The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-09-27
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DR.. Haywood, the Minister and
Educator. Speaks for the South.

6N 9SsssS'g SkSo0S AVA s4S SS6b1'
On the oath of last month, at tn
northern Chautauqua, after a pleas
ant address by Judge Tourgee, au
thor and editor, speaking for tn
north, the Rev. DR.. Haygood, o
Georgia, was introduced. -
DR.. Haygood was received will
the Chautauqua salute, and coming
forward took two of the flags from
the stand and held them in hi.
hand, which act was greeted will
rounds of applause. He said:
1 am glad that Georgia is on
that flag. Applause. L have
seen the day that / would have
died under the other, and if you
cannot take me into the union on
that basis, count me heather and
a publican. Applause.
There are many differences and
yet many resemblances. 1 saw out
there, and 1 will not look that way
now, woman crowned with the
glory of gray hairs. When the first
battle song was sung she quivered
with memories, the tears couI sed
down her cheeks. Johnny did not
come marching home to her. She
was strangely like a mother who
lives in my town, about the same
age, with one boy shot through
the head on the Potomac, the other
buried from a hospital in Rich
mond. Both of those 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
heartaches and griefs.
1 am very much obliged to the
professor and these admirable sing
ers for trying to sing a rebel war
song. They can't do it. Applause.
But if there were a few of Stone
wall Jackson's men here, and it was
the year 1862, they could sing it.
But we don't sing it now. have
not tried to sing it!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
l did sing them once. Applause |.
But do we 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 be-
lieved was the right thing. said
there are nice differences. Oh, if
we could put ourselves in each 9th
er's places. Sometimes when /
read your papers that don't under
stand us, or read your papers that
do not understand on, l am re
minded of short speech made by
an old Fren Gilman in Atlanta. We
had been organizing home guards
and made him surgeon. One night
we had a meeting and called on him
for a speech. He said: "Fellow
citizens, 1 am in one bad fix to
make a speech, for last night
storm come and blow down my
stable, and some one steal my bug
gy, and my COW ran away, I tell
you we must whip this fight.
have been in my own country in
two revolutions; in one l was the
conquerer and in the other was
the conquered. There is great
deal of difference in these two let
tares, d and T."
When the wise men and women
of the north have learned the diff
ference between these two letters,
d and +, we will not need to explain
to each. 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 prov
idence of God it brought to this
whole country. Applause. 1
will tell you how l do with my chill
dren. / do not know whether rep
resent a class, for 1 never asked.
l teach them that this flag repre-
sents our union; That it is Gods
gift to us, that is worth dying for.
Then if they ask me who Robert E.
Lee was or Stonewall jackson was,
what we mean in April when we
strew flowers over the humble
graves of our soldiers, l tell them
who they were, that they were
brave, true men. l do not teach
my children to despise their KIN
bred who fought and died. You
would hate me if 1 did. Applause. !
Hardly anybody is mad now
about this matter. Laughter. We
have got one old man in Georgia,
and you may have one or two in
New York, for all know, who get
madden the farther they get from
the war. Laughter. They re
mind me of an old countryman in
my state who started to market
with load of apples in a cart with
his wife. They crossed a little fer
ry, and coming out the hind board
of the wagon broke loose and the
apples all rolled into the river The
old man was mad, but for time he
said nothing. He sat down to con
template the scene. His wife went
to the house. He did not come, and
after awhile she said to her boy,
$50 down TO the ferry and see what
what has become of your daddy"
He came back without his father.
'He won't come" "What is he
doing! ""He is sitting there cuss-
in" Great laughter and ap-
plause.
For the most part that sort did
not fight much. What are we going
to do about them? l will tell what
some papers do. If it happens to
be one of our men, your papers
take him to be a representative of
the south, and if it happens to be
some one in the north, some of our
papers are foolish enough and mean
enough to call him a representa-
tive of the north. What are we 90
ing to do with these men sittin Q
down there by the ferry cursing &c
wears after the war? Let them