The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-16


standing in this country. O!ifi we
had faith enough IN one another, il
there was faith in this country, in its
different sections, and among all its
people, the money would come forth
from the Golfers where it is now
boarded. the hard times wonld pass
away, and general prosperity would
return. The people who sent me
here, it is true, sent me to help
economic. but they sent me here
also, or else have misunderstood
them, to promote peace and help
bring about reconciliation and good
understanding. ~
vote for this bill also, Mr.. Chair
man., as a North Carolinian. North
Carolina. has a large interestin. those
glories which are to be celebrated.
on the 4th of July next. Let it not
be forgotten that she first spoke the
word Independence at Mecklen-
burgh. Let it not be forgotten that
she shed the first blood for liberty
at Alamance. Let it not be forgot
ten that her sons. the mountain men,
with the aid of q few gallant sons of
Virginia and South Carolina, turned
the tide of the Revolution toward
final victory at Kings Mountain.
And we are coming TO the Centen-
.nial, Mr.. Chairman, though we are
poor; and some of us will come in
tears, remembering the past. Yet
we are coming, the sons OF the. men
of Kings Mountain, and of Gull
ford, and of Alamance, to shake
hands with the men of Brandywine,
and Bunker Hill, and Monmouth,
and restore peace in this country.
1t has been said, Mr.. Chairman.
that the soldiers could settle this
thing if allowed to do so. Well.
that will be good time for them to
settle it. | want to go there and
shaAe9by the hand the brave men l
used TO meet on the field. | admire
them, | love them, / respect, and l
honor them. O. sir, with what rev.
erence stand always .-by the SOL
dier's grave. whether lie wore the
gray or the "blue,' because there
sleeps a man who dared to. die Tor
his principles. Great applause.
L think of these things. Mr.. Chair
man. without bitterness, because you
cannot tell me that any man died in
vain in that war. This American
people of ours is q money-loving,
money-gettiug people, too fond of
merely material interests, too sor-
did; and it needed the great lesson
of self-sacrifce that it is worth while
to die for sentiment and for princi-
pie. Our dead heroes have taught
US that lesson.
Yes, MIR. Chairman, we are COM
ing from the Cape Fear and the AL
bermarle, from the lowlands ana the
mountains. You will hear the bag
pipes of our Scotchmen and the
bugles of our mountaineers swelling
the blast of the national jubilee.
We want TO shake hands with the
gallant soldiers of the North. We
hope TO see such q greeting of the
soldiers and patriots of the North
and the South as will show to the
whole Union that the fiood-tide of
sectional hatred has ebbed forever,
and that it remains no longer to
float any freightage of unho.y and
unpatriotic ambition. And we want
to show to the multitude of visitors
from other nations how invincible
we are when the heroes of the blue
and the gray stand together in one
common phalanx Of amity and con,
cord. There, my countrymen, lei
us renew our vows of feryent devo.
tion to that common country which
the righteous Arbiter of all things
has decreed shall be forever one
and undivided; aud, burning our
backs upon all bitter memories oi
the past, and leaving our gallant
fallen comrades on both sides to re
pose in trembling hope" on ''the
bosom of their father and their
God.' let us go forward with .cour.
ageous hearts and patriotic aspira
tioDs in that path which duty and
destiny have marked out for us
Much applause.