The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-16

except in the matter of the pension
list, and surely no brave or honest con-
federate soldier has ever been heard 10
complain that any brave and honest union
soldier has had his service thus recog-
niZed. In all things else, it is one with
the men who followed Grant and with
the men who followed Lee. They sit
side by side in congress; they serve side
by side in the cabinet; they have repre-
sented the country and are representing
IL in its foreign diplomatic service with
an ability and loyalty which, as between
the two, cannot be distinguished, the one
from the other.
One of the chiefs of secession died upon
the supreme bench of the United States
lamented by his northern associates.
Two confederate soldiers sit there now.
A gallant confederate officer is the civil
head Of the American navy. All parties
agree that he is making a good secretary.
A southern lad, and the son of a confed-
crate hero, has just graduated at the
head of his class at the naval academy.
Both the naval academy and the mill
tary academy are full of promising south
ern boys, who will presently hold pO-
sitions Of command in the army and
navy. A distinguished and brilliant
confederate officer is our ambassador in
France.
There is not a right enjoyed by Massa-
chusetts which is not enjoyed by Missis-
sippi. There is not a star in the frma-
ment of heaven which does not shine
equally upon Vermont and Texas; nor,
for the matter of that a star upon the
flag of the union that does not do the
some thing. What cause. therefore, has
been lost that we ought TO maintain, and
that time will restore us9 African
slavery? Nonsense. No sane man would
recall il if he could. The right of seces-
sion! Let Colorado try it, and see how
quick the south will vote with the north
men and money to whip her back
Surely, as individuals, we could not be
better off if the confederacy had sue
ceeded, and there are those who think
much worse, because the success of
the contederacy meant the revival in
America of all the problems which hun
dreds OF years of broil and baltic have
left unsettled in Europe, while the resto-
ration of the union ables us to take up
the old sweet tale of Bunker Hill and
yorktown, and pursue it under Gods
blessing to the end.
Oh, no! All the people, north and
south, stand on common ground. 1t is no
longer huddle of petty SOW
ereignties divided by sectional lines. but
nation held together not merely by legal
hooks of steel, but by hearts aud hands,
which the dizzy eloquence of unbalanced
minds can nowise shake whether they
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tanatioism OF revenge. 1t is 4 nation,
bound together by a constitution as reg
nant in the south as in the north, not a
confederacy hanging by a rope of sand,
despised by all who would escape or
refuse its restraints. 1t is nation
for all time and all men: and instead
OF seeking TO raise up q generation of
young vipers to undo the good that God
has dOne-instead of seeking to make
traitors of the fair lads whom we are
sending to West Point and Annapolis
the true preachers and the true women of
the south, yea, the very widows and the
daughters of the confederate dead, have
been and are and will ever be found ad-
dressing themselves to the noble work of
rearing the one set to be good American
citizens, the other set to be good soldiers
and sailors of the union, with no other
thought or care for the future than that
it may preserve our free fabric and bless
our dear land