Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
SECTIONAL LINES E ERASED And the South's Future PoSSi- ! biIities Discovered FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME The War Is Being Fought Over Again at
 Atlanta
EACH VISITING DELEGATION
Not Word Is Said About the Advance ment of Science and Art or the South's
 Present, But Its Past and Flu t,lre Is Harped Upon.

Atlanta, Nov 16.-The Kentuckians celebrated today at the exposition. Two celebrations were announced and some friction was expected, but Mrs. Cantrell, who was running one of them, did not carry out her programme, although she had secured the auditorium. Mrs. Ste phenson directed the woman's feature at the womans building in the afternoon. , At Il o'clock the members of the state board of commissioners to the exposition, headed by Senator J. D. Harris of Ken lucky, escorted Governor-Elect Brad ley and his staff to the auditorium and were given seats on the stage.
 The auditorium was comfortably filled. Members of the Cleveland chamber of commerce, the Manufacturing club of Philadelphia and the Michigan and Ohio press associations were in the audience.
 On the stage sat Governor-Elect Brad ley, Governors Greenhalge and Lippitt with their staffS.
 Mir. Jack c. Spaulding, the general counsel of the exposition, welcomed the people to the city on behalf of the eX- position and introduced Governor Atkin- son.
 The governor said there was nothing too good to be turned over to the noble men and women of Kentucky, and the people of Georgia rejoiced to have Ken lucky with them.
 we who stood with the ninutemen," he said, "proscribe no race. We open our arms to the people of the earth and say to them come to us and be protected by the American flag, and all we ask Is that they shall stand loyal to us and acknowledge no flag but the flag of our country"
 The governor alluded frequently to the 70 n~ir a nd elicited great applause when he referred to the wiping out of sectional issues. { Goyeronr- Elect Bradley was intro duced and said in the course of his speech:
 ..Kentucky and Georgia, indeed the whole south are awakening to the pos iibilities of the future. In this section .ye1have not accomplished what might have been accomplished, but the future will prove that we have new south, south devoted to improvements, south that has broken it's chains and that stands forth in unfettered manhood.
 "While we love Kentucky we love the south Standing in the partial shadow, across which is rapidly moving the light of approaching prosperity, our eyes grow brighter, our hearts beat quicker, and as a native southerner who loves the south and her brave and generous people I but voice the sentiment of all when l ex- claim, God bless the south
 'There is no more fitting place than this beautiful city in which the world may see the progress the south has made.
 while we love the south and are de- voted to it's interests we rejoice that sec tional lines have been substantially erased, and that today we have in reality no south, no north, no east, no west, but one country, grand and indivisible, to which every citizen owes his honest ale glance.
 would that your gifted Grady were living, that he might see the swift ap- proaching realization which his prophet ic words portrayed. His patriotic utter ances have not been forgotten, but form a part and parcel of the inspiration of this occasion.
 How different the events-of the pres ent year to those that marked the era from 1861 to 1865. The rifle pits that then marred the beauty of your city have been. obscured by stately houses and busy streets. Involuntari1ye our minds travel back to the troublous days when the baptism of fire was upon us. We see "a brave boy in blue emerging from the doorway; we hear the words of good bye and God bless you;' tears stand in the mothers eyes, which her heroic soul struggles in vain to suppress. He passes through the old orchard, but hears not the birds as they sing the same sweet song of his childhood's happy hours, will ling to die that his country'S flag may be preserved; with rapid steps he moves away, never, never, to return.
 We see another brave boy in gray as he steps from the rustic porch. He, too, has bidden a fond goodbye amidst tears and prayers Just as he is passing from view the white handkerchief of his sweetheart waves loving adieu, and he, too, marches away, never to return, gladly giving his life to the cause which he conscientiously believes to be just.
 ~The music of drum and fife and bugle strikes on every breeze. We see two armies in battle array-one on the moun- tain top, the other in the valley below. We hear the command ring out, Charge! Chargev We see the glittering sword and bayonet, the banners defiantly wav- ing on either side. Up, up the steep ac- cIivity they rush, despite the cannon and musketry that pour death into their ranks.
 aThey meet in close and deadly con- f1ict; the very ground beneath them trem- bles with the shock of battle. The blue uniforms mingle with Gods own blue and the blood of America's bravest and best makes sacred forever the soil.
 .fWe pause, not to discuss the causes that led to that sacrifice, Tor the motives by which men were actuated; ;ewe know that in this broad land there is not one who does not rejoice that the union was preserved.
 "We put behind us forever the bitter ness of the past and shall keep constant ly before us the glories which are our common >heritage and the magnificent possibilities of the future.
 "Henceforth there will be no contest between us except as to who can do the most to build up the country. who can do most to develop it's resources, who can do most to protect its honor, who can do most to preserve it's institutions" : Governor Greenhalge of Massachusetts was then introduced. He referred to the brotherhood of the people of Massachu- setts and Kentucky so feeling1y that he ,tras frenrenfIv inferrIIpted by apnlaIlse.