The morning call., 1890-08-06
1.-THE NEW SOUTH"
Rev. E. r. Dille's Lecture OIL Her
Possibilities.

At the First Methodist Episcopal Church
on Powell street Rev. E. R. Ollie, DID,,
last evening delivered an interesting lecture
ON 1.-THE New South" which he has re-
Gently visited. The speaker affirmed that
there is new South, and that every INTEL
gent Southerner recognizes it and glories in
it-not in disparagement of the old regime,
but as hailing and rejoicing in new condi-
tons, new adjustments, new ideas and aspi-
rations, in fact. new civilization.
twenty-five years ago." said he, ~ was
in the Shenandoah Valley. through which
| passed three weeks ago again. l left it
on August g. 1865, our brigade having re-
manned in the valley as a part CT the army
of occupation until that time. How many
of Lees veterans did see button up under
their ragged gray coats the parole, which
they would hand down to their children
as their honorable discharge, and turn their
faces southwark? l see him yet, ragged
and half-staryed, enfeebled by want and
wounds, as he surrenders his gun, wrinss
the hand of his comrade, and casting one
last long look back to the graves on the
Virginia hills, sets his face toward the
South. What did he find? Not what you
found, comrades-the applause OF reJole-
ing people and the honor which nation
pays its heroes who have carried its flag to
victory,
mo; the Southern soldier found his
home in ruins, his farm devastated, his
slaves freed, his stock confiscated by one or
both armies, his barn empty, his money
worthless as rags, his social system-feudal
in its splendor-swept away, his standard
for which he fought swept out of existence.
No money, no credit, no employment
what an outlook was nisl What a retr-
button was visited not only on the leaders
of the rebellion but upon the rank and file,
lad inrO ~ hat nd 6aun m
which the South has always had and still
has for its leaders. 1t is to the everlasting
honor Of the Southern soldier that when he
went home lie did not sit down in idlenesS
and despair.
GLOW do the Southern people feel toward
the Union they once tried to dissolve and
the Government they once tried TO destroy?
| believe they are as loyal TO the flag and
! to the Union as Northern people are. They
see that the collapse of the Confederacy
and the death of slavery was the greatest
blessing that ever befel them. In Chatta-
n0oga nine years ago the Confederate Army
of the Tennessee held reunion, to which
they invited the Union Army Of the Ten
nessee. Many of the bravest veterans, off
GERS and men, of these two armies met to-
gether, its scars hidden. on Missionary
Ridge, and Lookout Mountain smoothed its
Nrinkled front and smiled upon the re-
union. These veterans, the wearers of the
blue and the gray, Joined hands in raising
our cOuntry's flag over the spot consecreted
by the blood OF their brothers, and they
cheered with one voice, the rebel yell blend
ing with the Union cneer, as it unfurled its
starry glories to the breeze.
And with equal devotion would they die
side by side, under that flag in maintaining
Union of the States. was at Chatta-
nooga at the time of the great re-
union of the Confederate veterans in
the first days of July = the first
reunion since the war. General John
B. Gordon, Governor OF Georgia, was in
command, with Beauregard, Early, Kirby
Smith, "fige" Anderson, Fitzhugh Lee,
and the address of welcome to the grizzled
veterans of the lost cause was made by Hon.
| Ken. Wheeler, gallant Union soldier, in
the place of the Mayor of Chattanooga, a
Yankee soldier, for Chattanooga Is L Re-
| publican city. Well, the decorations on
that occasion were just what they were
when the Army of the Cumberland met
there. The stars and stripes hoated every
where. The streets were powered and bill
lowed with Them, the homes Of the people
were draped with them, the speakers stand
| and the hall where the exercises were held
| bloSsomed with them, and while the pct-
| ures of Davis and Lee were displayed every
where, they We're invariably framed in the
| red, white and blue OF the national c0lOrS.
"Some Confederate battle flags appeared
| displayed, and when Northern stay-at-
| home, who was not south Of Mason IL Dix
| on'S line during the war, objected, a one
| armed Union veteran said: The flag is
| Just displayed to educate fellows like YOU
| invisible in war, invisible in peace-for if
| it had not been you would never had known
| what q battle flag is.' These were some of
the transparencies borne and cheered in
| the procession: No more loyal citizens to-
| day than the boys who wore the gray
| Backward looking are our thoughts to-day;
but in the glorious future of our reunited
| country live our hopes American patriot
ism is bounded neither by State nor sec
tional lines land | thought, '0h Johnny, if
you had learned that thirty years ago.?
The Southern Confederacy is a sacred
memory; the Federal Union the invlolable
palladium of the present. I'VE meet to Gel
citrate Independence day, the common hertz
age of blue and gray The stars and bars
"a sacred enbem; the stars aud stripes
aliving symbol
MAY God bless the new South, with the
new Lille stirring in her veins and the light
of a better day falling ON her face. And
may God grant to us the realization of that
vision OF a truly reunited ana happy people
which gathered above the couch of the
dying Grant and of the dying Grady, filling
their hearts with peace, touching their lips
with praise and clarifying their path to the
grave.
Let old political issues be buried; let old
grndges die; let new theories be launched
With the coming in of new nation at the
gates of Castle Garden every year, and the
wheat-bin and corn-crib of our land en-
larged with every harvest, and vast null
titude OF our population still plunged in
illiteracy to be educated, and moral ques-
lions abroad involving the very existence of
our republic let the old political platforms
that are wormeaten be dropped, aud plat
forms that shall be made OF two planks-
the one the Ten Commandments, and the
other the Sermon on the Mount-ifted for
all of US to stand on"