Year: 1868

tutlT Inspiration, llirODS anu agOnlZeS until
they have been given forth to the world in
all their warmth and freshness. And once
out upon the ocean of life, they sail away
on their civilizing and enlightening mission,
not only changing the nature of man, but
the nature of nature herself. Forests disap-
pear, and fields of grain and orchards of
fruit burst forth. The hut falls to the ground, !
and the palace rearsits lofty walls. The mule, !
traversing his smountain path, burdened down
to the earth, gives way to the engine of /
Watt, screaming oyer hills and through
gorges, with the business of continent in
its train. The post-boy, foundering through
the mud withhis ytttle package Of letters,
passes away, and thousand times more in
telligence, in moment, speaks on the wings
of lightning to the ends of the earth. Even
the wild flowers of the prairie, the wild cat
of the woods, the wild horse of the plains,
the wild bull tina! bellows and shakes his
head at the head OF his herd, all become do
mesticated and improved and made to con-
tribute to the service and pleasure of man,
as man becomes civilized and enlightened
and is made to contribute to the service of
nature Man, sometimes, in his foolish con-
ceit, thinks all the world of nature is for
him. Nature, with equal assurance, might
say all the world of man is for her. Man
cannot advance step without her; she can
not advance step without him. 1t is only
as she becomes the bride Of man and man
becomes the husband of her, and the union
is preserved in all its purity and integrity,
that mutual civilization, mutual purifca-
ton, mutual sanctifcation can take place.


In the light of these views. it is not diff
cult to see glorious future through all the
clouds and darkness that now seems to hang
over the material and political interests Of
the South. The first great law has been
violated. Man has not been educated, and
therefore, nature has not been cultivated.
Man has been kept inignorance and nature
has been stubborn and difficult foe to con-
tend with. ..


Contrasted with the North in mental and
material progress, how stands the South to-
day. The mind of the North cultivated,
and her barren rocks bud forth and blossom
as the rose. The mind of the North cultiva-
ted and the earth yields up her treasures,
and mines of iron and copper and coal pour
out their wealth by millions The mind of
the North cultivated, and manufactures rise
on every stream, and pulsate with busy and
ingenious life. The mind of the North cul-
tivateu, anu liberal churches spring up In
every hamlet, colleges in every village, Ii
braries, galleries of art and music halls in ev-
cry city. The mind of the North cultivated,
and the primitive dreariness of many of her
States glows with almost the beauty and
freshness of Eden The mind of the North
has made some of the States of the North
vast Central Parks" for the pride and
pleasure of all who travel through or sojourn
in them.


The face of nature changes with the face
of man. When man is savage nature is saw
age. Both reveal the soul within and be-
hind them. Only the cultivated soul of one
can see the cultivated soul of the other.


Let US educate the South, then, if we
would redeem the South; and let it be an
education full of the broadest liberality and
the most catholic and christian spirit.