Author: J. B. Wardlaw

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Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781330481516

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Excerpt from Southern Literature Its Status and Outlook: An Address Delivered Before the Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery County, Virginia, at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, July 10, 1880 When the invitation to address you on this occasion reached me, there were good reasons why, without any unwillingness to serve you, I might have declined. But when I remembered the cause in the interest of which the service was asked, I felt that it was one of which, as a southern man, I could not lightly disobey the summons. For I am one of those who believe that the South of the present owes a binding debt to the South of the past - a debt that can never be ignored as long as courage, love of country and sacrifice of self to duty may be reckoned among a peoples virtues. Belonging with all my heart to the new South, and holding by the doctrine that, so far as relates to the conduct of public affairs, our duty is one of forgetting the things that are behind and pressing forward over dead issues to new purposes of national life, yet I do not find it in my duty as an American citizen, still less in my grateful obligations as a southern man, to fail to bear my part in any just tribute to the memory and the motives of them that fell willing and illustrious martyrs on the altar of a cause which, right or wrong in the eyes of others, was to them the cause of country and of civil liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Download or read book Southern Literature Its Status and Outlook written by J. B. Wardlaw and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southern Literature Its Status and Outlook: An Address Delivered Before the Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery County, Virginia, at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, July 10, 1880 When the invitation to address you on this occasion reached me, there were good reasons why, without any unwillingness to serve you, I might have declined. But when I remembered the cause in the interest of which the service was asked, I felt that it was one of which, as a southern man, I could not lightly disobey the summons. For I am one of those who believe that the South of the present owes a binding debt to the South of the past - a debt that can never be ignored as long as courage, love of country and sacrifice of self to duty may be reckoned among a peoples virtues. Belonging with all my heart to the new South, and holding by the doctrine that, so far as relates to the conduct of public affairs, our duty is one of forgetting the things that are behind and pressing forward over dead issues to new purposes of national life, yet I do not find it in my duty as an American citizen, still less in my grateful obligations as a southern man, to fail to bear my part in any just tribute to the memory and the motives of them that fell willing and illustrious martyrs on the altar of a cause which, right or wrong in the eyes of others, was to them the cause of country and of civil liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.