The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-07

dom's ways.
Music followed.
Col. Mitchell was then introduced 10
the audience and delivered the following
telling speech, which WAS received with
rapturous applause.
COL. NIT HELL's Address,
comrades, Ladies' and Gentlemen
10 me the occasion, and the circum-
Stances which surround US here, are i'm
posing ana l hope not uninstructive.
With JOY We hail the return OF our an
nual reunion, only the recollection that
some of our number have fallen during
the year in the battle Of life,
ION James eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.r
ana the marks of increasing years and
growing intirmities in others, can check
for moment, the happiness with which
we greet each other. We are not here
30 weep or to lament over our misfor-
tunes or losses, nor or we here to Quarrel
with destiny; much less are we here 10
ralSe party or sectional feuds or animos-
tiles.
The men who had the nerve the manly
her0lsm TO encounter the dangers and
endure the hardships OF four long wears
ana more of that fearful war, are incapn.
ple OF sentiments so out OF harmony
with the noble aims for which they bat
tled. True, beyond the shadow of a
doubt to what we believed to bo the
call OF duty, when that patriotic sum.
mons was met and its duties ended. we
win equal promptness and with no less
Valor, responded to our obligations AZ
members of society and citigens of a
common country. And as evidence of
the fidelity and ability, with which we
nave renewed our citizenship under the
most trying ordeal, let the prosperity.
the vigorous growth, the giant manhood
OF our beloved Southland answer.
her pure ana unsullied patriotism
as seen IN state and National coun-
sels, her business thrift, agricultural,
Iscciiahlcal ana commercial; her system
OF education, broad and thorough: her
social order, refinement and nroyresa
ana the tone and purpose and will with
Whlch her sons and daughters share in
all these developments of human effort,
uhder the circumstances, defy compari.
son, ana give promise of y success and
an early srandure unequalled in the
history OF any people. No more do we
invite or welcome the North to "A battle
Ol blood, or to that far baser strife OF
mutual suspicion and unkind and
acrimonious abuse, but with that higher
held OF contest, where "Peace hath her
victories greater far than those of Warp,
lienceforth be it our motto, "To live and
let liVe;" This world was made for
@sar; twas made for Brutus, too" but
brutus need not murder Caesar, nor
Viesar trample upon Brutus.
we tender our countrymen y
service which shall be mutual.
ana invite to rivalry which shall
! strain the whole nation to its utmost
capacity for development. III the North
and the South in tho late internecine
war developed military capacity and
proves, which neither belived the
other possessed, and which nlled the
| civilized world with awe and amaze
ment; are they not to-day making a
much higher exhibition Of ali manly
| qualities and capabilitiesf Are not tht
ex-soldiers of the North and the South.
| IN the front, doing the work OF rehabili.
tation and development?
we notice with satisfaction the re-
| Sponses which have come to Lee and
Gordon in their undertaking 20 maxi
provision for the citizen soldier, who.
Tor TINS purpose, has no government to
provide for him. 1t is All assurance thai
under the broad fold Of that flag, be-
queathed to US by common ancestry.
new Union il fast being realized.
we weave no web of & Bsamer, but
change OF steel, FURNISHED with golden
strands, such as industry, manly effort
and fraternal sentiment can give.
And now soldiers of the Confeddtacy
| after nearly "a quarter of century has
| elapsed, we are confronted with u new
order, which il engrafted upon our in
Slltutions by our Northern neighbors-
OF conforming all government policy
ana individual effort 10 material adj
vancement. The time OF theor SITS which
gave us our matchless Calhoun, has
| passed away before the march of "pro-
gress.' The ornate theories which em-
bllsh our solnploI system under the in
spratiOn OF the cultured south, which
was the pride and boast OF our
civilization, has passed away and
replaced by the practicable theory
OF material progress. Whether this will
sustain our boasted civilization and
keep pure all the intellectual channels
ana moral excellence, remains TO be
seen. The car OF Yankee progress is
rushing along with lightning speed,
anu we OF the South must grasp the op-
portunity, or be lef. in the great race OF
life.
Fellow citizens, much Is said about
"closing the bloody chasm,r none wish
II more sincerely than the genuine Con-
federate soldier. But whilst this Is our
wish, no true soldier, who wore the
blue, expects us to bury in that awful
abvSs all those glorious recOllections,
the deeds OF our hallOwed dead, the
weeds of those ministering angel moth
ers, sisters, wives and daughters, whose
tears are AZ sacred To our hearts as the
incense offered the Virgin mother.
Ihls we cannot over the graves of
the Confederate soldiers, dying on
the field of battle, in hospitable
and those only surviving the surrender
to linger out for awhile all the horrors
resulting from privations and exposure,
lying In unsepulchred graves, arc too
dear To us all, not 70 remember with
pathetic emotions the half clad, half
starved, unpaid and without bounty,
soldiery who wore the gray.
We await the truth of history when
all IL faithfully told. We are not afraid
but that full Justice will be done. You
who confronted the brave and patriotic
soldiers OF the North know who would
have been the victors had the northern
army been soldiered BY native born
Americans, or had we possessed the
same numbers and resources. Have
you any doubt as to the result2 Has the
world?
But We are not here to cast stones ut
our adversaries. Far, far, he II from our
wish. Let the dead past bury its
dead" Henceforth we join hands with
the faithful soldiers of the North in
making this government, the grandest
ever known, our pride, and the pride OF
our children: "With malice towards
none, with charity for all, with firm.
ness in the right, as God gives Us to see
the right, let us finish the work we are
in to bind up the nations wouuds.n
Nearly two thousand years ago, when
Rome was Mistress of the world when
lter laws and her civilization were the
example OF all men--the pride of her
people was that they we're citizens of
Rome. So let us all hope that such
would be the common feeling of the
North, tho South, tho East and the West,
From sea To sea OF tn = great country,
zone and inseparahle, nov and forever"
1t is not possible in this brief address
to make even passing mention of the