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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
the necessity of resistance, a poem "The Southland fears no Foe,"a declamation on the glories of the Union, and two comic dialogues admirably rendered. There may have been other performances by the boys, but they are not now called to mind; but it may be truthfully said that all the youngsters acquitted themselves most handsomely, and reflected very great credit upon themselves and upon their instructors. At the conclusion of the exercises, the President introduced to the audience Thomas J. Evans, Esq., who delivered an address to the school. The theme of the discourse was "Obedience," and the basis idea this pregnant sentence. "No man is fit to govern who has not learned to obey." The value of obedience, in the family, in the school-room, and in society, was ably enforced, and much of the disorder, anarchy and confusion of the times in this country was traced to the failure to inculcate the virtue of obedience among those charged with the training of the young Obedience to law