination. Tde history IS
impressed here on every side. The beau
tiful homes which dot the isle where once
Fort Moultrie frowned; the mission of
peace that has its altar on the crown
of sumter; the leveled entertainments
which once bristled with guns in the
wide crescent Of defenses on the sea-
side Of the city; the Confederate mOnu-
ment that tells Of the lost Moultrie and
divides the sympathes OF the people with
the equally beautiful monument of Sergt.
Jasper, who restored MOultrie's flag in
the hottest of revolutionary battle, and
the Confederate home. where the
MANNED soldier who fought for the |
stars and bars, hoists and low /
-IS lH6 SJdE5 ana STRIPES WIN u.s. ]
ng and setting sun, all tell the story of |
he benefcent revolution that has been |
and OF the inevitable grandeur /
and prosperity of the reunited American |
people. In no other nation of history could |
nearly 1000, 900 Of brave reapers in the ter /
'ible harvest of death have been remanded /
% the channels Of peaceful industry with /
lut jar in government, commerce or /
rade, and 1t is even a nObler tribute to
he people of the North and South that the
oldlers of both the blue and the gray
ave been the manly conservatOrs OF
eace and order since they retired from
he conflicts of matchless heroism. There
5 peace and trust throughout the land:
he scars Of war are being fast effaeed,
nd the new generation, with its new
outh and new North, will worship the
lost benefcent government and witness
be most prosperous people of the earth.