The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-03
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st ONE WA / . JACKSON

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but patriotism ianguishes during quiet
commercial periods Justs as the rip
lest fruit grows agAtpSt the toughest
wall. so the portentous dangers OF
Lffty years ago evoked the latent en-
thusiasm OF our fathers.
| The present generation has come up
Iamid great quietude. Our youth arc
becoming q siiatt6n Of money getters.
They assume our free institutions as
they assume gravity and the laws of
light and heat. Many are in danger Of
becoming mere coyetous machines.
| Rebuke to Lack Of Patriotism.
In some quarters, patriotic ideals
tare perishing through materialisn
Sometimes the very sky seems to rain
black snow. The fret and fever Of
Elife's fierce heat Is wearing away the
true Americanism Of our fathers. An
increasing multitude scarcely under
stand their fathers deep passionate
patriotism. For such an age, study
LOT the lives Of such of our heroes as
Stonewall jackson can but ..rebuke
our national sordidness, smite our 500
cial .selfishness, shamtng our civic
ts!ns. 1t comes freshening our nasur-
al ideals and swearing US to unfinch-
ing fidelity to the example and teach
ling OF our heroic forefathers.
| Friends and enemies alike agree
that no other man of his age had a
personality SO unique. There were
united in Jackson, two men in one;s
The united qualities, that not only are
fallen to one another, but that seem
almost Incompatible military genius
of the highest order with a religious
feryor that bordered on fanaticism;
"a union of the saint and soldier for
which we must go back to the time Of
Cromwell" s. lis'p .''ss' sii5
Unique Contrast.
1 "A thunderbolt in war he was nso-
ciety so modest and unassuming as
to appear even shy and timid.
| He was q man of oak and rock. The
eternal mountains where he was born
and raised had inst:lled into him
their iron; the granite Of the hills was
his also. Z.
A character Of such strength and
Yet such tenderness, with such contra
ELECTIONS Is one Of the most fascinating
studies to be found in American his
tory.
Today our youth may know that his
greatness has not been created by or
Iators, but by acts and deeds. What
he was. what he did, make his pres
|ent Influence to be not only his .natur-
Ial right but also his abiding posses
sion in the history OF liberty.
1t Is said that when Emperor Fer
dinand visited Innspruck in 1888, his
loyal people wrote his name in Inn
mense bonfires that covered the side
of the mountain that overhangs the
town. When night fell upon the earth
the emperor beheld his name extend
| ing over a space four or five miles in
length, each flaming letter serving to
fill the darkness with the light Of day.
Initiating that loyal people. We might
well write the name of Stonewall
Jackson in letters SO vivid that the
whole world might see them and with
US OF West Virginia read anew the
glorious lessons of his career.
Patriotism Highest Virtue.
Unfortunately public teachers are
not wanting who think patriotism al
relic Of barbarism. Their motto ia
the world is my country" They he
teye patriotism as species Of sell
fishness and proclaim the cosmonoli-
tan as the ideal citizen. However,
!neyi forget that cosmopolitan has been
hkened to comet, at home every.
where and of no use anywhere. Their
idea Is the same as that OF the citizen
VINO attempts In the month of Feb
ruary to warm the entire city by turn
ing high the gas in his furnace OPEN
ing wide his doors and windows and
endeavoring to send out warm cur-
rents into all the streets. He nsualfv
ends by freezing his own family and
doing nothing to raise the tempera-
ture abroad.
Such teacher forgets that It Is not
given to any man to experience nobler
sentiment than when he feels a ma
TONS life pulsihg through his veins:
wnen he rejoices in his nations glory.
suners in his nations shame, rejoices
in his nations hopes. q
i The guiding principle OF Jackson
seems tothave been, "You can ne
whatever you want to be.n HIS an
tire life seems to have been governed
by that principle; and when once he
haa decided, 'hetcould not bc moved.
Although born to poverty, yet as
Colonel Henderson says she came a.
a family which was neither unknown
Ior undisdnguished." At three years Of
age his father died; at the age Of alp
years he was sent to the home of an
uncle; year later the mother he 40
worshipped died. - ~
Great Love for Mother.
His great love for his mother :. :,
not better be shown than BY Quoting
from a letter written to his VIE whan
their daughter Julia was born. Writ
ing that he desires his childr to he
called by his mothers name, General
s 20, says my mother was mind
erless child. and / wish ID aa.,... -.