The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-20
THE OLD ORDER CHANGED.
Thoughts Suggested by iIis GnhOrsinG Of n
Knight of ihe Southern Chiyaliy.
LouisuiEe Courier Journal.

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Knight or ihe Southern Chivaliy,
LoaisriEe Courier journal.
The defeat OF Gen. Wade Hampton rs
n candidate for reelection from South
Carolina removes from the Senate one
OF tho most picturesque figures In Ameri.
can politics. lie has, In peace and war,
been faithful servant ola devoted PEG.
pie, and his discharge marks an era In
tho politics OF South Carolina.
More than this, the election to the
Senate OF the United States OF Il young
man, II man almost unknown in active
politics, on Issues entirely disconnected
from the war and the events OF tho war,
is All event well worth the consideration
OF the people everywhere. It's q declar.
alton, following the ground.swell Of
November, OF more than ordinary Gig.
nlticance. "Now occasions demand new
measures and new men," and men and
measures usually respond readily to the
demand.
The Charleston NeWS and Courier can
not reconcile itsellto tho changed con.
dition OF affairs in South Carolina, and
thus bewails the passing OF tho modern
Arthur:
Tho war Is over in South Carolina.
Wade Hampton has been discharged
from the service OF the State 10 make
room Tor q man who was too young to
be rebel. Takothe old gray cloak out
OF the closet and look at it for the last
time before 1t is thrown into tho rag.
bag-it represented something and
meant something twenty years ago.
Throw the old battered catlteen into the
nsh.harrel--it meant something twenty
years ago. Unfold the tattered old bat.
tie iicg, under whose once glorious folds
you, perchance, followed Hampton into
the very jaws OF death-look ut it for
the last time and let the flames consume
it. Al! these things are but dust and
ashes. The agony is over. There are
no longer any rebels or 'traitors.' The
Confederate soldier has outlived his
day in South Carolina. 1t was only q
dream"
There runs through nil this false
note; u note OF reproach 40 we'll rs OF re.
greet. Truly it is well for the people OF
South Carolina that the war il over.
Through it and the years which follow.
cd it, that State has suffered gteatly and
sorrowed greatly. Its fields were devas.
tated, its cities were burned, its treas.
ures were wasted, and its young man.
hood was sacrificed to cause lost long
ago. 1t is quarter OF century since
Apponattox, and fortunately this young
Senator was not old enough to have
been rebel"
1t is high time that the spirit OF the
young men OF the South should be freed
from Il slavish bondage to the past
There was much in that history that va:
beautiful the fires OF seli.sacrifice lighted
the path to defeat, and it was struggle
that left its mark on the very souls Of
men.
But there WAS much that was nlistak en-
much that We may regret in bitterness
OF heart. Instead, let us thank God the
war Is over; thank God that slavery and
disunion are dreams only, and now
never to be realized. The old battle flag
had glory ofits own it WAS baptized in
blood that should never have been shed.
Fold it away with other mementoes o!
the dead past, and turn instead to the
Tag Of the Union, the stas and stripes,
the free hearts only hope"
Dust to DUST" let us say, not in use.
less repiniDg, not in vain regret, but with
iui! hearts aud with a loyal devotion to
the future. The men Of the past did
their duty faithfully; see to it that this
generation initiates them. They fol.
lowed the right as God gave them to see
the right; that too shall we do. Only
another voice OF the future, not OF the
past, speaks to this people, and other
duties confront liz. They teach us new
devotion, not to any narrow creed, nor
10 any particular form or fashion, but 10
the spirit OF freedom. We could not
have done their work; they lust as
surely cannot do ours. The bows OF 81
are men to-day, confronted by mems
duties and entitled 10 mems dieni,ies.
They should no longer follow blindly the
old soldiers from a sentimental devotion
TO desd Issues. 1t is for them the rather
TO join with their brethren of anew
West and new North in the resolve
'tha. this nation, under God, shall have
a new birth OF freedom, and that govern.
ment OF the people, by the people, and
for the people shall not perish from the
earth"
In this recognition Of changed condi-
tons there is no disloyalty to the past,
as the Charleston Nf,rs and Courier
would imply. When Sir Bedivere
watched the passing OF Arthut's barge
he cried:
! "Ah! my Lord Arthur. whilber shall so?
Where shall hide my forehead and my eyes?
for now see the true old times are dead,
When every morning brought Il noble chance.
And every chance brought out noble knight
Such lines have been not since the Hight hath
led
The holy elders with the glft OF myr,h.
!sist now the whole HoHnd Table Is issoiycd
winch was M image OF the mighty world;
AND ! The last 70 forth compluionless
And the days darEen round me, and the years
Among new men, strange faces, other minds"
And to this knight OF the past era,
Arthur slowly answered from the barge:
THE old order chanecth. yielding place to new,
And God fTlhlls himself In many ways,
Lest one Rood custom should corrupt he world
Comfort ,hyhc!t; what comfort is In me?
have lived my hfe and that which have
done
May lie within himself make pure"