The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-14

culogze q leader of the cause TO which we
were oil committed, or when he villiiies
Judge lamar for having defended that
leader In the Senate? Or how many OF
his people will 20 10 far in sectional hate
rs to stain tho memory OF two
distinguished Union soldiers whose
lives were stainless? II Mr.. Ingalls,
is not literally: driven before the
storm OF indignation at the open ascription
oftrcachery TO Hancock and Mcclellan,
whom he calls 'the allies" (not OF the
Confederatcs, butt "of the Confederacy,
the north will confess to an apathy that
M amazing, or TO sectional hatred in
which all the better and finer sentiments
are overwhelmed.
AS TO high minded loyalty TO American
institutions, and pride In the fair name
OF the republic that subordinates party or
personal rnncor, the south has nothing to
learn from the north, II Mr.. Ingalls, UNI
speakably coarse and brutal attack on
President Cleveland finds in any nook or
corner the faintest echo OF applause or APP
proval. The south has not yet developed
congressman less q president OF
the senate--so unmindful OF personal or
Official dignity, and Of the expressed SOW
eighty Of the American people rs TO say in
deliberate speech:
Personal illusions 10 myself will pass
Dy with but one single observation, and
that Is. that the nomination and election
OF Grover Cleveland have made the pre-
tensions OF any American citizen TO the
presidency respectable. There is no man
In this country whose Ignorance Is 30 pro-
found, whose obscurity Ii no impenctrable
and whose antecedents arc NO degraded
that he may not iustifiably aspire 10 a
presidential nomination the Demo-
cratic party. Applause and laughter in
the galleries. u
One word more. Senator ingalls, i'm
plies, II he hoes not assert, that the senti-
ment OF what said In New York differed
from the sentiment Of what said in At
lama Az had much rather be consid-
crcd TO have been imprudent among my
own people than BRINGING among strangers,
lot me quote the following sentences from
tho New England banquet speech. ]
quote from the pamphlet issued by that
society.
This is said In no spirit OF time serving
or apology. Tho south has nothing for
which 10 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 M
honest rs yours. should be- unjust 10 the
dauntles spirit Of the south and 10 my
own convictions, II did not make this
plain In this presence. The south has
nothing 10 take back. In my native town
Of Athens Ii monument that crowns its
central hills plain, white shaft. Deep
cut into IL shining side Is name dear 10
me above the names OF men: that Of
brave and simple man. who died in brave
and simple faith. Not for all the glorics 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 90 reverence him who ennoblod
their name with his heroic blood But sir,
speaking from the shadow Of that memory,
which | honor M 10 nothing else on
earth, say that the causc In which he
suffered and for which he gave his
life was adjudgcd by higher and fuller
wisdom than his or mine, and avn glad
that the omniscicnt God held the balance
Of battle IN lis Almighty hand, and that
human slavery was swept forever from
American soil, and the American Union
saved from the wreck OF war. Loud ap-
plausc This message, Mr.. President,
zones 10 you from conGcratcd ground.
Every foot Of soil about the city in which
i've IL sacred ns n battle-ground Of the re-
public. Every hill that invests II Il hal. |
owed 10 you by the blood Of your brothers |
who died for your victory, aud donbly hal |
owed 10 M by the blow 81 those who died
hopeless, but undauntcd, In defeat sacred
soil 10 all Of us-rich with memories that
make us purcr and -strosgcr and better
silent but stanch witness In its MI desc
laiion Of the matchlcss yalor vi American
hearts and the dcathlcss glory OF American
arms speaking and eloquent witness in
It's white peace and prosperity 10 the indis-
soluble Union Of American States and the
brotherhood Of the American
people. Immense cheering T.
A@urcdly, no stronger words were sub
limatcd In the applause ut Atlanta than
those which were mot 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 morc patriotic than he, rose a. greet
these sentiments with generous approval
Tho ovation 10 Mr.. Davis meant no moro
than these words frankly declared 10 be
the fixed, inilcxiblo temper Of the south.
To honor 10 the full, now and forever. tho
soldiers who fought her battles, and her
lcalicm In field or council; To- bring her
children up la their loving reverence to
do this. irccly and openly aud In all haz-
ard 90 dcspitc-and 10 ahatc not one iot
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, morc important, preserve her sclf.rcs-
pccL Above this, aud based upon this
she Is loyal and devoted 10 the Union.
which shall fluid In peace 90 war no more
Ecalous defenders than her sons And
this declaration. comprchcnding all that
honest men should demand or concedc,
may be delivered ''in sincerity" whether
IN Atlanta or Now York.
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