Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-01-11
RN STANDARD EcMINN7LE TENNESSEE AfURbAYJANM 1890

offices were performed by his white
soldier, comrades and Southernes,
many Of whom were Confederate
soldiers On the other hand, you
may at any time, go to the funeral of
any well-known Southern man or
woman, whetherit be'in the privacy
of the family residence, or in the
house of God, and you will find
many negroes there assembled. The
hand of death touches achordin their
hearts, that awakens IL harmony of
memories of olden days, when they
took no care for the Ahlorro% what
they should eat or whefewithal they
should be clothed ihemdries sweet.
enedby tender and loving associa-
tions. This is a mystery to the
Northern people, y They cannot
understand how the liberated slave
should lOyeyhis former tEsk-master.
Wedo not feel grateful for the way
1t was done but we are glad that the
curse of slavery has !. been removed.
Any Southern man who thinks
otherwise is out of harmony With the
overwhelming sentiment Of his
peoples Heis our equal before The
law, and has the same political
rights, To thwart the will of the
voter, either by fraud or intimida-
tion, as is charged upon the South,
or by morel coercion upon dependent
labor and by fraud and bribery, as is
charged upon tie North, is equally
subversiYe ofciyil liberty and self
government. The country will
evoke all of its wisdom and patriot
ism to remedy not only such evils
that may exist, but also the condi-
tons that produce them. l believe
that the Southern question will be
solved, so as toinaintain the integrity
of republican institutions, without
Africanizing single State in this
Union. Would that these questions
were discussed, more with an honest
attempt to solve them properly,
with just regard for all, and less for
political effect, under the intense ex-
element aroused by partisan and
sectional antagonism. Now, that
"grim-visaged war hath smoothed
his wrinkled 'front.'" that the temple
of Janus hath been closed, for / trust
more than. an hundred years, that
the gray-haired chieftaln of the Con-
federacy has been laid to rest amid
the benedictions of his own devoted
people, and the requiem echoed back
from so many northern cities: "Peace
to his ashes, his name and deeds to
the historian" i'll might propose
sentiment to he drunk to by the
whole country, | would say, in the
language of Tennessee Congress.
man: "The bloody shirt, may it be
washed in the tears of disappointed
politicians and hung up on Mason's
and DiXon's line to dryn'
have told you Of our prosperity,
and | now say to you, that the South
is ready to welcome all who wish to
share it and assist in develping her
resources. With her 5000 square
miles of coal and ineXhaustible
stores of iron; with her 300 miles
of navigable rivers, exceeding those
of any other State in the Union;
with her vast virgin forests of COM
mercial timber; with her fertile lands
and unsurpassed climate, embracing
such variety that in her valleys you
may pasture your cattle ten months
in the year, and in midsummer,
upon the summit of old Roane, $500
feet above the sea, you may be
famed by the grateful breeze; with
a people who established the first free
and independent government in
America, the first institution of
learning, and the first newspaper
west of the Alleghanies = who
fought the battle of Kings Mountain,
, that turned the tide of the revolutions
, who poured out their blood for their
, country in the war of 1912; who,
, during the Mexican War, enlisted in
such numbers as to cause the Secre-
q tary of War to demonstrate with the
Governor of the State who furnished
c over 100000 soldiers to the. Con-
federate and over 10000 to the Union
/, army; Who gave Forrest to the
y South, a Farragut to the North,
/ three Presidents to the United
q States, and Maury to the world ;
: who early won and have held with
r out challenge the proud title of
1 "Volunteer State;" Tennessee, to
such a land and such people, offers
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