The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-10
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ATLANTA, Sept. Son tho occasion
Of tho laying OF the corner stone OF the
now State capitol yesterday General
A. X. Lawton, OF Savannah, who was
recently tendorod tho Russian mis-.
sion by President Cleveland, delivered
one OF the most eloquent aud fervid
speeches ever no ard in this city. Dur
ing the course OF his address, referring
TO tho late OWL war, the orator said;
DIN the United States tho expert
ment of free government has reached
its maturity. We have passed through
q second wnr with England, tho war
with Mexico, numerous contests Win
adjacent Indian tribes, but last ana
greatest of ali tho war between the
States, the s0yerest and mightiest
ever applied TO tho energies, the
resources, aud the endurance or
. great people, and now the capacity
of man for eef-government IL no
longer an experiment. We postponed
the evil day, but 1t came ut last, and
the developments of four years or do
vastating war exhibited power in
this new American government, and
every part OF 10 In resources, genius,
patriotic endesvor and heroiam, which
Chubou LILO Whoio NafibeSo 'StfN ~
look on in amaZement.
"Fellow-Georgians, sad and dre2ry
as wero those four years demonstrating
war, aud painfully conscious OF the
intense strain upon our manhood, the
desolate homes, which never can be
glad, and tho broken hearts, which can
never be- healed, yet, locking to tho
education and tho future development
Of q great people, the lesson
taught in those years OF
struggle and the equally valuable les
sons in the years that have since come
and gone, Inow venture to assert that
the struggle was worth all il cost. The
people Of the various sections Of the
country now understand each othor
better than they ever did before. The
North knows that the South is not al
together given 10 exhibitions of fiery
temper and capable only Of much eb-
ulltion and explosion, without tho CO.
pacity for prolonged effort and On
durAnce. -Four years of war, and Mt
least four more OF loneliness and pow
erty which followed, have satisfied
them, and the whole world knows how
too, has learned that the North
is not 30 absorbed in its money bags
that it will not she'd its blood and risk
its all even for sentiment, Tho po-
utical effect anc result of tho war be-
tween the States has been TO show con-
clusively that it IL not the Intention of
. great mo- 0rity of the people or the
country to permit any State to with
draw itsel'fom the Union, and that
they have tho physical power to pre-
vent it. That much has been settled
by the war; but no fundamental prin-
ciple of government has been changed.
r, nA.x To- mn a To- m q o. NJ
the Unitsd States, sand claim TO be now,
as loyal to tho government as any
portion OF the United States,
since we are no longer
icalled on to surrender our self
respect, nor to do violence to our most
sacred eensibi.ities In making thas
claim, we ara ready ana willing 10
render servica 10 defend her honor, to
fight her battles, to give every man of
every section his just dues. In that
sense, We know mo North, no South,
no East, no. West But, thank
heaven, The time is past when any
right-thinkiDg man OF the North ex
poets that wo shall not love our own
families and neighbors better than the
stranger; our own city better than an
other; our own State better than the
other OF the SO. Yes, my friends, they
know il and respect us for it. While
we join good faith in the tribute paid
to The great soldier of the United
States, recently borne to tho tomb in
Riverside PARK, with such display and
der ustration as Roman emperors
nev received, yet nc our own homes,
in IT,, te derest moments of our lives,
we mUurn the illustrious SONS OF tho
South who sleep In modest graves at
Lexington, with sorrow and 81 pride
which are all our OWu,D