The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
Why an Engllshnan Came South.

Mr.. Thomas Hughes, the we'll known
English author of "Tom Brown, at Rug.
BY" and other favorite works, has estab.
llshed colony Of young Englishmen ia
tennessee. He was entertained st Chat
tanooga few days since and made quite
lengthy speech, during which he said :
II can promise that you will find as a
law-abiding and loyal folk proud of the
state OF our adoption, proud of her rc-
cord IN the past, jealous Of her honor in
the coming time, resolved that so far as
IN us lies that record and that honor
shall remain untarnished. We hope, nv
friends, to be on the very best terms with
all our neighbors. We are conscious
how much we have to learn from you,
ho" almost entirely we must rely for
years on your teaching and your sym.
patby.
And now, Dir. Chairman, lot me turn
Tor moment to our settlement at Rugby.
1t was matter of sincere pleasure to me
that after our inquiry in England, lasting
over two years, we were able at last 10
come to the conclusion that your beauti-
iui Cumberland mountains offered the
very best site for our enterprise in aIJ
these broad and magnificent States of
your great country. J. had felt for wears
that it was the first duty of cyery man
who speaks cur English language to do
all an his power to heal up the breaches
which still, to some extent, are at apy
rate believed to divide the great sections
OF your republic. The great CITY, your
Northern ncighbor, 20 which l have al.
ready referred, has set us n noble ex.
ample. The splendid line over which We
nave travelled to your city has been built
by Cincinnati, and will do more than anv
other enterprise to bind these States TO-.
gether in solid and lasting friendship.
All honor to her for her courage and
patriotism We, in our humble way.
have hoped and hope to follow in her
steps: | was told in my own country
that 1t was madness to 60 South for our
experiment, but did not pay much heed
TO productions coming from that quarter.
and which have too often proved TO be
founded ON profound ignorance of your
country. But l confess that in the first
days after my arrival here among you nv
own convictions were somewhnt shaken.
mad to visit your famous fashionable
retreat ut Newport, and there met old
friends, patriotic Americans of famous
historical names, who shook their heads
and drew dark picture Of the immedi.
ate future. In the event of the success
OF the candidate favored by the South in
ne coming Presidential contest. thay
drew dark picture of the probable re-
versal OF all that has been done since the
termination OF your great struggle fifteen
years ago. l was disconcerted but not
convinced, and few days residence in
your mountains greatly restored my con-
hdence. found the mountain folks as
staunch friends of the Union and Con.
stitution as it exists in its amended form
at this Say as any Northern Republican,
and since my arrival here, sir, that con.
fidence has been turned into absolute
certainty. | cannot tell you the pleasure
with which have heard the free discus
sion of the events of your great struggle
between men like General Wilder. who
took 30 active and prominent a part
on the Northern side, and many of YOUR.
selves who owned frankly to having been
rebels" who met him in fair fight on
these renowned battle-felds, and who
would tomorrow join with him in draw
ing sword and freely risking life and for.
tune again fCc Tho maintenance ard in.
tegrity of the Nation as it exists TO-DAY.
~ visited the National Cemetery.
wLero nearly 1900 Union soldiers. a a
number equal to the present population
OF your city, lie. In their neighborhood
are an equal number of Confederate SOL
diers, not in noble National Cemetery.
but buried for the most part where they
fell. pause, for ;hey tread on the Ma
ton dust" That splendid passage came
into my mind, but it very imperfectly
touches the deep lathos or the impor-
tance to mankind oil the issue which 1=as
decided here, of which the memory for
all time will hang round this place of
sepulture, and these ridges and valleye-
l say il deliberately, that the battles
round Chattanooga were of as much, if
not more, moment to the world than
Ma.asiiv;, or G.=.., or Waterloo. .,ai
again more strongly than ever that all
danger for your great country from civil
war has passed.
BY the inside of the inland rivers,
Whence the fleets of war have fled,
Where the whispering grove grass quivers,
Asleep are the ranks Of the dead.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the one the blue,
Under the other the gray
No more shall the war cry sevcr,
Or the inland rivers run red
We have buried anger forever
In the tombs of the sacred dead.
Under the sun and dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Love and tears for the blue,
Tears and love for the gray.
Yes, your great orators famous words
ftIE