The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-06-01

tracing their descent from Pagan Rome and ia
talistc india is bound, in the providence of God
that like the pillar OF cloud by day and the pillar
OF fire by night, goes before the flag,
TO have its little day
But thou, o Lord, art more than they"
Now. how shall the plain people Of the South
be educated up to the ideals Of the true Washing
ton, the true Jefferson, the real
ms, ian np Franklin the upper strata of the
To Rule. fathers we all alike hold in rev.
erence9
The nation, as represented by the North today
can do little what it has practically for the
past twenty-five years done-leave these eleven
cx-Confederate States in political minority as
long they please to isolate themselves from
the present American ideals and policies of ma
tona life. Meanwhile we can show them, in
dealing with the child peoples in our new colo
MES our way of Solving the race question" But
there is point beyond which no party or State
can go in dealing with those twenty millions of our
new citizens without coming up to the Captains
office to settle And, thanks to the superior class
Of the colored people, under the leadership of
their first statesman who has the right to assume
the name of Washington in connection with that
that in dealing with them "the Republic re-
ceiyes no HARM" we safely, for the present.
leave the masses of the plain people of the South
TO their own home schoolmaster for instruction
and leadership. In due time they will, doubtless.
touch elbows with our Christian civilization, and
realize the beautiful ideal OF union now set forth
by our preacher Presidents in his travels through
the Southland to his months interview with the
inhabitants of the wilderness; who probably by
our grandchildren will be gathered into schools,
where the lion and the lamb may lie down, out
side each other, and be at peace.
Our magnificent North, in its JOY and glad
the ending of the Civil War, has never
yet quite understood the part so
,ns S0un.,'n s nobly played by the loyal South
Loyalty - 49, in the saving of the Union What
with the FIVE loyal border States,
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware with the almost united patriotism
of the entire Appalachian region and other por-
tons of the Southwest it is not an exaggeraton
to say that to them and the descendants of the inn
migrating Southern people in the Northwest the
Union must have been indebted for we'll
nigh 100000 of its three million soldiers first and
last, under arms. With the stategc importance oil
this great buffer" between the fighting North
and the eleven Confederate States, and, above ALL
the marvellous political strategy of Abraham Lin
coin in the White House; to say nothing of the
splendid military and naval leadership of Thomas
and Farragut and the group they represented; it
is not too much to assert that if the Republic was
not saved by the Southern loyal soldiery, three
times the number at any time commanded by
Washington it was saved from perhaps another
four years of General Sherman's Hell" with its
terrors of further desolaton and more enduring
unreconcaton.
Since 1865 the struggle for an all-round Amer
icanism in these FIVE States even extending to
Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, has been
prolonged, and is now only in the beginning.
West Virginia was the first Southern State that
moved in the establishment of the full common
school, even before the close of the Civil War.
OF these 100000 white and colored sodery.
none are more deserving of the nations gratitude
than the strong fighters from the highland region.
which perhaps sent forth, men and boys, a half
of this patriotic host. During those awful years.
living in the city of Cincinnati, then the best
Northern watch-tower of the Southwest COM
PEELED by an unavoidable body to stay at home and
do my best for my country, my frequent habit
was to visit the landings at the river when the
boats came in from above, crowded with women
and children, who, all the way from the Queen
City to the Big Sandy, were cared for by the good
people along the northern Ohio shore. 1t was
then that said to myself: "Ths country owes to
these fathers and mothers, who like the widow of
Palestine have given their all and then thrown
themselves in, the training that shall make their
children and their children's children worthy of
themselves. God helping me- will enlist in that
war" And twenty years later heard the call
and went forth, and now, for five and twenty
years, have done my uttermost to help my coun-