The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-23

ers of Cavalier Mississippi Robert j.
walker, born and reared in Pennsylvania;
John a. QGltman, born and reared in New
York and Sargent $. Prentss, born and
reared in the good old state of Maine.
That sturdy Puritan John Slidell. never
saw Louisiana until he was old enough to
vote and fight. native here-an alumnus
of Columbia college-but sprung from New
England ancestors. Albert Sidney John
ston, the most resplendant of modern
CaValiers-from trig to toe a type of the
species-the very rose and expectancy of
the young confederaCy-did not have n
drop of southern blood in his veins; yankee
on both sides Of the house. though born
in Kentucky a little while after his father
and mother arrived there from Connecti-
cut. The ambassador who serves our
government near the French republic,
was a gallant confederate soldier and is a
representative southern statesman: but he
owns the estate In Massachusetts, where
his father was born, and where his faith
er's fathers lived through many genera
lions.
And the Cavaliers, who missed their stir
rups, somehow, and got into the yankee
saddles2 The woods were full of them.
If Custer was not a Cavalier, Rupert was
a Puritan. And Sherwood and Wordsworth
and Kearny, and Mcpherson. and their
dashlng companions and followers, The
one typical Puritan soldier OF the war
mark you,-was a southern, and not a
northern soldier, Stonewall Jackson. of
the Virginia line. And, If we should care
to pursue the subject further back. what
about Ethan Allen and John Stark and
Mad Anthony Wayne, Cavaliers each and
every one Indeed from Israel Putnam
to Buffalo Bill. 1t seems to me the Puritans
have had much the best of it in turning
out Cavaliers. So the least said about the
Puritan and the Cavalier-eXcept as
blessed memories or horried examples
the better for historic accuracy.
If you w.4h to get at the bottom facts,
l don't mind telling youth confidence
that it was we Scotch-Irish who van
quished both of you-some of us in peace
others of in matchmaking the miss
ing link of adaptability-the needed in
gredient of common sense-the conserva-
tive principle of creed and action, to which
this generation of Americans owes its
intellectual and moral emancipation from
frivolity and pharisaism-its rescue from
the Scarlet woman and the mailed hand
and its capitalization into national char
acter and polity, ruling by force Of brains
and not by force of arms.
Gentlemen-Sir-I, too. have been to
Boston. Strange as the admission may
seem, it is true; and ! live to tell the
tale. / have been to Boston; and, when
/ declare that l found there many things
that suggested the Cavalier and did not
suggest the Puritan, l shall not say j was
sorry. But, among other things, ! found
there "a civilization perfect in its union
Of the art of living with the grace Of
life, and Americanism ideal in its simple
strength. Grady told us, and told us truly,
of that typical American, who, in DR..
Talmage's minds eye, was coming, but
who, in Abraham Lincoln s actually, had
already come In some recent studies into
the career of that great man, have en-
countered many startling combinations of
this judgment; and from that rugged
trunk drawing its sustenance from
gnarled roots, interlocked with Cavalier
sprays and Puritan branches deep be-
meath the soil, shall spring, is springing
a shapely tree-symmetric in all its parts
under whose sheltering boughs this ma
ton shall have the new birth of freedom
Lincoln promised it, and mankind the
refuge which was sought by the fore
fathers when they fled from oppression.
Thank God, the ak, the gbbet, and the
stake have had their day. They have
gone let US hope TO keep company with
the lost arts. II has been demonstrated
that great wrongs may be redressed and
great reforms be achieved without the
Shedding of one drop Of human blood;
that vengeance does not purify, but bru-
talizes: and that tolerance, which in pri-
waite transactions is Teckoned a virtue
become in public affairs a dogma OF the
most far-seeing craftsmanship. Else how
could this noble city have been redeemed
from bondage? 1t was held like a castle
of the Middle Ages by Robber Barons
Vet have the mounds and dykes of cur
ruption been carried-from bGttress to
beil-tower the walls of crime have fallen
without a shot out Of gun, and still
no fires of Smithfield to light the path
way of the victor, no bloody assizes to
vindicate the injustice of the cause; nor
need of any.
So l appeal from the men In silken hose
who danced to music made By slaves
and called ii freedom-from the men