The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

before the Southern Educational Confer ence at Richmond, has attracted much attention. Dr. McISelway's subject was North and south," and he spoke. as 1 follows:
 My friends: Those for whom and with ! whom I have the honor to speak would bring to those to whom have the honor , to speak the greeting of the North to the i South. New York, from which come. and Virginia, in whose capital city Y speak. belong to the aristocracy of Amer | lea. They are numbered among the orig | inal Thirteen. Both are battle-scarred | with revolutionary suffering and crowned with revolutionary triumpns. Both nave been united to defend the Union against every foreign foe. Both are unit in the spirit or right between men and Of justice between States which makes and which alone can keep the republic peace. | Our public life and our public forces have undergone without structural shock a con unuous development of a'century and or a quarter of century of years. Yours underwent prostration and recreation in- to and under absolutely new conditions within a time less than halt a century past. Of memories you have as rich an heritage as we. But from some respon- sbility and from some retarding causes you are free--and We are not: You had the not always injurious opportunity eith- ar for man or for a State to begin all over again. We inherit and we carry all our years with all heir infirmities and with all thei" errors. as well as with all their advances and successes. You should be better than we are, for purified as If by fire is the figure of inspira ton which signifies disincumberment from alloy and deliverance from dross. release from rust and from many corrupting and oorroding influences. The resultant is the contern porary South, which attests not only the originality. the rcsiliency and the inde- structibility of your section, but also the homogeneous character of our now hap oily 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- many to one. The young captains and the young soldiers of industry refuse no rev erence to the veterans of the civil war on | either side, but the men of this genera | ton are determined to run. The sons will preserve and will magnify the fame | of their fathers but they will not foster l or fight over again their feuds. since the fathers themselves an illustrious and l pathetically thinning band. long ago TO- nounced rancor and dissolved differences. | Let what people that may elect to do otf- | erwise. the Effectives, both of the North ana of the South today believe in facto- ries~ quite as much us in pantheons, in | energy more than in inquests and in school houses more than in graves. A spent quarrel not of our making and not of yours, shall not be revived or rework-
 
 will filially honor the shades of our an- | cestors. but we will not cut ourselves among their tombs. We will honor as children their parents the survivors of | the struggle between the States. May | their days and ours be still long in the l land which the Lord our God gave to them-and to us. The fullness and the fervency and the faith of that prayer | shall not. however, affect tho fact that to men of each generation belong the moiety of tho duties and the whole of the | destiny of that generation. Our fathers | fought out the questions which their fore | fathers left unsettled. We recognize and rejoice in the settlement of those ques- | tions. But we are resolved that neither the charm of historical study nor the pas | sions nor the pathos of poetry, nor the 1 plous eXaltation which shrines incite and monuments inspire shall today hold back | North and South from the new and noble obligations and from the benign and brotherly competitions of this teeming l time. Better a decade of love and of peace than cycle of the mutilations and | of the memories of a civil warl
 Two Sections One in Feeling.
 Let what have said explain and jus tify my omission to dwell on sentimental lines of allusion. Frankly, I think those lines have been overworked. There was 1 reason for accenting them until a few years ago. The reason ceased when the object was attained It was attained when 1t became neither singular nor un-
 
 views which were different from those which predominate it's thought. We of l the North have opened to the men of the South among us the gates of all possible | pl pleferment. Those to whom such gates have been opened keep as holy traditions that estimate of the civil struggle which they maintained in the forum or defended In the field or learned from the songs of | their mothers sung over their cradles. Their cherished hold upon lapsed ques- tions no more lnterferes with usefulness acceptability and popularity with us than does any other heirloom in the furniture of their minds Among them I could name congressman. judges legislators and many master helpers in great commer- cial ard fiduciary trusts. Moreover. with us they belong indifferently to either po- litical party or, better yet, some of their views are in every party and all of them in none. With you. l hope. Is the same spirit of liberality. You can feel it as much as we do. though you cannot show the reason why. With us there is no race question that comes as near to us as our doors. With you there Is. Besides, there are not so many of you as there are oi us, nor among you is there large a proportion of those who differed from you in the past IS the case is with us. The number of people determines the quantity Of government. The quantity of govern ment determines the number of prefer. ments. In the same way the amount of population determines the volume oi business. and that in turn determines the appeal of ability to opportunity and thC yield of opportunity to ambition. There Is q fact, however. which has not escaped our Northern notice. Those of our peO. pie who come among you stay among you They would not do that if they did not like you.
 Independence Increasing.
 Nor has another fact eluded observd
 tion. They not only like you. but they grow into voting with you on question:
 which affect the'r business, their hont interests and their ra .ial instinct in tho South. If with us they were adherent; to one party. with you. by force of cir cumstances. they become adherents tt another. This does not necessarily in
 volve any change of fundamental views
 It only involves question of relation
 ship. A blanket could cover both par le
 in nearly every State on any questions
 which they sincerely advance. But
 blanket would rot cover and 1t canno be stretched to cover which of the tw' 2 parties in all the circumstances is tn better instrumentality for the result which must be fostered and preserved Il [ the interests of civilization and the home Still with you and with us in intellectuH = contemplation party is becoming ia ;to' not a fetich: d servant. not master: g means, not an end. Any other view c l. it than this tends to make man not l. citizen. but a slave; not a suffragan, bu l. a serf: not a voter, but a victim. How
 ever 1t may be with you here in th | South. with us in the North only tn Lpolticians grieve ovef the dlsintegrato
 between parties or within either party
 Only those who have long lived and wh
 would longer live upon the public treasu
 ry are sorry that the people arc incline
 with increasing frequency to change thei