The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-04
SPEECH BY GEN. LAWrON.
GOOD CORNERSTONE oRAToRy
For state-Houss Starter or Any othci
Occasisn-The Tras Relattsns OF
the North and the South
~ the Results OF the War.
No Secession Possible.

ATLANTA, Sept. Son the occasion
Of tho laying of the corner stone of the
new State capitol yesterday General
A. II. Lawton, OF Savannah, who was
recently tendered the Russian mis-
sion by President Cleveland, delivered
one Of the most eloquent and fervid
speeches over heard in this city. Dur
ing the course of his address, referring
to the late civil war, the orator said:
"In the United States the expert
ment of free government has reached
its maturity. We have passed through
a second war with England, the war
with Mexico, numerous contests with
adjacent Indian tribes, hut last and
greatest of all the war between the
States, tho severest and mightiest
ever applied TO tho energies, the
resources, and tho endurance OF
great people, and now the capacity
OF man for so.i-goyernmont Is no
longer an experiment, We postponed
tho evil day, Du5 1t came nc last, and
tho developments IF fcur years or do
vastating var exhibited q power In
this new American government, and
evory part OF IL in resources, genius,
patriotic cndeavor and herolsm, which
causoa tho whole civilized world 10
look on in amazement.
acknowledgements, sad and dreary
rs wero those four years OF dovastating
war, and painfully conscious OF the
Intense strain upon our manhood, the
des0lato homes, which never can be
glad, and tho broken hearts, which can
nsyor DO hoaied, yet, looking TO the
education and the future development
OF 8 great people, tho Lesson
taught in those years ui
stragglo aud the equally valuable los.
CONS In the years that have since come
and gone, now venture 10 assert that
the struggle war Worsb all 10 cost. The
people Of the various seotlsns OF Tn,
country now understand each other
bettor than they over did before. The
North knows that tho South IL not nj
together given TO exhibitions of fiery
temper and capable only III much eb
ulltl0n and explosion, without tho ca
paoity for prolonged effort and on
DURANGO. -Four years OF war. and a
least four more Of loneliness and pow
erty which followed, have satisfied
them. snd tho whole world knows hon
wrongly We were judged. The South
too, has learned that the NORTH
Is not 30 absorbed In It's money bag
that IL will not she'd its blood aud risk
its all even for sentiment. Tho 20
litical ef1ecp and result OF the war be
tween the States has been to show con
clusiveIy that Ii is not the intention o.
. great majority of tho people or thu
| country to permit any State to with
draw itself from the Union, and thai
they have tho physical power to pre-
| v6ni IL. That much has been settled
| by the war; but no fundamental prin
| ciple government haa been changed
| Az G0Orgians, wo are also citizens OF
the United States, land claim TO be now,
| as loyal to tho government AZ any
portion of the United States,
since wo are no longer
called on to surrender our self
roepect, nor to do violence to our mo ut
sacred aeusibilitieB. In making that
claim, we are ready and willing to
render SERVES to defend her honor, to
tight her battles, to give every man OF
every section his just dues. In Shat
senBe, wo know mo North, no South,
no East, no West But, thank
heaven, the time is past when any
right-thinkiDg man OF tho North ex
pecis that Ne shall not love our owr
families and noighbors better than the
stranger; our own city better than an
other; our own State better than the
other OF the SS. Yes, my friends, they
know IL and respect us for IL. While
we join good faith In the tribute paid
10 the great soldier OF tho United
States, recently borne TO the tomb in
Riverside Park, with such display and
demonstration as Roman emporors
never received, yet ut our own homes,
In the tenderest moments Of our lives
we mourn tho illustrious sons OF the
South who sleep in modest graves 81
Lexington, with sorrow ami 3 pride
which arc all our own"