Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-01-10
FROM THE SOUTH,

Hampton by the Tillman wing of thu
 democracy in South Carolina the feelins
 between the "Chivalry" and "Shovelry
 of the palmetto state has been intensel,
 bitter The Charleston News anC
 Courier takes occasion to give forth the
 following lament:
 "Ths war is over in South Carolina
 Wade Hampton has been discharged
 from the service of the slate to make
 loom for A man who was too young tc
 be rebel" Take the old gray cloak out of the closet and look at 1t for the
 last time before it Is thrown :rto the
 ragbag-it represented something and
 meant something twenty years ago | Throw the old battered canteen into the | ash barrel-it met something twenty 1 years ago. Unfold the old tattered
 battle flag, under whose glorious folds
 you, perchanos, followed Hampton into the very jaws Of death-look at it for the
 last. tune and let the flames consume it l, All these things are but dust and ashes. The agony IS over. There are no longer
 any rebels" or traitors" The Con-
 federate soldier has ou lived his day in South Carolina. It was a dream"
 Henri Watterson's Louisville Courier Journal is another Southern paper we'll known for its fire eating capacity. It takes, however, another view. of the southern question. It looks upon it as the Iamented Henry w. Grady looked. They are words which draw the two sec- tions together instead of rending them apart. They are faithfully to the mem ory of the man who fought grandly and braYely-but mistakenly, and they breathe the true spirit of loyalty for the only flag which foats-or ever will float over American soil-Oid Glory. The Conrier-Journal says:
 There runs through all this a false note: a note of reproach as we'll as of regret. Truly it is well for the people of South Carolina that the war is over. Through it and the years which followed it, that state has suffered greatly and sorrowed greatly. Its fields were devas- tated, its treasures were wasted, and its young manhood was sacrificed to cause lost long ago. It is a quarter of a century since Appomattox and fortu- nately this young Senator twas not old enough to have been rebel"
 It is high time that the spirit Of the men of the south should be freed from slavish bondage of the past. There was much in that history that was beau tiful; the fires of self sacrifice lighted that path to defeat, and it was strug- gle that left its mark OF the very souls of men.
 But there was much that was mis- taken, much that We may regret in bit terness 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-fag had glory of its own; It was in blood that should never have been shed. Fold it away with other of the dead past, and turn instead to the flag of the Union, the stars and.stripes, "the free hearts only hope"
 "'Du.t to dust let us say, not in use- less repining, not in vain regret, but | V ith full hearts and with a loyal devo- | ton to the future. The men of the | past dld their duty faithfully; see to it that thrs generation initiates them. | They followed 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 us. They teach | new devotion, not to any narrow creed, DOT te any particular form or fashion, put the spirit of freedom. We could not have done their work; they just as surely can not do ours. The ooys of '51 are men today confronted by nen's duties, and entitled to mems dig mites. They should no longer follow olindly the old soldiers from a senti- mental devotion to dead issues. It is for them the rather to join with their brethren of a new West and of a new North in the resolve, that this nation, Inder God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of he people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth"