The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-20
THE DIN OF BATTLE.
ARsbsl General ON a High Horse.

General Cullen A. Battle, of the late Confede
rate army, was introduced TO the late Seymour
and BLAIR meeting in Mobile, by the Hon. John
Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, who commended
him rs iollows:-
"General c. A. Battle nobly did his part in the
fields of the south, when holy libation OF
blood and valor was poured out to the common
renOwn. AT Seven Pines, at ChancellorsvIlle,
Winchester, Gettysburg, Fishers HILL, and on
scores of fields, he led his brave Alabamlans
where gloIy was to be won, and his gray coat
and flashing sword were ever found nearest the
flashing OF the guns. Our worthy President,
Colonel HeIndon himself bearing the scars of
the mighty conflict, will Introduce to you one OF
the heroes of this gigantic war"
In the course OF his speech, General Battle ad-
dressed his fellow soldiers OF the late g. S. A. as
tolloWs:-
'Comrades! Brothersl year after year you
bore the Confederate flag through fire and tenn
pest, aud upon more than two bundred battle
fields covered it with victory. <our lmperlsh
able glories are intTenched in the impreguable
fortress OF the past and no power can dim their
effugence. Hate, maiignlty, and tyranny are
impOtent to transform patriots into traitors and
heroes into slaves. YOU my conraaes, ana you you
alone, can obliterete the glorious record. VIII
you do it, or shall 1t remain perpetual heritage
to your children? What though your flag went
down bathed in woman's consecrating tears aud
baptized in the best blood OF the nauon. Thls
is still YOUR native land. You all did love her
once, not without cause. Her mountains are as
grand, her valleys are as ie1tlle as ever; her
oaughttrs are as lar ner 20 aIr2ns 1au baoo1a are
y
she has opened her maternal bosom and re-
ceiyed 10 her embrace the nOblest aud brayest
of htr sons? Is she the less your mother
because she has been insulted and WrongCd
Oh she Is dearer-a thousand times dearer-
than she was IN her strength and her glory.
Her forttude IN the midst OF her desoatiOn has
attracted the admiration of the world; and no "
the great Democratic party of the Union thro VS.
over her banner inscrl bed with the principles
of constitutional liberty for which she fought,
and am here to-pigh to ask you to come up
to her altar, and let us again pledge to her our
lives, our fortunes, aud our sacred honor. The
Democratic party oilers the most honorable
teIms. 1t endorses principles Tor which you
battled-not because it was the principles upon
which the Con'ederacy was founded-but the
Confederacy adopted them because they were
promulgated by the fathers OF American
independence and we've Vindicated by the war
of the Re Volution, Under them, the American
colonies advarce TO "A mighty empire, and in
their Observance is the last hope for American
constitutional liberty. Not only does 1t declare
in favor OF the Constitution, so dear to you, but
il most solemnly declares that all those acts of
reconstruction so totally destructive of your
rights, and so repugnant 10 every honorable
feeling, are unconstitutional, null, and void.
The honorable gentleman who Will follow me
tonight may, perhaps, tell you something of
tbe circumstances that attended the adoption of
that platform. He may tell you how conflicting
sentments were reconcilet and harmony Sc
cured. How every heart bounded with manly