The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-03-09

fest, and honest men should be every
,, where careful to rebuke it. There is
cheap courage some men exhibit by
defying their friends, which is close o.
kin to cowardice, and there is a patri.
otism which some men manifest. by
humbly and ignobly confessing to the
sins and shortcomings of the land
which gave them birth, which is still
closer of kin to treachery. 1t is the
/ impersonatiOn of human meanness. Nc
true son of that Southern land will
permit his tongue to utter words OF
blame or delegations of its people or in
impeachment of their motives.
The noblest conceptions of human
liberty which ever animated the sons
of man had their home in the minds
and hearts of the Southern people.
The very truest ideals Of government
for the security Of that liberty by law,
and guarding it by constitutional
limitations against the insidious APP
proach of power and the sapping
effects of time, were conceived and
promulgated by Southern statesmen.
In their work today we live and move
and have our political being. In the
inspiration Of their genius these United
States have become great and pros
porous beyond the dreams of poesy.
Because they disregarded the accumu-
lation Of dollars, a covert sneer for
their unthrift has crept into the
mercenary spirit of the time, but the
philosophic historian will record that
by their unselfish wisdom and love OF
country they have done work for
their posterity greater far and grander
than scraping together all the dollars
which could be piled between earth
and sky.
Once more l say 1 approve of the
Southern Society of New York. l say,
keep alive the remembrance of your
early home; cherish it's lessons. its
charming associations, with all the
recollections of its far-reaching forest,
its glorious mountain ranges, fertile
valleys, flowing streams, its wide.
spreading plains. whose blossoms well
come our Southern suns. and do not
forget the old plantations:
Oars whar my heart is turning eber
DoA WlloI NC OAC lOlhS
There is no sentiment so delightful
and none more enrolling Scott adds
climax to one of his Subscribed
heroes, Fergus McIver, by represent
ing his last request to have been that
when his severed head should be eX-
posed it should be on the northern
gate Of Garlic, SO that even in death
his eyes might look upon the highlands
of Scotland. Though God is every
where, the exiled prophet Daniel, with
patriotism as fervant as his religion,
prayed with his face toward Jerusalem.
In the rush and roar of this mighty
city, its thronging masts, its forum,
its hustings and all its exciting CEN
tres of activity and human energy, let
there be, now and then, reflective
pauses in which your faces shall be
turned toward the land of your birth,
and when your hearts shall exclaim.
''If do not remember thee let nv
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ;
if [ prefer not Jerusalem above my
chief joys
1t is the land of Washington, and
is worthy of mans love. Long NAV
you celebrate the 22nd of February.
and at every happy recurrence may
you renew your devotion to the great
principles which Washington advocated
and to pure love for the land in which
he lived and which he served SO illus
triously.