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These I shall leave to older heads and more experienced minds, whose opinions are better entitled to your re gard nnd confidence, while the humble object of my effort, shall be, only to scatter a few flowers, about the mem ories of our dead. Tbe causes, of the Heb' liion, as it is t'-rmcd are in general too familiar, to us u 11, to require any further elucidation at the present time, und as to the gigan tic struggle itself thorn aro too many finger-boards, throughout our land, point ing us backward to its fearful character Rut, although such is tho case, I feel that it is necessary, in tbe course of in remarks, to glance brief!,, at the ciu-es of tbe war, for, if we ignore them, we ) cannot I'u'ly me<.t the deoia dot* the occasion on which we hare assembled li< re to day. The first duty, that we owe to our i ves, is to justify our course. Leave i bat undone, and we must fail to send down, to coming ages, a spotless record of tbi achievinetita of our heroes Por, they slei p not in uustillicl glory, who have died to establish au u irigtltOOUs cause? Master spirits, indeed, may rise and loner und <oar, on the wings of genius to giildy heights of grvata ss and re in wti, but, if the ti e, that ur^ts them upward, be nu unholy ambition, then shall the brightest fl >wers wither in the crowns they win. ? A\e. humae aspiration in itss. ar. b for glory, may scale tho very el>ud , ? bm^ human virtue alone can brigh'teu tl e sl?rs beyond. ( b ! then, let our object be to s'iow ' not *on!y thai our heroes ??Fought 1 .e ! I brii*"e men, long and w-JI,'' but also, tbul Ii u r ghlC- us Cause lb -y tell. 1 bis aloue cau rob the Word llcbel of its oduim, when applied to us, nod place } ti e people of the South, in tbe ranks, of'those who have b*cn fouo 1 ready and willing to lay tbe full, unstinted offering of their ?II, nt the shrine id' their devo tii.n to principle. And to do tbi<, let us inscribe in characters of living light, and lift upon our towers and our moun tains, tbe only safeguard which the South bus ever been willing to throw about her liberties?tho only demand she has ever becu urrcgml enough to make ? tbe only crime of which she has ever been guilty?and all these are embraced, in devotion to the Constitu tion of our Fathers* If that be treason, then were tho people of the South, traitor*?if ihat be rebellion, then, were pceplc of the South, rebels. Hut, if that be trensou, then patriotism is no longer, eloquent?than virtue, itself, is no longer, ehn-uont. If it be not treason, then do wo pro test, with nil the power of outraged innocence, against that verdict, which binds tbe names of our Jackson and our Johnson and our Lee, in the same est? li.guu With the blackened names of ih sc who have lifted m rderous baud to smile their country's heart. Traitors ! such us these, the names of traitors?tleeds like theirs, tbe deeds, of traitors?virtues like theirs, the virtues of traitors?sacrifices like theirs, the off* lings of traitors?the noblest, purest, grandest Hi mans, of them all. traitors ! Shame! shame ! uluiost enough, metbiuks, to render the bones of Wash iugton, uneasy in the grave. Oh ! that the true maiiho d of the North, cmild but rise, in its majesty, high above its passions und its prejutdi ccs, and in a spirit of true mug imiiimj ty aud greatness, join in swelling the voice of the South, as, evon ih her deso lation, she hurls back the chargo ol i r. anon from her sous, and b ?ws her head in gri d', above her martyred de id, to lift n prayer, to lleavou? ??My children, Fnlher, thy forgiveness need : Alaa! their hearts have only plaee tor tear*: Forgive them, Father, esery wrongful deed And cv'ry sin of those four bloo<ly years, And give them strength to bear their bound less Iocs, And from their hearts take every thought of hate And while, they climb their Calvary, with their cross Oh! help them, Father, to endure ita weight Forgive my foes?th.?y know not \rh it they do? Forgive them all the tears they uiiido me shed ; Forgive them, though my noblest sons they slew, And blosa them, though they curse my poor, dear dead ! ! But, until the passions and p'ijudiccs, engendered by uur frnrrictd.il strife, shall have hc*>n softened and purified by tho balancing agencies of time, this can not bo. And yet, t<> hasten the consummation of this grand moral triumph, there arc solemn duties du"olving upon the Nr??rth and upon tho South?duties, which it were again fratricidal ignore, and worse than idi die to neglect. Every principal of humanity and every sentiment of fraternity demand moderation, and justice and tnagnami mity, on the part of the victorious North, and every consideration of common f*cu*e and of reason and ol interest, demiud the severest xercisc of prud once and forbearuuec and pttienco, on the pirt of the vanquished South. True greatness, on the one hand ? true wisdom, oa the other. And let these hut uuite, and work together iu harmony of put pose, under the t'onsti?u tion and the flag, of our Fathers, and nations may well look in woder, upon he structure they sh'ill rear. Ilud these agencies, been thrown into the blench, ?theo tl.c hist battle was ended. the animosities of the strife should have long since been assuaged, and rhe anfiel of devolution, would have long since censed to hold her earnival, auion<| the ruin* of on.- 1 md But, although, peril ips, no people have ever had s" graud an opport' nity, for the display of those high impulses, which elevate and render human nature glorious, yet. uune. perhaps, ha-e ever fallen so far short, of a just appreciation ol it, its have the people of tho Nurth. And this assertion is not tha oT;p/t;ig of prejudice, or of animosity, towards that people, but of conviotton, founded on the u.istkon policy pursued by thorn, towards th ? South. Far I"- it, fron my purpose t.? n?t.?i one sc?timent, which sit til tend In kind lu again, Icelings of bitterness, betwoen tho sections, of our Country. H ither, far, be it our province, to he>l up those ghastly wo in is which h ve been tor t by unscrupulous hands, iuto the very heart of our Union. But, this stricken hind, of our*, has many grievances, and it were fully, in deed, for Us to remain silent, and expect thoir causes to vanish, like a clou 1 fr nu tho face of tho sir?, aud leave us ngiin. u brighter laud. They must ne removed by our own exertion, and it is only by ci'm, deliber ate and generous discussion, thai thi< can be accomplish - 1. If those e iliges of complaint, are just, it is simply n duty, th.t we owe tu our Strives, to discuss them, until the people of the North, shall recognize thoii justice ? compeuh md our wrongs, and then shatter into atoms, the sword which has so long been w.e! lud agiinst in, ah I extend in honor the olive branch, which lias been so long in shame, withheld If hey are unjust, it is still our duty to dUou^a them until the light of reason, shall drive from our own hotrts, these enemies of our common prosperity and happiness and peace. Yes, right or wrong, us long as they are honestly entertained, let our com plaints be held up to the light of reason aud ol justice, so thut may be purged of their poison, by the one und applied, as a healing balm, by the other. It is a ?oleum duty, th.it we owe to those, who shall rise to till our places, thai we trasnmit no inouiubtance on the heritage wo leave thetu, and to secure this, we must uot omoeal, but, eradicate the very roots of tit so caused which have heaped calamities upon us. Tho festering sores of this uge, must not be healed, uu the surface etil), while the poison, on which they feed; is left to cunker ?nd rankle, iu thu hearts of our children s children, as they rise up, >n their woe, to curse us, for our folly. And now, upon what are the griev ances of the South, founded '! In the first place, I shall venture the assertion, aud allow it, without debate, to rest, ou its own merits, that tho South was not responsible for the existence of slavery on this Continent. Even, then, if tho war was waged, on the one baud, to abolish, aid on tho other to porpotuate slavery. st*fl, the South, not being rcspotnib'o for the one, j cannot be charged, with tho rosponsibili , ty, for the other, with all its terrible j results. 13 it, I shall tiiko the bold ground that such was not tho object ot the war, either in the one c.isofor tho other. Slavery 'was not, as is the com moo opinion, the cnuso of the war, but the popular pretext for it Con we believe that that wtr would not have been waged against tho South, even thou ,h her ordinauc s of Secession, themselves, had torn the shiekles of s'avcry, frotn every slave, within her borders, forever ? No?never, f From, the very formations of tho Constitution, by which tbe original thir teen, Sovereign and independent States, were bound under tho'.Compact of a Federal Union. There have been those in our land who have lab ored to drag, the old slip, from hcrpnooringi. to dismaut'o her deck , to knock away her bulwarks to silence ? hcP betterics, and then leave her adrift, upon the waters, o! nu untried sea, with no haven in sight, except tbe hostile ports of a centralized despotism. Thither, she has driftod-#thi ther she is drilling still?and nothing, but tbe ?grandest outburst of paoiotie fire, on the part of the whole American people ? such an outburst indeed, as shall sweep every priato from tbe decks, can prevent her eternal wreck upon those fatal shores Great minds, and skilful hands and mighty energies, h ive bent their power, to work out her salvation, nd though checked at times, in her course, the waters about her, arc still, too dark and rough aud deep, for her a lichors to be cast. The Statesmen of tbe South, have ever bent their encigies. to prevent tbe mutilation oftbat cove.nut. up iu which alone could our (ireut Republic, rest secure iu its glory. They have eve:" held to the doctrine of S^'fe Sovereignty i as the only s.ifegu rd, f<r*^he liberties j of the States, und iiArt? only by argument. which are higher an 1 grcrVcr", those of tho swor I, ih .t this eo ivicti >u of a life time can be swwpt away Wo must first j be made to feel that our liberties, arc j .-till secure, before we can ever be con ' s ince I that ih it opinion wis .vr m.', , Fmpm-s mid [\iugdoiii.< in ty crumtJe be I'm the po.v.r id" the sword, but ? gciithtr moans alo.iC, can sweep away coovicl ion. Truo Statcsineti saw v?ith apprehen sion, the cloud that rue, upon tbe political horizon, when centralizing doctrines were proclaimed, in the very convention, by which the constitution itsoll was framed. And to dispel thai cloud while yet only a speek iu the sky. the doctrine of State sovereignty was engrailed in I he constitution b\ u iani iiious vote of all the sovereign States, each (if which | roclaimed to the world that in accordance with the constitution. 'F ich State ret tins its sov roiguty, free di?:u and independence, aud every power. I jurisdiction, &o , not expressly il degated I to i h j Uuitcd States iu Cougross ossoiu bled." Such was the New England, such the i I'ennsylvat.iu, sum thu Virginia, such J the Carolina of 17.^7. And such in I theory at least, has been every adminis tration and evory party from that time I until 18GO. All recognized th it doctrine as the grand keystoue of the arch, Upou which tbe winde fa brio of American coustitu Iional freedom rested. All felt that if that stone w*ro knocked away, then should nothing but the ruins of the lGient Republic be left, upon which to rear the despotism of an empire. And yet in defiance of ibis, tbe South was called upon to contemplate such things as the tariff of 183.!, the Mis SOUri question, the Kansas troubles, the nullification acts of the Northern States, the raid on Harper's Feny iu FS?9, the discussion of measures in Congress loi maintaining tbe Cluioo outside of the oonstitution, and worse even than al' these, the applause with which these and other outrages against the peace and dignity of the South was hailed by the p. and pulpit and people of the North. Fach and all of these were deadly blows aimed at the interest of the South, because they were subversive of the great ) i iucples of tbe constitution by which iIiom) iulercsts were protected and bccau.su (bey were not only sectional but vindictive in their character. These were but tbe handwriting, on the wall of our temple foretelling its desolation, iu terms which the Sta'os. ' men of the South, could nut misunder stand. Clouds laden with all the terrors ot the storm, were ready to bur.-it upon them. And then, from the "anxious heart of the South, went forth, the ap peal? Watchman, tell ns of the night!" and from tho watch towers back the response?durknoss and danger, ahead ! Whither, should wo fly ? There was but one place ol refuge, and that within the ark of our covenant. Hut, alas! ulas ! the ark itself had been iuvad d, the eovenuut mutilated by ruthless hands, and its talismauic virtues destroy ed. Thus were the people of tho S::uth, not only left, but forced by outrage and injury, "Out in the cold, amid the in utter ings, of the tempest and the storm. And yet better far, they thought, that they should be there, than within that temple, whose foundation had bei n mined?the keystone of whose arch had been almost knocked away, nnd da <? walls must f-oon crumble aud bury'them among its ruins* And this too the temple of our fathers, this the temple of our free lorn, this the te i pie of our glory, this the temple, to protect whteh, the host blood of the South, had flowed on almost every bat tle field of our country, to beautify which the treasures of the South have ever been laid with lavish hands upon the altar, and to prevent whose desecra tion, has ever been the grandest object of tho eloquence of the South. For, we loved the old flag of our Union? uone ever loved it more than d;d the peoplo of the South ? hr-ivor, or more willing hands, were never lifted to uphold it, than those of the South. Aud yet, trampling the Constitution of our Fathers, in the dust, the North marshalled her boats beneath that banner to carry desolation to th ? ! bouts and homes of the ftouth. j Wc loved it, because it h:;d floated ? over a Hunker's liill n KutaW Springs, a liundy's Haue, but we loved it not when ? it floated over a Shiloh. i Cutckamug?. a j . I Cr.cace?orsville, or an Appo.uatt >x. I As the emblem of our freedom, wc 1 !? red it. as the emblem nf opprcSdi >u ' wo ad> r d it not. It- glories on the one hau l, will over r main the common heritage of the North aud of the South, its alume on on 'be otl er bei nga not to the South. The history of the former has alicady I been written, that of the latter must be lefll to the coming historian, whu shall i be able, with unbiased mind, to tell the , story of the mighty struggle of the South, for constitutional freedom, and ' ol the North for political supremacy. With him the vindication of the S?rth may safely rest. Hut tharo is something which we cannot leave with him alone, und that the memory of our dead. '1 his at least is the peculiar heritage of the South: Hero at least no dastard hand can rise? and rob u* of our own. Sad and pair fill, and yet sweet aud holy thought, that although all else, we are Wont to love nnd cherish, may be swept by ruthless bands away, yet all the power? ol earth cannot pob us of the memories ol our dead. And within the precincts of this hallowed ground, 1 would enter not with bol l a>i 1 circles* tr.ad, but softly and gently, bearing flowers, affection's ofTer'ng tu our dead, j Vi s we'd bring flowers, choicest flowers i from each garden bed, and strew them on those silent mounds that rise above our dead ; we'd bring flowers, purest flowers from the gardens of our hearts aud twine them tenderly about the memories' of our dead. Aye we'd bring flowers, brighest, richest flowers, fro u the gardens of our minds, with whioh to garland, the deeds of valor of our dead, and send them bright and bright ening, ndowu the course of ages, with the record of u people, who although overwhelmed in defeat, and forced to bow bcucuth the rod, were not ashamed to tell the story of thoir herores, uor to render, brightest houors, to their dead. Let the nations of the earth, proudly point uu, to thu graudost architects of their spleudors?England to her Well inj;too?Fraueo, to her Napoleon?Pros siu, to her Moltkc?but, the Survivors, even of a "Lost Cause," ahull blush not, while they can turn to a Jackson aud u Leo. Others, perhaps, iu the magnitude and splei.dor, of their military achieve incuts alone, may acknowledge no superior. Hut in all those noble ele ments of human greatness aud grandeur and glory, these of ours, stand before the world, uusurpasaed, unequalled, un approached. A hundred battle-Gelds arouud them with their glories, an I virtue stooped from Hcav. n, to set her star within th'ircrowns ?Such we-ethelenders whoso genius, directed tho heroic armies of the South, whose bauncrs, have long sinco been furled forever, and buried, with our dead. And there, let them rest together? neither fi-ids dishonor there. The "Old Guard" of France?the Spartan Band, Themorpylase are wrapped in their glory. The martyred Hands of the South are warpped in their banners?let them rest. But the night of nn Appomattox. has fallen upon tho South?the last battle has bceu fought?tho last army dis bauded?and again, tbe cry, goes up, fr-?ni tbe South, Watchman, tell us of the night! and again, the response, cou'ea back , darkness and danger, ahead! For seven years, that darkness has been upon u?, and those dangers, have encompassed our lau 1, and still the sun light of pence, has not corao forth, to cheer tbe weary heart of tbe South. We are still iu the midst of war?a war against a people, whose arms have been grounded?whoso limbs havo been bound?whose intelligence has been chained, so that they powerless, either by action or by word, for defence. But, why is War, stil continued against the South? Is it to abolish slavery ? No, but still, to establish the political supremacy of the North. We have beard of the "llecoostruc tion"acts?of the militiry government of ton States of the South?of tho j suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus < ? of Kuforccncnt acts ? of the disfran chiflemcot of the intelligence of the South?of the enfranchisement of ignor ance, and of the elevation of race aad corruption, into our high places, of power aud of trust. And all of these too, have been not only sejclionul, but vindictive in their character?and all intend, d not to heal uprthc bleeding' i wounds of the South, but to humiliate I her into the dust. No, wonder, if in i the undst of her despair, .she is ready t > .sk, I- his the laud, whsru tho ekele soars ' '**r proud ntnjastie wing I To w. Icoma wnnd'rers to her ?horcs I N iih u>l the hopes they bring '.' Is this lliu wandering pilgi int's land ' The land our fathers trod, And drramed they that destroying hand Should break its trust in Ood?J Is this the laud of the poet's song. The patriots proudest theme. Anil dream they, that a people's wrong, Is bill a ghastly dream? Is this the lund where the Christian chants The unth'-ms of his praiso And ?here no inquisition haunts The winding of his ways? K this the land where all are kings Where virtue, mistress reigns, Where god-like reason, rescue brings To break the captive's chains? Is this the land we are wont to love, Whose towering mountain* grand Rut point us to a realm above, The only brighter land ? Hut in the midst of our gloom it is well, when we endeavor to contemplate our condition as a people, that we should not forget that ull nations have their periods of tribulation, and calamity aud woe. I Look at England during the wars of I her Buses. At Home in thedaysof her Marius aud Syllu. At Franco during her reigu of terror. At Spain during the existence of her terrible Inquisition, und at poor, unhappy Mexico, with hor record of anarchy and biood for the last half u century -. And yet after her Hose, England has her Victoriu. After her Marius and Sylla, Bone had her Cacsur. After her reign of Terror, France had the spleudors of her Napo leons. From these things we learn, that it ia indeed a rugged road which leads to the glory of nations. It is not carpctted with rose leaves, und bordered wiih flowers and canopied with suns, moons and stars, and swept by souuds of melody from magic harps, so that nothing ^bhall be found to mar tho progress of heroes, aud rulers aud kings iu their rowurd march to the realization of golden dreams. No, ragged rooks loom up by tho way to frown upon tbe bleaching b .nes and broken hearts that arc scattered iu the route, ghastly chusuis yawn to receive the crimsou tide that is poured from the veins of martyr* and horjes to fill it. Ominous clouds gather {and darken sod burst to leave happy' homes in ruios. Sounds of melody i idced aro beard a* armies, with banners, march in grand array to saunds of martial muaic. to 'jow rulers nnd kings, amid the clashing* and thUnderings of tho mighty anginer/ of wot, and all these die away only tob? followed h/ the groans of dyiog heroes, and these a^ain by the softer, holier sounds that are wrung from blighted, orphaned, widowed heart*. Here mad, there a flower buds and blooms, and glows soon perhaps to be blighted by a wintry bl ist, and buried under the frosts and the snow. Now and then sons moons and stars glitter and glimmer, sod gleam in all their wonted splendor sod loveliness, only perhaps to intensify the gloom, whou a pall ri es from the politt cal horizon, to blot them trom the sky. And yet iu thut very gloom there is life, there is light, there is beauty, eye, there is glury there. Let but one little spark of life remain, and one little ray of hope will linger with it. Let but one little star, peep through a rift in the clouds and va are ready to czcla:m, how beautiful! But let the full splenurs of Orion's bands surround it aud uoac. will be so poor to do it roverjucj. The very eloud-t that overshadow the earth, do hut heighten the glories of the skies while they are bearing life end streugth, and beauty to tho flowers. And what shall we lcaru from such lessons as those which have been left by history aud by nature for our guidance and instruction 1 Above all lespair not. However deep the gleom that eurruunds us let us remember that other sun's than that of the South have gone doom in gloom, and yet come forth agnin iu glory, thnt other peoples than ours, ha-e been bowed down in woe and yet come forth again to rejoice. ?'~~~*+m* ?... Oh! let tu labor to forget, the bitter - ucss and forgive the wrongs of the ?pa?t to overlook, cveu the injuries of the present, aud wilh patience reach forward to the glories of that day, wheat the returning reason of the North, shall tear down the bnrrers which now divide our Country, as with hand ?jMenJeJ accross the ch ssm, she shouts in tones which shu'l shake the world, traitors aud rebels no more I Americans, freemen I all! away, away, ya powers of darkuasa, which have desecrated the temple of our freedam aud stal led it with fraternal blood! away, away ! the spirits of our Fathers, com maud you awaj 1 Oh there ?lifo in the ''Old Land," yet. Our mountains, und our valleys, our forests, our plains aud our streams, are teeming with wealth and power, aud they are waiting only for those strong arms,and ready ha>ids, which sh til some day come, to build up the waste places of our sunny laud, aud make them ouce again to bloom as the rose. Oh ! then let us hope oo, hoping ever, with our eyes upon the prize. The road's exceeding long, that never turns, And Vesta's fire still on the altar burns Hope on?forever those saered fires shall wave As things should b?, so shall they be again. Aye, even now, there is a rift iu the clouds?the master spirits, of the North have at lost turned their breasts to the storm, whi'jh has so long beaten upon tho South, and ere long, the two sections of our land, shall see each other ao more, "through a glass darkly," but ia the broad sunlight of the open day, animated by one gtand impulse, stand shoulder, to shoulder, to work ont to gether the glories of a common destiny. Then shall we feel indeed thet, This is the land of the poet's song, The patriot's proudest theme. Then indeod shall we make e new soug of glory, sod send it sounding down the agon, to make glad the hearts of our children's children, ss they rise up, with rejoicing, to bless us for onr wi.-dom?and ah! methinks the very atais themselves will take up the swell* ing notes of our refrain and boar them still onward and upward, to the spirits of our heroes in the only b.ighter land. A Quod Sl>KLLKft.?A Michigan schoolmaster says, "I ail! spoil eny man, wonmn or child in the hull Stare for a dickshuoury, or kash pries of one hundred dollars aside, the money to be awarded by a kommitto of clergymen or skool directors. There has hoeu a dam* ed sight btowu about my spelliu; bow I waut them to put me up or to she! up. I wont be put down by a pa*ecl of ignv rammuse* beoauso I differ with no;.f W el stets style of spelling."