Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-22

his rights'' What is this but to say, LET
every man make one club Of his ownl'
Now, Mr.. Webster was in the habit Of re-
ferring to Boston acquaintance OF his whose
ambition was siDguarly modest. He wished
that the United States might rule the civilized
world; that Massachusetts, might rule the
United States; that Boston might rule
Massac husetts, and his humble ambition
would be quite satisfied by being the Mayor
of Boston. Laughter Here would be boss
ism" and ring rule with vengeance; and yet
General Gaftrell has announced himself most
decidedly for it. Were it possible for his
views to be carried out they must inevitably
lead to one of two political or social results
despotism the most absolute, or barbarlsm the
most degraded. Everybody knows that COM
bned action, organization, in other words. the
forming of rings, is the greatest terror Of the
one-man power. Hence the right OF the peo-
pie to assemble and petition" as secured by
magn9 charta.
And now let US take another view Of it. Con-
ceive, if you can, of an ocean without breeze
to blow its water into motion, without a bill
low TO roll or a breaker to dash into spray; an
ocean made up Of individual drops, each drop
a ring unto itself and refusing to combine with
another; a shoreless sea simply because it
would need no shore. Torpor! Absolute tor
por Somebody has said that the ferment OF
free is preferable TO the torpor Of a deSpottc
government. But what despotic government
ever exhibited such torpOr as thisS 1t is the
torpor Of absolute barbarism-every man
standing on his own merits" and defending
his rights" General Gartrells war against
the rings would reduce us to the condition or
the earthmsn Of Africa or the root eating In .
dian of the Rocky Mountains. All the efforts
of civilization have been directed towards
dragging the human race out or such lndlVldu-
alizstion, and the intellectual and moral torpor
always consequent upon 1t. And how could
the work be done except by rings? without
organization there can be no society; without
society. no civilization.
And now let us see what harm has come to
us from ring rule Has not the State been
well governed during the last two years. l
appeal to intelligent and honest men-men
who will not be- controlled by personal preJu-
dice; men who are not looking 10 the advance
ment of themselves or their frie s, irrespec-
lively of their country and the truth. want
an answer from head and heart. What is
the criticism to be passedf What harm has ring
rule done the State? Turning to the halls OF
Congress, with Fill and Brown in the Senate,
with Hammond Lapplausel, Cook, Turner lap
plausel. Blount applausel, and their colleagues
in the House, where, / ask, is the State in this
plause. l know of but ore reason why
should not be perfectly satisfied, and Will
frankly tell it to you; 1t is because hold no
Office myself. Applause and laughter Hesb
assured, my Countrymen, that personal ambl-
ton is the soul OF Independentism
Now am here not to declaim against per-
sonal ambition. God created It, and IL must
have been made for wise purpose. But goa
also made fire, and ambition, like fire, may Re
an invaluable servant, out it is a terrific mas
ter a tyrant the most savage! lApplause.J
Not that the ambitious man need be dishonest,
or corrupt, or even unpatriotic sure am
that General Gartrell is neither OF these. Inc
trouble is that ambition may make man alb
solutely blind. WHAT is closest to rs IN mate
rial nature must ever shut out the re-
mainder OF the universs. A school
boys marble placed close to the eye
must eclipse the sun in heaven. And think
that my friend General Gartrell has marble
hi Ami on md Ton I
But the State, the State, has right to be
served by her ablest men. Applause. The
God of nature has given them to her as he has
given muscles and nerves to the individual,
and to deprive her of them is to dwarf her, is
to rob her Of her strength, is to cut the locks
from Samson's head. Now, which, l ask, IS
the ablest Of these two men. For that would
seem to be the only issue, as both profess the
same political faith. have no criticism to
utter against General Gartrell He has been
a brave soldier. He would have sacrificed his
life upon the field of battle He is one OF
the ablest lawyers that has Illustrated
the bar OF Georgia. Il would give me
pleasure to vote for General Gartren
if an ADLER stateman were not before the peo-
pie. Applause | say ADLER, precisely as
General GartrelI is the ADLER in court of JUS
tice Mr.. Stephens could not fill General Gar
treuS place in the court room, and am alto
gether sure that if General Gartreu were be-
fore me now, he would say am right when
announce that In craftsmanship General Gar
trell cannot fill the place Of the Great Com
moner, ''for more than whole generation. lap
plauSe.l General Gartrell will pardon the
Illustration will my audience pardon itf-
when say that Mr. Stephens might as well at
tempt to i'll General Gartrell's breeches. Zap
pause and laughter
For the present, then, to use classic saying.
Let the shoemaker stick to his last lap
pause and laughter.l Let General GarGreH
stick for the present 10 the court room while
we bear the great states nan to the helm or
State Applause.
Had / the power to make myself heard
throughout the length ana breadth OF the
State l. too, would raise ring ling cry. L
would say GOMEZ To the white man, GOMEZ to
the colored man. comel to tue disappointed,
GOMEZ to the ambitious comet Come all, and
let US make the grandest ring that has ever
been seen upon our Georgia Skyl Applause
Grand in Numbers grand in intellect, grand in
patriotism, taking for its centre that phenome-
nal Georgian who Is the grandest illustrator OF
ALL Applause
l remembertwhen, for the last time, General
Lee came to Savannah, and anticipated his
coming By an urgent request that there should
be no manifestation, civil or military, that
not even his friends in numbers should meet
him upon his arrival heard upon the street
that the great heart Of the people had sent its
life loOd TO greet him, and yet to embarrass
him st first was panied, but as | reflected
heard refrain deep down in my heart, THE
cause is lost but there is life in the
old land yet" Applause And. at every
step as l moved toward home, the
cry became louder and louder, There
", the tongue which, for more than a genera
tion had thrilled the State and the country and
had =, ade the listening Senate and the listen
ing multitude move feel and act like single
man, was forever silenced; but the same mes
meric power passed to the toiling heart, whose
every pusRtion was sending anguish
through the arteries of the State to her re-
hottest confines, making of her entire people a
single sufferer in the midst of the gloom, the
words would come, There is life in the old
land yeti" Applause
Bat the life of the State is in the lives and
the memories of her great men. What would
be Carthage but for the single name OF her
peerless Hannibal? But Georgia has more
than one Hannibal; were it to be heard to-mor-
row morning that Alexander H. Stephens was
dead we, all of us, know that the same great
sob of agony would go up from the heart of
the State. Applause. But better honor the
great man living than the great man dead.
Applause Especially il by honOring the
man you protect and exalt your State. Ap-
plause. Let us, then, bear him up on the |
shoulders of the State. Let us take the soul |
from the wheels upon which the body rolls, |
and let us Place him at Georgia's head. lap |
plause. From the hearts of her true sons, |
of party, or color, or station, from |
the mountains 10 the seaboard, will then come |
up the joyous refrain, There's life, there's life
n the old land yetI'' Prolonged applause