The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09

and unprecedented productiyeness Of
Collin county, and told of the great
and grand future in store for Texas
and that the time was near when New
York, Pennsylvania and other richer
and prouder states will be in Texas
for the crumbs we have heretofore
discarded. Great applause
After dinner Gen. NJ. L. Lewis
who is president of the Mar.
vim College, Waxahachie, addressed
the assembly in behalf of Missouri
soldiers. He said that while the
water below the mill never ground
any grist, still it had already
turned the grain into flour. So
with memories of the past. 1t rep
resented water already resting
by the mill, and could tell of great
things. He held that no man
was the worse for having set down
and recalled the past; hence he would
talk of the past, which is naught
but grand foundation of a glo-
rious present and promising future.
[Applause.l If it were not for the
past we would not give so much rev.
erence to the grand old veterans
whom we look upon with affection.
Many things should be forgotten and
lad forever out of sight. We
are now Il part of a great ma
ton and trying to learn to
enjoy the new relation. as fully
as ever we can. Applause. He said
as for him he did not want to forget.
He recalled incidents of the war,
prison scenes, and in rather bitter
words and sarcastic simile talked of
the kind of peace and reconstruction
that followed the surrender of Lee at
AppomattoX. He said that the pres
ent prosperity, political and otherwise,
was due as much to eX-ConfederateS
as to any one; that the grand monu-
ment being erected to the glory of this
American Union is as much the rear
ing of the hands of eX-Confederates as
any. He said he would learn some
common sense after awhile, though
learning slowly. Already Georgia,
Alabama and North Carolina are rem
dOlent with clock factories and Texas
would soon follow with all the spoons
gone. We will soon make and sell
more to Massachusetts. A voice
asked how about poor Butler
now, since he is Democrat. General
Lewis said, Don't say that. For
Gods sake never mention Democracy
and Butler in the same breath" He
then told how Jefferson Davis talked
to Butler in the Charleston conven-
ton, and told him if he would muster
soldiers and enforce rights where
they were trampled on, he Davis
would stand with him; but, said the
speaker, the difficulty was toget Butler
to stand anything. Laughter. lie
said that as to Jeff Davis, whom he
regarded as the greatest statesman of
the age and country, he hoped he
would live to be hundred years old.
[Great applause. He said that
France taught her children to
sing of enemies and victory over
them, and our duty now was to
take or children and educate them
up to the highest dictates of patriots;
that if they were edudated as duty
demands they should be, they would
soon walk the corridors of this nation
with the giant tread of a mightier
and higher civilization.
Governor Hubbard was then intro
duced, and made a characteristic
speech. He said we are too apt to
forget our old American veterans in
speaking of the present, but should
ever remember those who led on at
Vera Cruz, Conception,
San Jacinto. the Alamo, Goliad, and a
hundred other battles. Young men
here to-day, who have grown up since
their brothers were buried at Mans
field, Bull Run and other bloody
fields, should remember with affection
tho,e who shaped the rugged destiny
Of this country for higher and
growing civilization. He said that,
with Governor Ireland. he
agreed that we should forget strifes
and ADMINISTRATIVE brought on the
the deeds never; that we
ought for that which we. believed right
md no one with humanity will try to
'yrget the great deeds. Mothers IN
lying blessed their boys they would
never see again, because they knew
heir sons were striving for the right.
Earnest Southern women sent the
asst comforts of home, robbing the
,radle and the grave, to supply ne
,essities to the loved ones. It is from
such deeds this history is written;
such things are not to be forgotten
md do not belong to any section, and
10 one wants to forget. Men of Col
in county. you have acted nobly when
you have sent for men of the Blue to
come and sit down with you on this
occasion. Ithank God for the hope that
we will sit down to a great national
owe feast. / thank God, say, that
ibis great fraternal feeling prevails.
Is the flag not the same under which
Geo. Washington fought, and as much
1urs as theirs? Did not Martha
and her great husband
'it under this grand flag, which was
ours up to 1860 and is ours now All
,he boys in Blue and boys in G ay will
lot be opposed in the next war. and
will never fight each other. Brother
20 brother, sister to sister, father to
son, God helping, we will
never fight one another again. The
BOYS who fought in the ranks
If the Blue and the Gray will never
light again. Great applause.] He
hen devoted the conclusion of his
speech to material PROCESS. That voice
s significant. While the Southern
states all gained congressman by the
asst census, the Northern states lost
or simply held their own. Pennsyl
vania and New York simply held
heir own, while Connecticut, Massa-
;husetts and Rhode Island lost. This
showed that people of all countries
ire coming here, and the day is very
near when we will go into the halls
IF congress and take off our hats and
say, "We want so and so in Texas"
and they all say with bow, Ger
5ainly, anything you want this morn
ng," instead of beg, beg, for pittance
for Galveston or BraZoS harbOr, or
for court house at Dali
as or Austin. [Applausel
E. q. Bower, Esq, of Dallas, then
addressed the assemblage in behalf of
private soldiers, and told their
lereism, recalling that privates
were the ones who made
The destiny of their country. He re-
ferred to the animad7ersions that
these reunions were only to keep
burning the fires of feelings engen-
1ered by the war. | don't believe it.
Great God haven't we the right to
meet together and renew old friend
ship? No, sir; these meetings do all
true soldiers good, and as citizens
make them better in times of peace,
but these baleful fires are kept burn
ing by these civil heroes. these heroes
who were invisible in war and irwin
chile in peace. Great applause, and
voice. "Now your getting where the
wool is short and touching tender
spots" He paid tender tribute to
the Confederate dead
Hon. Olin Wellborn was then intro
1uced and began by referring to the