Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-23

home, it should be done at school. A
military education would promote habits
Of obedience and discipline But il
thought, continued the speaker. that mill
tary education made men more fond Of
| war, per Sc, that man does not live that
would oppose it more strsuuoUsly than I
to the exto-t VI me- capacity. Il l. an in
s,iUtIon Of horror, violence, blood AID
| death. All lis features are violent. ard
| there IS nothing civilized about it. We
may use the term in COutraGIs-
unctlon to that sort Of human butchery
which recognizes none of the
principles of humanity whatever; but
strictly speaking, there is nothing humane
or civilized about it, and it is an eupherl-
ism to call it barbarOUs. It is .. disgrace
to humanity, and IL only warranted IL the
necessity Of a Just defense. Under that
condition IT IS to be aceepted-fOr that
cannot be avOided-and if it does come,
the professional soldier viii do most 10
mitigate its horrors and preventits wrongs.
For these, and the reasons before men
tloued, every man, IN my Judgment, ought
to have a military education.
The General closed his address as fol
lows;
In concluding these remarSs, which
have been chiefly upon intellectual culture
and intellectual advancement, l have a sad
reflection to make. Il is that the moral
ma. ure of mankind has not kept pace with
his intellectual. And / need not 90 far
back for evidence to establish this prOpO-
si.iOn-only a few years. There perhaps
was never q crime that so disgracei hu-
manity, or darksned the annals Of our
race thai wGs nCt reproduced on this con
tiuent during the late war-not per-
l.ps II the same form, but eSstn-
TALLY and substantially the same And
# .Mose7, the chef law-gver Of the
| world, or Isaiah, the prince Of prophets,
! OF st. Paul, the grandest human character
| Of all time and Of all history, should awake
today from their mystic shades, they
would be lost In admiration at the thousand
tr.umphs of civilization and the thousand
achisvemeLts Of hum9n genius, at a hun
bred seas smoking with myriads Of steam
ers and peOpled with navles whose thund-
ers startled the deep-at the thousand rail
ways sweeping their millions across Eae
earth. and at the two continents brought
fsce to face by en- agency beating time
itself At all these achievements Of toe
human intellect since they were here, they
would swell with pride and exUitatOn. But
they would sigh and weep to think
hat the human heart was right where they
left it. That mysterious. Iudefuable, in
comprebensible and fearful thing called
public sentiment, may, and doubtless has,
improved, but the individual heart re-
mains the same. There Is nothing more
fearful to contemplate than the human
viii, unrestrained by any power before Is,
and sustained by @ power behind it. IL
ny apprehension, then, there are as many
TerOs and CsligUlas to day on the Ameri-
can continent, SIS ever darkeHed the his
o.. ~ Of IL Eternal City, ''the fallen queen
# thousand nations Il only needs he
anne surroundings, if such could be con
asivsd, 90 develop tho same abnormities.
I say this. less III bitterness and CeusUrc,
rhal in sadness and Ia pity; bat sucn
seem the facts as presented to the world.
During the delivery Of Gen Gordon
-dirgss he was frequently hgH0,ed with
hearty applause, AID his remarks we're re-
ceIved with great attention and respect
Gen. E Kirby smith. Chancellor Of Inc
University, then gave an invitation to all
.-asent 20 attend the commencement ex-
-ra.sg- tonight q the Masonic Han, and
-La evenings entertainments vas closed
.,iek the heued,c..on by DR.. Baird