The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-02-11
THE MIGHTY FALLEN.
Fate Of an Apostle Of Sectional
Strife.

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Strife.
Prosr issve Farmer.
1t is not our nature to kick a
fallen foe. We say, without
the slightest affectation, that
we are sorry for Senator ingalls,,
as he sits among the ruins Of
| his political fortunes and broods
over the darkening futuae.
Here is a man of rare, wonder
| full gifts; a man of marvellous
powers Of mind; a man Of ac-
curate and liberal scholarship;
a man of large knowledge of
the political history Of his coun-
try; a man of extended and pro-
found experience in all that per-
tains to legislative procedure;
a man Of wonderful facility in
| the use of elegant and forceful
language; a man whose oratory
would not suffer greatly in COM
parison with that Of Burke or
of Chatham; a man whose State
has honored him for two decades
Of years with its highest posi-
tions Of confidence and trust,
stricken down in the midst of
his years and usefulness and
left in d desolation that is al
most pitiable. How comes it
about that this man is so fallen
and deserted? The answer is
mot far to seek.
He undertook to maintain his
own political dominancy, and
that of his party, by appeals to
the most ignoble passion of sec
/ tional hate. For more than a
dozen years has the eloquent
tongue of this giant American
been employed, as occasion
might allow, in the Senate to
blister, and blast, and blight
lone whole section of his coun-
try. The man who had master
ed so many things, and had
forced himself forward into the
| front rank of the great men of
his country, failed to master the
tfact-a act as old as the his
tory of man-that hate, how
ever intense, can never be a
foundation uDon which an en-
during superstr-cture Of human
usefulness can be builded. SEN
ator Ingalls,, fallen from his
Iproud eminence, isanother illus
tration to be written upon the
Ipage of history, that human
hate is human madness, and
cannot endure.
| The topping down Of this great
| impersonation Of sectional bit
lterness only waited for the com.
ling Of some great movement
which would act.as a solvent of
passion and prejudice. And
such a movement came In
the form Of the Farmers Ali.
lance, with its evangel of equal
rights for all, its gospel of in.
dustrial fraternity, its crusade
against naughty aggregations
of wealth and power; aud 10! the
mighty embodiment Of passion
ard hate falls at its touch, al
falls the house of cards at the
magician's touch in the mimic
show. The Alliance came with
| its declaration that this country
is one, and all citizens are
brethren; and, straightway
John James Ingalls,, with his
tongue of blistering fire in the
Senate of the United States, be
came an impossibility.
We do not hesitate to say
land we say il most earnestly
!, that we want our fellow-citizeni
! of the South TO learn the lessor
! that this great mans fall teach
es. We want them to learn thii
without disaster, II they will
but learn il they must and shall
that the passions and prejudice
lbegotten Of the war shall no
dominate our political and socia
life any longer. What on
brethren Of Kansas have don,
for Mr.. Ingalls,, we Of the Soutl
intend TO do for all the old wa
headers who show an incapacit,
To rise above the sectional ques
z tions which have so long divid
: ed and harmed our commol
country. We cannot live upo
a regimen Of hate and spits
: and we shall show 10 the worl
that we will not longer try SO I
live.
. Again, we say that IL Is no
= in us to exult over q fallen fo'
q We have only adverted to th
Il overthrow Of this man 10 poiT
= the useful lesson which IL teacl
a es. We most devoutly wis
that Mr.. ingalls, may find
81 possible 70 correct the one fat
& mistake Of his life, and so fin
= an entrance into some place
future usefulness In his coul
try's service.
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