The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-06-16

d the lines of least resistance. TRUSTING
j. the sure and steady progress of the a,
e to realize our largest hopes
e Let us therefore
FL countermand
f Our sanguine heartback from the fancy lar
- with nghtingales in visionery wolds,
!. and Sprinkle cool patience" on "the he,
y and flame" of our enthusiasm, and Go,
: in his own good time, will solve til
: problem right.
= Do you fear that we are not Low,
u to the Union? Since coming to this cit
{ I have LeNfd that Southern moth.,
7 : teach their children to hate the Unior
y | brand that as lie, born in hell. an
propagated only by its emissaries. Lon
and loud applause. If this Union wa
imperiled, the South would leap as On
man to its defense. Applause. I The sur
vivors ola hundred fields of bl Iodine,
WHO held at bay the countless armies O
the North, and carried the fortunes O
the Confederacy on their bayonets 70
four mortal years-would vie with tb,
foremost of you to defend the bannp
with the starry sheen! Loud Applause.
Mr.. President, both the North and Souti
have yet to learn that the war did MOI
merely sare the Union; it made til,
Union. Cries: "That is truew1 An EN-,
inent foreign publicist tells us truly
that, though there was junction, there
never was real union of the slave with
the free States. "*Another-one of OIL,
own countrymen--who anticipates pos.
terity in his broad and manly iuterpreta,
tion of our political history, tells us truly
that while the abolition of slavery was a
great achievement, the real issue in.
volved in our struggle was whether the
pacific principle of federalism should
stand as the perpetual basis of our Gov.
eminent. t Sir, the war settled that for.
ever. Its fierce fires welded all parts OF
this vast country into vital politically
homogenity. It's convulsions were the
birth-throes of true national life. II
sunk the foundations of the Union out OF
sight, and opened unlimited opportuni.
ties to the constructive genius of Ameri.
can civilization. Sir, we may differ on
the great historic questions of the past we
may differ on the questions of soclas
polity; We may differ on the questions
OF political administrations; but there
are two questions about which the South
and the Nort, will never differ again !:
One Is, that this Union is one and in>
dissoluble forever. Loud applause We
are
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One nation evermore
The other is, that the name "America'
shall be the very synonym of freemen!
For, 10 the fullness of the time has come,
And over all the exile's Western home,
From sea to sea the flowers OF freedom bloom.
Henceforth and forever, America and
freedom are the same.
Mr.. President, have thought it ap,
propriate to refer to the consensus of
conservative public opinion in the
South on the subjects which have effect
ed our relations in the past, because I
firmly believe that we only need to un-
derstand each other better to love each
other more will not deny that there
still exist in the South a few who hold
other sentiments. There are extremists
on both sides. There are irreconcilables
in the North as we'll as in the South.
There are good and true men who
seem, at times, to have forgotten that
the war has long been over laughter
and that new generation have come
upon the scene of action, to whom their
words are strangely out of
keeping with the peaceful spirit of the
age; but sir, we must not Judge the
course of the river by the swirls and ed,
dies on its surface, but by the deep and
steady sweep of its current. The men,
whether they be politicians or preachers,
the demagogues of the stump or pulpit,
who "nurse their wrath to keep it warm
are in rapidly -lessening minority. !
Applause. { The spirit Of the age re
Dukes them. We will soon have to hunt
for them among the mumies in the mus
seums of antiquities. Laughter and |
applause. speak for the intelligence
of the South; represent its public
opinion, and I know that l voice the
of the great masses of its
industrious, and progressive
people, who not only control the present,
out have the key to the future. when
;ay that, from the center all aroud to
he sea, we desire to bury forever the
Inimosities of the past, hush the dissen>
ions of the present, draw closer to our
brethren in traternal alliance, and to
ock our shields for q united advance
galnst the gates of hell
Mr.. President, America is before us,
nd our age is the opportunity of the
american Church. Will we prove equal
o the task? Is Methodism able to grap>
lie with the forces OF a highly-complex
utilization. and mold the life of "a great
nd cultivated people to the pattern of
righteousness? Can we hold the inevi>
able progress of this mighty nation
rmly to the essential truth These.
r, are practical questions, in presence I
f which all other controversies should
E silenced, and which should knit us I
,gether as one man. Sir, five are true to
lrselves, the golden age of the Methodist =
hurch is in the future, and it will con- =
nue. to be the greatest evangelical !
,wer on this continent y
In its origin, sir, Methodism was a =
and reconditioning Of truth, "as truth i
in Jesus" and it carries in its very e
institution the purpose and potency OF b
llimited expansion. 1t is not merely il
organization, but force, a power, a il
vine life. The strength of Methodism (,