The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-10-11

Friday, August "a, Union and
Confederate war songs were sung
by the great choir in the amphithe'
atre. Judge Albion Tourgee re-
sponded in behalf of the North
Atticus G. Haygood in behalf OF
the South.
ADDRESS BY REV. DR.. HAYGCOD.
DR.. Haygood was received with
the Chautauqua salute, and coming
forward took two of the toy 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, Applause. Ihave seen the
day that l would have died under
the other, and if you cannot take
me into the Union on that basis,
count me a heathen and publican.
Applause.l
There are many differences and
yet many resemblances. I saw out
there-and I will not look that way
nova woman crowned with the
glory of gray hairs. When the first
battle-song was sung, she quivered
with memories, the tears coursed
down her cheeks. Johnny did not
come marching home to her. She
was strangely like a mother who
lives in my town, abont the same
age, with one boy shot through the
head on the Potomac, the other
buried from a hospital in Richmond.
Both of these women love God and
the Lord Jesus Christ, and ] know
would help one another and love
each other. So we are alike as
to many things, in our heart.aches
and griefs.
1 am very much obliged to the
Professor and these admirable sim
gers for trying to sing a rebel war
song. They can't do it. APP
plause.l But if there were a few Of
Stonewall Jackson's men here and
it was the year 1862, they could
sing it. But we don't sing it now.
I have not tried to sing that song
or any other army hymn in long
time, hardly since Appomattox.
But nobody who has got the heart
of a man in him will ask me to-day
to be ashamed that 1 did sing them
once, [Applause.] But we do
not sing them now. We have
buried them for the most part with
that flag we followed for four long
years fighting for what we believed
was the right thing. 1 said there
are also differences. 0, if we could
put ourselves in each others
places! Sometimes when I read
your papers that don't understand
US, or read our papers that don't
understand you, I am reminded Of
a short speech made by an old
Ffepchman in Atlanta. We had
been organizing home guards and
made him surgeon. One night we
had a meeting and called on him
for speech. He said.
"Fellow-citizens, l am in one bad
fix to make a speech, for last night
a storm come and blow down my
stable, and some one steal my bug.
gy and my cow run away. I tell
you we must whip this fight. /
have been in my own country in
two revolutions; in one I was the
conqueror and in the other I was
the conquered. There is 8 great
deal of difference in those two leetle
lettares, d and IT,
When the wise men and women
of the North have learned the dife'
renee between the two letters, D
and R, we will not need to explain
to each other. There will be SO
many grounds for patience, and
federation, and broad manliness.
that by that time we will forget the
war, except in the good things that
in the providence of God it brought
to this whole country. Applause
1 will tell yon how I do my chill.
dren I do not know whether ]
represent a class, for / never asked
I teach them that this flag repre-
sents our Union that is Gods gift
to US, that is worth dying for. Then
if they ask me who Robert Lee OF
Stonewall Jackson was, what we
mean in April when we strew
flowers over the humble graves OF
our dead soldiers, I tell them who
they were, that they were brave,
true men. 1 do not teach my chill
dren to despise their kindred who
fought and died. You would hate
me if I did. Applause.]
Hardly anybody is mad now