Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-19
SOME KINDLY COMMENTS.
An English Papers AlIusions 10 MISS
Winnie Davis's Death.

Winnie DAWES DeHs".
The Daily Telegraph OF London. winch
claims TO have the largest circulation OF
any paper in the world, prints In It's -
sue OF September ed the following eoi-
toriai on the death Of Miss Winnie DAVIS:
Time" said the Greek poet. rs
kindly god" and there could hardly be
better illustration of the saying thah 10
| furnished by the career or MISS White
| Davis, daughter OF the celebrated Jener-
| son Davis, the champion or the Sou'h'
| Only some thirty years have elapsed since
| the whole Continent OF North America
was rent by one OF the most sansuinsl
| of civil wars which ever desoiated ma
! ton and a people. Through the iength
and breadth OF the land the fiercest pas
sions were aroused, the deadlicst hatred
| divided members of the same Common
| wealth. and drove kinsmen into fratriciuai
| strife. The watchwords Of North ana
| south of Federal and Confederate, sig
| nifed all the difference In the worio III
ideas. in sympathies, and In characlei,
and when, in 1866. the long battle was
| over. and jefferson Davis was captured
On his hurried flight from Richmond, his
exulting conquerers had no other wish OK
intention than to see the representative
OF the South and their hated enemy hahs
ing from "a sour apple tree" He wouio
have seemed rash prophet who declaieu
| that In the course OF single gehela'V"
the animosity would die down ana ,he
| two divided members of the community
form once more a single nation. let .no
day before yesterday, Winnie JAWS ~
Daughter OF the Confederacy' oeioEeu -
every Southerner as the image ana sym
, bol OF their hopes and their lost leader
ideals died in Rhode Island, ana tue
whole OF New York is overpowered Ny
grief as at the loss OF "a persohai Itls .i
II is Of course. some time ago that MISS
, Davis together with her mother, eiected
10 live at the Girard House, In NeW
I York. after the ruin OF their peauluu.
southern home; but the strength VI
character and that personal charm Whicn
: had made her an idol in her native couh-
: try had long since conquered the hearts
OF those who had once been her enemies,
and converted them into the stauncnest
OF friends Nevertheless, II is Wohoer-
ful testimony TO the healing enects Oh
time that the daughter OF the man VINO,
above all others, represented the Con
federate spirit, should have won her way
!, SO speedily into the sympathies ana az
fections of her ancestral foes. Accoruihs
to the old moralist We are hidden 70
treat our friends as though they might
some day become our enemies, ana our
: enemies "a likely to develop into frlenos'
Il But II is "a counsel OF perfection, AT pest,
n and one which is not easily reailLeu
N among imperfect and hayward MANKIND
r All the more significant therefore, Is the
o. fact that I'm certain races, ana under cer
n tain conditions OF civilization, it is not
n always true that "to be wroth with those
we love doth work like madness In the
brain" Civil wars do not in every in
stance leave the deepest wounds ana
> the hands which have waged the stern
~ est conflict are often found joining III
10 amity and the common fellowship oil
= civic life
l. UNFORTUNATELY. this is by no means th'
IL fact in all cases. There are racial as
l.. cords which never seem TO die, but go OF
E. perpetuating themselves from generation
x IN generation Nothing except the eX
d. tinction of their rivals could ever nave
made Carthaginians and Romans frlenus
or have induced a Greek 10 live on term
| of real intimacy with Mede or fer
sian. There seems TO be a law or natur
which forbids n lasting alliance between
, the Teuton and the Gaul; nor Is 1t eve
, probable that the Turk and the Christian
" populations Of the Balkan States VIII Nv
contentedly side by side. The morals
e and the historian note that even TO TN
~ day the memories of waterloo are no
4 forgotten, and many year mas yet Z
mass before the fatal day of Sedan ga
y no obliterated from a Frenchmans mind
u In instances like these we are dealing, O
81 course with those intrinsic contrasts Q
character and temperament Which us
or | tinguish different races-contrasts whlc
- seem almost If not altogether inenaceapl
d, | NV the lapse of countless years With
the limits of our own realm we are onl
Dr. foo conscious how difficult 1t is for
Of mere Englishman to understand the dis
d. nosition of a Cet, while the contempt
rarv condition of Austria Hungary, an
also. TO some extent Of Sweden ana MOI
way. proves the exceeding righteousness
ee the attempt to bring rival nauonalltl'
10 within the same social and economic Ioi'
ne No insuperable chasm divided North froi
r South in the American civil war, an
IN wben the strife was over the two combat
ch ants succeeded in burying the hatche
of precisely as I'm this country the forkls'
IS, and the Lancastrians were fused togeth'
be after the bloody wars Of the Roses. re-
er haps also. IL would be true 10 aud ina
te northern races forget their difference
more readily than the southern. In
colder temperament in these cases be
o. gets. if not generosity, at all events
~ speedier philosophic tolerance, the kee
-, excitability. on the other hand the pas
g sionate ardour. the sentimental enthu
30 siasm OF the Latin nations render thel
30 memories more tenacious OF their quar-
- rels. We do not desire unduly 10 mas
w nify the characteristics OF the lneaH
VI from which we are sprung; but II seem
~ TO be the teaching Of history that IN
~ Anglo-Saxons can forgive and forge
&C. while Frenchmen and Spaniards an
40, Italians are perfervid in heir resent
ny ments. The explanation Of this fact
Isl fact II be-may be differently stated az
's cording to the point Of view from while
III it Is regarded. We may be said TO Ie
an less acutely, and TO be more phlegmatl
&c both in our attachments and our al
likes: or the effects OF that public scho
discipline which creates the closest DO.
be ish friendships out OF some royal bout
gro fsticufs may lead US 10 extend the san
OF generous appreciation towards other TO-
the with whom we nave iousnl hdtu al
in vigorously Be this as II may, It Is
ain Measure for us TO note that In the Angl
hat Saxon community across the Atlantic Il
rm- discords OF North and South are now 10
int gotten. and that both Federals and Co
lice federates can mingle their tears over q
ven grave Of Winnie Davis.
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