The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-14
NORTH AND SOUTH.

The South accepted the results of the civil war in
good faith. We have supported the government in
peace and in war We pay proportion of the Fed
eral taxes for the support of the govnI.uent large
part of which for pensions to the Federal soldiers
who fought against us Whenever the government has
been threatened from abroad the South has expressed
her readiness to rally her it's defense. During
the war with Spain southerners volunteered in num-
bers greater than could be used Wherever the
was given, the Southern soldiers and sailors dstin-
guished themselyes-wltness the record of General
Joseph Wheeler at Santiago Hobson's exploit with
the Merrmac, and Victor Blues promotion for conspc-
uous galantry To-day in the Philippines Southern sol
ders serving in the army of the United States side
by side with their comrades from the North.
The South since the war has always been heedful
Of the counsel and example of Robert E. Lee Her ci-
Gems have followed Lee in loyalty to the government
of the United States in peace they followed him
battle against it in Southerners mindful too
Of the words of Jefferson Davis which Governor Sayers
quoted at the Dallas reunion Men in whose hands
the destiny of Southland lies, for love of her,
break my silence and speak these words of re-
specfu admonlton The past is Dead let it bury it's
dead with its hopes and aspirations. Let me beseech
you to lay aside all rancor all bitter sectional feeling
and take your place in the ranks those who will
bring contamination devoutly to be wshed--a re-
united people"
The South has done its part to make this reunited
people Now the North must do its part Attacks upon
the South like the presidents calling the Confederates
| anarchists must Attacks upon the South like
Senator Spooner's. Senator McComas, Senator Bur.
tons recently rreevanty nterjected into the Philip
pine debate, must cease In pardonng a negro convict
( condition of his becoming a citizen of Massachi.
sets the governor of Arkansas undoubtedly gave prov.
ocation but it not sufficient to justify retort
like that of General w W. Backmar, department COM
mandcr of the Grand Army of the Republic of Massa-
ohusets, who said: Il consider the action Governor
Jefferson Davis unworthy of notice-it is beneath
our contempt He has only succeeded in showing him.
self worthy OF his namesake,"
Northerners who refuse to lay aside feelings of
against the South doing harm their coun-
try, Many Northerners show the right spirit. and
Southeners cordially extend to them the hand fell
owship in the service of country Too
many Northerners OF prominence behind the times
They still living in the SOS. Their ethics are of
remoter period still and date from the middle ages.
Let countrymen of the North realize that this is
the Twentieth century and forget the bitterness of the
past and remember only its gores. Let them cease
nure the present and the future by rakng over the
dead embers of the fires OF the past
Such is the duty of true patriotism. We OF the
South have taken this lesson to heart. Why can not
our counuymen of the North do the same? Lee and
Davis showed us the Greeley and Mckinley have
pointed out the way to our Northern brethren they
would only follow it,