Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-06-09
THE WALL ORA SOUTHERN ORA,
TOR.

CAVE of st. Louis delivered the ora
ton. 1t was a production which
has caused endless comment. Had
the Republican leaders Cf the North
been asked as to what they wished
most just at this time, their answer
would unquestionably have BEEN
"Just such a speech as Rev. Mr..
CAVE delivered"
The fact that the local press had
to come to his defense and boldly de-
clare that he asserted the sentiments
of the Southern heart, made the ora
ton all the more valuable as q cam
paign document, and will cause an
estrangement among even those
Democrats who wore the blue and
periodically fought for the supreme
cy of the cold flag"
The Grafton Will check the streams
of finance and paralyze industries
which might otherwise have felt the
collaborating. effect of northern capt.
tai. For this reason, we regret that
such a reverend, indiscreet trade-kill-
ing orator should have been allowed
to air bis views to the detriment of
the section which he Processes TO
love.
We know that while the Southern
ers will suffer as a result, we cannot
fail to feel the blow.
In order to give the reader an idea
as to what extent this Rev. Mr..
CAVES "brains was In his breaches,
one has but to note a few extracts
from his remarkable address
81 am not one Of those who, clinginp
to the old superstition that the will of
heaven is revealed in the immediate re.
suits of trial by combat" fancy that
right must always be on the side OF
might, and speak Of AOpomattox as a
Judgment of God. i do not forget that
a Suwaroff triumpbed, and a Kosciusko
fell; that a Nero welded the sceptre OF
empire. and q raul was beheaded: that
a Herod was crowned and a Christ was
crucifed; and, instead of accepting the
defeat of the South as Divine verdict
against her, regard it as but another
instance OF truth on tie scaffold, and
wrong on the throne
| In any other country but ours
those utterances would be regarded
as reasonable:
"AppomattOx was a triumph of'the
physically stronger in a conflict between
the representatives of two essentially diff
ferent civilizations, and antagonistic
ideas of government. On one side in
that conflict was the South, led by the
descendants of the Cavaliers, who, with
all their faults, had inherited from a
long line of ancestors, a manly con-
tempt tor moral littleness, high sense
J of honor, lofty regard for plighted
faith, a strong tendency to conserva-
tism, profound respect for law and or
der, and an unfaltering loyalty to con-
sututiOnal government. Against the
South was arrayed the power of the
North, dominated by the spirit of Puri-
tanism. which. with all it's virtues, has
ever been characterized by the Pharisa-
ism that worship itself, and is unable to
perceive any goodness apart from itself
which has ever arrogantly held its ideas,
It's interests, and its will to be higher
than fundamental law and covenanted
obligations; which has always lived and
moved, and had it's being in rebellion
against constituted authority; which.
with the cry of Freedom on its lips, has
been one of the most cruel and pitiless
tyrants that ever cursed the world;
which, while beheading an English king
in the name of liberty, brought England
under reign of oppression whose little
finger was heavier than the mailed hand
of the Stuarts; and which, from the time
~ 4.
| ham Lincoln, has never hesitated to
trample upon the rights of others in or
der to effect it's own ends"
Was there ever a worse TRADE
against the North Democrat and
Republican, miser and phiIanthro-
lpist, the employer and the employee.
If he resides in the North ia included
In this unwarranted condemnation
of the most progressive section of
the country that the world has ever
seen And again
| Sat Appomattox, Puritanism, hacked
by overwhelming numbers and unlimit-
ed resources, prevailed. But brute force
cannot settle questions of right and
wrong. Thinking men do not Judge the
merits OF cause by the measure of its
success and believe
The world shall yet decide,
In truths clear, far off light
that the South was in the right; that
her cause was just; that the men who
took up arms in her defence were patri-
OTIS who had even better reason for what
they did than had the men who fought
at Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill
and that her coercion, what good
may have resulted or may hereafter re-
suit from it, was an outrage on liberty"
The above Is rash to the point OF
madness. No wonder the conserva-
tive washington Post" denomlnat-
ed him a blatherskite. With the
truths of recent history staring him
In the face, demonstrating the error
of the South's position and his as
serticns proving that this same Sec
ton fought among other things to
perpetuate slavery, he says:
'They (the South) believed that the
immediate and wholesale emancipation
of the slaves would be ruinous to the
whites and blacks alike; and that, un-
der the. then existing conditions, the
highest interests of both themselves and
the colored wards committed to their
keeping demanded that the relation OF
master and servant should continue
J But it was not to perpetuate slavery
that they fought"