The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23
TIE sorrH AsAPEAcEnAKER.

Mr. President. the south presents herself as
the peacemaker Of the republic. II is no AFRO
giant claim to say that she mas stood for de-
caie IN the attitude Of harmony. / appeal TO
history that for twenty years the most national
voices sounded IN this country have co ne from
the south. Il was representative Georgian OF
surprising elOquence. who first proclaimed in
congress that we were in our fathers no Sc To
stay. II was a senator from Mississippi. of his
toric blood and lineage, who broke first the
bonds OF bitterness. braved prejudice in death
less eulogy to a great antagonist and framed
for the section the shining counsel TO "knOw
one another and TO love one another" Il was a
Georgian, untitled and glorious. who
went fresh from the heart OF
his people ike an evangel OF
harmony to the heart Of the north. and but just
now passed TO where beyond these voices
there is peace" In the Circumstances that
surrounded her say that this is the duty Of the
south. IL is also her pleasure and her privilege,
and the effort comes unstrained through patriot
impulses. If she shall succeed; if only the
demagogue and the partisan can be cleared
from the paths of peace; if faction can be
smOthered and she can reach over the heads Of
selfish politicians to the hand that is surely
outstretched from the heart Of the north. then,
in the transcendent blessings of tie compre-
hensve harmony which grows strongest out OF
healed dissensiOn, she viii have justified the
patient policies Of her people, and paid in
mighty part the debt due to the graves with
which her convictions have stre8n the re-
public.
A FIELD FOR ITS GROWTH.
Here, Mr.. President this grand spirit Of fra
ternity should find a congenial field Of growth.
This great city is the metropolis of sentiment
and the capital Of trade. Into its mighty heart
is throbbng all that is freshest ami warmest
from the veins of the states. 1t is too cosmO-
politan to be sectional, too majestic to be mar
row. The south has planted here a colony-dig-
nified in high achievement, cherishing perfect
yet divided loyalty, joined in fortune to the
north. but linked in tradition and inseparable
affection to the south. In the even speech and
temper of their lives, and most OF all
in the social sympOsiums of their
representative society, seeds may
be own that viii radiate the republic in sym
patty. and speak TO the highest sentiment of
sections. Here, at least, l catch the inspira-
ton of fraternity, and, in the fellowship that
bases hospitality. l greet the east and the
north and the militant west in the reunion of
the republics children And here, gentlemen
of the Southern Society, speaking for myself,
for you, and for sSle south that we love, / stand
at last in national spirit beneath the colors of
my country, where the white stripe Of peace
mingles with the red stripe of kindred, and the
azure CLEANS with stars which speak the prov-
deRce that makes us one.
OTHER SPEECHES.
Speeches were also made by Alexander r.
Humphreys Of Louisville, KY, ex-justice
of the chaucery court; CnRles H. Jones of
the St. Louis Republic, w Bourke Cochran,
who eulogized the press, Thomas Nelson
Page, and Others.