The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-02-28

very heart of the Southland never {,
Dee erased. a- well ~ thuse who ar,
proud to ie SOUS of such veterans
would ew.y lhi- speech request
you to giveIla place in your paper
] cau STE tue oId time nIr BOZ the eye,
of Capt sam Our "Blb." and
"Bo-- o. r.. rs they read and endorse
the sentiments.
Your friend.
r. G. PORTER.
"Ihe New South is an evoiutionof the
Old South, wrought by revolution.
The old is aIway- the par-ntof thenew
Yesterday is the mother of today.
There is no illegirmlcy IN the lineage
Of tine cd south nor in the pedigree
OF the New South The New south j.
proud of her cavalier ancestry only
0a-iard- and parvenue- abhor the fam
I i.y tree just a. the defendants of q
man who has prematurely terminated
bis early career 40 the end of rope
de-pi-e the sight Of jail, aud gailow-
The Old south represented The most
splendid civilization the world has ever
known. Sine modelled into form this
free government Of ours, and gave it
IT, bent and directed b., destiny. No |
veual lying Maclay can ever rob her |
of this glorious historic honor By the ]
pens other statesmen were written the
declaration of independence and the
constitution of our country, and by the
'Word- of her son, have they beeh dc.
Tended whenever assaulted. 10 was %
. son of the Old South that the British
lion crouched in submission at York.
town. IL was tO a son Of the Old South
that the flag of the Azlecs was lowered
Dn the capital of the Moutclumas. II
was t0 a SON of the Old south that
Packngham hauled down the red cross
VI England just outside the rampart-
If New Orleans. And it was by son
II the South of the Old South and of d
.he New South that the Spanish fleet
was destroyed in the day Of Santiago d
Ne0f the South. son, of those vino j.
wore tine gray. loyeour country even a. d
he Greeks with Le0uIda. loved
sparta. We love it- lag. the glorious q
tar- and stripes. that emblem Of the
rce. That strikes terror to tyrauf- NJ
wherever 30 f0al-. AID the man is ID
.ither "A fool on a kuaye who thinks or "a
avs that becau-e We love and are d
oval tn The old south We are dlsl0yal to a
ur country. -corn The mi-creant
rom the south, who. 90 iuguuafe p
himself into the paironling favor Of D
he mouied putocrats of modern n
nWer, tIuekie- at their feet with a Il
sady apology for anything the old o.
1ufh ever did ! de-pi-e The wretch o.,
be tme--erving ,ycophant-wh0 IN
'ouid brand the word rebellion Upon al
be tomb Of the old south or -tigmatize
3 traitor, and rebels Those who fell ci
l-Wearing Of the gray 40
"Ihe southern man who would write ci
ehciiou' on traitor over the grave of ul
single hero who hll iu defence of hi- D,
alive southland would for money M
oIate bis fathers grave and di~honor u,
is mothers memory.
"The old 80 Ola was NOT commercial. ar
'rsu-e She had higher aims and noblcf On
piaiiou-. she never bad any lucra- pi
vc knack, and She did not want f.. IA
er civilization wasn't built that way. ON
be wa- foo busy during the ocean wi
mpe-t in which the young republic bu
AS tossed, Watching pirates. aud TO
Iardng the ship of state, % traffic in th
O. national mart, Of trade While She oa
pt "a wa'chfuI eye Upon the pilgrim 49,
.her-, who were little too piou- Ia bo
10 hcf taste. she always admired and lo
rev bouquets to the noble pilgrim va
others the old south was rocked boa .
b. cradle of constitutional liberty. and M
b never or-ook the way of her youth, iui
10 never felI from her first high bel
ate of political innocence. Her eyes
she'd ~c1ru upon the political liber-
o., that dared 90 trile with her
liden honor she never grew fame PR
zled, or went wandering from home lh,,
er uuhaIioWcd adulation. Foreign va
arms and foreign gold could not at vet
10 0r -ed.ce her Her heart har- tn
ed but one cha-te devotion. aud me
10 was 90 the noble PRINCIPE of equal CIV
hts io all and special privileges to
De-, as guaranteed by hecDnstitution curt
lur fathers That was the faith in rin
ich she lived. and the faith ia tior
irh, aud f1r which. she died nd
The ncw south exists under new
'eu-aii1n, and is, 90 am extent, like
rest the world, under the DOM -, :
iiou of Our modern commercial civ- Wv
alton. Its no fault IF herr, that it -
ID. 10 is no fault of hers that the Al
= of ourpresent civilization is Nam.
ID, aud that he rules thc country with
epfre OF gold, Bur the new south, h1
lgnnIng this fact, has carefully aud E
fully put away the point lace and Az
nond-. the white satin garments em-
dered with gold, and the -potle-.