The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-09-29
NO. 1441.

commanded the other line, and al
| Buena Vista, with five thousand |
troops, mostly Southerners, whip |
ped Santa Anna with twenty thou
sand troops, the pride of the Mex
lean army. i
Man began to doubt that there
ever existed such a pure character
rs Washington was alleged to have
been. They said, Oh! it was a |
fairy tale, a myth; Dame Natur{I
could not make such maniI /
Dame Nature smiled and said
Il will prove it to you," and she
again came to this Southland OF
ours for her clay. And when she
had finished her work she ex-
claimed, "Behold him!' The en-
tire world stood and gazed; and
when they looked upon his almost
Godlike face and form, and heard
of his pure character, his immor-
tai deeds, his great and undyine
fame, they called out with one ac-
lcord, "Name himl Name him !"
and Dame Nature replied, "Rob-
ert E. Lee, of the Southland OF
| the United States of America |"
| Surely if the South had never
done anything more than to pro-
/ duce q Washington and a Lee, the
entire world should bow down be-.
fore her and honor and bless her.
| Surely it can be said if you take
from the history of the nation the
glory, the freedom and rcnown
that our dear Southland has
added to it, you will curtail her
| freedom and dim her glory. The
| South has ever been true and
faithful to all her pledges. But
some may say, did she not rebel
against the general government Z
Well, suppose for the sake of ar
gument, we admit she did? She
only exercised that divine right,
that right given by God himself
to man, that whenever a govern
ment ceases to be bound by her
, constitutional restrictions and be-
: comes an empire of oppression, III
! the place of one of protection,
man should
BREAK THE SHACKELs THAT BIND
and become again free. And if ii
was rebellion, who was guilty
Those that rebelled, or those that
gave just cause for the rebellion! !
Suppose "a man should introduce
smallpox into your house and
family, and you called in a doctor
and he happened to prescribe the
wrong remedy? Who is the most
y to blame? The man who intro
' duced the disease and caused the
, necessity for your calling in q
- doctor, or the doctor who pre-.
scribed the wrong remedy? The
" man has read history in vain OF
intentionally misrepsesented il
= who charges that the South wa:
- primarily responsible for the last
war. She is not responsible fol
one mothers grief; one wife,
agony; one sweetheart's sob; no
- one grave, North or South; no
the blood of one man stains he
pure hands; for she did not ejec
- the poison in the body polite tha
caused the war. She may hav
!. adopted the wrong remedy; and
thought then, and do now, tina
=. perhaps she did; that perhaps
would have been better to hav
- Joined with the good men of th
North-and there were thousand
- and thousands of them-and
have forced all men to have obeye
the Constitution and laws. Agai
=. / hear some say, "Why were yo
- - not rebels?" Well, again for tt
! sake of argument, suppose v
- were. Are we ashamed to bes
-, the name thatWashington, Henr,
- Jefferson, Light Horse Harry lie
!: and the Northern men, Benjami
Franklin, Alexander Hamilton
- Green and Mad Anthony Wayl
- bore? Were it not for rebels v
- would not have this glorio1
Union. Were it not for rebels '
would not,now have our magni
:, cent Constitution - the mo
,rn precious gift ere yet bequeath
from sire to son. Were it not f
49, rebels the Magnr Charta wou
e never have been extorted fro
~ King John at Runnymede.
no liberty sprung originally frc
acts of rebels. All! rebels-it
LA glorious word. The war, tina
,. God, is over; but | am sorry
,..I, say that free government is yet
! fear, on trial. We have yet
~; prove that man is yet pure enou