Year: 1869




written history, the vulgar traditions of the /
war will acquaint them with your part of
their wrongs the terrible wrong of their
whole life. You can imagine how it will
wrankle in their souls. You can well guess
how they will be disposed towards you and
yours. 1t were prudentsin you-it is our
advice to you--to forestsll the effect of this
knowledge. Make yourselves their benelac-
tors; replace that lost parent; become
foxes" to them, and it may obliterate the |
wrongs they feel If inthis you fail, then
dread for yourself and for those you love
the fierce hatred of these homeless orphans
maddened by the dire recollection of their
wrongs.


The future Il the south.
| A few days since we called attention to,
and presented extracts from, speech made
by the President of the Charleston Board of
Trade, Col. W.. L. Trenholm speech SO
wise, so patriotic, and so important as to its
sentiments, that we hope our readers have
perused it entire and will give its doctrines
careful study. If the people of the South
give heed to counses like these, the night of
distress will soon pass away
A future, when the South will be filled
with industrious, virtuous and Independent
laborers and cultivators of the snil-when
it shall be land to be desired by the
foreign emigrant-when it shall be the home
of commerce, the arts, science and manu-
lactures, when river and hill and forest shall
be the source of wealth, is possible. The
conditions on which such future can be at
tanned are lucdly and happily presented in
the following, which constitute the closing
paragraphs of the speech, viz:


"In that future the South will find des-
tiny which is not yet revealed to us who
must bear the burdens of the march. In
trepid in spirit as the South is, reso-
lutte in endeayor, and bold in achieve
ment as we have proved ourselves to be,
the obstacles which still lie before us
will not be overcome without great effort
and great sacrifice; the sacrifice must be in
dividual but the effort must be in common.
He who is conscious of being worthy of
leading must he content to take place in
the ranks; he who is ambitious of being
first to scale the wall, must abide by the
wagons, if need be; he who loves solitude
must be ready to rush into the thickest of
the fray. Thus will personal sacrifice min
lister to public advantage, and the common
good will grew by common effort. Let US
array ourselves in a panoply of enthusiasm,
proof against the petty darts of prejudice
and affectation, and shoulder to shoulder
bear down the barriers of ignorance and
obstruction we need no leaders. but we will
find representative men; we need no crowned
r authority, but We will stand under the free
tanners of public opinion-the ruler of the
world, the arbiter of the dcstinies of nations.


Public opinion is the Melehsidec of our
age, receiving tribute from all mankind. al
lowing empire, or conducting revolution,
annointed Of God, the King of Peace With
in the limits of its wide influence no wrong
can stand uncondemned, no lie can remain
unrebuked, but TRUTH however homely. is
made honorable, rights, however humble, are
exalted to power.


To establish among us forever the true
and the right, it is only necessary that every
man should assert absolute independence of
thought and speech, and accord the same to
every other man. This is no easy task; it
devolves especially upon The young and the
brave, the hnBest-hearted and the humble
minded, for liberty does not come of pride,
but of humility; not of strength, but of
courage not ofexperience, but of aspiration.
Upon all sides there is work to be DONE.
error to be exposed, truth to be illustrated
In our court houses and workshops, upon
the marts of commerce, in the fields of agri-
culture, wherever men are called to labor
with the hand or the brain, we need clear
heads, strcng hearts, steady hands-not to
dictate, but to persuade not to lead, hut to
encourage; not to control, but to point out.
Thus, and thus only, will our whole populs
tion advance in harmony and with unity Of
purpose A people so moved and being in
unison with the great prevailing principle of
their times, acquire a momentum in the di-
rection of greatness which is irresistible.


The 6 eatness of people is not measured
in modern times by the altitude of one class
above another, but by the common elevation
of the whole. Raise high your highest, but
leave not the lowly low let merit be exalt-
ed, let intelligence soar among the clouds,
bat leave no human being to struggle alone
with the degradation that drags him still
downward heap no contumely on the head
Of the humblest aspirant for honor and po-
sition. Thus will all unite in building up
a glorious future, where all may dwell in
happiness and honor. Thus will our public
greatness he a perpetual Ie Deune, for there
is a grand harmony in the mingling emo
tions OF a flee community. The solemn
:groundtone of earnest masses, the vast swell
fpervading enthusiasm. the whole diapason
of human aspirations, pour their united tor
rent upward and fill the ear of heaven with
, mans great aborare est Orare, while high
above the tumultuous concord rises, pure
j and clear like the treble of silver bugle,
! the dominating idea of the epoch"


One of the Charlotte papers had yester
day a quotation about mules. We call
upon the Wilmington Star man to rebuke the