The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-20

4 were calls Of the spectators for Mckinley
and Morton
4 The programme having speeches from
the visiting governors was the next in
( order. These were mingled with cries for
(. Longstreet and that old veteran, still erect
ana vigorous, despite his rs years, was in
I PRODUCED by Vice President Stevenson. Be
fore he began, however, Gen. Gordon
again claimed the attention of the crowd.
I Holding alOft his hand, he said:
Il have here button drenehed with
7 blood, taken from the coat of the poet
soldier, George Lytle, author of the well
known lines beginning: Il am dying.
/ Egypt dying" who fell on this immortal
field IT was cut from his coat by G. G.
! LINDSAY, color-bearer of the Tenth MIS-
slssippi regiment, who authorizes me to
/ present IT to any friend of that hero who
VIII accept and cherish it and hand 1t
4 Turning TO Attorney General Harmon,
resident OF Cincinnati, which was also
/ Gen Lytle's home, Gen. Gordon presented
Il TO him. subsequently Capt. Silas Nor
mt Of Cincinnati informed Attorney Cen
eral Harmon that George Lytle's nephew,
tho son of his sister, was present on the
ground, and Mr.. Harmon sent the precious
feHc TO him. Another relative Of George
Lyle $, who was soldier, also was found
TO be present
I This incident having been closed, Gen.
Longstreet made short address, which
Y unfortunately was delivered in so low
a tone to be inaudible after the
hrst few sentences, more than a dozen
Feet away. He said that he had had the
honor OF presentation to the Army Of
Z VI NAulhti 4dllQ On former OCCASION
Inc season was more pleasant than the
present, but the events even more stir
ring. Very near the spot on which he
stood, one late summer afternoon, his
fragile lunch was spread. 1t consisted
! OF Nassau bacon and Georgia sweet pO-
Iatoes. 1t was rather dry but enjoyable
There was no water nearer than the
river, a. mile away, and all other liquids
were on the other side of the line. And
when we got through. said the general.
was as dry as with us. Qlaughter)
Gen. Longstreet then read the address
prepared, with a view to its delivery at
the joint meeting tomorrow night of the
survivors of the Army of Northern Vir-
GINA and that portion of the army of the
Potomac that fought at Chattanooga.
On a similar occasion at Gettysburg,
President Abraham Lincoln had said: 1t
Is for us, the living, rather 10 be dedicated
here TO the unfinished work and again
Mr.. Lincoln refers for us to be here ded-
icated to the great task remaining be-
fore us saying: Il would look to the
remaining before us in which the blue
and gray. and the sons and daughters of
veterans on both sides, can heartily join
in extending, broadening, confirming, and
perpetuating, a government Of the peo-
pie, by the people, and for the people"
He referred, he said in this to happen
ings in 1895, to the exasperating European
interference in Hawaii Nicaragua, Ven
ezuela and the general but steady pur-
pose of Great Britain to nullify or en-
croach upon the Monroe doctrine. In its
inception Great Britain co-operated with
the United States in declaring the doc
trine rather than see Spain powerful on
the American continent. Now the condi-
tons are different, said Gen. Longstreet.
And from this battlefield" he continued,
Il appeal to my comrades in gray and
their sons to lock shields with the blue,
ana their sons, to prevent any future oC-
cupation by Great Britain of Venezuelan
territory. and resist any further amerse-
ment by England of Nicaragua, and in
fairness to the President and his able
Secretary of War, who is here with us
n W
fought with me at the Wilderness in 1864,
/ will say had we been fully prepared that
British gunboat would never have landed
at Corinto. If we had possessed a navy
strong enough to cope with England, the
American flag would have t1oated from the
topmast, the decks cleared for action and
bristllng guns from an American man
of-War hoarsely Numbered the grand doc
trine of 1916. But in our sectional wran-
glings, we had wasted valuable strength,
and squandered wonderful energies upon
each other, upon members of our own
ffamllly, nsIeau OF concehlrallng az Ell
forts against our ancient enemy. There
is a useful lesson in the occurrence
Strengthen the army and navy, look TO
] the ornaments or our Warships and rem
der sufficient our coast defenses. In other
/ words make the United States the first
/ naval power of the world and when an
/ other landing by England at Corinto is
attempted, when European colonization
! in Venezuela is essayed, and when British
/ greed in Nicaragua is repeated; or any
other invasion or encroachment of the
Monroe doctrine Is threatened, the fol-
/ lowers Of Lee and Grant, the sons of the
veterans of the blue and gray, some
/ Semmes or Maftit upon the quarter deck
/ of an American man-of-war will unfurl
the flag of Washington, Lincoln, Grant
and Lee in the English channel and the
/ Yankee HuzzaH and the Rebel Yel'
VIII resound along the British seacoast
Cries were renewed for favorite COVER
nors but Vice President Stevenson pre-
sented Lieut.. Gen. Schoheld, who said:
"Our forefathers, who framed the consti-
] ffrtiOD left record tbp fart hat hxrc
| doing they sought to establish a more per-
/ feet union of the states. They laid a
broad foundation, but the union remained
! imperfect. 1t was left for you to debate
1 for four years the question unsettled by
/ the fathers, and after terribly earnest ar
gument to settle them. For the first time
| in the history of the continent there now
| people That perfect union has now been
established by the services which you laid
/ at the feet of our common country"
/ At this point, the heat being intense
/ Gov. Morton felt compelled to retire, and
! his departure, accompanied by his impos-
/ ing and numerous staff, was taken by
! many of the audience to mean the COM
/ pleton of the programme. The conse-
! ruptly and somewhat unexpectedly
I brought to a close. The occasion, despite
in attendance, passed off without a single
unpleasant feature or incident
Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge, president of
the Society of the Army of Tennessee
.
of the army of that name, who served in
either the union or confederate ranks
which closed the proceedings of the first
day of the dedication of the Chickamauga
and Chattanooga National Park 1t was
held in the large tent in the city. which
would be an ideal place for exercises Of
I this kind, but for the fact that ii is To-
Gated alongside a railroad yard. and the
putting and shrieking of switch engines
is too often the only sound that can be
heard twenty feet from the platform
The first speaker was Gen O. O. How
ard, the one-armed Christian soldier who
said; My last visit, comrades, to the field
of Gettysburg, in connection with a tho
rough revival in my mind of the details
of the events connected with the greatest
battle of the war, taken in connection also
with the friendly intercourse with repre-
sentative men who had been oDposed n
US on that ground. changed my attitude.
if not my conviction of right toward tbs
cOnfederates who fought us
= was looking into Longstreet's face
while Sickles was leaning supported IN,
his crutches against an enormous rocls
when I said something concerning the de-,
mands OF duty; Gen. LOngstreet answer
ed me reaectively: We must be guided
by the light within US; / have tried All
along TO stand firm to my Conviction or