Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-03
soUTHERNERs IN NEW YORK.
Opening of Their New Club House
Speech by General Gordon.

The formal opening Of the sumptuously ap-
pointed home of the New York Southern soci.
ETY.. at No. IS West Twenty-hfth street, tool
place last night IN the form Of grand banque,
and reception. All the southern people OF
prominence called here by the centennial cele-
bration were present in addition to a long list
of New York officials and prominent men. Al
the banquet, at which the president, John C.
Calhoun, presided, the toast list was entirely
formal and was arranged to include an address
from the governor Of each southern state
present in the order in which the states
were admitted into the Union. Following
an opening address by President CAL
houn, the order of speeches arranged
for was as follows: yice-President Levi p.
Morton, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Henry ". Grady,
Gov. Benz. l. Biggs, of Delaware; Gov. E. E.
Jackson, of Maryland; Gov. John B. Gordon,
OF Georgia; Gov John p. Richardson, of South
Carolina; Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia; Gov.
FOwle. of North Carolina; Gov. Simon b. Buck
her, of Kentucky. and Col. Hancock, of Texas.
The representative southern people present
other than mentioned in the list of speakers
included: Senator John W.. Daniel and
VI. &. Butler, of the South Carolina house of
representatives; the Virginia commissioners,
Col Walter II. Taylor, Judge w. w. Crump,
Judge Walter Staples, Major Holmes Conrad
ex-COngressman Randolph Tucker, Senator
wade hampton. OF SOutn CarOllna; zen. ChaS.
Anderson. Col Sam'l B. Witt and Col. Chas. OBJ
Cowardin. of Gov. Lees staff, and Coils. Mark
ley. Maxwell, Brown, Gleason and McGowen
of the staff of Gov. John p. Richardson, Of
South Carolina.
Others present included Gen. Arson G. Nc
Cook. president of the New York chamber of
commerce; Charles Smith. Col. Elliott F. Shep-
ard. Calvin s. Brice, Chief Justice Charles p
DAILY. Frederick II. Coudert, Judge Bookstaver,
George Rutledge Gibson, Vim. L. Trenholm,
Vim. Z. st. John, Ballard Smith and Col Nor
win p. Randolph.
GEORGIA AND THE UNION.
Gov. Gordon in his speech said: "Georgia's
position in this sisterhood Of states is both in
teresting and unique. She was the youngest Of
the thirteen original colonies which formed the
Union She Is, therefore, the honored link in
the family circle between the old and the new
commonwealth of the republic. Although for
a brief period that link severed. yet her
love for her sisters and for the birthright Of
freedom which all inherited has survived the
separation l utter great truth, and one
which the future will vet make plain to the
apprehension of posterity, that through all
the dust and smoke of that bitter sec
tlOnal conflict. through all the tears and the
blood that was shed. through all the pas
siOns that were evoked and all the woes that
were endured. the eye that is clear and the
mind that Is Just. can plainly discern an IN
faltering love Of the liberty which our fathers
jointly achieved, and an undated devotion to
the constitutional republic which they Jointly
established. II / may be permitted a figure
drawn from the Statue of Liberty, whose up
lifted flame lights your Incompatible harbor I
would say that upon this centennial occasion we
should build political lighthouse, grounded
on the rock of the Constitution, cemented in
sectional fellowship and mutual confidence, to
throw Its light over land and sea, that we NAV
avoid the reefs upon which the happiness of
peoples and the stability OF nations are stranded
wrecked and lost. A political lighthouse
whose quenchlesS fame shall not only serve to
guide the American people to all political
truth and to the true basis for real unity but
shall also guide the struggling peoples of the
world in their onward march to freedom