The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-30

ed in the defense of our comrades in es
arrangement?
If so, he shall be disappointed The
South is back in the Union in perfect good
faith, willing to bear her part OF Its bur
| denS, ready to work out her share of its
glory and prosperity-but she comes un-
cringing and frank, yielding nothing of
| the love and reverence in which she holds
| those who fought her cause in field and
forum. Were she craven enough to come
otherwise she would be unworthy the wei
| come of brave men. The South has ac-
cepted as final the results of the war Not
one man in ten thousand of her people
would reverse those results if they could.
| Every point at issue has been settled and
the verdict imbedded in our constitutional
law. The South admits this and is glad
of it. More than this, generous men could
| not ask or brave men cOncede. To the
North she says, as brother to brother, ''We
shall honor Davis as you honor Lincoln;
| Lee as you honor Grant; Jackson as you
| honor Hancock We shall find constant
| and deepening inSplI alton i'll the Goth of
April as you in the Both of May. Our dead
| are as dear to US as yours to yOu-Our
graves as sacred, our monuments as stain
less. But when danger threatens our
common republic, when the future inctes
or the present warns, we shall be found
atty and in perfect love"
1t is of interest to know if any consider
able fraction of the Northern people in
dorse the hatred and intolerance of Sena
tor Ingalls, Upon this knowledge the flu
ture largely depends. 1t is not enough to
know that Mr.. ingalls, has long been recog
| niZed as the most unwholesome and malig
nant character in public life, and that by
this last and most indecent speech he has,
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himself beyond the pale of presidential
possibilities. 1t is interesting to know
how many people in the North will de-
mand with him that to be accredited as
| sincere the South must forsake her own
memories and traditions; how many will
applaud when he pronOunces it treason to
eulogize leader of the cause to which we
| were ali committed, or when he villifieS
Judge Lamar for having defended that
/ leader in the Senatel Or how many of his
people will go so far in sectional hate as to
| stain the memory of two distinguished
| Union soldiers whose lives We're stainless?
If Mr.. Ingalls, is not literally driven before
the storm of Indignation at the open
cription of treachery to Hancock and Nc
| Clellan, whom he calls 1.-The allies mot of
| the ConfederateS, butt ''Of the COnfeder-
! acy," 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 hgh-minded loyalty to American
| institutions, and a pride in the fair name
| of the republic that subordidates party or
personal rancor, the South has nothing to
| learn from the North, if Mr.. Ingalls's un
| speakaby coarse and brutal attack on
| President Cleveland finds in any nook or
corner the faintest echo of applause or ap
proval
One word more. Senator Ingalls, i'm
| plies, if he does not assert, that the senti
| ment of what | said ID New York differed
from the sentiment of what l said in At
| lanta. As had much rather be consider
| ed to have been imprudent among my own
people than cringing among strangers, let
me quote the following sentences from the
New England banquet speech. | quote
| from the pamphlet issued by that society:
''This is said in no spirit of time serving
or apology. The South has nothing for
which to apologize. She believes that the
| late struggle between the States was war
and not rebellion; revolution and not con-
! spiracy, and that her convictions were as
honest as yours. l should be unjust to
| the dauntless spirit of the South and to
my own convictions, if did not make this
| plain in this presence. The South has
| nothing to take back. In my native town
of Athens is a monument that crowns its
| central hills-a plain white shaft. Deep
cut into its shining side is name
dear to me above the names of men: that
of brave and simple man. who died in
| brave and simple faith. Not for all the
glories of New England, from Plymouth
| Rock all the way, would | exchange the
heritage he left me in his soldiers death.
To the foot of that shaft | shall send my
| children's children to reverence him who
| ennobled their name with his heroic blood.
| But, sir, speaking from the shadow of
| that memory, which | honor as do moth
| ing else on earth say that the cause in
which he suffered and for which he gave
his life was adjudged by higher and fuller
wisdom than his or mine, and | am glad
that the omniscient God held the balance
of battle in His Almighty hand. and that
| human slavery was swept forever from
American soil, and the American union
saved from the wreck of war. Loud ap
plause.
''This message, Mr.. President, comes to
you from consecrated ground Every foot
of soil about the city in which | live is
sacred as battle ground of the republic
Every hill that invests it is hallowed to
you by the blood of your brothers who
died for your victory, and doubly hallowed
to US by the blow Of those who died hope
| less, but undaunted, in defeat-sacred soil
|
make US purer and stronger and better
silent but staunch witness in its red desc
lation of the matchless valor of American
hearts and the deathless glory of Ameri-
can arms speaking and eloquent witness
in its white peace and prosperity to the
indissoluble union Of American States and
the imperishable brotherhood of the
American people" Immense cheering.
Assurediy, no stronger words were 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 ovation to Mr.. Davis meant no more
than these words frankly declared to be
the fixed, infexble temper of the South.
To honor to the full, now and forever, the
soldiers who fought her battles, and her
leaders in field or council; to bring her
children up in their loving reverence-to
do this, freely and openly and in all haz-
ard or despite-and 10 abate not one jot
or title of this right at any time or in any
place-this the South must do that she
may command the respect of the world,
and, more important, preserve her self
respect Above this, and based upon this,
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