The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-10-03
IS sEcrioNALlsm NEVER TO Es0r

that it was the beginning of the end;
because of the love and loyalty shown
for the flag by Joe Wheeler, Fitz-
hugh Lee and so many others, that
sectionalism would forever find it's
grave.
Our faith was at an earlier period
inclined to that belief when Charles
Sumner advocated the return OF the
battle flags" to the South and at
later period when the lamented
Mckinley in a speech delivered in
Atlanta voiced this beautiful senti-
ment:
Lets care for Confederate graves
as our own. for we are but brothers
after all"
We we're still further strengthened
In our belief when yet another repub-
lican president, showing that he was
inspired by the same spirit. elevated
to the supreme bench an ex-Confed-
crate soldier, a Catholic and demo
crat-
In the last speech he made in the
United States senate the late Ben
Tillman, Of South Carolina, given
the name OF "Pitchfork" because OF
his supposedly unrelenting sectional
hatred, said:
IF ever did hate the northern
people, that hatred and partisanship
has died out of my heart, and the
'pitchfork,' IL it stood for the emblem
OF 1t, has long since been buried;
from its grave an olive tree has
sprung up. and / am rendering the
olive branch, claiming TO represent
the South, in doing so, to all north
ern people"
The South Carolina senator. stand
ing as 1t were on Nebo's mountain,
was deprecating a speech Just made
by Mr.. Chas. Evans Hughes, which
was Intended to fire the northern
heart because the South twas in the
saddle"
Senator TilIman said:
st must have surprised and shock
ed you, Senators, as it has shocked
most OF our common country, to find
that more than ffty-one years after
lAppomattox, when all the great chief
tains OF our fraticidal struggle have
passed over to the other side-where
there is no north, no south, no east,
no west, but only the glory of God
'everywhere-that a candidate for the
high Office of president of these re-
United States should have thought it
necessary. or even permissible, to
drag forth an old Observation-Disclosures
spattered banner of 'sectionalism' and
wave it over the head of the present
generation of Americans"
Surely we said when we were
shouting ourselves hoarse for the
boys in khaki. wearing buttons for
our boys t'over there" and saluting
in alteration the flag whenever and
wherever it waved in sight, surely,
we repeated, "sectionalism" has at
last found its grave and from this
time on the olive branch will be ev-
erywhere m evidence and we shall
be brothers
But strange to say, and we say it
more in sorrow than in anger, that
the spirit Of sectionalism seems rifer
now than ever before.
Notwithstanding the furious race
riots in the. north and west, they are
passed over and we find in the north
ern newspapers such reflections as
the following, for example, from the
New York Call 1t makes this sug-
gestion:
That a survey of the treatment of
negroes be made in this country and
a digest of it be published abroad for
the information of oppressed nation
alities and races. The Jews, for ex-
ample, might be asked whether they
prefer the old Russian and modern
Polish forms of pogroms to the more
dramatic roasting Of blacks, which is
so popular in the democratic South
Nothing like interchanging ideas on
thsee matters and being up-tO-date
We do not think that the South can
learn anything from the European
pOgromistS, but the latter may be
able to learn from the great southern
democracy"
viii this feeling. this intense and
bitter hatred, ever die out?
We Reluctantly answer Never!
Not until the republican party finds
it's grave and IS forever buried out
of sight.
1t would be we'll for the peace and
welfare of the commonwealth if it's
memories could be blotted out for
ever.
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