Show THE IMPULSIVE RON two great occasions animated the action and cheered the heart of th the yesterday the laying of the corner stone of the monument ent to general robert E lse lee at richmond and the triumphal reception to ex president jefferson davis at macon georgia it is a well known characteristic te of the natives of that part oi of the country south of mason and dixons line that they are as communities more like families than any ether other class of people to have been born and reared on southern soil is virtually to be related io to everybody else of the same color the degree of relationship corresponding with the nearness or remoteness of the event itself clannishness or division di by any other lines than color have not as a rule been encouraged and consequently have not a strong footing there 1 this state of homogeneity accounts for the impulsive manner in which the southerners do things with almost no assis from north undertook to teach the british a severe lesson for attempting a forced landi landing fig on their sho shores resin in 1812 and they did it thoroughly and effectually when the first gun was fired at sumter the echo reverberated throughout every nook and corner of the south like an alarum bell calling all to arms and instantaneously what had been the shadowy line dividing whigs and democrats dissolved entirely and the two parties became one under the name of confederate in all the histories of the worlds great battles battlos no more forcible example of united action and steady purpose is written thin than that of the re against tile the union standing so sti to shoulder and enduring without complaint the hunger privations exposures sickness aud and death of that long ahi and dreary four years struggle which culminated in ia their overthrow by the force ot of numerical Su ancial and ana geographical superiority and doubtless divine providence was against their cause they forgot that the indissolubility of the union was essential to the national ional life but that strife so far from disrupting the fraternity of the 1 ers erd evidently made it more ineradicable tue the graves which covered the landscape far and each contained a brother of lne aae living every monument that is erected to one ot 01 the fallen being a contribution from all who remain to memory oi all the dead this is why the laying of a corne oriex ornex r of a monument to general genera 11 lee is so great an event and alid draws such vast crowds to the capital of the southern coffed confederacy racy this is why jefferson davis I 1 is honored wherever he be may go within the domain over which lie he once presided the southerners do not cherish presentments resentments resent ments harba animosities nor tan fan the embers of a decaying strife the dead past is gone and they doubtless would not chanse change the present aspect of affairs if it were in m their kneir power todo to do so they are not however politic enough to say or try to make believe that affectionate regard tor for their old comrades in arms in the time of adversity before and after hav waned or ever will while memory remains the warder of the brain or love the ruling passion of th the heart eheart Nora nor are rethe the conce concessions to the present state of things because of weakness or faltering but because they are willing to d depart 2 art from their errors and live in t the e light of the present rather than the darkness ot the past |