The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-04-18

, one by one, if necessary, the scatter
ed remnant Of the Southern defend
ers..
That war has come and gona and
! the sadder years that followed the
battle SCARED land passed Though
the ordeal of reconstructions and f.
nally the Anglo Saxon came info his
own. The land that lay seer and
naked under the rod of the cypress
or was finally clothed as by the hand
of the Infinite. and fHnm the broken
hearts and the ruined civilization of
the past, has dome what Henry W.
Grady has Well called. the New south.
| II is indeed the land OF PROMISE flow
ling with. milk and honey, and III our
hands We carry the hugns of aEenty.
| THE seeds of emnire are in our Ridst,
land the uncomfortable years OF Gods
future are ours. From broad .layan-
ma to bsiIe grass hill, we have caught
the CLEAN OF newer arm wider. life
and all alike rejoice in the prosneri-
Ity and happiness of rannited ecun-
TRY ALE the land is OURS; from the
waving wheat fields of the GanaEiap
l;border 10 the tropical fruits o. the
FLORIDA Isles, we rejoice as being a
Ipeople united in faith. hope and.
blood Ne shall not attempt again
Ito fight the battle of the South AS
Grady has said, a mightier hand than
ours has decided the arhitrament of
the sword. BY the scales of destiny
/! it mas been decided that this land
shall sill be united But the lesson
| of the past is not in vain. We are
people richer iu all that goes TO make,
up true greatness, because the boys
kof 81, the saints and grandsires. o. to-
day, proved worthy when tested We
fare a. nobler and better people today
DC1danC sliO HNCCLldCcd
Iers diving and dead, hoped and trust
ed and prayed for the succession the
stars and bars, For after an, some
of the greatest lessons Of lie arise
from sanctffied failures, and when
the storm and stress are past, It is
the heroic failure that does more to
shape a nations; destiny, than the
most resulendent victory It was the
glotified cross, the emblem Of a cruel
death, that has transformed Eerld
and made the lowly Jeseus the
/ Prince OF Peace and Lord of Lords.
Orators and poets have largely for
| gotten the many splendid victories
won by the matchless infantry of
Sparta, but every school boy knows
and thrills with the knowledge, that
on one eventful day in Grecian histo-
Try, 800 Spartans dared stand al the
pass of Thermopylae and bid Gefi-
ance to over 100000 Persians. 1t
is true that all died except one
wretch that dared escape, and was so
| ashamed that he afterwards killed
himself, but in their death they have
done more to forever ennobls the
name of Sparta, than any victory ever
won by her soldiers; done more TO in
{ spire deeds Of valor and to nearten
the hopeless than every other event
: in the long life of Spartan history.
The Scots of today love Robert
Bruce for the great victory at Bon
nockburn, but they le-e him more
because for years he fought ana
failed and did not despair. We love
! Washington as the victor or York
ltown, but we love him more because
in the darkest days of the revolution
when every soldiers step was mark
led with blood, he did not despair of
!. the republic.
The history of France is crowded
: with deeds of romantic daring and
! Isplendid victories. But today the i'm
: agination of the French people pass.
es by the great victories fro mChal-
ons to Austerlitz, and rests upon a
scene dark with tragedy and hope
lessness, and French mothers from
the banks of the Loir to that of the
: Rhine Groom their children to sleep
with the matchless story of that old
guard of Napoleon that died and new,
er surrendered and went to their
death on the field Of Waterloo.
"And SO, though we have failed,