The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-21
. CONTEMPT FOR TWO CLASSES.

came out or the war he had contempt for
but two classes of men engaged in it. First,
those who made apologies, and, second,
those who demanded them Questions of
great International strife and of great So
clal conflicts, never descended to personali-
ties, but were governed by the great phi
loSophy of human existence He had no
doubt that the Senator from New Hamp-
shire had introduced the bill in a spirit of
benevolence, kindness and generosity, but
1t had not been called for by any Confed-
crate, nor had it grown out of the demands
of public sentiment.
PUBLIC OPINION AS A GUIDE.
The wise legislation of the world was
generally that which had public opinion
behind it. There bad been no public dis
cussion of this subject. There had been no
wide debate about it, either North or
South. The Senator from New Hampshire
had stated that he had originated the bill
and he (Mr. DanieN ventured to believe
that its origin was entirely confined to the
lucubrations of the Senator's own mind
While he had great respect for that Sena-
tor he could not feel that, in this instance,
he (Mr Blair had acted wisely or in con-
sonance with the public spirit of the coun-
try All that the Confederate soldier
asked from the United States was that he
should stand equal before its laws and
should have fair opportunity to work out
his own salvation.
NATURES ARISTOCRACY.
He would venture to say that there
was not town or hamlet, from the Poto-
mac to the Rio Grande, where the Confed-
crate soldier was to be seen in rags or tat
ters, or begging his bread in its streets.
There was not palace or hut where the
Confederate soldier was not always a well
come and honored guest. There was no
dotrr IF l.
however humble he might be, or however
small his fortune, dying on the roadside
because no good Samaritan would
come by to lend him helping hand. All
that the ex-Confederates asked was, not
special privileges, but to be respected in
their rights of American citizenship, which
they had assumed knowingly and inten-
tionally, and which they intended to abide
by God helping them, in such a manner
that no man could justly lift against them
the finger of scorn or apply to them an in
sulting epithet.
FUNDAMENTALLY A MISTAKE.
Mr. Hawley expressed himself as person.
ally grateful to the Senate fromr Virginia
CMr, Daniel for his manly and statesman
like speech. There had been nothing so
disagreeable in connection with the bill as
its Introduction by the Senator from New
Hampshire and if the bill had
been referred to the committee
without notice, he should not have cared
about the question being raised, preferring
to wait for the report of the committee
but the point had been made, and there was
no proposition in the bill which could not
be just as we'll understood and acted onnow
us if there were a long report from a COM
mittee upon it. He thought
the bill was fundamentally mistake He
not only dsclaimed any feeling of hatred
toward those who had been Confederates,
but he would not do anything to bar their
progress or to disqualify or dishonor them.
WICKED WAR.
The generous and manly Confederate SOL
dier knew as we'll as any of them that the
issue had been joined before the greatest
tribunal of the world on a question inVolv-
ing the very foundations of republican gov
ernment; that it had been fought out as
great armies OF brave men alone could
fight that somebody won; that some
fundamental theory of the constitution
won, and that the result had
proved that it was causeless,
unconstitutional, and wicked war. That
had been recorded by the surrender at Ap.
pomattox But should he, therefore, act
ungenerously toward any person on the
other sidel
God forbid
Should he try to bar his progressl
Not at all.
Should he object to meeting him in the
Senate chamber as his peerl
By no means.
NO OBJECTION TO ADMIRATION.
Did he object to the fsllow-citizens of the
Confederate soldier loving him because of
his gallantry!
No.
Did any man think less of the State of
South Carolina for sending to the Senate
two of her gallant Confederate Generalss
Not at all. On the contrary be should be
ashamed of South Carolina if she did not
remember such men in the days of her resto-
ration. At the same time he would not by
his vote or without vigorous protest permit
to be placed on the statute book anything
which would in any degree reward
a man for fighting on tie Confederate side
in the war. He was obliged to the Senator
from Virginia (Mr. Daniel. He honored
him for remembering with gratitude and
love the men who fought on the other side,
and he thanked him for not asking Sena-
tors from the North to do that which in his
(Mr. Hawley's) judgment if they did. they
would be making fools Of themselves.