Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04
UNITING AT BUNKER HILL.

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Of the club, introduced Senator Gordon
who. in response to the toast OF "0u
Southern Guests" saluted those presen
as his fellow.countrymen Of Boston, anC
added; Let mt repeat that s~alutation
for | teel that the time has come when
may address the people of the Common
wealth Of Massachusetts as my fellow
c%ountrymen." Senator Gordon, contin
uing, said:
| have not come here to talk but tC
listen, to look and to learn. These South
ern friends and myself have come to
look at your great factories, your manu-
features, your great industries and won
derful energy and enterprise which have
enabled you to conquer u%nfriendly ma
ture and to convert the bleak hills oil
New England into productive farms to
support your commerce and your manu-.
features. We have come also to put you
upon notice, and / take this occasion to
serve that notice, that we Of the South
intend to enter the race with you in some
Of those branches OF industry which
hitherto have been yours peculiarly and
almost exclusively. We have water
powers unexcelled, which we are going
to utilize aud even nov are utilizing.
We have a climate most balnly, and gen.
ial and healthiul. We have rich mines
of coal and iron, sad we intend to wake
from their long sleep in their mountain
beds these twiR sons of Hercules
aud set their arms to work 10 securing
the great industrial wealth which awaits
Os. And if you people of the East are
not alert and active we intend to over
take you in the race. TO strain along
abreast with you, and | am not sure but
that on the bOmestretch we shall yet
lead you on some of these lines of enter.
prise. We are all of a common country,
and the prosperity OF one section gives
new hope, new life, new energy to other
sections. When the memory of past
differences has gone; when we shall come
together, as on this occasion. with the
common impulse of CO. operation for the
welfare OF the country; when sectional
Rnlmosities are no longer felt or cher.
ished or encouraged; when such gather.
ings as this, irrespective OF party align.
ments, shall be bad 10 every section of
this great country; when each shall feel
in the other a brothers interests-theu
will come not only the day of universal
peace. but unprecedented prosperity.
To help on this happy contamination
you have extended 10 US, and We have
accepted, thls invitation to Boston.
And BOW let me say one word on n
little different line, but very pertinent. |
think, to such an occasion. / esteem
myself and my friends who are with me
most fortunate and happy, as we'll as
most honored, in meeting under such
circumstances so distinguished a body
of our fellow citizens Of Massachusetts
l cannot conceive how, under any cir
cumstauces, any man in Boston, sur.
rounded by the monuments Of the early
struggles Of our common ancestry, in
this spirit stirring atmosphere, amid
these thrilling associations ard sacred
memories, eoRld so far forget these or
forget himself, as to repudiate the sent.
ment Of that broad and enlarged patriot.
ism and philanthropy which should bind
all Americans together 10 the bonds o..
immortal symrathies. | care not what
mere politicians may say, the true states
manship Of the country, the true senti.
ments aud iDtuitiye perceptions of the
nsnple will refuse to believe and refuse
to base the future legislation Of the ooun.
try on tie %unreasoniDg assertion that
any portion Of the people are the enc.
mics of the country. In bis heart Of
hearts the politician himself does not
believe It You men OF Massachusetts
you Republicans or Democrats, 90 not
believe it.
We here make prolert Of ourselves
We present to you the appearance Of
bloody minded enemies of our common
country Wbere is the evidence of that
hostility, what have we done, what have
we said, what votes have we cast, what
revolutionary spirit marked our course
IN the country's peril one year ago to
Justify such an imputation upon our
to plighted faith or our fidelity to
or to the union OF these States, or to
the peace, the honor and the prosperity
this government Of our ancestors?
is true we have had a war But that
war was in one sense a conflict Of theo.
ries Of constitutional constructions. That
conflict began in the halls OF congress
and ended at Appomattox Courthouse.
was 10 another sense a war over
II began with the disappear.
Of that institution from your midst
aud ended with It's extinction on the
American continent. What more was
there left for US to quarrel over? 1t is
true that, like Betsy and her bus
band, we we're out" bat like that !
couple also, we q1arrelsd and
made up and agreed to quarrel no more
he question ought to bs no longer
whether the circumstances Of birth, of
education, or conviction carried men 10
the one side or the other during the war
lior we must respect convictions which
are strong enough 10 evoke the spirit Of
seli-sacriiee and are essential TO great
charac,ersl but the question must be
10 the future, who has proved himself
the greatest patriot by doing most for
his whole country / know that no hu.
man power can long prevent this COO.
summation. The people will put the
politicians ont Of place who attempt it
Oh, no, my c%ounlrymenl TIE causes
that diverted US are gone, and gone for
ever. The interests which row unite us
will unite Us forever.
Drinks at Havana.