The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-03
A Southern speech.

ATLANTA, Ca, 2.,The corner stone of
the new capitol of the State was laid to
day. The feature of the ceremonies
was speech of General Lawton Fol
10 wing are the salient points; I'm the
United States, the experiment of free
government has reached its maturity.
We have passed through q second war.
With England, the war With Mexico.
the numerous contests with adjacent
Indian tribes But the last and greatest
Of all the swars between tie States
the .severest and nlightiest test
ever applied to the energies, the
resources and the endurance of great
people and now the capabity OF man
for self-government Is no longer an ex
pertinent. We postponed the evil day
I.but il came at Last and developments
|! OF four years Of devastating war dey elo-
ped 3 power in this new. American
government and every part of it, in
resources, energy, patriotic endeavcr
and heroism, which caused the whole
civilized world to look upon Us. Eel
low Georgians, sad and dreary as were
those our years OF devastating war.
and painfully conscious of the intense
strain upon our manhood, the desolate
homes which never can be glad, and
broken he 'rts which can never be
aled yet looking to the education and
IuLt re development of q great people,
the |. ssOns taught in those years of the
struggle, and the equally valuable les
son in the years that have since come
aud gone, I now venture to assert the
struggle WAS worth all it cost. The
peop of various sec ions OF this Oun-
try now understand each other better
than they ever did belOre-the north
knows that the south ia not altogether
given to exhibitions Of fiery temper and
capable only of much ebutllIiun and
explosion, without the capacity for pro-
longed effort and endurance. Four
years of war, and at least four more OF
loneliness and povefty.wh'ch followed,
have satisfied them and the whole world
knows how wrongly we were judged.
The South, too. has learned that the
north is not so absorbed in its money
bags that it will not shed its blood and
risk its all, even, for sentiment. The
political effect and result OF the war
between the states has been to show
conclusively that 1t is not the intention
of a great majority OF the people OF this
country to permit any State 10 with
draw itself from the Union and that
they have physical power to prevent it.
That much has been settled by the
war, but no fundamental principle
Fof government has been changed,
AS Georgians we are also citi-
gems of the United States and claim
10 be as loyal to that great government
as any portion of the Union, Since we
are no longer called upon to surrender
our self-r, SD ct, TO do violence to cur
most sacred senslbilities in making that
claim, we are ready and willing to rem
der service to defend her honor, to fight
her battles, to give every man of every
section his just due. In that sense We
know mo North, no South. no East,
no West, but, thank heaven, the time
is past when any right-thinking man OF
the North thinks We shall not love our
own families and neighb0rs better than
the stranger, our own city better than
another. our own state better than,any
off the thirty-eight. Yes, my friends,
they know AMI respect US for IT,.
tdaJ Wine We Join in good faith IN the
tribute paid to the great soldier OF the
United States, recently borne TO The
tomb in Riverside Park, With such dis
play and demonstration as Roman
emperor never received, yet in cur own
homes, in the tenderer moment OF Onr
lives, We mourn the illustrious sons OF
the south, who sleep in modest graves
at Lexington, with sorrow and PRIDE
Which are all our own"