The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-06

1QSQlEaClOQs WHICH zSiSulASS- s0ioiACl1l-
berment from alloy and deliverance
from dross, release from rust and from
many corrupting and eorroding in
huences The resultant is the con-
temporary South, which attests not
only the originality, the resiliency and
the indestructibility of your section,
but also the homogeneous character
OF our now happily common country
SYMPATHY EXISTS.
The contemporary North is in sym
pathy with the contemporary South.
We recognize that with you. as with
us, the folk who face toward the fu-
ture outnamber 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 generation
are determined to run it. The sons
will 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 iliustrious and a pathetically thin
ming band, long ago renounced rancor
and dissolved differences. Let what
people that may elect to do otherwise
the electives, both of the North and
Of the South, today believe in factories
quite as much as 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 reworked to the unmaking Of
either Of rs. We will ilially honor
the shade of our ancestors, 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
land which the Lord and our God
gave to them-and to us. The fullness
and the fervency and the faith Of that
prayer shall not, however, affect the
fact that to the men Of each genera
tion belong the moiety Of the duties
and the whole of the destiny Of that
generation. Our fathers fought out
the questions which their forefathers
left unsettled. We recognize and re-
joice in the settlement Of those ques-
tions. But We are resolved that
neither the charm of historical study
no. the passions nor the pathos of
poetry, nor the pious 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 time.
Better decade of love and Of peace
than a cycle of the mutilations and OF
the memories of civil war"'
BECOME LIKE US.
Speaking of northern people who
come South, he said:
"They not only like you, but they
grow into voting with you On ques-
tions which affect their business, their
home interests and their racial instinct
in the South. If with us they were
adherents to one party, with you, by
force of circumstances, they become
adherents to another. This does not
necessarily involve any change of fund
amental views. 1t only involves
question of relationship. A blanket
could cover both parties in nearly ev-
cry State on any questions which they
sincerely advance. But blanket
would not cover and it cannot be
stretched to cover which of tho two
parties In all the circumstances is the
better instrumentality for the results
which must be fostered and preserved
in the interests of civilization and the
home. Still with you and with US in
intellectual contemplation party is
becoming factor, not fetch; SER
want. not master; a means, not an
end. Any other view of it ttan this
tends to make man not citizen,
| but a slave; not suffragan, but
| serf not voter, but victim.
However it may be with you here IN
| the South with US in the North only
| the politicians grieye over the dlsin-
tegration between parties or within
either party. Only those aho have
long lived and who would longer live
upon the public treasury are sorry
| that the people are inclined with in
creasing frequency to change their
servants at the capital, either of the
4 nation or of the State. That tendency
corrects the vicious habit inherent IN
too many ofice-holders of fawning
upon and of fearing their constituents
| instead of instructing them and lead
| ing them. They would substitute isms
for principles, devices for doctrines,
bids. for facts, promises for perform
ance, diatribes for discussion and oe,
famation for definitions. They woulc
appeal to the prejudices and to the de,
mands of an organized few instead OF
] to the interests, to the honor and to
the duty of all. With US the tide OF
truth and manhood has risen higher
among the people than among the man
aging politicians. There has been a
manifest and an overwhelming revolt