The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-11

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stock knd come to mar with oophistry
the ample tenefs o. our faith po-
htical We were the Anglo sNxons Of
the world. With blood 40 pare a.
epeech that mwored still Of warwick
lanes and whitehall colionades. Every
man was politician hy instinct. not
by choice: public servant from CON-
viction. not from profit. Every man
cherished next his honor and his fire.
aide the state his ancestors helped to
make. and visua1ixed In vital form
the basic principles on which union
OF the States was founded. When
those principles were assailed. the
thrust was at the vitals Of ayrighteous
self-respect, All answered with one
voice. That war that followed was
fought with fervor, generated with
genius ana sustained with sacrifice
because t-Ea4-a- FOL mind Against
passion. The South Of 1861 was the
France OF 1914, with the sins Of no
Paris to atone. Well might the youth
full Worsley write:
mo nation rose go white and fair,
Or fell so pure Of crimes.
what were those ideals consecrated
ct First Manassas. exalted at Chancel-
louisville. scaled and accepted at APP
pomatto-se These ancient oaks whis-
per them: these gray coats attest
Them. these women Who Tor nfty
years have kept this sacred day bear
witness to them: these chiidren's faces
unwittingly reflect them:
That government Is the choice OF
the governed. a sacred right that only
tyranny can override;
That 1t is for the governed to
change their government when its
powers are misused;
That those who give may take again
and shape to better use the creature of
their hands;
That In defense of freedom. self
may not be reckoned or sacrifice be
counted; -
That duty to righteous principle is
Stands there one today in the
shadow of these monuments to say
that these things were lost? Breathes
one of Southern stock who thinks the
maintenance on the ideals not worth
the blood wherewith they were sus-
tained2 Rather do we not now realize
the setting sun of Appomattox was
the promise of a coming day and
that when the broken remnants of
our Southern hosts gave up their
bloody banners they kept to give
again II, days Of need the same ideals
they cherished in the rags Of disaster
and the dust Of defeat
These Ideals One.
Thank God the passing years in
bringing peace have not exacted as
tire price the sacrifice of those iteaisa
Can we not. in Ntruth lift up our
hands today 10 heaven and swear with
one accord that with the blood of our
fathers and from the breasts of cur
mothers we have drunk in their ideals
aud have sought. God helping tis. to
preserve them in their purity You
men In gray have kept the faith:
your sons would follow you.
fts cunning Jacobs of an 4ifeH view
has sought to rot, the Southern Esau
OF his birthr.ght The base Delilahs
from a new Philistia have striven to
shear the locks of Samson, But ut
the price OF military reconstruction
and with the threat of negro rule. po-
ftical disability and force laws, the
South has remained constant. Few
have ever taken Office in the councils
OF ancient oppressors; few have
abandoned their mother In the days OF
her inspotency. We have not beck
oned the Immigrant to oar borders or
houEnt- his -nndesc. xed -Notn AT the
/ price OF one of our principles We
| have remained a people apart. serving
at the same shrines voicing the same
| prayers, cheFlsninc the same ideals
and waiting, waiting---of through
what II bitter night for the day when
/ the South could again serve the Union
as In the days OF old and give of lis
manhood for the upbuilding OF our
( land.
Where Division Now yat@
/ That Which our fathers held aud
1 gave ns--that which is the true Agneri-
! can ideai-~the nation needs as never
I since the years that covered these
| green avenues with soldiers graves.
We are fast approaching another 1851.
Strange voices are heard IN The lands.
Strange doctrines are being preached.
For the first time since a great voice
] cried. Let there be peace men
I threaten division I, is not division
between North and South, thank God,
nor yet .twjxf East and Wset. 1t Is a
division between Americanism and
hydra headed treason Men who
have eaten of our bread and shared
of our acres are whisp ring against
] us. Some traitors even would sell
their country to foreign foe-and
boast of their treason Things have
scome TO pass that Ave years ago we
should have believed impossible.
| What In the remedy for these Ills
| the shrewdest merely see and cannot
Diagnose? The answer Is craven on
these sacred stoyIeE~-tova OF country,
sacrifice or self. the maintenance Of
principle, whether it be in Congress
or on the high seas against every
foe, And who tafn apply that remedy
az can the South. We are the Ameri-
cans longest seated. longest tested,
We of the South, we OF Virginia, al
most alone in country now poiyEiot
have only right to serve. with no for
eiEn foe TO hate or aid. We know
from what pit OF war these States
were dug and from what a<rock OF dis
cord this union was hewn. We still
remember what Washington saw and
what Lee attested.. We still hold dear
that love OF country and OF God that
threw a shield OF steel about this
citadel Of nations hopes. Visit New
York and you will md multitude
OF unassimilated men. each group
more num erous than the native popu-
lace OF many city from which these
strangers came. Visit the average
Southern city and YOU will find the
, face OF Saxon and Of Norman. with