The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-30
THE ERA OF RECONCILIATION.

State in which. Jefferson Davis was
inaugurated as President of the Com
federate States of America. have placed
portrait of Abraham Lincoln in their
Hall of Fame. Mr.. Rowland, director
of the State Historical Department. in
soliciting the picture from Robert t.
Lincoln, signalized the passing of the
old order in the following words:
| We of the South now realize the
| greatness and goodness and grandness
of the character of President Abra-
ham Lincoln, and would honor his
memory. Our own Lee has been given
place in the Temple of Fame, situat-
ed on the other side of Mason and Dix
| on's line, and his name stands with
that of Lincoln Your father belongs
to the worlds immortals, and nothing
that we could do would add to his
fame. We can, however, show our re-
spect and love for him. Permit me,
therefore, in the name of the State, TO
invite you to place a portrait Of Presi-
dent Lincoln in the new capitol of
Mississippi. that it may symbolic his
love for his country, his devotion to
duty, and his heartfelt sympathy for
the Southern people.
A calm survey of the Civil War,
such as men of this generation are
able to make. brings a conception of
the fact that the statesmen and SOL
diers on both sides, by their intellect
ual power. their moral and physical
courage and by the great deeds they
wrought, gave a new dignity to the
American name and a new strength
Civil War the United States held a
small place in the estimation Of the
world. 1t was regarded as a loose
confederacy-a group of cousins-in-
habited by Yankee traders in the
North and by strutting slave barons in
the South, so weak in the true nation
las Captain Marryat wrote in 1883
"a foreign army, 10000 strong, could
march from end to end of it without
opposition Nor was the relative opin-
ion of the sections much higher.
North of Mason and Dixons line the
coming invasion of the South by raw
Ievies was regarded as holiday
promenade Even VIM. II Seward
thought three months would suffice to
bring the South to terms. In the
South itself it was said that zone
vo
Had either been right, the United
States today would have been sec
ond-class power. It needed four years
of bloody war ana a gigantic outlay of
physical resources on both sides, toll
convince the world at large and at
home, that the United States had in it
the material for q first-class power;
and today, the surest confidence the
citizen has in the ability of this coun-
try to hold its own, is in his remem-
brance of the men whom both North
and South raised up to meet the crisis
of. 1861. AS Americans we are proud
of the way they did IT; proud of the
the one side and of Lincoln and Grant
on The other. So it has been in all
history. No Englishman looks back
with shame or disfavor on Marston
Moore and Naseby and the descend
ants of those who fought ON either
side would not have had those battles
turn out differently. They are satisfied
that those conflicts left no other heri-
tage than good to the common country.
Rupert and Cromwell. Bruce and Wal
lace, are accepted heroes of the Brit
ish race, not chiefs of ancient factions;
and the time is already here. when the
southerner looks with pride upon the
statues of Lincoln and Grant and when
the Northerner honors the names that
made the Southern half of the Ameri-
can people illustrious in the times that.
| tried mems souls.