The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-28

sembled after the war; in 1868. In that year he
thus addressed the people OF South Carolina:
yield to none in devotion to that Lost Cause
for which we fought. Never shall admit that the
cause itself failed, and that the principles which
gave it life were therefore wrong. Never shall l
! brand the men who upheld it so nobly as "rebels
or traitors
Gen. Hampton is now candidate for Gov
ernor of the State of South Carolina, in which
is town called Hamburg. At Democratic
ratification meeting during the same year,
Gen. G.. A. Battle, of the rebel army, thus
discoursed:
Comrades, brothers, year after year you bore the
Confederate flag through storm and tempest, and
upon more than 200 battle fields covered it with
victory. Your imperishable glories are 1ntrenched
| in the impregnable fortress of the past, and no
power dim their effulgence
Her forttude he South's) in the midst OF her desc
lation has attracted the admiration OF the world
and now the great Democratic party OF the Union
throws over her banner inscribed with the prlnc-
pies of constitutional liberty for which she fought,
and am here tonight to ask you to come up to her
altar and again let pledge to her our lives, our
fortunes, and onr sacred honor. The Democratic
party offers the most honorable terms 1t Endorses
principles for which you fought, not because it was
/ the principle upon which the Confederacy was
founded, but the Confederacy adopted them because
they were promulgated by the fathers of American
independence, and were indicated by the war of
the American Revolution.
During the same year, Aug. z, the Browns
| vile Bee says:
During the continuance of the war we were
staunch supporters of the Confederate flag. We
glorified in the lost to us forever, and
struggled, like honest men should, for success. 1t
failed. What then We surrendered arms when
we saw 1t was hopeless, and thereby acknowledged
the failure. of cause, and accepted the peace
that was proffered to us. The result of the war
settled one thing and more. It settled and con-
clusiVely established the fact that eleven Southern
States could be whipped by twenty-three Northern
and Western States. No man can con-
scientiously say that this war settled or estabshe
any principle.
May 29, 1871, Gen. Darlington introduced
jeff Davis to the people of Georgia, at Atlanta,
in the following speech:
Mr.. Davis as the organ OF the citizens of Allan
ia. beg to tender you their heartfelt welcome to
your coming in their midst. This tribute is offered
to you by true and honest hearts, and not by serv
lie followers. 1t is offered to you by a people
whom you represented in great struggle for the
guarantees of liberty which they had inherited
from noble ancestry. 1t is the homage OF hearts
over1Owing with gratitude for public services rem
dered to the cause of freedom and Independence.
You, sir, were the chosen chief of brave and
chivalrous people whose cause went down under
the accumulated weight of adverse circumstances,
which no effort of daring, courage, or statesman
ship could control. It's failure was one OF those
inscrutable events which Dathe human foresight
and wisdom Bur, sir, this failure has left no stain
upon your proud record. This proof is written on
history's page, and engraved in lndeI1ble letters
upon the hearts of the brave and true men of the
South. In the terrible ordeal through which they
have passed since the sad reverses which have be-
fallen their arms, your name has been treasured as
a sacred thing. Your brave soldiers honor it, our
noble women respect and love it our gallant boys,
catching the inspiration of their fathers and
mothers hearts, cherish it one of the few, the
immortal names that were not born to die.
The cause for which they and you encountered the
dangers of flood and field is obscured but the
principles of liberty-American constitutional lib
erty-for which they and you dared to do or die,
are imperishable They will. in due fulluess of
time, assert their supremacy over wrong and
tyranny. The freemen of America will in the end
be true to themselves though they must now SUD-
r17iff tot he fofa hat has
plaintive language Of a favorite bard, exclaim:
Furl that banner, true it's CORY,
But tits wreathed around with glory,
And twill live in song Snd story,
Though it's folds are in the dust;
For its fame, on brightest pages,
Sung by poets, penned by sages,
Shall go sounding through the ages,
Furl its folds though must.
AS J. D. is Cor was) representative man,
his sentiments are pleasing. He said:
During the last great conflict (meaning the
belliol) in which you were engaged, you were true
to your history true to yourselves and true to the
great principles of constitutional liberty in defense
of which your forefathers fought and died. and, so
long your rivers shall roll from the mountains to
the sea, will these lines which we have just heard
go sounding down to future ages, and children will
rise up and initiate the virtues Of their forefathers
It for these great principles that forefathers
fought in the olden DAYS There
are many things which might say to you tonight,
my friends, but which feel 1t would be imprudent
for me to utter. am not one OF
those who accept the situation. I accept nothing.
These cant phrases that we hear so much of-about
accepting the situation and about our rights
having been submitted to the s. arbitrament of the
sword y are but the excuses of cowardice. admit
that power prevails the truth; admit that
power so great that would be folly to resist 1t
and therefore am in favor, myself, of being ac-
quiescent, and I advise You to the same course.
You are not called upon to acknowl-
edge that you have done any wrong unless you feel
it. 1 don't believe did any wrong, and therefore
don't acknowledge it.