The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-24
Was the South in the RIGHT ?

Experience teaches" but unfortun-
ately mankind takes first results as
indicative of the finality. while in fact,
they are but the beginning OF the end
The thief who successfully plumbers
his neighbor has not yet reached the
end. and presently finds, either from
the hand of the law or from his own
conscience. that his success has begun
TO bring actual results. when either the
thin stone walls Of his prison or the
eternally combining imperishable ones
Of his conscience force him to the un-
Outstanding that success may be utter
eternal failure, and apparent failure
absolute and eternal success.
Accepting such conditions as are i'm
posed by Almighty God on created
beings good" the South Of the
past two centuries occupied n position
unequaled by any portion OF any ma
ton known to the past or the present
The sole arbiter OF the destinies of
human beings accepted by tho South
erner was creative fat as exhibited in
the individual. and as set forth In the
law of God. and that the State might
be governed in accordance with the
Will of God as exhibited by these two
factors. there was placed on the stat
ute books one great and inviolable
instrument, known as the Bill of
Rights. and It was definitely and finally
established that no legislative enact
ment which by one iota transgressed
this Bill OF Rights should or could be-
"A In W ha
Divested of all its phraseologies, this
Bill Of Rights Is merely the statement
by which men acknowledge and af-
firm Almighty God to be the sole Gre
ator, and as such to have given to each
created being those powers and those
privileges essential to existence in and
enjoyment of the condition in which
and for which that being was created;
with the solemn covenant that these
powers and these privileges should
eternally be held by all other beings
as inherent and indefeasible. a position
obviously attaching not merely TO hui
mainly, but to every created object,
from earth herself. through humanity,
down to the most infnitesimal atom
existing.
Nor must it be forgotten nor lost
sight of that this bill OF human rights
distinctly discards all human formula
lions as to position. basing its teach
ings on the recognition that the indi-
vidual is the object of protection, and
that each individual has varying pow
ers and privileges as gifts OF Almighty
God, recognizing in turn each class OF
created beings. creatures and things as
equally "individualities." having vary
ing powers and privileges.
Against such a position nothing can
be logically urged, for it's verify is con-
stantly demonstrated throughout the
universe and during every instant of
time.
Night is not day; the animal is not
the vegetables: good is not evil; con-
ceived and executed by omnipotent, ON
niscient omnipresent creative power
each atom has its place and its duty,
Its powers and Its impotencies, it's
privileges and it's limitations, its dig
nifty and its abasement, it's pursuance
and its servitude. each and all varying
with the class and again with the
individual Of the class.
1t Is upon faithful and devout recog-
milton of the goodness Of God by His
creation thus eXemplified that the South
builded and existed, and under the
fiat of the Creator prospered as the
North, openly discrediting Almighty
God and substituting for His worship
that OF the dollar, never did.
1t may at first sight seem an amaz-
ing thing that, If these statements be
true, the South should have been al
lowed to suffer defeat and degradation
to degree unknown to history, for
while many nations have fallen" In
the past, moro foil from. so great an
altitude as did the South
Vet we have the word of the Master:
IF tl:ey peraecute Nc, they will also
persecntc you, and tho servant is not
greater than his Master" and 1t was
essential that il great and eternally
abiding nation DO created, two condi-
lions should be distinctly demonstrated
with such tisor or delineation that by
no possibility could they be Inisunder-
stood.
Given two neighbors, one Of whom
accepts and carries out the law of
G2d: the othor who rejects and substi-
ESsees for the law OF God the essence
Sf evil, tits necessary that tho results
of the evil course be shown in their
most hideous form--and 1t is even moro
essential that those who assume to
follow the law of God be obliged to
fully demonstrate their eternal adher-
ence thereto. even under tho most adj
verse conditions.
And inevitably the evil course ulti-
mately results in such exacerbations of
oriminality that humanity stands
aghast: while 1t Ia equally inevitable
that the sufferings Of those who wor-
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