The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
AT NASHVILLE. TENN.
Reception to Governor Porter-Outline of His
Address Yesterday.

Reception to Governor Porter-Outline of His
Address Yesterday.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NASHVILLE, . May 3O-Governor Porters
eeption last night was most magnificent. Six
military companies escorted him through the
principal streets, which were thronged with
people who cheered him along the way. AT the
hotel he made a short speech, which was greeted
with rounds Of applause. Later in the evening
he was called on by ex-Governors Hawkins and
Marks and large number of citizens.
To-day the decoration exercises at the National
Cemetery were very impressive and were par
ticipated in by a large concourse. Governor
Porter was escorted the cemetery by the Burns
artillery and two bands of music. At the grand
stand he was introduced by Ex-Governor FTaw
kins. Governor Porter began his sddress with
touching allusion to the untitled dead who
lay buried here, and to the sol
diers whose headstones were nameless.
He spoke of the great cause represented by
the dead buried here, and said that history
stood guardian over their Deeds and
was proud and jealous of their record.
He showed how time would increase the interest
in their deeds, and would swell the number who
would honor them on these occa
sions The majestic form of George
H. Thomas, he said, seemed to be
Andrew Jackson from its burial spot far
distant, seemed to move toward the scene and
repeat his memorable words: "Our federal
union; it must be preserved" He declared that
the soldiers buried here were not enemies of
the South, but had fought to establish
what they believed would more benefit the South
than the North. He illustrated this spirit
by the spirit shown by Grant who
would not take the sword of Lee
etc, who told the confederate soldiers to take
their horses home and till their fields He said
that the Union soldiers, while they magnifed
the service of the illustrious Union gen
erals, they held in proper esti-
nation the characters, personal and
martial, of Lee, Stonewall jackson and Albert
Sidney Johnston. He showed how, out of
slavery. different civilization had grown in the
South from that in the North, and how war
had removed that system from the South
and substituted an industrial system.
in its place. The chivalry and knightly quail
ties which the South had so much
valued, he said, had been exhib
tied under the industrial systems of
civilization more than under any
other, and Shakespeare, in sketching his i'm
mortal portrait of the true gentleman, had found
his prototype in the trading mart, in the
person of the, Merchant of Venice. He
instanced Raleigh, Sir Philip Sydney, and
Essex, as examples of heroic and chivalric quail
ties in the industrial reign of Elizabeth, and in
the industrial reign of the present Queen the
highest qualities of herosm and statesman
ship had been exhibited. Before the late
war he said we had sections of
the Tnion, had misunderstood the strength and
qualities of each other, and when they had
crossed swords and fought the conflict out they
became acquainted with one another, that
all decisions vanished. After the English and
Scotch, on many fields, had proved that they had
the common quality of courage and tenaeity, the
foundation laid for their cordial and frater
nal union, and who would doubt that like result
would follow from the conflict that had taken
place between the two sections of the Union.
The industrial civilization in the South, though
it came from the war, was not forced upon the
South. No northern gale had blown it in. 1t
came as when windows, long closed, were opened
and the fresh atmosphere from every side
poured in so quickly that the sensation only re-
vealed that it was there.
The Governor then gave glowing picture of
the resources of the South and of their develop
ment under the industrial system of civiliza-
ton, and closed by the hope that on
withdrawing from the cemetery all
would be impressed anew by grateful
recoections of the deeds done by the Union sol
diers and go away touched with tenderness for
the brave who fell i'll the cause The Governor
will tomorrow visit the Hermitage and Belle
Meade, the famous stock farm of General Hard
ing.