The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-01-09

him in his need, even as he put his
about me- Be his friend as he was
mine" And out into this new world--
strange to me as 10 him dazzling. bewfI
deriag ooth-f follow And may God
fergct my people, when they forget
these
Whatever the future may hold for
them; whether they plod along in the
servitude from which th0y have never
been lifted since tho CyreAian was laid
hold upon by the Roman soldiers and
made to bear the cross of the fainting
Christ whether they find homes again
in Africa. and thus hasten the prophecy
of the Psalmist who said, ''And suddenly
ETHIOPIA shall hold out her hands unto
God !" whether forever disiocated and
separated, they remain weak people,
Seset By stronger, and exist as the Turk
whe lives In the jealousy rather than in
the conscience Of Europe; or whether III
this miraculous republic they break
through the casts Of twenty centuries,
and, belying universal history, reach the
fun stature of citizenship, and in peace
maintain IT, we shall give them utter
most justice and abiding friendship. And
whatever we do, into whatever seeming
estrangement we may be driven, nothing
shall disturb the love we bear this repub-
lie, OF mitigate our conservation to it's
service. l stand here, Mr. President, to
profess no new loyalty. When Gen.
Lee, whose heart was the temple of our
hopes and whose arm was clothed with
our strength, renewed his allegiance to
this government at Appomattox, he
spoke from heart too great to be false,
and he spoke for every honest man from
Maryland to Texas From that day to
this, Hamilcar has no where in the south
sworn young Hannibal to hatred and
vengeance, but everywhere to loyalty
and to love.
Witness the veteran standing at the
base of Confederate monument above
the graves of his comrades, his empty
sleeve tossing in the April wind, adjuF-
ing the young men about him to serve as
honest and loyal citizens the government
against which their fathers fought This
message, delivered from that sacred
presence, has gone home to the hearts of
my fellows And, sir, declare here, if
physical courage be always equal to hu-
man aspiration, that they would die, sir,
if need be, to restore this republic their
fathers fought to dissolve
Such, Mr.. President is this problem as
we see it ; such is the temper in which
we approach it; such the progress made.
What do we ask of you? First patience;
out Of this alone can come perfect work.
Second, confidence: in this alone can
you judge fairly. Third, sympathy in
this you can help us best. Fourth, give
us your sons as hostages. When YOU
plant your capital in millions send your
sons that they may help know how true
are our hearts and may help to swell the
Anglo-Saxon current until it can carry
without danger this black infusion. Fifth.
loyalty to the republic. for there is sec
tionalism in loyalty as in arrangement.
This hour little needs the LOYALTY that is
loyal to one section and yet holds the
other in enduring suspicion and estrange-
ment. Give us the broad and perfect
loyalty that loves and trusts Georgia
alike with Massachusetts that knows no
south, no north, no east, no west but
endears with equal and patriotic love
every foot of our soil, every state in our
union.
A mighty duty, sir, and mighty in
SEPARATION lmpels every one of US tonight
TO lose III patriotic conservation whatever
estranges, whatever divides. We. sir.
are Americans, and we fight for human
liberty. The uplifting force of the Amer
France, Brazil-these are our victories.
To redeem the earth from kingcraft and
oppreSsion-this is our mission, and we
shall not fail. God has sown in our soil
the seed of His millennial harvest. and
he will not lay the sickle to the
ripening crop until His full and perfect
day has come. Our history, sir has been
constant and expanding miracle from
Plymouth Rock and Jamestown all the
way-aye, even from the hour when.
from the volcelesS and trackless ocean. a
new world rose to the sight of the in
spired sailor. AS we approach the fourth
centennial of that stupendous day-when
the old world will come to marvel and
to learn-amid our gathered treasures.
let us resolve to crown the miracles of
our past with the spectacle of republic
compact, united, Iattissoluble in the
bonds of love, loving from the lakes to
the gulf; the wounds OF war healed in
every heart as on every hill serene and
resplendant at the summit of human
achievement and earthly glory blazing
out the path and making clear the waY
up which all the nations of the earth
must come In Gods appointed time !