The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-13
SENATOR INGALLs's TEXT.
Verbatim Extract from His Speech in the
United States Senate.

we print herewith a verbatim extract from
Senator ingalls, speech delivered in the United
States senate on last Tuesday. We reproduce
that part OF the speech which deals particularly
with Mr. Grady's Atlanta and New York
speech 1t is taken from the congressional
Record
But am not quite through with this aspect of
the question yet. III 1885, on the first day of May
OF that year, less than two years ago there was i'll
the city of Atlanta in Georgia great historic occa
sion. statue to one Of Our former associates i'll
this body was TO be unveiled, 4 man whom hon
ored, and whom we all respected. Upon that occa-
sion the venerable ex-preaident of the Confederacy
was invited TO be present. 1t was day that never
will be forgotten in the annals of the south They
locked to that city as men go 10 a banquet or as
doves flock to their windows They
Came as the winds come when
Forests are rended;
Came as the waves come, when
Navies are stranded.
The city was decorated with the confederate en-
blem brought out TO make a confederate holiday
ana an orator selected to give voice to the seni-
ments oil the inhabitants of the lost coniederacy
not in 1866, put in 1886 twenty years after the
render at AppomattoX, and twenty years after we
had been told that the south in good faith had ac-
ccpted the results of the war, and desired TO come
Ill under the old flag and obtain the necessary ap-
preparations. laughter
have the grafton delivered by the speaker upon
OSSttHAOtit
printed In northern paper, but the corrected copy
printed in the paper that the orator himself edits
believe Therefore it is entitled to credence; it is
authentic and authoritative. 1t may be, perhaps,
instructive and entertaining, in view of what we
near about the reconstruction of the SOUTH their re-
penancc, their desire to cooperate with the north
III accomplishing the great results of destiny
under the constitution of the union to hear what
he says and at the risk of tespasing upon your pa
tence WILL with as little abbrevation as can, re-
peat the Grafton delivered on that occasion. As |
said, 1t was TO unyet monument to Benjamin
Harvey Hill. The orator said:
Had the great man whose memory is perpetratod
in this marble chosen of all men witness to his
constancy and his courage he would have chosen
the honorable statesman whose presence honor5
this platform today, Had the people Of Georgia
chosen of all men one man today to aid in this
sacred duty, and, by the memories that invest him
would have chosen jefferson Davis first and last
president of the confederate states
do not blame him for that, Mr.. President. / can
understand it; in certain sense honor it, because
he spoke what believe were the honest, truthful
and courageous sentiments ofhis heart, as believe
the senator from Kentucky and the senator from
Missouri have done in this debate
1t is good, Sir
He continued
turning to Mr.. Davis for you to he here Other
leaders have had their tr.umphs ConQuerors have
Won crowns and honors have been piled on the
vlctors OF earth great battles; but never yet sir
wore prou1cr diadem than the deathless love that
crowns yo1r gray hairs today. Never king inhabited
more splendid palace than the millions of brave
hearts to which your dear name and fame are for
ever eEshrincd. Speaking to you, sir,
S %bo the eooo son b9 Govo,30 confederate sodqi
lfe-holding kinshlp through the priceless borit.
age Of his blood 10 you and yours-sandinq midway
betN cen the thinning ranks of his old comrades.
whose ialterlng footsteps are turned toward the
grave and the new generation thronging eagerly IN
take the work that falls unfinished from their hands
here in the auspices present across which the his
torc past salutes glorious future, let me pledge
you that the love bear you shall lie Transmitted
to our children and our chid1ens children and
that generations yet unborn shall in this fair land
hold your memory sacred and point with pride TO
your lofty and stainless life.
My cOuntrymen-
lie continued
turning to the crowd ct tea 3h the lesson in this
old mans life, that defeat hath its glorieS no less
than victory. Let us declare that this oucas from
the privileges OF TINS great government is the I'M
crowned king of our people, and that no southern
man, high or humble asks greater glory than to
bear with him heart to heart the blame and the
burden OF the cause for which he stands unpar-
doncd. In dignity and honor he met the RESPONSE
bilities of our common cause With dauntless cour-
age he faced its charges In obscurity and Doverfv
he has f twenty years borne the reproach of our
enemies and the obloquy Of defeat.
And as if this were not enough as if culogy had
not been exhausted, he rs3s to the height of the
occasion; and coming nearer think the frontier
Of sacrilege, the boundary line Of basphemy, than
ever man came before, he said:
This momentum this blessed Easter weel1-that
witnessing the resurrection of these memories that
ior twenty years have been lured in hearts has
given us the best Easter we have seen since Christ
risen from the dead. This moment finds its
richest reward in the fact that We can lipht with
sunshine the shortening end Of path that has long
been dark and dreary Gcoreiaus COliptrvmen
soldiers, and sons OF soldiers, and brave women
the light and soul and crown of our civilization
rise aud give your hearts voice as we tell Jefferson
Davis that he is at home among his people
do not propose to rchearsc what that distin-
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sui in his reply, except in single sentence |
VIII quote one paragraph in which he refers
10 the services rendered him by that
iliUst!ious man whose statue was that day
being unveiled ina somewhat memorable debate
that occurred in congress lie said
lie had nothing TO ask, but he had much to give
and when was the last from the sonth VINO could
excite any expectation of benefit, it was Hill whose
voice rose triumphant in the senate and mashed
the injurious Yankee down.
Referring, | suppose, TO our friend who is now in
Florence.
Yet Mr.. President, before the lilies of that
Easter were faded,
The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
in New York or brooklyn, AMI in thl, same year If
our Lord 1856. this same orator who declared tbot
Jefferson Davis the uncrowned king Of the
southern e1ple, ana that no more glorious Easter
had arisen since Chris. died on Calvary than that
which gave them tie opportunity Of renewing their
devotion 10 him and the ideas he represented, made
a pilgrimage to the north, and OF the New England
dinner in the city Of New YORK poured out bis tre-
acle, cold cream, honey and maple syrup all over
tie north, declaring that the south had been wan
dcGing in far Coantry, that they were anxious TO
return TO the home Of their fathers aud the whole
democratic party rose and fell on his neck and put
shoes on his feet and ring on his finger, and said
"Lo this my son that was lost is found"
But some protested, in tn language Of the Scrip
tue ~ the elder son who had not wasted his sub
St nc with harots complained that the father had
killed the fitted calf although Thou never gayest
me q lid that might make merry with my friends"
When was that orator sincere, Mr. President?
When did be speak the sentiments the feelings and
convictions Of the southern Jcope, when he dcliy-
cIe that or0ton the st day Of May 1886, IN At.
lauta, in the presence Of applau1ng Thousands or
Wheu he went up 10 the New England dinner in
December Of the same year, ana spilled oil and wine
all or-r the American people?
.
A ranchman at Dayton, New, found one Of
bis COWS choking on potato, lie thrust bis arm
into her mouth and pushed the potato down her
throat but when he tried 70 Withdraw his arm she
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