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

I Il have lately compared notes with a
prominent confederate leader and find
/ mat We nave come together, unconscious
~, no doubt. Here is where we now agree.
( ne war was necessity. Nothing human
could nave Warded ii of. Slavery was the
cause OF division. 1t was necessary that ii
snould be completely rooted out. The
= providence OF God went far beyond the
( projects or men in its destruction. Every
thing in our political method in all parts
OF the country. is not yet all right There
are Daliot stuffingsi there are eorruptions
OF ONCE; there is bribery in elections;
there IS cheating in legislation; there is
/ selnshness in great mOnopOlies; and there
/ are polucal dangers; but the fundamental
| INSTITUTIONS remain to us namely:
/ church or set of churches. where every
! man IS free to worship God according to
I the dictates Of his conscience: school or
| set OF schools adequate to the necessities
l OF great people well established and
/ free TO every child and an American home
which, in its purity and simplicity cannot
| be surpassed by those of any other people
| on the globe. These, with our free ballot
are our peculiar institutions; they consti-
1 tute the nucleus from which emanate I'M
/ told blessings and almost limitless streams
/ OF development All American volunteers
/ Of the whole land viii preserve them.
He was followed by Congressman Gen.
/ Joseph Wheeler Of Alabama who was des-
| cribed by Gen. Henderson last night as
| That able and alert and constantly har-
| RAISING cavalry commander late of the
| confederacy, now of the United States"
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the well-known
/ cavalry leader opened his remarks with
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/ semblage was gathered together to COM
/ memorate and honor American valor and
/ to make clear the fact that the soldiers
| who once fought each other in deadly bat
/ tie were now one people with one inter-
est, one nag, one country and one ambi-
! TO the soldiers of his command he paid
| warm tribute. First, to his early COM
panions in arms, the Nineteenth Alabama
| infantry and next to his cavalry. OF the
/ latter he said
iurar bs.ax ofr 1a rr-hap
| the army advanced and always with ex-
cellent skill and courage forming the rear
guard in retrograde movement. Frequent
/ ~ engaging the opposing cavalry and al
ways with credit to our arms Sometimes
| on a successful raid, destroying federal
wagon trains, lines Of communication and
I depots of stores: sometimes fighting dis
/ mounted in our Infantry line of battle,
! sometimes assaulting works held by strong
lines OF infantry, and sometimes holding
| positions against the most terrible as
saults of federal infantry columns and
| lines of battle. To these brave officers,
/ who for third of a century, have always
\ been in my thoughts, for whom my heart
/ is filled with love and gratitude, men
4 whose courage and forutude have always
/ admired and reVered, to them / beg now
/ 70 express my thanks, my admiration and
/ love.
inc four thousand confederates who fell
/ upon the field of Chickamauga, he said,
/ had been rapidly followed by their COM
\ rades who escaped death in that terrible
| battle, more than half of whom were now
/
| Passing to the special feature assigned
to him. the grouping together of the more
notable events connected with the history
| of the army of Tennessee, he said:
"One of the striking features in the his
| tory of the army OF the Tennessee and
that section Of our country which became
| the field of its operations, is the rather
| singular fact that although Virginia in
| the east and Missouri in the west were
| the scenes of active operations and were
| occupied by large armies early in the
| summer of 1861 the expanse of territory
| some 400 miles in width, comprising the
states of kentucky and Tennessee, lying
! between Virginia and North Carolina on
| the east and bounded by the Mississippi
! river on the west, escaped being the the
| alter Of actual war until nearly year lat
er unon the complete organization of the
| confederate government.
| He then traced in detail all the events
! leading up TO the battle of Chickamauga.
! OF that engagement he said:
The battle of Chickamauga very dis
| tinctly marks the turning point in the
| great question of warfare which involves
! the policy of aggressive and defensive
| tactics. Up to and including the battle of
/ Chickamauga the notable successes of the
! Army of the Tennessee were achieved by
/ bold and determined attacks upon the op-
posing army. This was the policy at Shi-
| loh It was the policy at Perryville, at
| Murfreesboro and most certainly was the
policy at Chickamauga. That battle mark
| ed new era. From that time the con-
! federate policy of attacking was not sue
| cessful, but was frequently quite the re-
I
| measure forced upon the Army of the Ten
nessee by the overwhelming strength and
! improved administration and discipline of
At the battle of Missionary Ridge. in
! all the battles of the Georgia campaign,
| in the campaign around Nashville and in
| the Carolinas, the numerical superiority
4 of the federal army was so great and their
plan of battle such that we had few op-
portunities to simultaneously attack. The
| most usual policy of Gen. Johnston was
! therefore, to use all his skill in compell-
| ing an attack from the opposing army.
| In future wars the plan of campaign ad-
| hered to by Gen. Johnston will become
more marked and universal. The great
| superiority of weapons of to-day is such
| that hereafter the main purpose of each
| general will be to compel an attack from
! his opponent, and the one who shows the
| most skill in maneuvers Of that charac-
| ter Will be the successful and victorious
/ general
Gen. Willard Warner of CHATTANOOGA
was the next speaker. He departed
| from the lines usually followed on such
/ occasions, and discussed the question of
socialism. Not the socialism of Bel
/ fanny or Kier Hardie, or Carl Marx but
ties ties 'O''aiisin Oh states ana municipah-
Speaking of the forces that are at work
| TO produce higher a civilization, Gen War
ner said: The church-not the Episco-
pal church, not the Roman Catholic
or Unitarian, but the great body of the
members and patrons of all the churches
VIII De an increasing FACTOR IN the up
ward progress of the race. With scant.
or no creed. save the two great com.
mandments on which hang all the law
and the prophets--love TO God and man
It will work with mighty force for the
true salvation of men, not alone from
future hell, but from sin and evil in
the life that now is, from selfishness.
cruelty, all forms of uncleanness, men,
tai and physical from bad eating cook
ing and housekeeping. Thus a better
type of physical man will be evolved
and there will come forth in man more
of the lineaments of Him in whose image
he is made. All history testified that it
has been the religious influence more
than the intellectual, which has uplifted
the race. There will be more study of
the eternity behind US. which has left
some record, and less of the eternity
before us, on which shines so dim light.
and the church will speak with less dog
matism of what God will do with His
children In that eternity. 1t is this
life with which we have
to do now and which we lows
and the man who wants but little here
below nor wants that little long is Vet
to be found. Whatever differing opinions
men may entertain as to the miracles.
resurrection and atonement of Christ
there can he No oroffnd r.. doubt +1,.t 49,