Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-11


Gettysbury. But tho women never finch
cd dnring that ordeal Of temptation and of
suffering, OF fidelity and of foftitude, They
encouraged thsir fathers, husbands, and
lovers. By them ard through them the
men were kept firm and straight.
Occasionally one OF them has picked mp
q handsome, dashing. and gallant Yankee
officer. The temptation TO get even was
too strong for even q Confederate woman,
but she has ever since held bus misfortune
at having been Yankee over his head,
and has made better man and q better SOL
der of him every time. /.
BY race characteristics and geographical
environment the civilization OF the North
and South bad development on different
lines. The North invigorated by constant
struggle with the forces of nature had nat
urally adopted the philosophy OF materiai-
Ism and had come TO believe that the high
est duty OF man was TO accumulate. power,
and "a money in our modern civilization
had come TO be source Of all material
power. the pursuit of wealth had got to be
considered the highest aim of human ct
fort. Embracing with enthusiasm the
phiiososhy of Adam Smith, that every man
should be for himself and the devil would,
could. and should take the hindmost, gu
preme selfishness had become the all-per:
vading sentiment aud directing force OF
that society.
Tho Sonth with o more generous climate
had developed more sentimental society:
In a snarsely-settled country the ties OF
blood retained their hold. Husband and
wife. parent and child. all the ramited re-
lations of kinship, kept their binding
force. Devotion 10 veracity and honor IN
man. chastity and fidelity in woman, were
the ideals which formed character. The
| forms and sentiments OF southern society
were the primitive forms and sentiments
of the older civilization.
They belonged to that state OF develop
| ment which the modern social phlloso-
pliers call Militarism.
The principles and organization OF the
| North belongs to that later development
| known as industriahsm.
ITS GRAND BASIS.
The social organization of the South was
! founded on the protection of the weak by
| the strong. of the simple by the wise, OF
| the poor by the rich. 1t held on 70 that
| form of cooperative labor, which had ex-
| isted before history began, whereby the
strong the wise. and the rich had con-
! tinued and directed the labor OF the weak,
the simple, and the poor which proylde1
| for them in infancy and in old age, when
secured them a comfortable and happy
subsistence out Of the proceeds OF then
own labor.
We have the record of 1000 years of civil
| hzation formed and developed OF thiG sys-
| tenn Of protection and cooperative laDOT.
Assvria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and mod
| ern Europe had all been formed on tins or
| ganlzatlon of labor. The industrial sys-
| TEN. whereby the wise and the strong, the
/ rich and the powerful, make all the rest
work for them. while they allot men such
| portion of the proceeds Of their labor as
| they think proper. and cali 1t wages,
which casts them aside when their force Is
| expended, ana leaves them to die IN poor,
| houses and rot in tenement-hOu5es. mas nau
| nm experience of scarce 100 years, and the
whole of Christendom is undermined with
| anarchism, and nihilism, and honey
combed with social discomfort.
No man can foretell the hour when the
volcano will burst in Europe and over
whelm Church and State, Car and PresI-
| dent. III one common ruin. In the North,
| where the industrial system has had ITS
| freest and fullest development, organized
| labor and agricultural discomfort are the
| all-pervading symptoms OF social disorder
| and the.precursor of political rum. IL IS
| certain that the present condition IS only
| temporary. When all the property ana
means of living are more and more ,accu;
mulatIng III few hands and the polltlcal
| power is possessed by the many, IT taxes
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| rangement must be made.
The resistance made by the South was
| not merely an attempt to preserve pohti,
| cal institutions, but to perpetuate social
organization inherited through thousand
generations-the saDctlty OF marriage, the
| inviolabilty of the family the faith IN
| truth, honor, virtue, the protection OF
| home. Historically the position Of the
| South was impregnable.
The States constituting the Union had
rebelled against George III. as states
| They had fought through the war of that
rebellion as States. Maryland did not join
| the confederation until March /, 1881, ano
| Virginia had declared her independence
| long before the confederated States hao
| declared themselves free aud Independent
| States.n The treaties with France and the
foreign Powers during the war had beer
| made with the States by name, the treaty
acknowledging their independence haC
recognized each State by name:
The Constitution was formed by states
each having an equal vote. 1t was adopted
and put IN operation by States. Rhode
| Island and North Carolina refused to con
sent to il and renamed out of the Unlol
| for two years as Independent States.
If any historical fact ever has been estab
| lished or ever can be settled 1t ls that tn
| Union was formed OF equal, independent
|
| themselves.
AN ANGLo-sAxoN AXIOM.
This being so, the whole course Of Eng
| lish history shows that our ancestors hay'
| invariably at all times Tedressed wrong
and reformed abuses in government b.
| armed resistance to illegal power when ne
cessary. 1t had long been an axiom of on
race that resistance to tyrants is obedi
ence TO God" Our ancestors had rebellet
against King John and wrung from HIN
the great charter. They had rebellec
against Charles |. when he attempted 4
| govern them without parliament of thei
! own representatives. They rebelled agains
the Commonwealth when il attempted I,
| rule them contrary to ancient institution
of the realm. They rebelled against Jane
Ill. when he was suspected or intending t,
| overthrow their laws. They rebelleo
against George III. when he tired to de
| prive them of the rights of their ances
| tors-neyer TO be taxed except by thel
own consent. The right of rebellion, then
was one of the inherited and inalienabl
rights of a free born race.
| When, therefore, the election or 1856
gave notice that the North proposed I,
force the struggle against all of our instl
tutions with all the power of all the States
thirteen Of those States, exercising tn
| right of self-defence-Of resistance t
wrong-acting as States, took up arms 70
the protection of their institutions, Sc
cured by the struggles of their ancestor
with so much blood on so many battle
fields.
/ do not care to argue the question of tn
right of secession. justify the action .
the southern States on the higher groun,
OF the right of sslf-defence, which ca
never be surrendered nor bartered by an.
man or any people. But it seems too clea
for demonstration that if they came int
the Union as States, they had the right L
leave il as States. Rebellion has no terror
for us. Our ancestors have been rebel
time, time and again for thousand years
| George Washington was rebel; Johl
| Hampden was a rebel; Algernon Sydne
was rebel; Kosciusko was q rebel; vii
liam Tell was rebel.
THE REBEL
Every brave man who at any time, any
where, has resisted tyranny and given hi
| life for liberty has been a rebel. II is tn
decoration which tyrannical power Away
| bestows on virtue and manhood, and lit
| erty will have fed from earth and tn
| rights of man will have become by-wor
| when the sacred and inelienable right Q
| resistance to wrong shall have no mar
| hood to enforce 1t. The secession OF th
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