The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-29
MARCHING THRO' GEORGIA.
TIE OLIVE BRANCH TIMES TIE
PLACE OF THE TORCH

Tho Presidential party passed
through Georgia on it's return from
Tennessee, homoward. Chattanooga
was visited and tho President was
much Interested in inspecting the bat
tic fields near that city, at
which place it is said ho was
wounded. BY urgent persuasion he
visited Atlanta, and was received by
q vast concourse of ten thousand
people. Addresses were made by
the visitors and by Hill, Gordon and
other distinguished Georgians. Tho
following extracts from tho Presi-
dents speech evince the sincerity
with which he has buried tho hatchet.
They are calculated to make Blaine
howl. The President said:
[ suppose that here, as every
where else, am in tho presence of
men of both great political parties.
[ am speaking, also, in the presence
of citizens of both races. I am
quite sure that there arc before me
very many of the brave men who
fought in tho Confederate army.
[Applause Some, doubtless, of
the men who fought in the Union
army [Applause. And here we
,.re, Republicans, Democrats, colorcd
people, white people, Confederate
soldiers and Union soldiers, all of
one mind and one heart to-day
immense cheering.] And why
should we not DO? What is there
to separate US longer ? Without
any fault of yours or any fault of
mine, or of any one of this great au
dience, slavery existed in this coun~
try. The colored man was in the
constitution of the country. The
colored man was here, not by his
own voluntary action. 1t was the
misfortune Of his fathers that he was
hero. 1 think it is safe to say thatit
was by the crime of our fathers that
he was here. He was hero, however,
and we of the two SECTIONS differed
about what should be done with him.
AS Mr.. Lincoln told us in tho war,
there were prayers on both sides
for him. Both sides found in the
Bible confirmation of their opinions,
and both sides finally undertook to
settle the question by that last
means of arbitration-forco of arms.
You here mainly joined tho Confed-
crate side, and fought bravely,
risked your lives heroically, in. be-.
half Of your convictions, and can T,
can any true man anywhere, fail to
respect the man who risks his life
for his convictions ? Prolonged
cheers. And as I accord that re-
spect to you, and believe you to be
equally liberal and generous and
just, I feel that rs T stand before
you as one who fought in the Union
for his convictions, am entitled to
your respect [Cheers.] Now that
conflict is over, my friends. Govern
or Hampton repeated to you last
night the way have been in the
habit of putting it since I came
to tho South. Thero were n
larger proportion of trained soldiers
in your army at first than in ours /;
in q much larger proportion you
were good marksmen and good
horsemen (and thatgis two thirds Of
a good soldicr:) [Laughter] But
gradually we learned to rido too
[laughter], and, as somo of you
know, gradually we learned to shoot.
Renewed laughter. / happen to
know how well you shoot. [Cheers. J
We'll, having learned how to shoot
and ride, then it was a case of fight
between Crock and Greek, and when
Greek meets Greek you know what
tho conflict is /; [cheors] and, more
than that, you know exactly how it
will terminate. That party in the
fight will conquer that has the most
Greeks. Laughter and cheers. SO,
with no discrodit to you, and no spc-
cial credit to us, the war turned out
as it did. [Cheers.] Now shall we
quit fighting? Cries Of eyes, yes e.
I have beon in tho habit of telling
an anecdote of General Scott and a
statesman at Washington, in which
tho statesman said that as soon as
the war was over and the combat
ants laid down their arms, we would
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