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Attention, Farmers! We wish to call your at: tention just at this time t( our facilities for supplying your every want in the wa3 of groceries and everything Mneeded on the farm. W( 4not only have the goods, bul are prepared to make you very close prices on th< same. It will certainly pa3 you to come here, as we car most assuredly save you money. We call-yourspecia: attention to the following: 1 Carload of Flour, First and Secon< Patent. Meal and Corn in quantity. One and Two=Horse Ploughs an< all plough implements, Buggy and Wagon Harness. Saddles and Bridles. Extra Good Farm Shoes. All Fancy Groceries. Best New Orleans Molasses. Birdsell Wagons. Buggies, Open and Top. If what yon want is noi mentioned above, come her< anyway. We will see to i1 that your wants are suppli= ed. The larger your wants the more you will save b3 coming here. A. B. CAT HCAR'I Call here for a Good Mule or Hor se. To Arrive This Week. A Carload of JOHNSON'S. Mowers and Rakes. NONE BETTER. McMaster.Davis Co. selves why all this among a people intelligent, highly civilized and thor oughly religious? Will they be con- i tent with the answer that it w as a mere outburst of human passioi? Will they accept the statement that it was an evolution of fiery hate gei . dered under a semi-tropical sun. when we of this (lay read the wondErfu story of the English Revolu:ion of 1648? When we see -chn m as Hampton. Ireton. Vane and Cromnwell staking their all upon the issue. do a we regard it rational? Does it mee*,t 'the moral requirement of the case .o say that these men, earnest. grave and r similarly conscientious. were re. discontented, eager for ehang and childing under the just restraiints of a a well ordered Government? Such a thought would not be accepted even by the prejudiced Cavalier'. No care k ful and impartial student of history can fail to see that English liberty. civil and religious. was bound up in that Revolution, and that if Naseby and Marston Moore had never been fought Magna Charts vjuld have be come obsolete, and the English Par liament, instead of being as it now is, the fearless representative of free men, would have been the tool of ab solutism, so that we may be sure that the historian of the future. as ne gath ers up facts of our confli-t, as he traces o-ut its causes with th. pene tration and patience of a philosopher, will find that it was with us, as in the wars of the Peloponesus, perpetua."ed in the incomparable narrative of Thucydides, he will find that there was still a consolidating :parta and a democratic Athens. He will find that the war was no sudden explosion oft a mob, but fearful ar as dienstrous e as a volcano eruption. It was like it, t precedings. preceded, by the deEr -*Ion ed utterings of its wrath. ue fes Another feature of our straggle. bit which deserves mention was the ca : ie] pacity for action and endurance on the part of the Southern soldiers which it revealed. The Army of the Souzh suf was not made up of a laboring class. Its ranks were filled with tho-e whose wh work were indoors, with- clerks ana professional men. and with farmeis bla whose lands were cultivated by 'heb slaves. They were totally unaccus- or tomed to hardships and severa :oil. Their living had been easy and ci,ml fortable. As an evidence of the char acter of many of the- volunteers. and the of the blissful ignorance of military ter service, I would state that an ac quaintance of mine started to the war with a pair of slippers, a dress ing gown and an umbrella. (Laugh- he ter and applause). While this was effeminate, there were thousands whot shrank from the exposure and whot anticipated the most ser ious conse- a01 quences from the hard life of the camp. In all the wars of modern ag times it would be difficult to find an gi army consisting so largely of gentle-. men. There were hundreds in theya ranks .that were the ornaments of* fre their profession-men of the highestvo culture and of eminent talents. It was confidently expected t.hat but few would be able to endure the fa- all tigue of long, hard marshes. theex posre to heat and cold, the coarse fare and scanty allowance of the army. The results wvere simply mar velous. The youth who had spent his days in ease, who knew nothing of labor, whose life was an alterna-as tion between books and resorts, de veloped into the tough and tireless de veteran with an intelligent apprecia- ho 1tion of the cause for which he was o fighting, with an imagination stimu-.e lated by a familiarity with classic literature, ancient and modern, p threw around his hard lot a romance that resisted labor and toil of -ennui. t that relieved labor and toil of their t weariness. I know no better illus tration of this than the Sixth Regi- th ment. Read over the muster roll,:t trace back to their homes the men ag whose names you find there. acquaint su yorself with their early life, and' you will find the fullest. confirmation an of the statement. If I might be par- PC - doned the allusion. I would refer to . the mess with wvhich I was associat- th ed. and i (10 so simply breause I 01) know its members mo:e inttimately an than 1 knew others. I was only a w high p)rivate (a Rebel yell from one th; of the Sixth). Much obliged for ihm u: shout. sir; it dloes my hea:-t good. Cheers). That niess was made up mt' of three lawyers. not the or.e that h had, the umbrella (LaIughter and ia cheersi, four young me n just grd-i uated and four youths too young' to have completed their education:ndi yet those men gloried in hardship to, and the very prospect of lor.g mparch o or difficult service offered an oppDo-u tunity to test their powers. at which y they rejoiced. It strung them to anl )l~ endurance andl daring which the old regular might rival, and co-id not re outstrip. What was true of them sy was just as true of others, and p when we remember the stairs to pr which we were reduced during the op last stages of the war-the desperate n energy of the expiring throes-whenl qu we remember that the army was often ag for days without rations, many of h the soldiers barefooted, and in rags, ye: making forced marches in the most pr White and This w a han( Fabrics this def be abl< Come a D. . se things, and remember, in con tion with them, that the spirit of army never failed, -and that it y succeeded as Appomatox loomed and even surrender was mani tly inevitable. We have an exhi on of loyal, heroic devotion, pa it endurance and self-forgetful s. such as this has rarely seen. plause). And their tales of qu-: ering. noble. daring, sublime be gi, yet unwritten and unknown, ich deserves imortality. Msc of se are forever buried in the gray nkets with the dead soldiers. Lnother example of our struggle, rather our defeat, is that, though >ipped of our property and left verished, we still have a noble eritance. Who does not remember dark days of '65, immediately af the surrender, the gloom and the ;pair that settled on the whole ith? I can never forget how my irt's blood was chilled when I Lrd some of the wisest and most :ious men and successful plan of our State declare that we id not live with such free labor e had. There was a temporary lysis and suspension of our whole :ultural interests. Everywhere hinery stopped. Your waiting stood on his head in the front dand than.keal his Maker that dom had come down (laughter); rfield hand slept the weary hours ay under your apple trees; slept the more soundly because Lee endered under an apple tree. e was the most complete disor .ation and demoralization of the e labor system. Federal garri ruled every town and city, every t of Justice was practically dis d-all the forms of law set d when you add to all this the ppriva,te griefs of almost every sehold you have a picture of des uto and woe such as has never been drawn on canvas. Such a 'ition of things might well ap Ithe stoutest heart. But how nthe clouds broke away! With evival of hope the pulse began beat strong and healthy. The old iers, who were the strength of and, readily adapted themselves te situation, and that same coer and fortitude, which had won distinction in .the camp and fid, re-appeared under a new name~ din a new role. A magnificent up uity was offered to evoke all native force, the latest energy and ndustrial tact of the South. That ~rtunity was promptly embraced heroically improved; and if all not done and has not been done tmight, have been, yet the worldJ tzY accorded to us at this dIa. derful1 ree.uperative power. The t rial growth and p)rosperity: of Suth since the wvar is a brigM~ ein her history. And yet. there very "miuch land to be possessed" - aut lands to be reclaimed. new lst ries to foster and develop fac -ies to be built. There are hine~ t-ade on sea and land to be opened And above all, there is the credil stn to- he killed and buried. (Ap ur educational interests, too. n?eed ~~nstruction. The common a-shooi emn is not an experiment. It has oven eminently a blessing in other antries. But with us it is to be eated in circumstances altogether e and p)eculiar; and- it will re e ise, skillful and p;atient mnan enent at the hands of those who echarge of it among us to pre. tserious evils. One popular im esion in reference to it mst bj .ove spareeM~ thnran.;ble. ard Colored W eek we are s some line oJ . Some nove >artment you' to find els nd see them. Walker that is that the State approllriaton :S sufficient to furnish primary and academic education- to our children and youth. The mistake must be cor rected, that because a man pays a school tax, therefore, his child is to be educated. It may get, as it may fairly claim, a little schooling, but it will be very elementary and, superfical un less the State appropriation is supple mented. This and other features of the system demand the earnest considera tion of every thoughtful ciLizen that it may become to us what .c claims to be, a national blessing. We have, too, an inheritance of na tional glory. Under the sensitiveness as to State rights, a sensitiveness that has been fostered and rendered per haps almost morbid by constant ag gressions, and by our late conflict, we are in danger of cherishing something of indifference to that possession which is ours by every right of pur chase and inhe:itance, and which no contingency can alienate. This country has a glory. It is known and honored not only through out the civilized world, but to the re motest corner of Africa and Asia. Its ensign is the recognized symbol of Intelligence, Freedom, Power and Pro gress. In this glory we have a share. We must assert our claim; We are countrymen of Washington and Jeffer son, Webster and Everett, Clay and Benton, as well as Calhoun and Le gare; and shall I not, in this pres ence, add we are countrymen of Mc Clellan and Hancock, as well as of Lee and Johnson? Shall we allow pet ty jealousies and _local prejudices to rob us of that noble birthright of na tional glory which our forefathers se cured at such a cost, guarded' with so much care and transmitted to us with such supreme satisfaction? Shall we not unite with every section of our country in cherishing and perpetuating this national greatness? Shall we no: leave to those who come after us the privileges which bless and distinguish our age and country? If this is done, we must cultivate that harmony of feeling and that unity of purpose which religion, patriotism and interest alike enjoin. This land is one in language, government and interest, and while there are diversities of habit, social custom and agricultural products, is it not a diversity of correspondence rather than opposition-a diversity by which "each part supplements the other, and in which there is always the basis for the truest and deepest unity?" The wise inventor takes the air, the iron, the fuel, the fire and the water. and out of :Sis diversity develops, in marvelous combinations, a unity of strength and power that makes the steam en.gine a wonder forever. In deed, this principle of -unity is the measure of human progress. And whenever human legislation and codes, national and international, shall edu cate men to a practical recognition of the oneness, not only of communites and States but of the human family, then you will have reached the grand ideal of the social state and the year of jubilee will begin. And just as we of this country bury our animosities, though not our princip-les; as we for get our enmities, though not our he roes; as we accord to others and se cure to ourselves, the just acknowl edgement that honest convictions of duty and ardent patriotism inspired alike. the assault and the defence of Sumter-just to that extent we hope for that genuine Reconstruction, thai real union, which despises formal res olulons and sentimental Fourth of July utterances. (Applause)~. Surely this is possible. What others have done we may do. If Feudalism has melted away, if the Wars of the Roses live nly in his tur if clanship in Scotland ash Goods. howing Wash Ities in will not ewhere. &Co. has been wiped out, if .the Prince Im perial forgets Waterloo and fights for England, shall we of this country be less magnanimous? If this question were to be decided by the soldiers, and not by those who are "invincible in peace but invincible in war" (laugh ter) the breach would have been heal ed long ago, and the disgraceful pros cription, the angry crimination, the bitter partisan legislation of the last few years would not have been per petuated strife. (Applause) It is an easy matter to .rouse passion, when it has scarcely subsided. It is an easy matter to fan into a consuming flame embers that are still glowing. The professional politician finds here an opportunity so tempting that he lets no occasion slip of serving himself by stirring the passions and preju dices of men. We must get above the demagogue. (Applause) We must bid him play upon another string, or rather we must asla him if he would strike melody in our hearts he must sweep all the strings and evoke a blended harmony from the grand lyre. It must be the music of the spheres each State, as a planet in its own orbit, performing its work as a part of the grand whole, and all held together, not as in the republics of antiquity by Roi:an legions, but by a law of Iaffinity, that principle of' moral grav itation that attracts men to what is good and true, which binds the uni verse to God. (Applause). Of one thing we may feel perfectly sure-the passions and prejudices of this day and hour will subside. The men of other times will sift the right and the wrong of our great struggle. Error will be overtainen and crushed, truth will be resurrected, arrayed in Iher own peerless -robes. In the cer tain hope of that resurrection, we rest our vindication with the future. Now, we hang our harps on the willows, "and the sound of its strings is mourn ful." "Then another song shall rise." And in the words of the wierd, Mystic Ossian "it shall chant thle chiefs of other times departed." Our comrades "shall hear it in their airy Hall." "Their dim faces shall hang with joy from the clouds." "Fingal shall re ceive his fame." (Applause and cheers) PRESENTS --AND DO NOT BUY UNTIL HAVE SEEN OUR STOCK OF ALL SOLID AND GENUINE GOODS. We always make special pre parations for June, both on ae count of Weddings andGradu atirg classess, as we know that *almost everybody has to buy a present of some kind this time of the year. We ask you simply to come in and look around. If you don't see what you want, ask for it. Our stock is so large that it is impossible to display all of it. Remember that a small piece of the best kind is better than a large piece of the pooest Whatever we sell will always be found to be correct in style, best in quality and low in price. SYLVAN BROS.N Cor. Main and Hampton Streets,