The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-05-09

ued aud increasing confidence in
spned by the law abiding people in
the Southern States, / call attention
to their industrial growth in 1887 as
compared with the former year, 1885
And when we add to this brilliant
picture Of material development the
successful labors OF the people OF the
South In the cause Of those twin
blessings, education and the Christian
religion. we need no longer wonder
that they are hopeful. and indeed
confident, Of their great future, and
hat at last they feel that the shafts
of their political enemies will glance
ami fall harmless from their shield
of homo, indu try, and good faith, .
shield ruore invincible and brighter
far than that wrought and fashioned
for the Grecian Hephastus and on
which he emblazoned earth, and the
sky, and the belt Of the blue sea.
| speak not Of q New South, as il
new race had arisen, nor Of new
faculties and gifts heretofore IN
known, but Of a people who FIR more
than two centuries and a half have
proved themselves equal to the re-
quirements OF the loftiest manhood
who we're foemen once worthy of the
Nurtllmen's steel, and who are breth.
ren now worthy of American en-
brace. affection, and pride every.
where.
When called upon before the peo.
pie Of my State in the approaching
contest. as | have been for thirty
years and more, 10 answer for The
conduct Of my political friends If the
South, nav / not respond with the
the immortal philosophy of the
mighty Nazsrene?
Ye shall know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes Of
tborns or figs OF thistlesi
/ r,joice that the corrupt tree once
planted in the South has been torn
up By the roots, aud that the good
tree, bearing good fruit, is towering
under Southern sky in per- mia
bloom and beauty. The decliyitie:
of the Southern mountains are pour
ing forth their wealth of iron and oI
coal. and the water courses anC
bound!ess soil productions Of thai
country combine to insure q futur,
more ample in its contributions II
human happiness anil more resplen'
dent in its accumulated wealth than
the most prosperous ages hereto or
have known.
The South Is simply rising to hel
manifest destiny. and with her gate
ways Of immigration thrown wide
open by the abolition Of slavery, will
= soil % unapproachahle fecundity
with timber, water-powers, and min
eral resources, practically boundlesl
In extent, and with climate adapted
to the processes Of q propagatinl
garden, il bewilders the most impe
rial imagination 10 attempt to grasI
ber condition = hundred years hence
or even City. or even . quarter Of
century.
10! The dawn Of the coming ant
perfect day OF union, nationality, ar'
fraternity is breaking from Oh,
morning sky and streaming into ou
darkened sindows. Joy cometh will
lthe morning and and al the hockinI
birds with their envinus gable cal
not reiArd its beams or turn back il
benefcent course. The south is Il
and II the Union IS much rs wbeI
Washington, the great Vlrginiau
the great American, led the forces Q
liberty and union from Bunker Hi
to Yorktown. Virginia and Ne,
York may clasp fraterual hands q
OF yore; Massachusetts and Sout
Carolina may again embrace: GeoI
gia is the peer Of Pennsylvania, an
Texas 10 her giant siatellness is r,
qu red By our matchless ConstitI
.ion 70 bow on equal terms with ii
petite soyereigntlts Of Rhode IslaD
ana Vermont. The Union Is restores
The wounds Of war have healed. an
accurscd ~ naleiactors OF their kiu
be those who would tear open an
make them bleeI nIreshl