Show PEACE I Nothing nince the war was over has so I emphasized the fact that the country is at peace and that the issues of that dread struggle ue being forgotten as living issues I is-sues and only remembered as things of I the past as the death of General Grant Throughout the land his loss is mourned j and among his pallbearers are those who fought against him in battle Gen Grant was the first to cry Let us have peace and now that cry has been answered And why should it not be so The men who fought for the ideas of the South were vanquished but they were brave i I and noble men and were as devoted to their cause as those who paved the Union Today they are beginning to recognize that had things remained as they would have wished perhaps they would have been much worse than they were and I are The old issues are forever of the past and in the South now that the question ques-tion that once was paramount to all is removed re-moved from the realms of political life the people are beginning to divide upon other issues What could have been more unexpected a few years since than that a son of Governor Wipe of John Brown fame would run on a Republican Repub-lican ticket for the Governorship of Virginia against a son of Robert E Lee as the Democratic candidate candi-date for the same office With two such men ii i the field for the same office and on different platforms it is not possible to raise the bloody shirt Issue which did duty for so many long years When new issues are born old issues perish and the past is forgotten in the present And 80 it should be for to be forever for-ever dwelling upon the past is to retrograde and lose sight of the progress of the present It is a pleasant thought to know that while the Nation mourns the death of General Grant all voices of harsh discord are hushed and that among the pallbearers will be Sherman and Sheridan Buckner and FitzHugh Lee Let nome in the future ever reproach a Northern or a Southern man with the issues of the war and thereby seek to stir up sectional strife but as the hero of the war is buried so let the war and its wails be buried |