The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-22


WEEKLY 81 IS A YEAR.
concerned by it, and there is good reason TO
hope that with the expanding intelligence Of
the masses and the growing enhghtenment Of
tue times this particular form OF corruption in
elections Will be reduced below the danger line.
IL Is admitted on all sides that the current pres
ldentiai campaign Is freer from exctemsnt aud
tunult than was ever known before, and IL 10
argued rom this circumstance that we are
traversing the epoch Of common pesce. II this
be so, thank God for it, We have had full
full enough Of the dramatic and sensational. and
need season Of .medocrity and rspose But
may we not aScribe the rational way in
winch the people are going about their business
TO larger knowledge and experiences, and u
fairer spirit Chan have hitherto marked our
party contentlonsr Parties are as essential to
free government az oxygen 10 the atmosphere.
or sunshine TO vegetation. and party spirit ID
iuseparable from party organism to the ex-
tent that IL is tempered by good sense and good
feeling, by love Of country and integrity of pur-
pose II is a supreme virtue, and there should
be- no gag short OF decent regard for the sensi-
biiities OF others put upon It's freedom and
plainness OF utterRnce. Otherwise the limpid
pool OF democracy would stagBete, and we
should have republic only In name. But we
should never cease to be admonshed by the
warning words OF the Father of his Country
against the exercises of party spirit. reinforced
as they are by the experience OF q
century OF party, welfare; war
complete triumph of American principles but
brought many times dangerously near to the
annihilation of all that was great and noble In
the national life. We have in our own time
seen the awful conflict We have seen federal
union, net too strongly put together in the frss
place, come out OF the great war OF the SEQ.
tions stronger than when it went into it, It's
faith renewed, its credit rehabilitated aud the
United States Eag saluted with love and homage
by eo000,O00 God-fearing men and women,
throughout reconciled and homoge.
constitution outlast the strain, not merely OF
the reconstruction ordeal and presidential i'm.
peachment, but the disputed count OF the
electoral vote, congressional deadlock and an
extra constitutional tribunal. yet standing frm
against the assaults or its enemies,
whilst yielding itself with admirabls
TO the needs of the country and the time, and
finally we saw the gigantic fabric of the federal
government transferred from the hands that
had held 1t for quarter OF a century to other
hands without protest, although 80 close was
the poll in the final count that a single ballot
might have covered both contestants for the
chief magistrates Office. With such record
behind u.s. who shall be afraid Of the futurei
The young manhood of the country may take
this lesson from those OF US who lived through
times that did, indeed try mems souls, When
pressed down from day TO day by awful respon.
sIbiiities and suspense. each night brought
terror with every thought Of the morrow and
when, look where we would, there
were light and hope nowhere, that God
reigns and wills, and that this
in his own keeping. The curse OF slavery Is
gone. 1t was joint heritage of woe 10 be
wiped out and expiated Ia blood and flame.
The mirage OF the confederacy has vanished.
It was essentially a bucolio vision of an
Aroadian dream.
The constitution ia no longer a rope Of sandt
the exact relation Of the states 60 the federal
government, left open to double construction
by authors Of our organic being because they
could not agree among themselves, and union.
which was the paramount object, has been
clearly and definitely fixed by the three last
amRudmenta to the original chart which
stitute the real treaty OF peace between th6
north and south, and seal eur bonds as
nation forever. The republic represents at last
the letter and spirit OF the sublime declaration
The fetters that bound her TO the earth ars
burst asunder The rags that degraded hel
beauty are cast aside Like the enchanted
princes in the legend clad ia spotless raimenf
and wearing a crown OF living light, she stepG
in the perfection OF her maturity upon ths
scene Of this, the latest and graudest OF her
victories to bid welcome to the world
The meh who planted the signals OF American
civilization upon that sacred rock by Plymouth
bay were Englishmen, and 80 were the men
VINO struck the coast a little lower down, call
Ing their haven OF rest, after the great repub-
lican commoner and founding by Hampton
Roads, race OF hersoes and statesmen.
mention or whose names brings thrill to every
heart. The south claims Lincoln. the immortal
for Its oen; the north has no right to reject
Stonewall jackson, the one typical puritan sol
dier of war, for its own. Nor will it. The time
is coming, is almost here, when, hanging above
many maHtie board in fair New England,
glorifTing many a cottage in the sunny south
shall be seen bound together in everlasting love
and honor two crossed swords carried TO battle
respectively by the grandfather who wore the
blue and the grandfather who wore the gray
Mr.. Watterson then addressed a welcome
to the stranger within our gates, Of all ma.
tions and creeds, and closed with this
peroratlou:
At this moment, in every part of the Amer.
ican union, children are taking up the won
drous tale of discovery. and from Boston to Gal
weston from the little log school house OF the
wilderness TO the towering academy in the city
and town, may be witnessed the unprecedented
spectacle of powerful nation captured by al
army of LiliputiaDs, Of embryo men and
women of topling boys and girls and tiny elves
scarce big enough to lisp the numbers OF the
national anthem scarce strong enough to lift
the miniature flags that make OF arid street
and autumn wood an emblematic garden to
gladden. the sight with tie red, white and blue.
See ''Our young DarhRriAns all at play, " for bet.
tor than these have nothing to exhibit
They, indeed, are our crown Jewels; the truesf
though the inevitable offsprtngs OF our ciyiliza
tion and development. representatives OF man
hood vltalizsd and inviRorated by toll and care;
OF womanhood elevated and inspired by liberty
and education. God bless tho children and their
mothers; God bless our country, flags, and God
bless us now and ever; God in the roof, trees,
shade, and God on the highway, God In the
winds and waves. and God In all our ports.
The heart Of every hearer was thrilled
by the eloquent sentences of the magnetic
orators address. aud at every point Of bis
mastery effort the great American was In
terrupted by the tribnts of cheering thous
sands. At the close OF the spell Of en-
thusiasm which reiRned supreme in every
heart, and as the grand chorus struck up
the "Star SpanRled Banner" Bishop Fowler
fervently shouted: Everybody TO his
feetl" and the suggestion found an instant
response from the hundred thousand rever-
entail Americans.