Year: 1878

would be not unimportant or inef-


fective factor in bringing back the


country to It's normal prosperity.


This must be brought about by gen


erous concession and just compromise.


Principle may never be compromised,


but expediency requises it often. The


God-head itself, happily for poor fall
en- man, was compromise between
justice and mercy. In a country
like ours-so vast and so embracing


of products of every soil and eli


mate, of every variety of manufac-


ture and commercial enterprise-con-


cessiOn and compromise may, with


our hearts in their right places, be


made the efficient hand-maidens of a


restored tranquility and common


prosperity. And was there ever a


more propitious time to inaugurate
this new era ?-ever period when


the public heart was more sensitively


animated in this direction? And now


upon the eve of the great political


campaign opening up before us, does


it not behoove the people everywhere


to put their unmistakable stamp of
reprobation and telling censure upon


a repetition of the unholy work of in


citation of section against section


which has been going on for years,


and bid it stop right here? This


fraud upon truth, for political effect,


has been Perpetrated long enough.


The people of the North and South


do not hate each other. Else why


this wall from the land Of the scourge


and the pestilence, and the ready re


sponse it has found in the sympa-


thizing breasts of a Northern broth


erhood. In my late visit to your


great commercial emPorium-so cos


mopolitan in its character and noble
in its charities-as a Southern man |
have been profoundly impressed and
deeply touched by the manifestation


of tender consideration, in all classes,


for the suffering, stricken communi-


ties of our Southern cities. Already
more than a hundred thousand dol


lars have gone forth to the scenes of


devastation from New York alone,


while Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland and other towns through


out the North have spoken right out


their heartfelt sympathy, and given


substantial effect to it by generous


contributions to the plague-invested


cities of the South. And the work
still goes bravely on! l heard. too,


the fervent supplications from the
!, chancel and the pulpit to the Lord


of life and death, of sickness and


health" for the arrest of the march OF


the fatal scourge, the recovery Of the


sick. the spiritual consultations of the
dying and the comfort of the broken


hearted living-and all the people


cried Amen


Men and women in the South in
whose natures are tabernacled gene


rous impulses will never forget these


kindly ministrations in the dark hours
f of disease and death. Not South
f ern hand that will not be reached


forth in grateful acknowledgment and
: heartfelt appreciation for the sponta
; neous sympathy and timely aid Of oul
, Northern brothers. They have in
f deed proved that 'blOod was thicke
} than water" Let us hope, then, tina
f this Wholesome frame Of mind ma,
+ not be disturbed by another era 0
= maIdened elimination and recrimina
$ ton; and let the South especially Ia.
5 this lesson to heart, and keep 1t con
=. stantly in her memory: That when he
own were a-hungered and thirsty an,
= naked and sick, and near the prison G
:. death, they were kindly ministere
e unto by her Northern brethren of
; common nationality Nor let the me
!, of the North cloud their noble nc
II tives and stultify the noble deeds the
, have done and are doing in the caus
4 of humane philanthropy by count'
t" nancing a political canvass eharactel
K lied by acrimonious abuse of thei
S Southern brethren, All this is mo.
D unnatural and improbable. As SUI
d as good is true it is wrong and has hs
re much to do with the general distre
2r of the country. There can be 1
re common prosperity in the absence
n vital community of interest in eac
" other. The battle-axe- must not on
Ii be buried, but the sword and the spe.
d must be turned into the ploughsha
j. and the pruning-hook, and the cal
70 met of peace must be smoked throug
er out the whole length and breadth
IL the land. Let Congress leave off pc
:, itics and give us wise and peaceti
- legislation, and then, and not unt
-P then, shall We see a truly united pc
IS, pie. restored to the inestimable bles
Is ings of happiness and prosperity.


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