The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01

is the one brilliant page in a record,
many OF whose pages are blurred by
the stories OF deeds that SAVIOR more
of the days of the Huns and Vandals
than OF the present generation.
Those Virginians were not metaphy-
sicians, or hair splitting theologians;
polemical discussions did not appeal to
them; whether a soul could dance on
the point of n needle was a foolish
speculation when the hounds were
straining at the leash to raise the fox
and the skies were blue and cloudless
and the air was balmy and perfume
laden.
These cloudless skies and perfumed
air had changed the heavy, sombre
Englishman into the spirited. keen
Jeffersors. Madisons. MarshalIs. Ran
dolphs, Lewises and Lees-a united
people who believed in themselves and
with an intense confidence. and who
achieved and made the country great
1t was in the South that the social
forces have conserved distinct type.
temperamentally different from any
other section OF the country, deeper
than any superficial prejudices. and
which is coincident with the life that
fostered it.
in whose veins run the fire and heat
of the sun, who bask in a riot of color,
who are Influenced by the witchery
of radiant, caressing moonlight have
always been gifted with tempera me nts
more vivid. more poetic and more i'm
aginativc than those of the North
We hear much of the free educa-
tional opportunities OF the North to
tbs disparagement of her Southern
sisters, and. yet as far back as 1855
we find free schools founded by pri-
vate individuals in the South: after
1916 there was much of compulsory
primary education in Virginia. and in
the eighteenth century much pains
We're given to the education OF the
colored people on the plantations: in
1893 William and Mary College. which
had been formulated some seventy
years before that time by Nicholas
Ferrar and his friends. was estab-
lished with DIR. Blair as its first presi-
dent; thus we see that our forbears
were not SO careless in respect OF In
structing even their slaves.
The plantation system. instead OF
the small town groupings, prevailed
i'm the South where the supplies came
straight from England to the wharves
of the planters, and the farmers were
dominant politically as we'll as indus
trially. and in their political life they
held that high sense of honor that
would never permit them to
Crook the pregnant hinges of the
knee
Where thrift might follow fawning"-
and il was from these planters that
sprung the men who made the repub-
lie
ut takes men weary while to
learn the wickedness of anything that
puts gold in their purses" and so as
long as barterins in slaves was of
pecuniary profit our Northern neigh
bors were more intent on gain than
on any love of liberty trade and bar
ter were their occupations. and hence
arose the title OF a Nation of Shop
Keepers" but this was but padinage
compared with the ISLANDERS published
by DeFoe in "Moll Flanders" and re-
iterated by Mrs stowe in Uncle Tom 8
Cabin" when criticising the conduct
Of these planters OF the South towards
their slaves.
Time. the destroyer of all things.
has softened the animosities engen-
dered by these ISLANDERS. and we can
well afford to leave them in the char
mel house Of benefcent oblivion.
From the time that Admiral Coligni
in the middle of the sixteenth century,
Planted lhst huBuehot colony on the
ST. Johns River in Florida, commenced
the movement which resulted In the
Declaration OF independence, and in
succeeding years. through the nists and
glooms. the smouldering embers were
kept alive by the descendants of those
In whose veins were the blood which
the Norman spilled for william: the
Saxon for Harold: the Irish OF Derry,
or the French Huguenot that followed
Navarro to the throne and Coligni to
the block: and 1t was from such blood
that came the Washingtons, Jeffer-