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

rattons pass that II was ciihe ~ 49,
blunder that 10 was not adopted ny nj AZ AZ
states. as II would have been had not the
faction controlling the Government OF the
ITnited states brought on and waged tne
,say In nroveut its adoption TO perpetuasee
themselves in power and 10 make pr0ht
ont az the contest by arms. And ~ Will oo
,,nderstood more and more that the con-
o,,est ~ the Confederacy was misfortune
10 humanity and blow 20 the cause VI
liberty regulated by Jaw an. cootoda-
,ates whereby they sought 10 improve and
amend the Constitution OF 1857, SO a. 70
nerpetuate liberty and secure the rlght OF
overv man 10 labor to home and 70 hhppl-
noss failed. and the revolution lnAuRu-
rated NV Mr.. Lincoln and his adherents
succeeded. The Confederate reform SOUGHT
10 secure the rights Of ell secuonsi STATE
classes. and individual, by CONSTITUTIONS
guarantees. The Federal revolution sout ,ho
70 concentrate all political power IN the
Government.
THE RESULTS.
They have succeeded, having over
thrown a constitution with ilinltatIons
and guarantees, and instituted one VIZ H.,
obsolute power, controlled ostensl0ly W
nopnlar will. but in fact directed Dy
bsartless plutocracy for .its own beneht;;
Tbeg have fixed the precedent that al
rrn1ertv depends on force and not on
;nstice and RIGHT. for they have destroyed
! i've Thousand million dollars worth OF
property on the pretence that IL was III
| iurlous TO permit il TO exist, Ihey nave
| fixed the precedent that the Oohseltu IN
! Of i7s7 can be altered by force, for they
| compelled its amendment by the bayonet.
They have settled the precedent that tne
| decisions of the Supreme Court must
| register their DEGREES and be reversed on
| their demand, for they compelled the
| Court TO reverse their legal tender de-
! cision. and they packed that court 80 as 10
make 1t conform TO its wishes.
| And when in the future all corporate
property becomes more obnoxious than IL
| IL now. and the Government OF the Union
| takes possession of oil OF the rallroaus'
! telegraphs. mines, and manulactuIinfE es
| tablishments, and pays for them WIN Ieeal
| tender money, made out OF wood-puIp
| ond turnpd out by 10000 printing presses;
J then the very people who have brought III
| this ON themselves will cry aloud TOT the
! constitutional liberty for which the O0h-
| federntes fought aud died. or When tne
! Congress. on demand OF the INDUSTRIAL IN
| terests, shall decree that Twelve NOUS
| sbalI be a DAVIS work and that htty Genus
dav shall be legal pay for the legal DAY,
| then the great mass of the people VINO
| always must earn their daily bread Dy
| their daily toll will understand that Tue
| Confederate theory that government mas
! no right TO interfere with the INDUSTRY ~
| the citizen and that every man sno .'ii,.
have an equal opportunity tor haapplnetsS -
| is the only one which secures nDerIH "
| III TngIand il represented in the Senate
! If the limited States by two senators IN
| stead of twelve on the demand OF the
| oreat States of California. Texas, Cmnua-
| bun. and Nicaragua then she VIII uh Iel-
! stand that a constitution ought 10 DC "a
| shield and not.a sword. ,,,.,
When the Colonies rebelled in 1775 Will
| liam pitt thanked God that the Engllsh
| beyond the sea bad the manhood TO resist
usiIrpation Of power, and 1t IS the OPINION
| today of leading historians That the fallure
| of the Colonies would have resulted IN tne
| overthrow of the liberties OF England,
which would only have been re-establlsh-
| cd If ever. after untold suffering and
| blood. , | say here, now, that the failure OF
| tho Confedpracy was the overthrow or
| limited government and was mis-
| fortune to the great mass of the people,
| The workinpmen and women Of the whole
country, and that if their CONDITION
| is ever TO be ameliorated 1t Will be
| by the application OF the prlnGlpieS oi
| the Confederates that every one snail nave
| n full. fair. and equal opportunity for hap
| uiness in life, and that Government has no
| rlght 10 interfere with his liberty Oh
| thought, of action, OF labor, OF or eA-
| chance The future will show that II
| would have been wiser TO have adopted
| the Reformed Constitution OF MONTGOMERY
! than to have established the revolutionary
| Goyernnent at Washington, for the re-
| formed Union with discordant elements
| excluded and new guarantees for liberty
| adopted would have been stronger, more
secure. and better than the one created by
the Revolution. by Reconstruction, Force
and Fraud.
PERMANENT CHARACTER.
This struggle of the Confederates, mel
and women, for generation against pow
| erty. defeat, and despair. IN detence {, o
family. of home, and of country, of civil
| cation, of honor, and of right has createt
a character as permanent and one as torcl
BILE as history has recorded. The struggl'
of the New England man with the torcei
of nature and the wilderness has mad'
him self-reliAnt and true. The effort o
the goutherner against the savage, his en-
DURANGO against his climate, has made hin
truthful, brave, and generous, but the ne
roic endurance of our men and women 10
this generation against force and power
AGAINST suffering and ease, have Impressed
Qualities on the race that at all time
| everywhere make themselves felt. Ih'
men who held Marye's Heights can with
stand every temptation to do wrong. In'
men who charged Mcclellan at Cold Har
Dor can undertake any enterprise whert
courage tells. Where anything, be II
power or money or honor or happiness
is attainable. men will strive for 1t an(
its every struggle in life, whether 10
control of men or Of means, courage, for
tltude. intelligence, fidelity, will prevail
| IL is amusing 70 hear the surprise con
stantly manifested by northern visitors a
the developmentand progress OF the South
and more amusing to hear 1t so com
placently attributed to northern energy
and enterprise. They are wrong and the.
are right. They are wrong, for 1t IS south
ern brains and muscle. energy, and enter
prise which is building up the South
They are right, because they themselve
developed and made necessary the quail
ties in the South which are accomplishing
these results. Their war, their recon
struction. their effort to subvert soclet,
and put the bottom rail on top, have weld
ed us into a solid mass and aroused ener
gies unknown that will beat them IN tn
struggle for material development an
ideas that will govern this republic a
long as it lasts.
Bnt we are in greater danger now thai
we ever were from Mcclellan or Hooke
or Pope or Grant.
Material development is progressing witt
constantly accelerstIng force. Wealth
accommodating. Blooms, plutocracy, woI
ship of money, are all impressing the doc
trine that the end justifes the means, ant
that success is the highest duty, and on
danger IS that the very civilization OF III
dustrialism which we spent so much bloo'
and so many lives 10 resist may at las
overwhelm the institutions of our ances
tors and the principles which we have IN
herited.
STRONGER THAN CONSTITUTIONS.
But l have no fear. Institutions ar
stronger than constitutions, race instinct
and the law Of heredity prevail over socia
and political revolutions. The institution
of the acknowledgement for Homo
and Veracity in Mar, Love and Purity Il
Woman-are more deeply planted to-da
than they have ever been. They withstan
the strain of wealth and luxury, self-indu
eence and selfshness longer than any othe
society. Whether they can always suryiv
the progress of the civilization of indus
trialism no man can foresee, but this civil
cation may itself be crushed out and ovel
Il IL .