The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-19

pOmattOX. Inc generation nat fOught
out the great war-recognized every
where as one of the greatest in human
history-has all but passed, and a
new generation has entered upon the
stage. At this season everywhere
throughout our Southern country that
generation is observing in proud and
reverent spirit a day in memoir Of the
brave men who paid in the Confeder-
ate cause the last full measure of de-
votion.
Universal testimony confirms the
witness of our hearts that the years
have not served to diminish the eSti-
mate Of the greatness of that war
nor the glory of the soldiers who 50
heroically fought it through. Rather.
as We draw away from the e OF
battle, that greatness grows and that
glory increases. We begin to realize
hat right amongst us, blood of our
blood, there had dwelt q generation
Of warriors second to none in human
annals, md that just prior to us was
transacted one of the most magnlfl-
cen struggles Of all the ages. Our
fathers take on the classic character
of the warriors who followed AieXan-
der and Caesar and Hannibal; and we
ourselves receive of their glory. Our
generation begins to realize that its
lot is not that Of the ordinary gener-
alton: That we are living in the after
glow of one Of the great periods or
history and in the midst of heroes
whose deeds will be Teverently cher
isheu so long as the heart of man
h respond to heroic PATRIOTISM
and human yalor shall be counted
among the virtues: that u fathers
belong not to us only but to the ages;
tina they served not only us but all
generations.
The South Restored.
The wounds of that great war have
been healed-wonderfully healed. God
has been good to us. me south Is
restored. and the Republic is united.
The question that gave rise to that
great war ave been settled. and set
tied satisfa ctorily to all concerned. O1
all that titanic struggle only the glory
remains; and hat will never pass. IL
is the chief and the immortal treasure
of our history.
We yet lament the heroes of it, the
suffering and the grief: u we canno
lament the war. The men who tough
under the Confederate Cross did no
fight in vain-no more than did thOs'
who fought under the stars of tn
Union. | waive all question OF tn
cause or occasion or event OF tn
struggle. C~onceding all, it is we'll tina
We had that war greatly we'll. Cost
as IL was, n never did a people pa
a price more precious than did ours
the heritage of our fathers is NOR
thar ample compensation; it far out
weighs the suffering and the sorrow.
Home and Native Land.
War is not the worst thing in tn
world. We happen just now to be i
the midst of a propaganda of peace
and there is an endowment for til
support of the propagandists. We ca
afford to bear with in a gentle tolel
ance; there cannot be, perhape tC
much of the preaching Of peace. b
that men will fight SO long as The
hold honor and rights dearer the
life, and that their readiness to Zig
unto death for honor and rights
the foundation of civilization, and tn
they should SO fight is as sure as II
open page of human progress c.
make it. Human blood is a precio
thing: but home and native Ian a
more precious. The sword is a fearf
weapon; but SO far the sword h
carved the way up for mankind. Gil
riously has il served. Liberty is
eldest child. And for my part
should deplore the slightest eviden
that in our land the sword were IL
ing its ultimate place Of honor. Wor
than war is that peace which bi
men refuse to cal the sword VIII
human rights. when home and natl
land, are at stake.
The great war was war at it's WO
at its Aercest. History has no pas
more bloody than Antietam, Gett.
burg and the Wilderness: HiSt(
knows 10 record more cruel tn
Sherman's march to the sea. But
has all been justified in the far OFF
tereSt Of tears. Jul soldiers did
die in vain; our OmtherS did not S
fer without compensation.
The civil war made the mod,
American republic. 1t put an end
debate, and once and for all silen,
the councils of confusion. 1t fu
with the white heat of ultimate ba
into lasting form the high theories
the Republic. 1t fixed the character
the nation-an i~ndissOluble Union
indestructible States. The So
fought for the i~nviolability Of the c
stitutiOn; the North fought for
unity OF the Republic. The war g
lis both; it required the two to m
the nation; and 1 do not know t
we could have obtained them in
perfect measure by any other me:
That wal established our peo
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