The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-04-22

hey would have been more than llu-
nan /. they did not resent AS is al
ways the case when an irresponsible III
dividual undertakes to privately avenge
what he esteems to- be public wrong,
he South, wholly innocent OF knowl-
edge OF the intended attempt on the
70. 81 ,hy President had imputed to
part in the foul conspiracy. a
char that made the bitterness OF de-
lea. seem thousand times more poie
nant to .ne dignihed Lee and the
brave officers and men under him.
Psychologica'ly. it was the worst
possible thing that could have hap
pened to the Souh and the South,
conscious ui its utter helplessneSs in
lis then impoverished condition. was
the first 10 recognize it. 1t deprived
ii OF a sympathetic, unselfish, true
irisrd who would have smoothed and
made easier for it the trying days OF
recons. ruction and interposed a re-
training hand against the hordes OF
INN deratcly severe Northern carpet
baggers sent into the surrendered ter
ri.ory to adminstr the State and coun-
try governments pending the rees-
Enlistment o. local se'fcontrol.
Proud OF the peaceful achievement OF
hi. { country before the blighr OF civil
war cast lis shadow over il, Lincoln
ash irsd to see the South resume the
advanced position l.. occupied in the
industrial life oi the nation at the
time i: parted company with is sister
Ia and have il cooperate with the
North. the EaS.' and the West in that
marvellous forward movemen which
lla, made the republic today the veal
tlicst and the most prosperous ma
non on car.h What Lincoln would
say and think ii he could come back
rom the tomb and see his cherished
ambition realized is not difficult to
maine In the War Office, where
the immovable Stanton once issued
Drters to crush out the rebellion, the
,auye Southern born Dickinson, OF
] ennessec, now directs the destinies
i ne military estab' ishment Two
.,-mer rebel soldiers, Chief Justice
Edward ID. White OF Louisiana and
Associate Justice Horace ID. Lurton,
al tennessee. sit side by side with the
Union Veteran. Associate Justice
] I'm NJ. Harlan on the bench OF the
United States Supreme Court and vie
with one another in upholding The
constitution Making common cause
j. he peaceful commercial conquest
the earth, the South matches its
SCCO,Coo,ooo cotton crop against the
billion dollar wheat and corn crops o.,
ne West and encourages New Eng
and in is effort to capture through
The lime saving Oxford processes,
which accomplish here in two days
hat which requires thirty weeks
abroad. the old worlds control OF the
linen marke, With the old wounds
hsae ed and the old prejudices buried
irrevocab'y in the dim memories OF
he past North and South. mutually
iea Gus ii the honor OF their country
abroad and is integrity at home, shar-
lng d single ambition TO make the flu
.ure OF the nation as fruitful i'll wor-
thy acc lmplishments as its past, "old
alC-y' has had a new birth o, free
{. m IN those 10 years since Lincoln
was borne through the mystic gate
~ ,e.led forever the question, so
c d IT, nt'y answered by the dead Presi-
let on the field at Gettysburg, that
"A goyernmen; OF the people, by the
peyD.e nd for he people shall not per-
ish from the earth.