Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-11
Doodle. and Dixie. harmonzed into
one national air" tApplaase)

! Doodle. and Dixie. harmonized into
one national air" Appaase)
FINE COORDINATE CAUSES.
! General Evans spoke Of true peace as
/ n blessed reality. and declared this 70 be
/ the time for awarding mutual honors
/ TO all true defenders Of their respective
! convictions. for fair statement OF the law
and the facts governing that one great
| disagreement among Americans which
issued in bloody conflict. and 10 build still
broader. deeper. higher. and grander cur
national fabric OF popular government"
The speaker asserted that the people
of the South should share the blame for
general literature not dealing fairly with
the South and her cause and men. be-
cause they have trusted to the truth OF
history without giving that truth
Tongue 20 proclaim the inmost PRINCIPLES,
the lofty purpose, and the patriotic deeds
of the southern people. as a part OF this
American nation. Ours Is a treasury OF
things new and old. whence all sections
are entitled to draw those riches Of poll
tical precept and action which make ma
tons great
Continuing the speaker said with
my subject in view / name five cardinal.
co-ordinative causes which contributed TO
the greatness of our republic They
are: l. The extent and richness OF its
eminent domain. >. The martial spirit
ready on sea and land for the country's
sure defence. 3. A people enlightened.
industrious, progressive. aud religious.
| possessing qualities which nt them for
citizenship. {. The jealous maintenance
of all the first principles Of human right
against all power at home or abroad ar
rayed 10 destroy them. s. Last, and not
least, the integrity of the constitutional
Union. whose dissolution Is to be unthink-
able until the martial spirit become ex-
tinct. the people lose their virtues. and
the principles of liberty are dead: and
then may
The stars be old. and the sun grow
cold;
And the leaves of the Judgment book
unfold
TERRITORIAL GREATNESS
Let US see in sheer summary" said
General Evans further on, how much
this country Is indebted TO the South for
actual land. We commence with the fact
that in the beginning the Southern Colo
MES brought into the common property
largely the greatest landed wealth. Take
the muniiicent grant of your own Nir-
Cinia by its cession OF territory TO which
iurists said and say it had a. valid title;
look at the gift made by Maryland, North
Carolina's donation OF Tennessee. and
Georgia's cession from the Chattahoochee
to the Mississippi; then examine that out
lying range of northwestern territory
won and held by the backwooIs boys.
from Virginia and Kentucky Of which
a northern first-rank historian frankly
says: An our territory lying beyond the
Alleghanies north and south was first
won for us by southwesterners fighting
for their land Survey, also the regal
of he f..li.
Louisiana, broadening out from the delta
OF the Mississippi along the right bank
Of that mighty river, in shape like an
eagles wing whose tip touched the Brit
ish POSSESSIONS on the north line of the
present Dakotas and covering ground
nearly one third of the United States!
That Imperial region WAS seized In peace
from NAPOLEON by the statesmnuship Of
southern men against the resci .ment OF
Great Britain and over the protesting
fears OF our timid countrymen who op-
posed the aggrandizement Of our nation
by territorial extension. Next came the
acquisition Of Florida. in 1919, from Spain.
by which the same southern policy secured
that inviting realm Of beauty, where the
gentle climate invites the shivering north
erners to flee the wrath to come and reVel
in the luscious lures Of orange groves.
VIII they not, while breathing the balm
Of Indian river and Tampas strand-will
they not bless the valor OF Andrew Jack
son and the acquisitiye statesmanship OF
his southern cOmpeers which delivered
this glorious peninsula from the oppres-
sion OF Spa. and committed ii 10 the
keeping of the American Union? And
next in order. great Texas, won by an
nexation and COnsequc mt Mexican war. fol-
lowed by victory, peace, ana purchase,
that brought US for a trlle in money the
ownership of New Mexico. the garden
fields Of all the CALIFORNIA;. and Pacific
shore line whose harbors now open to the
trade OF the Orient. Everybody knows
that this magnificent gain was the re-
suit Of the South's progressive policy
and occurred through the administration
Of a southern President. Last comes
Arizona. known in the annals OF acquisi-
ton as the Gadsden purchase. achieved,
as is conceded. by the skill of the South
Carolina Senator who by special mission
contrived the trade. Now. take your map
Of these United States and Territories.
Survey with all your American pride
the broad domain Of the American Union
In the best portion of the earth; then draw
"A line along the northern boundary Of
Maryland and due west toward the Mis-
sissippi river. then nOrthward to the
Canada line. then along our northern
limits to the Pacific ocean. and from
thence down the Pacific coast TO the
southern part of California, Where you
viii turn eastward 10 the mouth of the
Rio Grande and follow the islands Of
the gulf around the Florida keys and
still on in the course of the Gulf stream
sweep up the Atlantic shores by Georgia
the Carolinas. Virginia. and Maryland,
to the beginning point. Look. my coun-
trymen. at the wonderous imperium in
imperio. containing two thirds OF the
nations land one half it's population,
and destined to be the home OF two hun
dred millions of free peOple-that land
came into the Union by the munificence
OF Maryland. Virginia. the Carolinas, and
Georgia: il was won from the crowns of
England Spain, France. and Mexico, by
the blood of the brave. or bought by the
taxes of the people; it was all brought
into the family of the free and sovereign
States OF this American republic through
a consistent, persistent, far-seeing south
ern policy.
IN OUR COUNTRY'S WARS
eve will enter next into brief and cold
statistics which only vaguely show the
martial patriotism of the South in the
wars OF the Republic. \ country's fame
is mada great in part by the herolsm
OF its people in times of wars. We have
a heroic history. in which the patriotic
yalor and sacrifices of our people were so
evenly balanced a. to leave all sections
wondrously rich in fame Our fore
fathers were New Englanders as well
as Virginians. and there are names that
can never be made sectional: Ethan Allen
and Francis Marion: John Starke and
Harry Lee: Nathaniel Green and George
Washington-who divides these martial
heroes into North and South. Jefferson
and Franklin-twin sages Madison anr
Adams-twin statesmen: Henry and Otis