The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-22
VOL. VII.
CoNoREssM N BREcKINRlpoE's
SPEECH.
HiS Eloquent Remarks on 1.-THE New
South" at the PhIiadel-
phia Banquet.

The Cincinnati Enquirer s'ys Il
speech which awoke great enthusiasm
at the Jackson hang .,et given BY the
Young Mems Democratic Association,
OF Philadelphia, last Thursday, WAS
the response by VIC. P. BreckinsidSe,
OF Kentucky, to the toast, "The New
South in her mate ial and political
development are the elemeLts Of Suc.
cessiul future"
The audience listened with breath
less interest to the rare burst OF elo-
quence, and when Mr.. Brtckinridge
closed the cheering YVES continuous
for ten minutes, aud the hall was s.
of waving handkerchieis. He said in
substance:
"'New Southr don't altogether
fancy the words New South I have
not taken much stock in this rhe,ori.
cal phrase. In sense that is precious
there 10 new South, a new North and
. new Republic. In ell essentials IL IL
the same old South. Virginia, which
gave 70 immortality Washington and
to humanity Jefferson. is the same old
Virginia, and has worked out her own
salvation. Those Carulinas, which
raised men who helped to make Jack.
son, and beautiful Tennessee, which
nurtursd him, are the same t day.
"When recall the South Of twenty
Ave years ago and to. day my heart is
filled With sorrow and with glory over
her trials and her poverty. Her hearths
destroyed, nothing left her but her
land, all public credit destroy Ell, the
pact full OF sorrow, the future Of gloom,
the present filled with sadness--those
people Of the old South had only these
things / ~; their courage, their honor
and their God. Yet these people Of the
old--no. the new--South went bravely
TO work and when recall their brvery,
the piety OF their women and their
courage, my heart bows low in love and
reverence. They have received no pen.
aiOus, no benefits, but without com.
plaint or repining they have worked
bravely. By subtle but Omnipoteni
power OF freedom they have conquered,
without weapons and cruelty, the au
tonomy Of their States have made their
homes prosperous and have educated
their own children and those Of the
colored people around them.
"0h, the Bouihl Glorious in her man
hood, exquisite in her womanhood
No Aphrodite ever rose from seas Of
war and commotion vs. beautiful rs the
Houih. Che makes no pledges not from
the heart. She knaws the gravity OF
problems given her to solve. She Ieels
the throbbing OF the new days in the
bosom OF her mountains. She SEES the
highways leading from her seaporis
crowded With the white wings Of COM
merce. Ahe has no rivalry with other
sections 81 the country but the rivalry
OF goodwill. She asks to help you TO
work out our own salvation. She 10 not
greedy Of place, but OF confidence. She
asked OF the Democratic party the op.
pprtunity to shoy that her sons could
govern as OF yore. She hailed Cleve
land because he came up to the level
OF American citizenship and gave her
this opportunity.
"Hers in Philadelphia, where the
South's traditions have so much cen
tered, / say, in her name, she is as true
to the principlesoi American Democ.
racy as she was when she gave An
drew Jackson to the Nation. / was
averse to speaking TO tUast tonight
that savored OF rectionalism, and yet
Jackson, liko oil true men, wa in a
sense a sectionalist. Weare Americans,
but the glory OF our Nation is tnat
every part Of our country gives its IA.
yor TO a composite photographs, as il
were. What we need is Americanism
that will give to every section its just
due and demand from every section itS
loyal patriotism"