The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-24


which the anti-e.Dansiou orators and party
editors proposed to make capital.
A NOBLE TRIBUTE TO a NOBLE
MAN.
The Rev. William Fanney Iunkin, D. D.,
formerly of Lexington, Va, died in
Montclair, n. J., in April last. DR.. Junkin
had been called as a pastor to- this New
Jersey Church about twelve years ago,
and how HE had lived among people Of
Northern sympatnies is we'll told In the
memorial address which was delivered on
the occasion of his funeral by the Rev.
Amory II. Bradford. A moro beautiful
and earnest tribute by one man to an
other was hardly ever rendered. One
passage will especially stike the hearts
of Southern people. DR.. Bradford said:
He came to this Northern town. quite
largely settled by New Englanders and
their descendants. who represented the
most extreme Northern sentiment He
came before the echoes of the civil war
had entirely died away. He came as
one who had been a soldier in the Con-
Tolerate army, a Shareholder, a friend OF
Robert H. Lee and a brother-in-law Of
Stonewall Jackson. He never obtruded
his past, never in the slightest apologized
for it, and. whenever an opportunity
came, manfully, but never extensively, de-
Tended it, with the result that he COM
pelled US all to respect his position he
helned us to see that there were other
great political and social principles for
which he and his friends had fought be-
side the perpetuation Of slavery, and that
those principles were as dear to them as
ours to US. He actually helped us, who
were intensely loyal to the principles for
which the Union armies had contended
In the civil war, to see that in the South
were those as brave, as loyal to truth,
as they understood it; as willing to die
for their convictions as any at the North.
He made us honor the sincerity OF those
whom he represented
..,rhat was a remarkable achievement.
He never once lowered his own flag; was
ALWAYS loyal to his friends; frankly ac-
cepted the results of the civil war as the
verdict of Almighty God: lived among
us without apology and without contro-
yersy, and went away from US last Mon
day morning with the unqualified respect
and unbounded admiration Of every IN
selfish patriot in the community. If there
is any truth in the proverb, He that
ruleth his own spirit is greater than he
that taketh a city, his place must be
high in the rolls of the saints OF the
earth.
az, a, descendant of long line Of New
England Puritan:, an abolitionist OF
abolitionists, esteem it one of the greatest
privileges Of my life to be permitted to
offer this unworthy but sincere and heart
felt tribute TO this brave, courteous,
Christian gentleman from Virginia
What a powerful refutation Of SANDER
upon the South and its people was given
in the life OF this Christian soldier. How
much do those of the South who never
had the opportunity of mingling with the
Northern people owe to such one as Or.
Junliin the rapid removal Of hatred ana
prejudice which in the last few years we
have seen melt away. We wish to thank
DR.. Bradford for his tribute, and to say
to him that with such a. man as he repre-
sentins the North, and with such man
as DR.. Junkin representing the South,
the perpetuation of animosity and bitter
ness would be impossible.
The principal ground of the animosity
which the North bore to the South was
utter ignorance of the character of our
neople and a wild and fanatical hatred
of slavery. The North is beginning 10
find out what manner of men the South
ern people were, and its views on the
negro question have undergone material
changes.
The resentment Of the South was due
principally to the cruel treatment i'm
posed upon us after the war by the re-
construction acts, and to the fact that our
sincerest and most earnest pledges were
distrusted and rejected.
When we said we would stop fighting
and come back to our places as citizens
of the Union and do our whole duty as
such, we were called traitors and treated
as such to the EXTREMIST limit that the
radical Republicans dared to go.
II has taken quite a generation to re-
move much of this ignorance and bitter
ness. but thank God it is going, and DR..
Junkin in the pulpit, and Joe Wheeler
in the tree at Santiago, and Fitz Lee at
Havana, and Worth Bagley at Cardenas,
and ten thousand Southern soldier boys
in any and every place where brave men
were wanted, have opened the eyes of
our Northern brethren, and they now be-
gin to see us as We are.
EXPLOSIONS AND EXPERIENCE.
Denver is not very close to Richmond,
but the heresies Of The Richmond Times
are obviously very much feared by the
Denver Times. for it comes out In an