Show RECONCILIATION At Jackson Miss the Fourth of July was celebrated and the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence was read for the i first time since I860 Reconciliation was a long time coming Let us all hope that It is complete now The formation for-mation of the country makes clear that only one nation can occupy the Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley The waters all converge con-verge there the way out to tho sea centers in thegreat river There might a nation grow up on the Atlantic slope a Pacific republic might bQ < possible but the great valley the shining seat of an empire to be and which will bo more majestic than the world has ever seen must belong to one people always al-ways Nature has centered there all the clemnts of empire there the temperate tem-perate and semitropic zones unite all parts need the productions of every other part and the millions that are to people that region in the coining century tury will realize better than do the present generation how wicked It would have been to have planted two nations there And the men of Mississippi who were perhaps tho bitterest of all the Confederate Confed-erate States over the wars results ought by this time tobe able to see that the war had to be that the setting set-ting of the stage had been going on for years and that it was Fate itself that called the tremendous acts and that the mighty tragedy had to be played to the bitter end North and South men should realize that fact and it should put the whole Nation on guard against anything like a sectional strife in future We have reached the point when we can look upon difficulties with fordgn powers without serious con cernment but anything calculated to break down the faith of the people of any section in the integrity and Justice of our whole country Is n serious matter mat-ter for the worlds hope is in our country coun-try now nnd more and moro docs the world outside lean upon us every year Europes poor throng this way the men of tho Orient look upon us as their only friends all the world Is i depending de-pending more and more upon us for food and textiles and for that moral support which is a check perpetually on the avarice and tyranny of monarchies mon-archies for the more the light of the great Republic expands Ihc more courage cour-age have men all the world over to demand their fair proportion of the Inherent rights of man |