The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-08
These men of the South differed IN

These men Of the south differed IN
their political creeds as the
pillows, but IN their sense o
duty, each to his own State'
they were one as the sea. Ihey
were pleading with each other earn
estly and anx ously for the cause OF
the Union when the var burst upon
them. In no school Of politics had
they ever learned that a State could
lie coerced and the Union maintained
by force. They could not bear to see
their neighbors tTampled under foot,
and they took up arms. All party
lines were forgotten. They were no
longer Wings or Democrats put
henceforth they were the men of the
| South. What followed VIZ know.
They suffered defeat in battle, but
here and everywhere, fair women n
brave men listen with warm hearts to
| the story of the part they acted under
the stars and bars.
Not the North only. but the world
now knows the moral Of their en-
deavor. Their peerless captain has
taken his place n our Pantheon at
Washington. The name of their hon.
ored president, who suffered in their
stead as none other could suffer. has
been recarved upon our national tab
let's. In town and village and neigh
borhood, the image of their brother in
arms, in stone, OF bronze. with silent
lips, inVokes the homage Of him who
passes by an & YES assurance to his
living comrades that they shall never
be forgotten. Their struggle has emil
ed. Let US believe and be thankful
that in the providence of God it has
ended we'll and with honor ana good
to US all.
And so too has ended our era of
reconstruction. We have rebuilt our
union, and We pray that, when the
rain descends, and the floods come.
and the winds blow ana peat upon it,
it may not fall, for it is founded upon
a rock. Slavery no longer mars our
structure.
Once before, in our earl r history,
we had our era Of reconstruction. 1t
began tour years after the treaty of
arls OF the goth of January, 1888,
which declared the thirteen original
States Ito be free, sovereign an in
DEPENDENT" 1t lasted until our own
State. last Of them hut one, entered
the Union, November p, 1.S9. 1t was
th~n that the great convention ass an
bled at Philadelphia on May IS, 1877.
which was presided owe by Washing
ton, and which on September II. 1871
presented our first const tuition rs
these thirteen States for heir accent
ance. declaring it's ito form
a more perfect union, ecta blish ms
tee, insure domestic tranquility. pro
vide for the common defense. nro-
mote h general welfare, and secnra
the blessings Of liberty to ourselves
and Or posterity.' 1t was then that
Aadlson and Hamilton and Inv 80
lofth those wonderful nrg-
ing Is acceptance, which nave become
a textbook Of Il constitutional law
- was tnen that our people, assam.
leu III convention at Hillsboro. in the
PRESBYTERIAN church on July u. 17ss
hesltated, halted and ad burned with
I out accepting thu constitution. do
manGlng further and fuller safae,ara
OF ioertE. It was then, that, in re-
spon-e TO this demand, these 50 70
guards were given and the ten aman5
5nents We're written into our first COW
St luton. And it was then that orr
people again in convention
; az Fayetteville, adopted the constitu-
! ton' entered the Union and our frs+
era OF reconstruction ended.
ms IS all very familiar learning
J 80. too. the air that fills our Iunp. .na