The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-05
THE ISSUE OF ISSUES.
Emancipation for American Industry
and Commerce

New YORK, July 4.-The following are
extracts from the address of Henry Waiter
son before the democratic club of Harlem,
New York city, this evening;
FelLow Democrats and FelIoO Citizens:
There is not wanting to this historic spot
that which brings it into fellowship with
the occasion and the cause we have come
together to celebrate. The fellowship is
closer, indeed, than those of you who dwell
here are wont to consider in your familiar
walks and way and the busy round of
daily travel that makes up the sum of your
migrations between the sign-board and the
roof-tree, the bluebed and the brown; for.
given over as it is into the hands of the
vandal of modern architecture, and the
goth of speculative civilization, the
soil on which we are assembled
IS sacred soil, consecrated by the
pureH blood that ever flowed from the
veins of heroes Every rood of ground that
goes to-day for so much a foot in the mar
ket and is regarded as simple merchandise,
marks the scene of a struggle for liberty
and cost the life of patriot. The battle of
Harlem heights may not have been great
battle, as battles go; but it was an inpor-
tant battle, and its memory, breezy with
revolutionary inspiration, should not be
suffered to fade and die in the fetid atmos-
phere of commerce; its glory should not be
buried and lost forever beneath the hotbeds
OF metropolitan progress and municipal
development. 1t is hardly more than
legend; but that legend should rank first
among the archives of this club 1t was
hardly more than a skirmish but its por-
trayal should fill your amplest panel.
1t registered the first real victory
over the skilled veterans of England. 1t
gave to the statesmen, who had undertaken
to create nation, their first assurance that
military union was possible, and TO the
brave, but ragged battalions that had
thrown themselves into the fight without
organization or training, confidence in their
leaders and in themselves May its lessons
live with you, gentlemen; and lift and stir
you to high attempts; for the enemies OF
freedom are once more on the war-path.
and, though clad in new uniforms and
marching under banners blazoned with
fresh notices contrived to de-
ceive the unthinking-they are the self
same legions of taxation and prerogative.
feudal tenure and class interest that a little
more than a century ago were marshaled
beneath the royal standard OF King George
Ill
THE END OF SECTIONAL FRICTION.
In truth, the conflict between the many
who toll and the few who gather. is an ire
presslble conflict, The history of mankind
from the fall Of Adam TO the last Chicago
convention, is mainly the history of self
love and self-deception. / should he sorry
TO think that the republicans of the United
States, judged by the rule of individual
averages, are, by nature. less high minded
and sincere than the democrats They are
not; but ] think il is a demoustrable propo-
sltion that the republican party has come TO
embody and represent all that it set out to
combat when il took the field as the
peculiar friend Of the rights of
man. It's original and exclusive title TO
that character might be challenged il we
would penetrate and analyze the ethics aud
evidence underlying the case of parties IN
equity. But | shall not challenge IT,
shall admit that the fight against African
slavery was an honest fight for liberty and
that the war for the union, into which it
deepened, involved the fato of freedom,
and free institutions, not merely in
America, but throughout the world. Sur
veylng the present state Of the country and
considering the triumphs in learning and
IN histories, in arts and arms.
already achieved, and yet to be achieved
by united people, 1t costs me moth.
ing TO say that ! am glad the side on
which served IN that war was unsuccess-
ful, though cannot see how, the conditions
being what they were. the younger genera
ton OF southern men could, when the ordeal
81 battle came, have done other than IL did
al Interests. all passions. all THOUGHTS were