Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-07

! - CUTIE iortn poth strong and wise,
with a love of the Republic, and the
truth before his eyes
lie will show the subtle causes of the
war between the States.
he VIII go back in his studies far be-
yond our modern dates,
lie VIII trace our hostile ideas as the
miner does the lodes,
He will show the different habits of
different social codes
He will show the Union riven, and the
picture will deplore,
lie VIII show it reunited and made
stronger than before.
Slow and patient. fair and truthful
must the coming teacher be
10 show how the knife was sharpened
that was ground to prune the
lie will hold the scales of justice, he
VIII measure praise and blame,
And the South will stand the verdict
and Will stand it without blame"
SPANS CRUEL POLICY.
l am thankful to have been spared to
hear Spain's cruel policy of starvation
In Cuba condemned by those who coun-
tenanced Sheridan's waste in the valley
OF Virginia, so that " a crow flying over
would have to carry it's rations": Sher
mans march to the sea with wanton
desolation in its wake; Ben Butler's
war on non-combatants, even TO a
convict guards for a minister of the
gospel while compelled to labor in the
streets; quinine contra band of war and
prisoners unexchanged as a military
necessity for civilized nation, and
then, after success in arms, sanctioned
the letters on President jefferson Da-
Wis to break the spirit of a proud peo-
pie. Thank God their spirit could not
be broken. And thank Him that no Ar
mold ever dsgraced the name of any of
q lie nf lNn l., I.,,t x-1,4
given Robert f. Lee as the grandest
military cheftain and Stonewall Jack
son as the greatest field marshal ever
listed in the catalogue of fame. 1t has
been truly said that since the founda-
ton of this Government men of the
South have demonstrated in every line
OF action, in political life. on the bat
tlefield, in literature, in science. in
great business undertakings, in every
sphere of life, that they are the peers
Of the most progressive men of the
world.
STATESMEN, SOLDIERS AND SAIL
ORS.
Jefferson. Clay, Calhoun and Judah P.
Benjamin, as statesmen; Washington.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson. as soldiers;
Buchanan. Maury and Raphael Semm-
es. as sailors; Poe. Timrod and Barron
Hope. as poets. lift her up to a stand
ard not outshone along times hoary
| centuries.
There was an era in the South when
| the sunbeams of contentmcnt gilded the
| pillars of her homes. which were real
| palaces OF hospitality and pleasure
Her fertile fields charmed the vision
of master, mistress and slave when
green wheat spread over vast areas and
cotton was the wealth of the great
planters. 1t was her peace. when agri-
| culture gave toll for all her laborers
and her wealth marked forty four per
| nf NO i,f,lr nnratt r1lnt,
her discomfort in the throes of war.
| when the tread of soldiery wasted her
| products, and shot and shell tore the
| burrows. which had been dressed by the
peaceful pillow. The blood OF her SOL
| diers ran down into the ragged holes
which made unmarked graves for her
uncofiined dead.
| The sunlight of her wealth faded out
and darkest poverty covered the face
of her fair farms. Then in the sorrow
OF defeat her independence died,
Her sons bemoaned and her daugh-
children cried for bread in the ashes of
her homes.
She sat tributary to that part of
| WASHINGTON'S COUNTRY which
had always fed and fattened from her
! planta tions.
THE YOKE WAS HEAVY.
The yoke was heavy and its bows
were as strong as the riven oak: but it
| chastened the souls of her sons to a
/ victory which has made her the beauty
of the nation. The evolution came in
glorious splendor. Her fields bloom
| again as of yore her iron coal and all
the ores of her hills turn to gold at
the stroke of the strong arm of her
sons. Her daughters, refined gentle.
sweet. beautiful women. with the lofti-
ness OF soul and nobieness of heart
which sustained them In the terrible
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queens: and her children grow strong
and rich in the land of their fathers
graves.
The South to-day is as a princess in
the palace of the forefathers. who
broke England's yoke. The fair land
of flowers is rich in mining and manu-
| featuring, as well as in agriculture.
while the Merrimac's grand water
power is wasting in the silence of spin-
dies and unemployed laborers cry for
bread in the shadow of New England's
| great factory buildings. If the South
has suffered for slavery. the North has
| now its turn at the mills of gods which
grind slowly but surely.
NORTHERN MINDS POISONED.
There is the mcddlcrs fate!
There is the fanatics bitter fruit!
There is the result of the wild un-
rcasonableness which poisoned the
Northern mind to pull down the pillars
which upheld their Industrial temples
and sustained their commercial power.
1t is the ordinance of events which
called forth the hidden resources OF
the South to the destruction of those
who forced them.
The injured may cry aloud and
awake lawmakers aid but the logic
of climate ard conditions Is now the
HIGHER LAW. The frozen hills OF
Massachusetts Bay must bow to the in
evitable; her industrial profits must