The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-13

slant and deepening inspiration in the Goth
OF April as you in the 3Uth OF May. Our
dead are as dear 10 US as yours to you-ouT
/ graves as sacred, our monuments as stain
less But when danger threatens our COM
mon republic, when the future inctes or
the present warns, We shall be found Shout
der to shoulder to you in perfect loyalty and
in perfect love"
1t is OF interest to know if any consider
able fraction Of the northern people ndorse
the hatred and intolerance OF Senator In
gals, Upon this knowledge the fu-
ture largely depends. II is not
enough 10 know that Mr.. ingalls,
has long been recognized as the most
unwholesome aud malignant character in
public life, and that by this last and most in
decent speech he has, by the confession Of
his friends, placed himself beyond the pale
Of presidential possibilities. 1t is interesting
to know how many people in the north
viii demand with him that to be accredited
as sincere tile south must forsake her own
memories and ualtions; how many viii APP
plaud when he pronounces it treason TO
eulogize leader of the cause to which we
were all committed, or when he villifes
Judge Lamar for having defended that
people will 90 50 far in sectional late as to
stain the memory of two distinguished union
soldiers whose lives were stainless? If Mr..
ingalls, is not literally driven before the
storm of Indignation at the open ascripton
of treachery to Hancock and Mcclellan,
whom he calls "the allies (not of the con-
federates, butt "of the confederacy," the
north will confess to an apathy that is
amazing, or to a sectional hatred in which all
better and finer sentiments are overwhelmed.
As to high-minded loyalty to American in
situations, and pride in the fair name of
the republic that subordinates party or per-
sonal rancor, the south has nothing to learn
from the north, if Mr.. Ingalls, unspeakably
coarse and brutal attack on President Cleve-
land finds in any nook or corner the faintest
echo OF applause or approval. The south
has not yet developed a Congressman
much less president of the senate--so I'M
mindful of personal or official dignity, and
OF the expressed sovereignty of the Ameri-
can people as to say in deliberate speech:
Personal illusions 10 myself ] viii pass by with
but one single observation, ana that is that the
nomination and election of Grover Cleveland have
made the pretensiIns ofany American citizen to the
presidency respectable There is no man in this
country whose ignorance is so profound WI oe
oiscurity l. so impenetable aud whose antecedents
are so deSra led that he may not iusifaby aspire to
presidential nominalion-by the democratic party.
Applause and laughter in the galleries
One word more. Senator ingalls, implies.
If he does not assert, that the sentiment of
what l said in New York differed from the
sentiment of what said in Atlanta. As |
had much rather be considered to have been
imprudent among my own people than cring-
ing among strangers, let me quote the fol
lowing sentences from the New England
banquet speech. quote from the pamphlet
issued by that society:
This is sal In spirit Of ime-serying or apology
The south has nothing Tor which 10 apologize she
believes that the late struggle between the states
was war and not rebellion; revolution aud nor con-
spirdcY and that her convictions were as honest rs
yours. should be unjust to the dauntless spirit of
the south aud to my own convictions If | diu not
make this plain in this presence. The south has
nothing to take back, In my natl, town of Athens
is monument that crowns its central hills-a ploin
white shaft Deep cut into its shining side is name
dear 10 me above the names of men: that of brave
and simple man, who died in brave and silnulc
ioth. Not for ali the g!ories of New England from
Plymouth Rock all the way, would | exchange the
heritage lie left me in his soldiers death To the
foot of that shaft shall send my chldrens children
TO reverence him who ennohlCd their name with his
heroic blood. But sir. speaking from the shadow of
that memory, which honor as ] do nothing else on
earth, say that the cause in which he suffered and
for which he gave his life was adjudsed by higher
and fuller wisdom than his or mime, ana am rlad
that the omniscient God held the balance of battle
in His Almighty hand, and that human slavery was
swept forever iromiAmcrican soil and the American
union saved from the wreck of war, Loud ap-
pauSe,
This Mosaic, II. Pc,ideut comes to YOU from
cOnseorated ground. Every foot of soil al olt the
city in which live is sacred as Il battle ground
ofthc republic, livery Hill that invests it is hal
lowed to you by the blood of your brothers who
died for your victory and douhly hal'oycd TO rs
10y the blow of those who died hopeless but I'M
daunted, in deicat-sacIed SOL TO all of us-rich
with memories that make us l'rtr and stronger and
laonof the matches yalor Of AInel an hearts and
the deathleSS glory of American arms speaking and
eloquent witness in lis white peace and prosperity
TO the mdNsolublo union of American states and the
iml er>habc brotherhood of The American people.
Immense cheering
Assuredly, no stronger words we're sub
limated in the applause at Atlanta than
those which were met with equally as
earnest applause in New York. Soldiers
who fought harder in war than Mr.. ingalls,
has fought in peace, and civilians. wiser and
more patriotic than he, rose TO greet these
sentiments with generous approval. The ova-
ton 10 Mr.. Davis meant no more than these
words frankly declared to be the fixed. infex-
lille temper of the south. TO honor to the
full, now and forever, the soldiers who fought
her battles. and her leaders in field or eoun-
ell; to bring her children up in their loving
reyerCnce--to do this, freely and openly
and in all hazard or dcspite-and to abate not
one jot or t,utlc Of this right az any time or
In any ulHcr-t This tNc south must DO That