Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-06-16
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Union soldiers made the first attack v
upon Petersburg, Va, was observed
ID Rev. DR.. VIM. II.
Up. llvered the Grafton. At
the outset his remarks had the right |
ring, but as he warmed up to his
subject he drifted away from the pol
lev which he had previously enunci-
ated. Here is what he said :
| <Iadies of the Memorial Association,
soldiers. veterans, ladies, and gentlemen
| While there can be no repentance where
there is no consciousness OF error, let US
turn our faces to the sun and put the
| shadovs of the past behind Us, speak
today in the spirit of political philoso-
nhv. and not in that of sectional feeling. |
fet MS honor our dead SONS and bury all |
} sectional prejudice. Love and not hate
is Gods way. Let us be true to him,
: land time will be true to us all. In the
mind of God there is no South and no
North
The above is well said, and tends
to eliminate the hatred of the past
. and invite the prosperity of the fu-
ture. But he Immediately got off
the track which he had laid when he
n said
"Above the grayes OF these sleepless
heroes, continued the speaker, are the
= sleepIess principles for which they died.
Those principles, like the pressures oil the
arch. never Sleep They are like the cen
tripetaI and centrifugal forces OF nature
Ie in the very structure of things. Wheth-
or the stars shall be bridled to the centre
or shall dy away from the center, abide
in eternal operation of these spheres.
81 Far above all memorial monuments will
go on the silent conflict of opposite
forces. Whether the Government shall
draw all it's powers to and from the CEN
tire; or whether, as in nature, harmon
~ ions motion shall be the compromise be
tween the States or the general govern
.nent will ever live the question whether
| State sovereignty or consolidated despo
20 tism shall guide the liberties of the PEG
pie"
He has raised the very question
In which the var settled. He prophe
Ike sizes another war
"The wheels of government are nov
locked by the conflict of interests. III
vital interests of the country await tn
ou action of a Congress, handicapped b
-ru sectional strife. When all diverse intel
ests are prepared by their future deve
opement for their possible giganti
struggle. a million of soldiers will nee
be to stand between the contending con
his batants; Inc nna1c Ia, system ~ y
and aiming power of the West. Coke
ism is a prophecy of the future ~
On point OF power will be the point to be
stroyed."
lei He asserts that the South will T
assert her declaration of principle
Here is his language
-~"These fundamental principles a
ndg eternal, and as alive to-day over t
graves OF their dead as they were oeio
gun was fred at Charleston or VIII
they were silenced at Appomattox."
out. How can the North believe t
will cor+h,s Drofsss,on Of natriotism
the face of the significant assertion
And again:
JUST "The South will never first take
fees field again. But the West as sure as
East presses it's control .at the cent
will assert it's rights, IN war If need
1T re the st9ot eastern esc n sso
but viii as certainly destroy this Cove
ment as it is persistently attempt
The war. now past forever in the Sou
-. L. was for a domestic right forever clos
20 70 but war of capital will bring out
moth the demons that belong to capital.
East is getting weaker, the West stro
er. Westward the star of empire sets
way, and the fash on the bayonet
J wife the future is from the sun in the Yves
be- The East would have all power at
ouse. centre where IL may coh h ~, .ne d
tributed among the States, where it
their be controlled by the people. No
and 90 tHa t''n novvar st the centre which
If fol destroy free government. Like pre-
Russia, centralized despotism will s
the temple of liberty. Many States I
take care of the many interests OF
l. De-. many people. One government
IL al Washington means no liberty an
Ter it the distributed units"
iDjure The above is a bold assertion
the West will take up the War o
Rebellion where the South LEI
~" and that while the latter section
princi 80 80 m,u ,oovotbo Wost 70
s0" the initiative and thus save
South from the blasting effect
invasion with It's consequent d.
IL. j. tatIon. He could not fail to rel
or the the Negro and say:
every s'But the white man has too
land for his labor. He must HAY
land or more labor. The Negro m
the labor, but cannot buy the land
en- po- European offers to do both. The
)ers of ton will be settled by the doctrine
m +ha survival of the fittest.
south We have a practical example
of a man who pays no attenti
statistics. With the Negroes O
of the ginia alone who before the wa
Ease do nothing, now owning over ($l2
"a hot OO0) twelve million dollars wo
20 the property-personal and real
ION as- and those in the United
$264,OOO,OOO) two hundred
sixty-four million dollars worth
ut are sonal and in real-estate, anC
How la-buvinQ. his asser tons will