The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-31

place 1t had to occupy sa nation. and
not as q confederation of independent
States. This condition, as inevitable as
the identity of the townsman with the
commonwealth, and the citizen OF the
commonwealth with the republic. was
q necessary consequences of the ire
sistible movement in its potential ener-
gy towards its own satisfaction. The
War with Spain, we may believe. was
but the accident through which the
United States in its ripe time had to
demonstrate. Its fitness for and to as
sumo its place In the worlds econo-
mics. Had that war been avoidable,
and avoided, we should but have wait
ed for some other accident through
which the status of the nation among
nations would have been established.
The occupation of the Philippines was
in q way thrust upon the Union, and
her protectorate of Cuba had been sim
ilarly forced, but there can be no reas-
enable doubt that they have constltut-
ed opportunities, which the nation ac-
copied. We must needs take our place
in the adjustment, REIMBURSEMENT re-
storation. or establishment of those
international relationships which per-
suade and affect the peace and civili-
cation of the world. and do our part
in the uplift and rescue of the weaker
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Another Factor.
But there was another factor among
the causes of 1861 by no means ne
glible. Three different peoples occupied
| the three separate sections OF this
country at that time; different some-
what in origin. in education and FASH
| ior of life. and more different in meth
cd of thought The Union was the
creation of thirteen Of the States, the
| others were the creations OF the Union.
To one section the States were when
the Union was not, and the Union was
as they had determined. to the other
section the Union was when the States
were not. and these States We're as the
Union had determined. Easily the re-
verence and the loyalty of one section
were given the States in the exact
measure in which reverence and loyal
| Wv by the other were given the Union.
IE the South tradition occupied large
pace in the hearts and ways of the
people. and the correlated sentiments
played no insignificant part in their
character and thought In the West
| West then--there were no traditions,
the frontier life was hardly a general
| ion away, and sentiment moved scarce
| ~ at oil. In the North and East, while
| the many were like the many of the
South, life was Industrial and urban.
| ullu eNtIS SodSHl relationship ana
construction of policy was so domi-
mated. But in the South life was rural.
and agricultural, and irreconcilable.
| There was even another, OF far earlier
beginning. 1t was that wide diver
| gence of opinion in the ideal OF gov
ermental formation seen in 1883 in the
1.-TWO schools OF political thought re-
| spectively represented In their leaders
| Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Ham
| iltnn IA STANDING for ~
liberty and simplicity of democracy
and the other for an oligarchy, Eng
| lishman as he was. So early was the
parting of the ways. Strange as 1t
| may appear, reverse these men, and
you find them truer eXpenents of thei,
day. Jefferson was the impersonatiou
OF the American idea in the nation
and Hamilton was the very express
image of the State. Inevitably these
two schools had to clash.
These were the causes OF the Con-
federate soldier, but pre-eminently
among them you must write the strug.
| gle for. and the defence Of the dear
i sweet, hospitable, and honorable home
of the Southland. We are herr to-day
to keep memory of him. May the day
lie far distant when there shall be nc
thought OF him. His full story has
not yet been told, and it shall be only
IL
and another. and a quleter history thai
men shall come to know him as he was
/ Volumes Of the life of his great chief
tain have been published, and yet the
4 true greatness of that great soul in it.
great character and genius has no suf
fcient portralture. The artist may
paint the soldier, engrave the lines Of
the gentleman, and define with skilled
pencil the Christian manhood, but or
the canvas or in the words. rich ant
j gracious as you please, thev do no
blend. The loftiness of this proXimit,
Z to the ideal defies even the inspiration
y of art with it's model before It, Witt
4 the worlds great soldiers we c'as!
him, with the ST. Johns We companion
him, and by the side of the Chester
fields we find him an equal and tower
ing. To no phase of his career. or o
the career of those who followed him
to no detail or details of the record
may we point as a reason for our mem
oria. But to the altogether tina
which Went before the four years o
gallant history. the four years, ant
that which followed, 1t is in the tou
, ensemble of brave men in bray
movement that we find him who's
CORY we celebrate, and whose memor.
we well nigh worship.
10 Defend Rights.
Like as one man came the mon o
the South in tho Spring of 1861 to do
! fcnd their rights, and to sustain thei
honor. Like the splendid men the,
were, they went to where the battl
Joined; without proper food, without
!, fair clothing, without shelter In storl
and cold and distress, and In the sur
knowledge that far away TO tho South
and nigh at hand, their families suffer
ed and endured as much, the lad.
and the child, the old man an
the infant-and yet he stayed
THE Confederate soldier, Aye, h
stayed until half clothed, half starved
|, half dead thin line before
Inultltude, he gave up his pitiful 500