Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-07-07

THE NEW SOUTH.

thank God living breathing and growing every day Down
through the years of their history the Southern people nave
oed incessanty now sinking into depths of despair now
spurred by hopes of brilliant future until today as
monument to noble efforts stands the glorious New South
At the close of the Civil heart Of the American nation
had almost ceased rob. Army after OF her stalwa
sons had marched forth glory only to join silent sodiery
Beneath the Southern sum- rested loved from nearly
every hearhstone in the the boodiest and most
destructive war the world The earth had been
bapsed blood of brothers FIVE hundred thousand OF our
soldiers lay dead dying the fields OF carnage Inc
vast hisdes wrapped in mantle OF abundant harvest
had sad years deoated by the unabated fury OF
human conflict Over the heart of every Souherner hung
the shadow of the liberated negro What would be the result
Out of the terrible wreck of the would there come greater
disaster foes No The fettes of nacon repres
sion and agnaton that years had bound PROSTATE South
were burst and naon launched forth on new
era of progress wonderful period in the history OF the world
AS ruin was never before overwhelming restoration
50 complete Through the medium mutual interest the North
and South are peace The former Chasm OF annoslty
has been bdged and they face the future hand hand od
grant day may when civil war Will again
mnge the blood brothers, 'for the of that day
amid the of cannon and upon the ruins OF our
Republic some Caesar may build his throne
No one could be named who has done for the salvation
of his country he who united the dscordan notes OF the
opposing into the sweetest harmony OF the ages he who
was the connecting link between the North and South Henry
w Grady Through his boyhood he had studied the affairs OF
the people and early the absolute necessity OF conservative
government Entering of manhood he Consecraed
his life country. Sectional questions had swung the pen
duu of politics from until dstrust and de
pair nation in the face 1t indeed time whch
called for man convictions and mastery leadership
but above all for of unbiased opinion and sound Judg
ent AT this crucial moment the of both North and
South were governed largely by petty eaouses and selfish de
res Grady upon the stage of action He had gathered
from the fields Of strife lessons of human wisdom Through the
dark period he carried the torch of truth and
he the iph of
nronb vision he looked beyond the confusion about him and
beheld one mighty nation void of sectional eaouses rousg
itself like a strong from his sleep and lifting itself into
the sunlight liberty and While other orators advo
Gated and demanded immediate and radical reforms III govern
men Grady pleaded for the brotherhood of man With his
ewes turned toward the right and noble forth
oer not the spirit revenge the spirit OF greed but in
that spirit which ogets the dscord OF the past joins the hands
of foes weds the scepte of perfect harmony-te spirit OF
philanthropy Pre-emnen orator he aroused the sluggish
from their lehargy unshaCkled the human soul and adjusted
the factions of differing people He for united nation
triumphant awakening moral courage, glorious regenera
ton of truth and reason.
Grady believed that by placed in trinity Of
atons that he is by sacred tie which links him to his
brother to his country his God Through these relation
ships each one must work his destiny With these convic
tons aaame in his heart with increasing
Grady proclaimed from platform and through press that these
principles control the life OF Individual that the
love of elowan country and love of God should be
harmonious WHOLE before WHICH questions Vi du
a equality and sectional dispute would vanish and would
riq secure over the land And has trinity Of
relations so should each nation have trinity OF principles de-
ocracv in brotherhood Of and Christianity
the ultimate goal of humanity
And as we pause today over the grave Of Georga eloquent
SON we are struck with awe at his unimey death But his
work was accomplished Brief it but, oh, how brilliant
Relentless as fate itself the principles he grounded into the
hearts of his counymen carried until they reached
their cr1ninaon when the boys in blue the boys gray
brooked their sectional prejudice and went forth to fight under
the same flag while carrying the light Of freedom to the op
pressed people of foreign land.
The curse of slavery gone 1t joint heritage OF woe
TO be wiped out only by blood and flame The mirage of the
Confederacy has vanished The constitution no longer rope
of sand The Republic represents at last the letter and the
spirit of the sublime Declaration The eters that bound her
to the earth broken The that degraded her beauty
are cast aside The bonds of welded forever by the
refining fire of civil strife The ensign of the reunited nation
waves triumph people who firm IN their convictions
that liberty and union are one and inseparable.
The South has made splendid contributions to civilization and
TO liberty Southern thought has moulded politics, Southern
genius formed parties Southern valor has acquired territory
The history Southern people has been glorious And
because of their mighty achievements grand and patriotic duty
rests upon us each preserve future generations The
examples before us inspiring That civilization must not
count for naught which gave freedom Washington and JET
ferson 10 jurisprudence Marshall and Taney the state Mad
son Clay Calhoun Wheeler Jackson and Lee and
to chivalry splendid examples of truest manhood
That food of immigration which has been poured into other
sections out the cepoo Of Europe and Asia has not yet
nouted the South Nowhere religion purer and social life
freer from corruption than in the South Atheism inhdey
and anarchy are plants which find Southern soil the
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