Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-05
DR.. HAYGOOD'S SPEECH.
A RALLYING WORD FOR THE
NORTH AND SOUTH.
SeetiOnalism a Thing of the Past, and
Dead Issues Unworthy of Resurrec-
uon-The Truth About the Famous
March Through GeOrgia-A Speech
Full of Interest.


Dead Issues Unworthy of Resurrec-
uOn-The Truth About the Famous
March Through Georgia. Speech
Full of Interest.
Times Democrat.
On the oath of last month. at the North
ern Chautauqua, after a pleasant address
by Judge Tourgee, author and editor.
speaklng for the North, the Rev. DIR. Hay
good, OF Georgia, was introduced.
Dr. Hayg0Od was received with the
Chautauqua salute, and coming for
ward took two of the flags from the
stand and held them in his hand. which
act was greeted with rounds of applause.
He said:
am glad that Georgia is on that flag. rAp-
Plause:l nave seen the day that / would
nave dled under the other, and if vou cannot
take me into the Union on that basis. count
me ri Z heathen and publican. Applause
There are many differences and vet many
resemblances. | saw out there and will not
look that way now, a woman crowned with
the glory of gray hairs When the first battle
song was sung she quivered with memories
tne tears coursed down her cheeks. Johnny
dld not come marching home to her. She was
strangely like a mother who lives in nv town
ABOUT the same age. with one boy shot through
the mead on the Potomac the other buried
from hospital in Richmond. Both of those
women love God and the Lord Jesus Christ
ana know would help one another and love
CiCh oblCI. 30 VIC are alike as to many
things, In our heartaches and grefs
am very much obliged to the Professor
ana thosc admirable singers for trying to sing
a rebel war song. They can't do it, 1Ap-
plause.l But II there were Il few of Stone
wall Jacke0n's men here, and it was the wear
1907, they could sing ii. But we don't sing it
now. have not tried to sing that song or
any other army hymn in a long time, hardly
since AppomattON. But nobody who has got
the heart OF man in him will ask me to -daV TO
be ashamed that did sing them once. An
PiauseI. But we do not sing them now. We
nave buried them for the most part with that
nag we followed for four long wears, fighting
Tor what We believed was the right thing I
salV there are also differences. Oh, if
we could put ourselves in each
others places! Sometimes when
read your papers that don't under
stand us, or read our papers that do not
understand you, | am reminded of a short
speech made by an old Frenchman in Atlanta.
We had been organizing home guards and
made him Surgeon. One night we had Il
meeting and called on him for a speech. He
said: "FellOw -citizens, | am in one bad fix to
make speech, for last night a storm come
ana blow down my stable, and some one steal
my buggy, and my COW run away. tell Won
we must whip this fight. | have been in my
own country IN two revolutions; in one | was
the conqueror and IN the other | was the con-
quered. There is great deal of difference in
these two lettares. d and r."
- W nen the wise men and women of the
North nave learned the difference between
explain to each other. There Will be so many
grounds for patience, and tOleraton and
broad manllness, that by that time we will
forget the war, except in the good things tina
IN the providence of God it brought to this
whole country. Applause, will tell vou
how do with my children. | do not know
whether represent class, for never asked.
teach them that this flag represents our
Union; that it is Gods gift to us. that if is
worth dying for. Then if they ask me who
ROBERT f. LEE WAS OR STONEwALL JACKSON
was, what we mean in April when we streW
flowers over the humble graves of our dead
soldiers, tell them who they We're; that
they were brave, true men. do not teach
my children to despise their kindred who
fought and died. You would hate me if I
did. Applause.
Hardly anybody is mad now about this
matter. Laughterl We have got one old
man IN Georgia, and you may have one or two
IN New York, for all | know. who get madder
the farther they get from the war. Laughter
Ehey remind me of an old cOuntryman in my
State VINO started to market with load of
apples in cart with his wife. They crossed
llttle Terry. and coming out the hind board
OF the wagon broke loose and the aDDles 9ll
rolled INTO the river. The old man was mad,
but for time he said nothing. He sat down
TO contemplate the scene. His wife went to
the house. He did not come, and after awhile
she said to her boy: SEQ down to the ferry
and see what has become of your daddv''
He came back without his father. He won't
come" What is he dOing?" :. He is sittin'
there cussln'.' Great laughter and applause.
fOr the most part that sort did not fight
mucn w nat are you going to do about them?
VIII tell what some papers do. If it happens
10 be one OF our men, your papers take him to
be representative of the South: and if it hap
pens TO be some one in the North, some of our
papers are foolish enough and mean enough
to call him representative of the North.
W nat are we going to do with these men sit
ting down there at the ferry cursing 20 wears
after the fighting? Let them curse on. Laugh
teri. But 20 and raise more apples. Long
continued applause AMI laughter | pity a
southern man whose convictions of honor and
sense OF historic position are so feeby
based that he gets into a rage every time that
Northern man disagrees with him. And
pity Northern man who must explode every
time some SOutherner chances not to agree
with him Our people would be unworthy
your respect If they should pretend to change
their convictions in a day. But there are
changes going on. | might give YOU some
illustrations of the gradual change of oDlnion
an honest change. where men and women
are doing their best. But time fOrbds PeO-
pie who always stay at home generally have
very fixed ideas, with deep roots but they are
not wide ones.
am much obliged to Judge 1Ourgee for the
many strong and admirable points made in his
speech. want to tell you, if these States in
Which nave hyed are to be counted in this
Union, ana are to stay in this Union. YOU
ought to ask of us this: Fidelity to the Con-
stltution and its amendments, the declaration
OF independence and this Nag. and no more.
|
Quebec beautiful monument, that could not
have been built by pagan nations Ii is in
sight of the fields of Abraham, where
brave Engllshmen, following the flag Of st.
George, and brave Frenchemen, fol-
lowing the lilies, went down in the
blood and storm of battle The brave
leaders died that day and that monument in
the citadel square ut Quebec has on one side
the name of Montcalm, and on the other of
Wolfe. What would you think of an English
man and Frenchman to-day who should
meet at the base of that monument and fail
out with each other about the battle on the
plains of Abraham: If it would not be right
for the Englishman and the Frenchman TO
have heart burnlngs to-day, standing in such
a place, how is 1t with us twenty years after
the battle? Are not heart burnings as much
out of place?
Last night was at little station in Ohio
waiting for the train. / was reading a good
book. ! VIII give you one sentence from it:
1T Is OFTEN SAID of men when they come to die
that they become reconciled to their enemies -
The author added, ''They ought to do ii now
stand on that basis. Applause.
l will not keep you much longer. There are
some circumstances brought MP to-day that
understand much better than the choir. For
instance, that Marching through Georgia.
business. tell you, the historic truth Is in
1t. Poetry has written history; for vou got
mighty near all the gObbers Iappause and
laughter, and most of the sweet potatoes
Applause and laughter: and if ever an army
had an easy time marching 300 miles on fair
ter Georgia had sent out about 100000
men, but they were elsewhere. | have
got piece Of news to tell you
that You don't know. On the road between
my house and Atlanta is a little
town near Stone Mountain. Two months af-
ter you marched through / went back, not
marching much. ] was getting along the
best | could with some very broken down
mules that had lost their ordinary vivacitv.
| noticed in that little town not less than
dom NH
II burns houses. That is what it means War
is hell. Pardon the roughness. That is what
1t is; war Is hell. | saw as | came along to
Chautauqua that the last one of these CHM
neys had house built to it. 1t had stood for
is years or more, but this spring a house had
been built to it, and was glad.
we are raising up boys there that some of
these days, should t. ere be occasion for if
which God forbid. if it pleases Him-wouId
hght under that fiag as the Highanders,
whose ancestors fought under Bruce fight for
the flag of St. George. | did not come here
for gush, but | am glad in my SOUL as | said i'm
the beginning, that Georgia is on that flag.
| Applause. love this country. | believe in
it, that it has mission to the nations of this
world, and that 1t Will accomplish more than
statesmen understand. But in the pro-
phetic heart Of the church there is
deep feeling somehow that the deliver
ance of every nation from bondage, the
eyaaIngellzatIon OF the world largely belongs
to this people. IL could not have been done
with divided Union, Applause | say il
with reverence in this place, it would have
maired the stupendous plans Of Divine Provi-
dence. But now, after all that God has done
in setting man free in this country, we can 20
on, working out by His great help the nObIest
problem ever given to a civilized nation i'm
this world.
Now, God keep us iu the peace of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and the Constitution and De-
claratioh of independence, and this hook.
which Is the Magma Charta of the worlds
Intelligence and the worlds freedom. PRO
longed applause
BOstOn's Exhibit.