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Preached in the Church of the Holy Innocents, Henderson, . Sunday Night, November 18th, 1900-A Just and Discriminating Estimate of the Life and Character of This "(irand Old Man" Who Enriched the World by His Living in it. I -ft u now praise famous men. ami ' our fathers tlint bejut us. ' There lie of them, that have left a name ! hehiml them, that their prairn- milit he I reporieil. 'I heir hoilii'H ju-e hurieil in jieaee; hut their name liveth for evermore. Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Siraeh, or Keelesiastieus. Chapter XLIV. 1. S. 1 t. I. Keveieriee and love fur the de parted are natural to every jrenerous heart. Honor th v father" and th v mother, is a commandment so closely reiated to thr lirst tahle that its sane tions eem not liniiled hv the term of this natural life, but reach backward into that past bv which we are liuked with the purpose of (lod. They surely only increase in honor when tliev have been taken to the higher life". 1. This honor we pay to them as, iimter fioil, the authors of our present life. What a wonder, what a nivs terv, what an amaziiii' rift is life! How does not our heart s.vell ith thankfulness for this wonderful ex istence, with all its powers and op portunities. And how do affection and love and the mutual interchange of domestic ami social ollices inulli pl v the occasions and experiences of joy and happiness. ... In spite of all dismal contention-, of pes-i in ism and through all its experiences of strujr Ies and ain. and disappointment, life is a fieal treasure, a ore.-'t hap piness, a threat opportunity. And the jift of life itself, and the experi ences of its reitle.st happiness, come to us from our parents, as (jod's chan nels of life and inlhience; and they are associated in our minds with find's jniod purposes, and with His paternal iovernment. We rightly adorn their memories, and deepen our feelings of veneration and love for them, when they have departed out of this life, by setting forth their praises and remembering their jood deeds. They are heroes and saints to us. Sad is his lot who cannot honor and love and trlorv in the memorv of father and mother! 'J. Hut not only have our natural parents thus yiveii us life with all its blessings, thev, as representing the generation preceding us, have been the channel through which have come to ii.i all the achievements of human ity during its lon course and struj; gle through failure to triumph. How do we come to be the possessors of all the treasures of knowledge, of art, of science, of civilization? They have come to us from our fathers. A few eminent names hen; and there along the darkening backward vista stand out associated with some special triumph of man in knowledge or in practical achievement, but consider all that has been done to raise man from his natural condition of ignor ance, helplessness and destitution, and think how little we are able to know how it all has been done. And in truth no one can claim the credit. It has been the common suffering, the common struggle, the common toil and patience and self-sacrilice of all the millions gone before, which have conipiered the world of nature, and in the working out of (lod's prov idence made the world of civil and social and domestic institutions for us. In this great work all true and honest lives have borne their part, ami it is because of this vast heritage borne down to us that we honor and praise the dead which are dead, more than the living. We may trust to carry on their work, and to deserve our praise of those who come after us, but in the mean time, the dead represent the heroes, the benefactors, the makers of our world, and we cherish their memories for all the rood things we have received of them. .". And besid'-s natural life, and the blessings and riches and accumu lated treasures of the ages, we owe to them our spiritual life and knowledge. Much as we may value what (Jod does for us individually, and sweet as may be the communings of the soul with Cod, and invaluable as may be the lessons learned and the strength acquired in our own spiritual exper ience, yet the great things of tiod come down to us through the life and experience of the past. "We have heard with our ears. () (iud. and our fathers declared unto us the noble deeds Thou didst in their days, and in the old times before them." (a) . As a matter of fact we learned the first truths and the tirst duties of Christianity from our progenitors, and holding by our father's hand we took our first steps in the Heavenly wav, and at our mother's knee we lirst learned to say. "Our Father which art in Heaven." (b) . The very Word of God comes down to us from the past. Those who have gone before have preserved it. and delivered it to us. (Jod hath ordained it so. (c) . The intluenee of the past upon our spiritual life and development is vastlv greater and more important than we commonlv realize, it IS probable that the general atmosphere, spiritual and intellectual, in which we live, has in the end more to do in the outcome of our life than even the in tluenee of the best and most Godly parents. The truth is made known to man in personal experience and in the revealed Word. That truth has relation to our intellectual view of things and to our duties in the man ifold relationships and activities of life. And'that it mav not be absorbed into life and these dissipated, men are organized for spiritual purpose into the church, which preserves the Truth, that we may see that, though it is i' the world, it is not of the world. And through all the ages of the past the Truth of God has been truggling and striving to bring human life into conformity with God's will. Christianity is now what it and its present faith, worship and intluenee are such as thev ate, by- virtue of the struggles and trials and failures and triumphs of the past. We speak of the earlier and purer ages; doubtless they were purer, in the sense that the" few persecuted Christians were closer to their Mas ter. Hut the world which He came to save was infinitely further from Him. The Martyrs did not die in vain: the Apostles did not preach to no effect: the Church has not existed during all the centuries in order that the gates of hell might prevail against it. The great, the good, the noble lives of the past have gone to their reward. They are in peace, where no evil can touch them. Hut the power and inlhience of their godly lives still pervade the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere in which we dwell. The light of their example, like the light of the sun, diffused and reflected in a thousand unnoticed vvavs, tills our lives with a warmer glow: their coun sels of wisdom, their words of warn ing and hope, still come to us in the memories and traditions of a past out of which springs all that is best of the present. i. t or an inni s human lamilv are one. We are not merely individual and independent personalities. So man can point to any one quality or achievement of his life and say that is his and he owes it to no man. We arc bound together in a wonderful whole, and lise and fall, triumph and suffer, rejoice and weep, in the ex periences of the one great family. At this moment the people of this country, while pouring out tears and treasures for the awful calamity of our brethren at Galveston, are strug gling with tin; dark problems of our duty to our fellow men in the East. And 110 man in this Christian land dares to stand up and say that we may deal with them merely for our own advantage. We feel and admit his claim to our justice and our be nevolence. And the love which stretches across seas and continents goes back into the past also. We love and honor all those who are gone before. We give God humble thanks for the good examples of all those who having departed this life in faith and in love do now rest from their labors. II. At this time we give most high praise to Almighty God for the life and for the death of His faithful ser vant, William Shepard I'ettigrew, for thirty years Hector of this Parish. He was born in Tvrrell county, North Carolina, Oct. :5rd, 1S18; was ordained Deacon by Hishop Atkinson in St. James' Church, Wilmington, Jan. 81st, 1S(59, and was ordained Hriest in the same place, by the same noble prelate. Trinity Sunday, June 12th, 1S70. For one year after his ordina tion to the Deaeonate he ministered at St. David's Church, Scuppernong, and the surrounding country. In January, lsjo, he became Hector of the Church of the Holy Innocents, Henderson, and in February began holding monthly services in St. John's Church, Williamsboro becoming Hector very shortly thereafter. March :51st, 1S7-S, he became Hector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Kidge vvay, and in the following October he resigned charge of the Church in Hen derson and lixed his residence at Hidgeway. In 1882 he began to hold Sunday afternoon services at Middle burg, and in ISSlj the Chapel at that place was built. The rest of his life was given to the service of these three congregations. St. John's Church, Williamsboro, he took in February, 1870, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Hidgeway, in 1878, and the Church of the Heavenly Hest, Middleburg we may say in 1882. He yrent to his linal rest from the Hectory in Hidgeway, July, rth, l'Jtio. Mr. Pettigrew was not a self-made man, God made him. And God made him through generations of vvorthy and honored ancestors preceding him. His name indicates a French extrac tion, and his family is said to have come from that country, by way of Scotland and Ireland, to America, where they settled lirst in Pennsyl vania. They were French Protes tants, or llugueonots. and, as yvas usually the case, had conformed to the Church upon coming into Great Britain. James Pettigrew, however, the Emigrant, had become a Presby terian, about the time of his settle ment in America and brought his family up most strictly in the rigid discipline of the old Calvinists. While residing at Chambersburg, Pa., in 17-13 his son Charles yvas born. In 17o5 the family removed to Lunen-! burg county, Virginia. In 1700 they j removed to Granville county. North j Carolina, on Grassy Creek, and James ; Pettigrew is said to have given the land on which Grassy Creek Presby terian Church yvas built, and to have been one of the elders of that emigre-: gation. In 17tis the family removed to South Carolina, where it has been represented ever since in each gene ration bv distinguished and brilliant descendants, though I believe the name is no longer extant in that State. When the family removed from Gran ville Charles Pettigrew, a young man of twent v-tive, remained. He had been educated under tyvo distinguished teachers of this section. James Wad dell. Wirt's famous Blind Preacher." j ill Virginia, and Henry I'aftnio, in North Carolina. He became a teacher himself, lirst in Granville and Bute counties, and then in 177: as master of the old Edenton Academy. Either before removing to Edenton or very shortlv thereafter. Charles Pettigrew returned to the Communion of the ! Church which his father had left, and shortly before the Hevolution he yvas ordained in England Deacon and Priest bv the Bishop of London, and th Bishop of Hochester. and licensed by the Bishop of London for the Province of North Carolina. He was for nianv years Hector of St. Paul's. Edenton", and in 1791, at a convention held in Tarboro, he yvas elected Bishop of North Carolina. His increasing years and delicate health, the ditli j culty of obtaining consecration yvhich j could only be accomplished during I the sessions of the General Conven- tion and perhaps other things cou jcurred in hindering him, and he died j in 1 7, u neonsecrated, but having a stainless reputation as a citizen, a Christian, and a faithful Minister of Christ. The Hev. Charles I'ettigrew married Mary Hlount, daughter of Col. John Hiotint, of Mulberry Hill. Chowan county. Oct. 2'J, 177, by whom he lefl one surviving son. the late Kbenezer I'ettigrew, a distin guished member of Congress from this State. Kbenezer l'ettigrww mar ried Miss Anne Hlount Shepard, of New Hern, a cousin of his own upon his mother s side. He left three sons, Charles, William .Shepard and James Johnston, and two daughters. Charles I'ettigrew married, and his two sons are the only male represen- taues 01 me 1 eiiigrew name 111 ur.s-i Carolina family. James .Johnston I'ettigrew was the distinguished scholar and soldier, remembered bv his military title as General I'etti grew, but perhaps almost as well re membered as tjlie most brilliant math ematician and scholar ever sent out from the University of North Caro lina. William Shepard I'ettigrew. the Clergyman, like his distinguished brother, remained unmarried. I have dwelt thus upon his family derivation and connection because that is the way in which God made him. lie made him as me of a family, coming before him, spreading out around him. following after him in the fami lies of brother and his kinsmen. His life, more than most lives, needs to be seen in its antecedents and in its relationship. It was, as we mav sav, the l-t.snUnnt of intellectual, moral and social inlltiences preceding and accompanying it, by wtiich il was moulded, and by which it must be in terpreted and understood. The world in which we live is vastly different from the world in which he grew up. We shall never again see just such a man as he was. because the condi tions of life have changed. He was the son of a wealthy planter whose prop erty consisted chiefly, if not wholly, of fertile swamp lauds, ami the fami lies of negro slaves by whom the lands were cultivated. I have often thought that this form of wealth was. of all forms, the least exposed to the ordinary temptations of wealth. Its very possession involved certain re sponsibilities and duties not to be avoided by an upright and conscien tious man, and obliged him to habits of industry and bodily activity and out of door exercise, calculated to counteract the opportunities wealth usually offered to the self-indulgent. Hence it was often seen that our wealthiest men were simple and unos tentatious in their habit, frugal and industrious, temperate, accustomed to endure fatigue and exposure, not dependent for comtort and content- j nient even upon the luxuries with J which they were familiar. j In another important respect yve observe a peculiar quality in the best type of the old planter. His wealth had come to him by inheritance or by a gradual and almost imperceptible increase and appreciation of values. Ordinarily he had not acquired it by special exertion, and he could not very greatly increase it by conscious effort. It yvas therefore possessed with quietness and placidity of spirit, and did not seem to arouse that eager ness, that appetite for acquisition, that unconscious thirst for more, that turi sacra fames, which so often ac companies success in business and the accumulation of wealth. Furthermore whatever may have been the disadvantages of slavery, it certainly produced in masters of the highest type a development of manly character, quiet, dignified, considerate cf others, gentle and courteous to wards ail, yet strong, self-reliant, brave, and in the best sense madtrful, which can hardly be matched. Such a man, with those; qualities which I have tried to indicate, yvas our departed brother. He inherited from his father and his grandfather, not to speak of other worthy ances tors, a high type of manly character and intelligence. He yvas bred up in an atmosphere of social and intel lectual refinement. lie yvas educated at our State University wit h the first j men of the State, and of the country, j as his familiar associates. He came j at one, by the liberality of his father, j into the possession of ample means. ! and of a slave property, demanding : the care and attention calculated to j develop his oyvu best qualities. Family j papers, which it has been my privi- ! lege to sec, and the common report of 1 j the country, which I am old enough , to have some memory of. concur in their testimony that the Pettigrew family represent the highest type of the Christian slave owner. My first recollection of our dear brother is connected with his re-idence in Edge combe county during the war, where. except when called out for service, his whole time and care was given to the welfare of his slaves. During the whole of his life he felt a deep interest in public affairs and in the welfare of his country and his people. He had a yvide and familiar acquaintance yvith our history, and with the characters and careers of our public men. He was a singularly read aud favorable extemporaneous speaker, and seemed in nianv wuYs peculiarly titted for public life. But his high spirit, and relined. sensitive temperament, disqualified him for the petty rivalries and contentious hardly to be avoided in political life. He yvas highly valued by the best people of !iis section, but, I believe, never consented to sock any public position, save as the representative of Lis County of Washington in the State convention of 101 yvhieh passed the Ordinance of Secession in yvhieh he was a useful member, au 1 was Chair- House Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST. 1 iU 1. 1t man of the Committee on the nights . suspect that any evil thought or of Foreigners, and of the Committee imagination ever emanated from him on Schools, ilce. He had been like his to touch their lives? Do not many of father, a Whig in politics, but after ! us feel that he is still a power for Lincoln's Proclamation in the spring ! good among us? of 1 (, he supported the policy of 1 Another thing may be said of him. secession. To the end of his life, I i He had the blessed experience of find believe, he never changed his comic- 1 ing' in his own case the falsehood of tion as to the necessity aud justice of ; the old sayings which represent friend that measure under the circum- ! ship as yvaiting on prosperity. Among stances, and in that crisis of our State : the most distinguished of the land he history. Though beyond the age for j had his familiars, aud all men honored active service, he bore arms (luring him. Hut I undertake to say that he the yar between the States, in the or- j had twice as many true, earnest, lov ganization known as the "Scnoir ! ing friends during the years of his Reserves," organized for home de fense. The issue of that struggle was to hint, us to many others, an experience of deep and bitter disappointment. II never completely adjustwd him self to the political results of the war. He was too far advanced in the ; development 01 111s character am! con j vidions to adapt himself to the new i world. He remained as lomr as he lived a noble and interesting speci men of a former order of things. His virtues were to us younger men the virtues of a former age. He was in character, in manners, in feeling, as truly antique as if he had come down to us from the Hevolution of 177d. Tho war put an end to the world to which in: belonged. And now, strange to sav neyy world so different from world, and to vvhieh he w: truly reconcile;! in this wor out any essential change in he begins a new life. I'nde --in this the old s never d, with himself, the in- Iluenee and advice af Bishop Atkinson he took Holy Orders. I think this did not imply any very great or special change in himself. He had always been u man of deep piety and unaf fected devotion. He continued such all his life. Hut he never became in the least degree an Krchsiaslir. He yvas ordained, but I think he never looked upon himself as belonging specially to an Order. His concep tion of the Ministry yvas different. He had a most zealous attachment to the. Church of his fathers: he yvas i conscientious in his study of Holy ' Scripture: in preparing for Ordina tion he read a great many religious I and theological books: he continued , to buy and study religious books to a ; degree that few of his brethren sus pected. He left a theological and re ; ligious library superior to most of , those found in this Diocese. Hut to the end of his days he seemed to me ; to be the same that 1 lirst remeniber ! rd him. when he was a lavman resid- ing in Edgecombe county in 18i;;. He seldom attended the Conventions, ! Convocation or other meetings of the ! Clergy. He was the same high j minded, pure, godly, devout, benevo ; lent, unselfish Christian that he had j always been, and also the same iude j pendent gentleman, not bound bvanv I fear of singularity to other men's ways or opinions, but following bravely, and perhaps a little defiantly, at times, his own path. This seems to me to explain a good many of the acti and ways of our dear brother. And certainly nothing could be more beautiful and affecting than the last thirty years of that godlv life. He chose to minister to those weak and scattered country congregations, who were unable to give him more than a very modest support, and he was very careless about exacting what they could give. He had had wealth, and he had not felt that yvealth made him any better than others. He now knew what it yvas to be poor, and it never occurred to him that there yvas any degradation in poverty. He had a soul far above any such considera tions. He yvas an Aristocrat in the best sense of the word. He though't that the best men in the community should rule but he never measured merit by money. He yvas as respect ful, as deferential in maimer, to the poorest man. in whom he recognized the virtues of manhood, as he was to the greatest and richest. I suppose we may say, in a high and Christian sense of the word, that Ik; was a proud man if there is such a thing proper to the Christian as pride but no man was ever freer from the low, base quality that usually bears thst name. Of his service rendered a a pa"tor and preacher during the thirtv-one and a half years of his ministry. 1 need not speak in this place. You all know better than I do how faithfully, how lovin"lv, how unsellishlv. how tin re mittinglv. he gave himself up to his great work of preaching the Gospel of the Grace of God. and how zealously he reproved, rebuked, and exhorted, yvith all long suffering and doctrine. There seemed to be no limit to his zeal in doing his work. Not only hi three churches were served regularly as long as his strength lasted, but how nianv other assemblies, public and private, heard the sound of his earnest and eloquent voice! The seed he sowed was the Word of God. and his field yvas the world. The value of such a life so Spent, in the drama- who can estimate writings of the ? We great e read t of tists: "The evil that men do lives after them : The good is oft intened with their bones." Hut Shakespeare dots not say this. He puts that falsehood into the mouth of a base and selfish politician, who judged men by the low standard of his own character. Much more true it is to reverse the saying, and to maintain the survival of the good. The world is bt tier, we are better to day, for the goodness of him whom we commemorate. I say with sincer ity that I can remember nothing of tuv own knowledge, or bv the report of others, in the life of our dear brother, which I should feel justified in calling evil. Hut supposing that we could fnJ here and th and, blemishes and sins . re faults o we n d feel and know thai the real, abiding, controlling in!hu-nce and results of sirch a life are for the purifying and upbuilding of humanity? Are there 1 any of the hundreds who came more or less under his influence who ever comparative poverty as he ever had during his days of affluence. There j is such a thing as a "fair-weather' friend." And the fair-weather friend mav often crowd out the true friend. 1 But the man truly worthy of friend ship finds in adversity a true quality of love and friendship. And as our dear brother yvas full of love and generosity himself he found his world full of those likeminded with him, and counted all who knew him as his friends. But why do I continue these re flections? The time would fail to enumerate the pleasing and gratifying incidents of his faithful and blameless life. Doubtless he had imperfections and faults. What Ic-st man has not? Hut we feel sure, as yve contemplate this life, and recall his chsracter. yve feel sure that such things were the incidents--1 he accidents, yve might xv of this earthly existence, aud the real man was that principle of truth, of sincerity, of honesty, of benevolence, of generosity, of love which dominated his life, and which directed its essential issues. The good and noble was the true man that remains and lives forever. With the flesh he hath put off its weak nesses and imperfections, and lives forever in the redeemed and renewed nature of the Son of God. who loved him, and whom he loved and served. His gracious presence is seen no more among us; his eloquent voice speaks no mre from this pulpit; his venerable head bows no more in de vout supplication for his people, as he leads the prayers of the congrega tion. He has gone before, along that path to yvhieh lie so faithfully pointed us. He knew the yvay. He had learn ed it from Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He had comfort ed and encouraged many in that way, and he was himself sustained and lightened by the Divine presence and blessing. .May (Jod help us who re main to be followers of him, as ho was of the Lord Jesus, and mav ye find at last his peaceful and happy end. TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT DAVIS. (Of the count less 1 1 ibistcs paid to flip late President Davis, the following, as it sc. 'ins to us, is one of the best and bright est. It yvas wiittea by a sixteen year old KiiT of our county, hut her modesty being as ijirat as her merit and beauty, it yvas only throuch fhe connivance of her father we iirocured it for publication, and only then on the express condition that we would not mention the author's name. But here is the little gem.) Our hero sleep-, The Sou 'bland weep-. And by his bier hei v'u;il keeps; Each Simthei 11 home So fil led with u loom. And skies onc; blight, with giy clouds loom chieftain brave! We do net Ci ave One "alien'' tear upon thy hhiyc; Thou art oar own, Our ri iet alone Can souu'l thy refiuiem's mighty ton. Thy death bell tolls In S.mthei n soul. Thy country sits in sable fol 1-, lief flam of stars. And gleaming bars. Waves low to kiss thy 11 ihie csi No N01 thei II heal t. With poisoned dai t, (Jan to thy life one stain imp 11 1 ; Tho' malice vile Would fain tlelile, 'Tis hfil'l when there is n. Kitil". Thv honored name. Will ever claim, Pi mid Dixie's laurel '.vieath of fame; n memory's shrine 'Twill evei shine And Hubert Lee is next to thine. Jeff Dav s sleeps! A nation weeps. And by his bier her vigil keep-.; Fair flowers bloom Around his tomb, While angel- watt his white soul hoaie. Wheat in North Carolina. ( Noi ill aiolina Baptist ) The average in wheat in thi is increasing from year to year State Tnis is more marked in the country be tween the piedmont and tidewater than anywhere else. Many farmers are raising enough wheat for con sumption on their farms and wheat mills arc being put up in many sec tions. In 1'.'. North Carolim had o'l .000 acres in wheat and produced , three and a half million bushels. This j wheat was consumed at home. Less than 1.0 M bushels of the whole; amount was shipped out of t he county in which it was grown. North Caro lina consumed -far more flour' than it rai.-e 1 inMhe state. We draw : on Tennessee. Minnesota, the Dakota raid other States for mo-t of our Hour. : This is a continual drain on our peo- ' pie. There is an average of five bushels used in this State by every man. woman and hild. N ith the crop of 'J'. as above stated that, would necessitate an import into the Mat'1 of four to live tnilii 01 bushels a year, which would mean as many dollars sent out for flour. North Carolina has soil well adapted to ! wheat growing as a profit. W e would urge upon the farmers, who can. to ! raise enough at least for home con sumption. Oar best advice J: Talk '. to vour neighbor rfho is growing ; wheat. North Carolina wooM lie much ; belter off if she did not have to im i port flour. ' We think Mr. Bryan one of the I foremost men of his time. With dif ! ferent environment, with iietter ad : vistrs. with I'--3 Populism and Popu j lists, wc- believe he would have been ! elected. We know that he is able j and honest. The fact is he scared 1 the Republicans nearly to death. Windsor l.n'r. THE AMERICAN NEGRO. A DISTINGUISHED NORTHERN TEACHER AND WRITER Discusses 4,The Future of the Ameri can Negro" in the Popular .Science Monthly in an Intelligent and Com prehensive Manner Does Not Be lieve in the Practicability of the Project of Helping Them With the Long Arm of the Federal Law. (Wilmington Messenger.) Prof. Shaler, of Harvard I'ni versity, Massachusettes, is a noted teacher and writer on ethnological and other questions. In I'ojntlar Science MonUtly for June last, he discusses The Future of the American Negro." We noted the article at the time and in tended to have referred to it coining from a Northern source. The Char lotte Prcfbthrian Sdindiird, of gdth. inst., has a paper upon it. The in teresting part of Prof. Slialcr's paper is that the settlement of the impor tant question must be left with the South. He savs: Experience has shown the im practicability of the project of help ing tin; negroes with the long arm of the Federal law. The only chance of lifting the black man to the full stature of the citizen, is by leaving his future essentially- in the hands of the masterful folk who alone can help him." It is gratifying to know that all Northern writers who touch this sub just are not fanatics and fools. Prof. Shaler and some others show that they have observed and studied the situation and the negro and have come to the conclusion that there is neither wisdom nor judgment in the North's essaying to (leal with the so lution of this pregnant and even fate ful question No other people but the whites of the South ever blessed and elevated the negroes. I'nder every other mas tership they have decayed and gone back into the very depths whence thev fame. Prof. Shaler thinks the "old motives"' of the "old slave holder" will "be continued in his de scendants at least for some genera tions." Very likely. The present generation is carrying out well the kindness and sympathy and help of their fathers. The South is expend ing money to educate the negroes with as much liberality as the veter ans of the war voted. Some $7o.00(, 00 1 in the Smith's white poverty have gone to educating the children of the very slaves wrenched from the whites by the ruthless, savage war. We agree with the following historic re sume from the Standard as both just and true: "The negro is not here in America by his own fault. He did not invade our soil and become the captive of our bow and spear. He was brought here against his will and with such horrors of massacre and cruel cap tivity as we qan read of today in the slave trade tat Arabs still carry on. "We know also that the South le sisted his coming at lirst, and then welcomed him under the beneficent care of the 'masterful folk,1 our fa thers, lie thrived and increased in numbers and grew by a degree of civilization such as a barbarous race had never attained in so short a time, and to a decent and often genuine ob servance of the precepts of the Chris tian religion. "Nor was he in the least responsi ble for the agitation that shook the nation and it was split in twain. Can we blame him if. when invading armies swept through the land like a Hood, his emotional nature was at last wrought upon and he followed th army? Can we blame him too severe ly that he turned for awhile to th flattering promises of his seducers, and gave himself into their hands? He was ignorant He knew no his tory and believed what was sold him. Sentimentalists fondled him, politi cians flattered him.'1 As the Mcsxm'jrr has some times shown the con tidenee, good feeling and forbearance of the whites have been greatly shaken with the pro gress of years. After so much school ing, so nianv acts of kindness ami friendship, after so much expenditure of money in education, building asy lums, churches, etc., and after thirty live years of experience, the negroes appear to learn nothing, still ch ri-h the old dislike of the white-, slill de light to vote agriust i hem. and to countervail their efforts in behalf of good and honest government . ;ind an as much wedded, Epliraim like. o their idols as ever thev wi re in the daik. devilish davs of cat pct-baggery . We ate altogether friendly In the negro, would help him on to bet ter living and higher moraU and more usefulness. We ngree with the able editor of t iiu Standard in this: Our father, s,,,rt,d the world what could be done with the t:eg:o under t he tutelage of s!;lt;iy. Ours muM be the greater ta-k to -how that he can be trained to obedience to law, to the virtues of decency and self-restraint and social purity, to the prac tice, rather than to the noisy profes sion, of true religion. Willi present tendencies there is too much warrant for the conclusion drawn that the race is dying out, a sacrifice to the miguided z.eal of the North and the unrestrained license of the latter days of freedom." Sir Nicholas Bacon's Ready Wit. It is related that Sir Nicholas Bacon was about to jrt judgment ujxn a man who had been guilty of robbery, at that time jojuishable by death, but the culprit pleaded -for mercy on the ground thai he ws related to the judjre. How is that?" he was akc-d. "My lord.."' wa the reply, "if your name is Hacon, mine is Hog. and hog and bacon have always been consider ed akin."' "That is true," answered Sir Nicho las "but as hog is not bacon until it has hung, until you are hanged you are no relation of mine." If a Woman wants to put out a fire she doesn't heap cn o.l and wood. She throws on water. know. ng that waterquenches f.re. When a woman wants to get we'd from A seas.es peculiar to her sex. she should not aid fuel to the fire alreaJ.-.burn'.ne her lde away. Shs should n-.it take worthless drugs and JJ pe er.; composed ot harmful narcot- j; :os and or;at;s. They do not check O ih; disease they do ret cure ;t they J' s.rr.ply add fuel to the f;re. J Vyrn.. Bradtield's Female ) f'vT?v-i$ Regulator should be $ C "s"iy taken ty every weman 4 t v . - -'' j sl.ehteit suspicion of an v "1 the ml nurds whuh af flict women. 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