The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
HOMES FOR OUR HEROES.
A MEETING AT NEW YORK TO AID
AUSTIN's PROJECT.

Mai. Joseph e. Stewart Makes the
Principal Speech of the Evening
Reasons Why 1t May Be Unadvisa-
bic to Extend Government Aid
Freeing of the Negro a Blessing in
Disguise for the Whites.
NEW YORK, March PA meeting was
held tonight at the Academy Of Music
under the auspices of the New Y ork citizens
committee in aid of the National Coafed-
crate Soldiers Home at Austin, Texas. Maj.
Joseph E. Stewart made the principal
speech. He said
Yesterday we we're fighting. Victory
crowned the legions OF the north. Peace
came and we are fellow countrymen. The
ritual of sorrow, in which all great revolu-
tons chant to human hearts their deepest
meanings, has consecrated us afresh to one
another In the offices of patriotic fellowship
And we have been made fellow-country-
men in larger measure OF affection by
means Of thoss sacrifices and sufferings
which providence ordained, and in ordan-
ing anointed us to endure. | am not here
to reopen the graves of the heroes of the
south, nor to hold up the skeletons of the
Iast Sectionalism is being fast obliterated
from the minds and hearts of men, and the
fcemen of twenty five years ago now march
shoulder to shoulder in the struggle of civil
conflict.
vALoR OF THE DEAD.
1.-THE valor and fortitude Of the coufeder-
ate dead is an everything heritage-not of
the south, but of the entire union. Both
sides OF the conflict were but fitting ex-
emplars of the American soldier. The
southern flag is folded away forever, and
now its followers are as loyal to the union
as the survivors of the army Of the PJto-
mac and the Cumberland.
I'VE rejoice, too, that many thousands
Of union veterans are now upon the
pension roll, and about $4,000 are main
tanned by the government in comfortable
homes, and at an annual aggregate expense
Of about $l00,G00,000 and that they are
honored wards of the nation. All honor to
to those men, and the government that
sustains and upholds them with its bounty,
and largely SO by the votes of southern
men in the law-making power of the
country. 1t is but fitting reward to them,
and a valuable lesson to he youth of our land.
AID FOR THE CONFEDERATE HERD.
"But what may be done for the hapless
confederate soldier who left an arm and
freely shed his blood as willing sacrifice
upon the altar of a country that had no
sponsor at its baptism among the nations
Of the earth, and who was destined to sink
like some bril- hit planet of the heavens, never
more 10 rise again. III iIilRuJ D6 an ulWlSe
and, possibly, a dangerous precedent to
aid at the public expense those who fought
against the old flag; aud southern men in
both branche; of our congress have eX-
pressed disapproval of this policy. But
may We not find sympathetic hearts and
generous hands to aid us with their bounty"
JOHN B. HOOD CAMP.
The speaker went on to say that for this
purpose John B. Hood camp of confederate
oh ritz NOD in, sra 70 81
Texas. 1t was not their purpose to foster
the animosities of the past, but to minister
to the wants Of their suffering
comrades, He reviewed the estab-
lishment of the Confederate Soldiers
Home at Austin, Texas, established
end maintained for more than two years
by private charity. After reviewing the
great commercial prospects of the south
and its dependence upon the nortb, the
speaker added that the south needed only
to be true to her interests and the union TO
aspire to the leade ship in material ad-
vancement, In this prosperity they should
not forget TIE distressed and unfortunate.
FREEDOM OF THE NEGRO.
He continued:
The freedom of the negro added untold
blessings to their former masters though the
liberation of that race seemed then to be
cruel kind of logic. Yet truly may it be
taid that there was never such a blessing
In disguise" to the white man as that
which liberated the negao race in the south.
1t freed master and slave The freeing Of
the slave dignified labor in the south and
taught the best lessons in self-reliance.
From association, sympathy and mutual
welfare, the white man at the south became
Interested in the education, improvement and
elevation of the negro, and imposed a tax
& upon himself to educate and elevate his
former slave. In the problem before it,
fha ukaNa ~f Al
terence by the general government, must be
left to solve the question Of local self-sus-
tanning government at the SOUTH ,"
MISUNDERSTOOD AT THE NORTH.
In the north, the speaker said, the politi-
cal conditions of the south were not under
aood-how the giving Of the ballot to the
negro was regarded as a menace
property. This was tho
cause of party alignments. This
had broken up the natural affiliations of
white voters There is, therefore, but
n little independent political thought in the
south, though the spirit Of political in
dependence is growing espe iallY in Texas"
Maj Stewart spoke Of the desire--not to
sur up amin sities-but to get aid for the
suffering, and closed as follows:
And while we would fight and die-yes,
we mean tide, if need be TO maintain the
i nonor and integrity of that grand old flag,
81 we Will ever cherish the tenderest recollec-
IONS OF the lost cause and the flag taat
was never destined to float among the en-
olems of nations"
SOME OF THOSE IN ATTENDANCE.
ten. H. H. Barnum presided at the meet
ing and many Grand Army men were in
tle audience, including Gen. T. T. Criten-
zen, Gen. Carl Schurz, Col. Charles 4.
yo-n, Gen. Horatio C. King, Col. John W.
JacooCs and Col James b. Mix.
vi confederate veterans there were pres
ent Maj. w. Hancock Clarke, Capt. s.
EENhoun Smith, Capt. Andrew Calhoun,
Sapt' Matthew Clarke, Col. Thomas l..
SAead and Maj. D. A. Llewellyn.
SILVER FOR SOUL SAVER.