Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-07
THE EVOLUTION
OF THE SOUTH
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results and she has paid her proper
ton Of the pension roll of the North,
which costs yearly nearly as much as
the greatest imperial standing army on
earth. The manhood of the sons of the
South has already brought her I'D to
the standard of prosperity as wonder
ful as the strength of her armies
against the fourfold cohorts of the
worlds recruits. While Northern
money has been invested in Southern
enterprises, it is admitted that by far
the greatest part of the increased
wealth is due to Southern intelligence
and energy. An investigation will re-
veal the fact that the head-masters In
the line Of development are mostly
Confederate soldiers.
MONDAY OF MANHOOD.
Her banks. her mines. her manufact-
cries are guided by the men whose
hands struck hardest for the Cause"
which Twitchell said was shot to death
In o.. Yes; good st. Stephen was
stoned to death: mighty Socrates was
poisoned to death; great Caesar was
stabbed to death; patriot Isaac Hayne
was hung to DEATH Marshal Ney, the
bravest of the brave, was shot to
death, thus forcing mortals to ashes
and spirits to Immortality. which are
more powerful now than in the noon
day of their manhood.
Columbus suffered In chains and died
In poverty; Napoleon, the Military
Master of Europe. died in exile, but
their fame lives-the one in the great
est discovery and the other in unrival-
led martial splendor.
IRELAND BOUND IN CHAINS.
Ireland may be bound in chains to
Victoria's Crown: Cuba was held in
bloody letters to Castilian Royalty, but
the pure spirit of liberty lives in the
chain-meshes of imperialism. like fair
lilies, bloom on the death-darl5 waters
OF stagnant lakes. You may declare it
shot to death in '65. but 1t will live in
Its glorious chivalry as long as the
cypress signs, the willow bows or the
aspen trembles. You may proclaim Il
dead at Appomattox, but It's splendid
spirit still retains the magic power of
Constitutional liberty. It's influence
will flourish as the leaves of summer.
and its cherished memories shall sur
vlVe, ever green, as the cedars Of Lee
banon. It's principles will rescue orr
dual Government from Federal I'M
perlalism.
Ex-senator ingalls,, Of Kansas, IS re-
ported to have said that state lines
are fading out" under the sun Of the
South.
sic SEMPER TYRANNIs.
Heaven forbid! Shall the heart of
America repudiate "sic Semper Tyran-
mis-" or &c. PIuribus Unum?" Shall
the stars fade from the American flag
and State boundaries be blotted out?
The States must live, for they are the
safeguard of the Union; and let them
be as distinct as the lines Of the great
river In the sea. which takes the blue
warm waters from the gulf of Mexico
through the bosom of the ocean to
bloom flowers on the Norwegian
coasts! Yes, States forever, INDIE
STRUCTIBLE STATES ever with the
indissolube Union! AS the gulf stream
goes to make life In frozen lands let
the States give life to the nation as
Washington and Lee loved 1t. Is 1t
possible that State lines are fading out
in the heart OF America? Fading out
in the land OF which the Philadelphia
Ledger. in the lifetime Of Editor George
Washington Chllds. said: when an
cestry Is taken into consideration. the
South is to-day the most truly Ameri-
can section Of the United States. The
blood OF Its whites has run in the one
channel since colonial days. The other
States have been largely built up by