The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-06-19
HAMPDEN SIDNEY

What all this that we are hearing
about lIampdcn Sidney amy how
What explanation can be gieen for
the attempted removal OF the ,enera-
bile institution? Is the one fact of its
location in Southsldc Virginia, and ga
the healthest spot known ON earth
the one aud only cause for IT, removal .
Has the God of the universe whose
sun shines for all, and whose showers
fall ON the just and the unjust alike
"black balled this section OF Virgin
ia? Were the young men who were
induced To crowd the halls of the ven
cradle and ,encmied institution dur
ing the past session iu Increasing mum
beers persuaded 90 do .o With the Sc
cret promise if they would endure the
shame Of stay for one session az
llampden-Sldney they would then be-
led 10 the land of promise. live fpl
one nine months 300 the section OF One
"niggcr and then go to na.k in tine
sunshine of the Valley glalc on
"sh0r grass for brief season and
then feast ON meadows of perpetual
green Has the world educational
gone mad on the subject of cenlali-
zation just "a, the world political bias
Shall nothing that j, not strong and
rich be permitted 90 live beneath lhc
stars? l., the day of the small college
dead? Must there he "rccumhcut
statue of the immortal Lee wherever
the young men OF the Southland gath
er for instruction? is there nothing
decent South of the James Why
did not David leave the wife of nah
alone TO her husband though she was
Every beautiful To look upon 2' Why /
must the mighty monarch call as hi- I
OWL the "liille eve lambs 3'
Wen may llampden-sidney from /
the depths Of her wounded heart cx-
claim: "God deliver me from NY /
friends e."
But the well laid scheme mlscarrles
and the college Of the centuries is still
safe on her eternal hill, Thanks To
the courage, the sense OF business and
IF righteousness ON the part of the
Board Of Trustees.
With the hope that Dr. McFaden
will find IL in his heart to accept the
sacred trust, and with the full asSur-
ince that he will be true To it,, We look
forward TO the future of llampden-
Sidney hopefully, cheerfully, and may
a covenant keeping God bee her God.
Rev Dr. Jones, the uuconquered
and unconquemble army chaplain,
and now the grand chaplain Of the
confederate forces, begun hi, prayer in
Birmingham with these words.
con, God, our help I'M ages past, our
nope for years q come. God Of Israel,
iod Of the centuries. God OF our fore
athers, God of Jefferson Davis and
sidney Johnston and Robert Edward
Lee and Stonewall Jackson, God Of the
southern Confederacy, God of our
common country, our Cod
And why not? Is not the e,er-liy-
ny God The God Of Abraham. Isaac
and Of jacob? and why not of Jciler-
'on Davis? Sidney Johnston Robert
+. Lee Stonewall jackson? the South
I'm Coniedercy?
We have been simply amazed that
my one of the American people should
,e found 10 palate, excuse, condone,
much less commend the well-nigh
,ruial assault of Secretary Taft on the
memory Of General Grant at his own
omb and in the presence of number,
# members Of his own family. IL
would have been unbecOming in fes-
iyal ovation and the mere molali,t
an find no excuse for il True or
alse, as the charge may bee, the assault
iolated all propriety, and was es-
wanting in good taste No
nan il worthy to be President of a
reat nation who with generalization
nd forethOught should have commit
ed mistake which merges close upon
he confines of crime itself