The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-04-27
SPEECH ON NORTH AND SOUTH

The address by ST. Charles Mci<elway.
editor OF The Brooklyn Eagle at the
meeting of the Southern Educational con
ference in Richmond, Va. yesterday was
a feature of the meeting. 1t follows III
part:
My Friends: Those for whom and with
whom | have the honor to speak would
bring to those to whom | have the honor
to speak the greeting Of the north to the
south New York, from which L come,
and Virginia. in whose capital city
speak belong to the aristocracy of Amer
lea. They are numbered among the orig
inal thirteen Both are battle scared
with revolutionary suffering and crowned
with revolutionary trumphs. Both nave
been united to defend the union against
every foreign foe, Both are unit IN
the spirit of right between men and OF
justice between states which makes ana
which alone can keep the republic peace
our public life and orr public forces have
undergone without structural shock q
continuous development of century and
OF a quarter of a century of years. Yours
underwent prostration and recreation into
and under absolutely new conditions
within time less than half Il century
past. OF memories you have as rich an
heritage as But from some RESPONSE
bility and from some retarding causes
you are frec-and we are not. You had
the not always injurious opportunity
either for a man or for a state to begin
all over again We inherit and we carry
all our years with all their mhrmites
and with all their errors. as we'll as with
all their advances and successes on
should be better than we are. for puri-
fled as if by fire IS the figure Of inSluFa-
ton which signifies a ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
from alloy and deliverance from dross,
release from rust and from many cor
rupting and corrodmg Influences. The
resultant is the contemporary south,
which attests not only the originality.
the resiliency and the indestructiblity of
your section, but also the homogeneous
character OF our now happily common
country.
The contemporary north is in sympa
thy with the contemporary south. We
recognize that with you. as with us the
folk who face toward the future outnum-
Der those who face toward the past by
many to one. The young captains and
the young soldiers of industry refuse no
reverence to the veterans of the civil war
on either side. but the men OF this gen
Grafton are determined To run it. The
sons viii preserve and will magnify the
fame of their fathers, but they will not
foster or fight over again their feuds.
since the fathers themselves. an iIiustrlous
and a pathctcally thinning baud. long
ago renowned rancor and dissolved dit
fereuces. Let what people that may
elect TO do otherwise, the electives, both
of the north and of the south, today be-
lieve in factories quites as much as in
pantheons, in energy more than in in
quests and in school houses more than in
graves. a spent quarrel not of our max
ing and not of yours, snail not be revived
or reworked to the unmaking Of either |
of us We will 6lially honor the shades
Of our ancestors, but we viii not put our /
selves among their tomhs. We will honor /
as children their parents, the survivors /
Of the struggle between the states. MAJ I
their days and ours be still long in the
land which the Lord our God gave to
them-and to us.