The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-15

memory and inspiration of army blue.
voiced By respectable veteran, who has
little capacity for speech beyond what is
evoked when g. A. Rs camp-fres smoke
and comrades listen to a twice told tale
from the lips of those who shoulder their
crutch and show how fields were won."
4 barking dog. or a shrill-tongued parrot
circulating 1.-The tariff is tax" is wanted;
not grim, silent, toothless mastltf;
stump speech IS wanted. not a sword.
If we wanted sword we should not
choose this speechmaker, but since speech
and sputter and shrewdness are wanted
we have no use for this veteran. who when
we yell for speech thanks US as sententi-
ously as if he were ''bigger than Grant"
who is the adored type OF this sort of plat
form taciturnity.
The temper of the North is that of an
intensely busy race TO whom the great
civil war was only ''nine days wonder,
the temper of the South is that of people
of comparatively small commercial &C
tivity outside of few favored
spots, like the manufacturing places
of Chattanooga, Atlanta, Birmingham,
Montgomery, and Columbus; people of
dull, lazy life; people given to prosy
and sentimental "reminiscences. To such
people the war with its figures is the
overshadowing event of their history; they
have plenty of time to brood, or boast and
whoop over the war, while the buster
North has no time for any of these things.
1t has little or no sectionalism, because it
has little or no sentimentalism, which has
no place in business, and the North is
nothing when it is not "a business man"
1t casts sharp businesslike glance over
its shoulder occasionally just to see that the
copperhead and ex-Confederate congress
sional menagerie don't eat up the whole
dividend on the North's vast investment of
blood and treasure represented by the
war of the Union, but the North's hands,
eyes and heart are altogether too full OF
present business TO posture over the past
or go into spasms about the future.
The difference between an intensely
busy people and comparatively indolent
or at least inactive people, is shown by the
fact that while the South is very poor
compared with the North, every Southern
city has a splendid monument to the
memory of the Confederate dead.
Few of our Northern cities have soldiers
monuments New York has no soldiers
monument, and has only raised about
$3.50 900 for the monument of Grant, while
Richmond has monuments to Lee and
Jackson, and New Orleans to Sidney
Johnston. There is no sectionalism at the
North, for it is too busy to be sentimental;
it allows nothing to interfere with bust
ness; it is a cynical pedlar, who never
quarrels with customer, no matter what
may be the customers color, blood,
church, politics or previous condition
of servitude, while the South is not yet
entirely a man of business, she is still
something of passionate poet; she still
bends her ear to listen when the lament
for the Confederate Flodden rises on the
air. 1.-THE Lost Cause" is not yet the lost
chord in the Southern harp.
Inevitably therefore sectionalism is
surer of longer and more aggressive life in
Southern than in Northern social and
political life.