The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-29

Tore a. aud Ne are upon ITS bound
ary,-~its jaws are opened IN swallow
up all that j. great aud noble ia ma
iional life /; already cost million
of dollars to place a presidential
candidate in the field, and one hun
dred thousand dollars to sustain
contest for seat in the United
States Senate. How long shall il
be before our land has been convert
ed into race of Fiorentine princes
| without the learning and arts of
Florence, and the presidential elec-
tIon be thrown into great comedy,
and the seat be anctioned of TO the
highest bidder.
Beware of the money devil. Be-
ware of the man who puts his pocket
above his conscience and his party a.
bove hiscountry. | don't mean To argue
that IL is necessary for man tn sac
rifice all his honest interests To be
true tn his country. Let every man
entertain his convictions, whatever
they are. foa may live up e. them
by all means. but let him not have
more care for himself than for his
neighbor less, because his neighbor
is exercising the same right and do
ing the same right and dong the
same thing. applause
| shall not undertake on an occa-
sion like this TO dwell i'll detail upon
the peculiar Affections which at
tend this very wandering love of the
material things of life. Read the
CHASTITY story of Mammou. From the
twenty pieces of silver, from the
treason of Arnold, down TO the trag-
zeal proceedings that are now oc-
curing in the French courts in re
gard TO the Panama scandal in the
French republic. Remove the roofs
from the palaces of the rich and see
what you will find there. What
skeleton is in the closet What
shams? If poor man wants to
read a sure enough tragedy let him
peruse the personal history of Wall
street, "a history that started near
the head of a graveyard, all its own.
scarce big enough to bury. This
society oddly enough with mercan-
tile sagacity actually took itself out
from the churchya1d and emptied
itself in deep, mighty stream. fit
emblem of the mystery of death.
Let us glance away over their prog
ress to a page brighter on which is
emblazoned that blessed legend, DO
unto others as thou wouldst they
shodld do unto you" There is the
whole secret and mystery of human
happiness. OF all the great speech
rs that Shakespeare has put into the
mouths of his heroes it seems to me
that for the poor and rich alike
there is the most wisdom, there Is
the most comfort to be found in the
words addressed by Woolsey to one
of his camp followers, who survived
all the followers:
| Cromwell charge thee, fling away ambi-
By that sin fell the angels. how can man
then,
The image of his Maker. hope to win by it?
| Love thyself less cherish those hearts that
hate thee,
Corruption wins not more than honesty,
| Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
70 silence .envious tongues. Be Just and
fear not;
Let all ends thou aim'st at be thou coun-
try's,
Thy Gods and truths then if thou fallest.
OCromwell,
Thou fallest . blessed martyr"
There is but an epitone of all the
world has to give and take away
l.done by one who has treaded all the
pathas of honor and traversed all
the ways of guilt, and found, when
it was too late, how weak is the
strength of pride, how poor the
power of money. Believe IRE, the
craftsmanship, Democratic, Repub-
lican, or Populist, whatever states
manship that does good to his coun-
try must appeal more to the moral
nature of the people. applause
1t must indeed seek to follow the
tradition of progress, and never for
get the homely homespun sources
from which we derive our life us q
nation and as people.
If | were delivering a sermon to
the people of New England | would
say to them don't imagine because
you have struck these rocks with the
rods of genius and virtue which no.
body has bid you and have mad.
them t. blossom like the rose: dom
5 imagine there are no other geniuse<
/ no other virtues in the world. Gt
down south and bathe in the sun
!, shine you shall find there, lop of
l some of the brittle edges or theil
southerner, some of their harJel
! fibre, ad take few lessons fron
J. their old-time planters simplicitv
, honor and truth, and you will fee
E better for doing so-and you will b.
y the better for doing so. applause.
l And if | was delivering IA sermon
to them same planters in the south
! would say to them, genclemen. al
! this clinglng to paternalism and tn
!. shadow of paternalism and a pattern
| alism which, if existed, exists n,
o longer. And l assure you that th
i poorest fellow among the Yankee
n is just as good as you are, and il
$ many things they know grea
: deal better than you do how to ge
e on in the world. Send some o
:, your boys up there to school, le
= them learn how to work for a living
; In many cases it will be simply
v revisitas ion of the home of The fore
d fathers, for many of the creates
b and proudest families in the soutI
! trace back their origin to the <bloo'
= and loins of the Pilgrim fathers.
Thus / would bring the goo
q that is in one section facce to fec
5. with the good in other section, III
If structing both IN truth that hig
IS or low, that millionaires or WORKING
e meus that north and south. we ar
$ most homogenius people ON the fsc
e e of globe, that our differences ar. al
= = purely local and external, aud nc