The North and the South

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Excerpt from The North and the South: An Address by L. U. Reavis, at the Texas State Fair, Held at Austin, October 29th, 1878We stand at a pivot point in our national history. A century has rolled away into the past since our fathers proclaimed the Declara tion of American Independence. We have learned the lessons taught by the old century, both of folly and wisdom, and have profited thereby. A new century now confronts us, a century pregnant with untried and unsolved problems of civilization and government. We enter upon the new century with more experience' than did our fathers when they founded the American nation, and we have been carrying out their purpose of continental empire. The work they inaugurated is not yet complete, but the end is sure.Lamartine said: the revolutions of the human mind are slow like the eras in the life of nations. This may be essentially true in respect to European and Asiatic nations, and their civilizations, but less applicable to our people - the American people.In this land of ours, the rapidity with which the transition, from feebly connected colonial federal associations, to an independent nation has taken place, almost makes the span of life, assigned by the psalmist, a link between the political and social condition of two ages. The stories of childhood days are the recollections of frontier life. Yesterday this continent was a wilderness without people and without law, to-day it is over-arched by a Constitution created and maintained by federated nations, and teeming with a population of more than forty millions. So great has been the change from the social life on the frontier, and the rude forms of mechanical contrivances that the boy born in the wilderness and schooled in adversity is now an active worker in the midst of a ripe civilization. Skilled artizans with improved implements have changed the Wigwam to a palace, and erected cities of civilization on the smoke-clad ruins of the aborigines, and now we know the generation with which we have touched hands to be quite different in practical life and social senti ment from that generation with which we are cotemporary. The_7.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.