The Butler weekly times., 1890-01-08

teAsent sympathy and confidence.
Faith has been kept with him in
spite OF calumnious assertions to the
contrary by those who assume to
speak Tor us by frank opponents.
fmtn Will be kept with him in the
future, if the south holds her reason
and integrity. [Applause.
THE SOUTH HAS KEPT FAITH
But have We kept faith with YOU.
In the fullest sense, yes. When Lee
surrendered-I don't say when
Johnston surrendered. because I
understand he still alludes to the
time when he met General Sherman
last as the time when he determined
to abandon any further prosecution
of the struggle-when Lee surren-
dered, 1 say, and Johnston quit, the
south became, and has been since.
loyal to this union. We fought hard
enough to know that we were whip
ped and in perfect faith accepted as
final the arbitrament of the sword To
which he had appealed. The south
found her jewel in a toad's head.
The shackles that had held her in
narrow limitations fell forever when
the shackles of the negro slave We're
broken. [Applause.l Under the
old regime the negroes We're slaves
to the south, the south was a slave
to the system. Thus was gathered
IN the hands of a splendid and chiv
alric oligarchy the substance that
should have been diffused among the
people, as the rich blood is gathered
| at the heart, filling that with atfiuent
rapture, but leaving the body chill
and colorless. [Applause.l
The old south rested everything
on slavery and agriculture, uncon-
sclous that these could neither give
nor maintain healthy growth. The
new south presents perfect democ-
racv, the oligarchs leading into the
popular movement-a social system
compact and closely knitted, less
splendid Oh the surface but stronger
at the core-a hundred farms for
every plantation, fifty homes for ev-
cry palace-and diversified indus
try that make the complex needs of
this complex age.
PEOPLE EMANC1pATED BY DEFEAT.
The new south is enamored Of her
own work. Her soul is stirred with
the breath of new life. The light
of grander pay is falling fair on her
face. She is thrilling, sir, with the
consciousness of growing power and
prosperity. As she stands full sta
tured and erect among the people of
the earth, breathing the keen air and
looking out upon the expanding
horizon, she understands that her
emancipation came because in the
inscrutable wisdom of God, her hon.
est purpose was crossed and her
brave armies were beaten. Zap |
plause. This is said in no spirit of
time serving apology. should be
unjust to the south if I did not |
make this plain in this presence.
The south has nothing to take back, |
nothing for which she has excuses to
make. In my native town of Athens,
a monument that crowns it's eternal
hills, a plain, white shaft. Deep cut |
into its shining sides is a name dear
to me above all the names of 1lv.,
that of q silent man who died in |
brave and simple faith. Not all the |
glories of New England nor Plym |
outh Rock all the way would I ex-
change the heritage he left Inc in |
his patriotic devotion. To the foot
of that shaft I shall send my chill
dren's children to reverence him
who ennobled their name with his
heroic acts. But, sir, speaking from
the shadow of that memory, which l |
honor as l do nothing else Oh earth,
1 say that the cause in which he
suffered and for which he gave his
life adiudged by higher and fuller
wisdom than his or mine, and am
glad that the omniscient God held |
the balance battle in His Almighty |
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