The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

be for us who can be against us!' The intense earnestness and the equal simph- city which will follow from the conJunc- tion of our own heart with the heart or the race will make oratofy i, uns..iru, journalism unsophistical, statesmen fearless and free. It would delver US from the miserable spectacle or Northerh and Southern Senators and CongressHI,n , voting for what they condemn III tner own minds, vet voting for 1t. lest the rapacity or the ignorance of their sec tions may defeat them for re-elecuon. The wretched manifestations or men or historic names and flames talking drlvel- ing slush to rabble throngs would not then Challenge the scorn of man or the Judgment of heaven. The people or Doth sections are far better than those who give to them a low moral rating theT intelligence Is far greater than ls thaI of those who serve out to them the rood on which fools. are fed. Readers better edit editors than editors their papers when the latter put into them anything which they know to be wholly raise or only partially true.
 Leaders Earnestly Wanted.
 My State. your State, our Nation; await the men of thought and
 the men of action to clear the the of them greater or the prospect of them more suspicious. None of the periods of the politics of mediocrity or Of intellectual immortality in America has been long When one party has seemed nearly destl- ute of statesmen and when the other has seemed to be oVerstocked With partlsans of the second rank, some thinker or some moralist has risen or recurred to view, 10 speak the longed for and dehired word to the attentive ear and to the hoping heart of a noble people. know that suon a man will somewhere be found-or redls- covered. know not whence he VIII come but know that in our end of the country political philosophy was not all buried | in the grave of Hamilton. or judicial greatness with the bones of Kent, and | that practical craftsmanship was not committed to the dust when Dewitt Clin- ton was laid to rest or Silas Wright ten
 derly entombed. And so know that not | in Virginia Is the roll Of great men the | roll of the dead alone. The spirit of Pat | rick Henry is as alive as are his words | The sublimity of Washington can be con
 ceded to no single mortal, but portions ol
 his transcendent qualities can be ascriDeC | to the heirs of his fame and to the guar
 dians of his dust. The versatility, tho philosophy and the genius of Jefferson
 may be united in<n no one being, put hl'
 virtues and his principles cannot pc con | fined or restrained-or parodied-in thu State which he virtually made and whicf | in large sense made him. The example as well as the decisions. the character ai
 well as the logic the life as we'll as th' | learning of John Marshall are neither al | extinct nor an outlawed inheritanc among his people. The genius and tn | faith of StoneWall Jackson VIII ever b a factor among those whom he led ant | for whom he died. The greatness and tn | grandeur. the magnnimity and the modes ty, the conservation and the courage, tn l example and the incentive which Rober | E. Lee personified on the field of war an fin the still air of delightful studies i | coIlegiate shades will be not only for
 ever a benediction. but forever a trans forming influence not only within Ntr | ainia not only within the South nDt onl throughout the republic, but across tn l seas and around the world.
 Nor can any New Yorker, nor can an