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long thoughts of the simplicity, the 

 cultured ease, the wide hospitality, of 

 days before the devastation, and 

 many fail to see in the future any re- 

 development of that old life, and 

 mourn, not only for the man gone, 

 but for the days gone also. There 

 are others, children of the General 

 and his day, inheriting the tempera- 

 ment and principles and native grain, 

 who look more hopefully into the 

 future, and are striving to make it 

 like the best of the past. The chiv- 

 alry of its men, the gentle pride of 

 its women, will be again the features 

 of a life built on the old foundations 

 out of the ruins and remnants which 

 have survived. Herein lieth hope and 

 jy not that there be no South and 

 no North, but that there be both South 



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