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

MI. UTduy quotes SeudtOT 1uSdilS last
paragraph, and replies to the question:
''When was the orator sincerel' as follows:
l have nothing to do with the Senator
speech. But plain question deserves a
plain answer. And | answer the Senator S
question, especially as it involves broad
and essential issues, reaching beyond his
personality or mine.
was sincere when l spoke in Atlanta
| was equally sincere when | spoke in New
York. Barring certain phrases in the first
speech, the questionable taste of which the
enthusiasm of the occasion may have ex-
cused, there is not word of either, as
suredly not sentiment. or conviction
that do not now deliberately repeat aud
reaffirm. In both speeches there is deep
and reverential love, earnest and outspo-
ken, for every man who died or suffered
for the Southern cause, and based upon
this, and stronger and better because of
it, full and perfect loyalty to the recon
structed union.
Let me say one word just here about the
ovation to Mr. Davis do not hope that
Senator Ingalls, will comprehend its true
meaning. A man shameless enough to
SANDER his own dead in partisan rage,
vandal enough to write traitor on the
tomb of Mcclellan, who first gave victory
to the Union armies, and cowardly enough
to denounce as an ally of the enemy (while
the widow in her weeds sat almost in the
sound of his voice. Hancock the Superb,
who, on the heights of Gettysburg, saved
the Union cause; such a man cannot under
stand, or understanding honor, the devo-
ton that twenty years after defeat is still
constant and unshaken. But let others
know that from Beauvoir to Atlanta Mr..
Davis, representing cause that brought
only sacrifice and suffering and ended in
disaster, rode amid the unbroken shouts
of devoted people. From ploughshare
| and shop they came-from hut and man
sion-from city and country side-throng-
| ing that they might look into his face, or
| have him lay his hands on the heads of
their children and bless them. For twenty
years unexampled prosperity had led the
South to material things. Further and
| further had we drifted from memories
| fraught with tender and heroic lessons.
A growing generation driven early to school
and shop ard store lost sight OF the graves
and monuments of its fathers. An old
| man in his lonely home, poor and uncom-
| planning, looked wonderingly on his peo-
| pie gone mad with trade, but bore in 81
ience their neglect. At last he was called
| forth, and trusting came. Then the South
| took "a day off," And manly, self-re-
| specting day it was-the most useful, as
| it was the most beautiful, day in her his
| tory. Filled with love without disloyalty
with Joy without rancour-smlllng
! through mist of tears-loving every sol
| dier better that she loved her soldiers so
| touching every grave in America with the
| flowers that decked her Own-baptlzing
| her heart anew in waters without bitter
-honorng the Union most in respect
| ing herself. Never were we better Amerl
| cans than on that day. Never did oul
hearts beat truer to the republic than when
| gathering together our broken swords and
tattered flags, we consecrated them anew
| in the presence of our leader and our chill
dren. No man who believes that stead
fastness is better than inconstancy-tha
defeat hallows, as victory glorifies, cause
| honestly engaged in and bravely fought
| can do less than honor the South in that
two decades after her overthrow she gave
| to him who laid down her broken sceptrt
| a grander and more heartful triumph thar
would have been his had he returned fresf
from the signing of a treaty of peace a
Washington.
What is it Mr.. Ingalls, would have? |:
it possible-amazing incredible, Is it posi-
ble-that he would demand as proof O.
our sincerity, that we should denounce, o.
in silence hear others denounce, our OWL
people, living or dead? Would he meas
ure our loyalty to the Union by our treach
cry to our comrades or our fathers2 Woul(
he stop our widows as they go to honol
their husbands graves, or have us teacf
our children that the monuments tha
glorify our land from Virginia to Texas
teach a lesson at which they must lool