The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-10

God, have passed, never TO return.
IF the bell could only speak TO us to-
day it would say. My children. for your
fathers / proclaimed liberty throughout
the land. and beseech you. for their sake,
to preserve and keep forever that which
they transmitted TO your care
with the memories and associations
that this bell revives, and with the les
sons that are taught by its coming In your
midst-no wonder the entire nation has
watched its progress s0uthWard."
Concluding, Mr.. Warwick turned to the
bell, and said: I'VE leave it in the hands of
its and our friends. We know you viii
watch IL with the same solicitude and ten
derness that we bestow upon it. Though
It's lips be mute; though its tongue be
silent, it is more eloquent than ten thou
sand human voices. It's echoes still thrill
the world.
1T seems almost to us to be a thing in
stinct with life. 1t has spoken so clear TO
commemorate the great events of our ma
tions history that its tones seem 10 live
like the influence of great and good soul
once issued from its throat be carried
across the waters of the Atlantic and give
cheer and comfort to that island, the gem
OF the Antilles, where Cuban patriots are
struggling to throw off the yoke and des-
potism Of Spain. May they be heard
throughout the world, penetrating every
state or section of Europe and Asia, where
ever tyranny eXerts its power or oppres-
sion burdens the people
"Oh, God of the nations-God of our re-
public-watch over and bless this bell. Per-
maps in thy providence and for thine own
good purposes for in thy hands are the
destinies of nations: thou hast preserved
this bell with all its memories and asso-
Citations to be the means by which the re-
public may be more closely united.
The words that are inscribed upon its
surface, taken from holy writ were pro-
phetic 1t seems as If they must have
been written by Inspiration, and may they
go ringing down the ages, giving hope and
announcement to nations yet unborn, to
people not yet free"
When the tumult of applause that greet
ed Mr.. Warwick's s brilliant speech had
subsided, the tall, spare form of GeOrgia's s
governor arose in response TO Chairman
| Campbelis s Introduction, shaking out his
mass Of curly hair, be stood the picture Of
a Georgian. The effects of his recent Sc
we're illness were apparent in the COVER
nors pallor, but his voice rang out full
and clear, and he poured out flood of
| eloquence that was startlingly brilliant
| He spoke of the liberty bell as the one
/ jewel of the American people, and eX-
pressd his appreciation Of the sacred honor
entrusted to the keeping of the people Of
What a triumphal march it has had"
| he said. HAD you needed assurance OF
| the devotion Of the people Of the south
/ to this relic, you have had it. No people
I ever honored king or general in his
| triumphal march on his return home as
/ the people of America, all along the line
| from Philadelphia here have this silent old
patriot. My cOuntrymen, let it remain
under the protection Of the heart, the 10y
/ atty and the love Of the American people,
4 forever to remind us of the courage, the
/ herOism and the patriotism of our fathers,
| and to inspire a national spirit In the
| heart Of every American child born and
/ yet to be born. 1t sounded the alarm that
/ called to arms the people whose forces,
| whose power, whose courage challenged
/ to the contest the mightiest nation of the
| earth and brought them out victorious
| with the torch of liberty in their hands,
calling upon the people Of all the earth to
| follow IN their footsteps.
| This old bell, my fellow countrymen,
| stand Tor something more than the mere
memories Of the past. Il said to the pow
| arch, keep your hands Off, America will
! submit to no outside authority in govern
ing her people That battle we won, and
we stand to-day before the world as the
| greatest, the most enterprisng and the
| most progressive nation that the sun has
| ever shone upon.
STANDING here to-day in the light OF
i the nineteenth century, conscious of our
| power, our prestige and our unity, it is
| the duty of this government to DO some
| thing more than to secure the liberty OF
/ her individual citizens. Let us stand
/ proud and strong as the loyal and loving
| friend of her sister republics and her
| sister people on American soil and say
/ to the people of the whole world that
| whether you seek to intimidate the lit
! tie government of Venezuela or to I'M
/ poverish and oppress a little island that
/ lies under the shadow of this temple OF
| liberty, America Will not be an indiffer-
ent spectator. Great applause.).
| I'VE welcome, my countrymen, this old
| bell to Georgia, and let me say to my dis
/ tinguished friend that ! am glad that he
has learned on his trip to Georgia thai
/ the war is over, and that here stands a
| loyal people who have awarded to their
4 former slaves more liberty than they car
| find anywhere else on the earth, or than
was ever before awarded to an enamel
/ pated people.
| 81 say to you, strange as il may seem
that there is no nation of people upon
/ earth who have advanced as much ir
/ thirty years as the negro has done here
under the government Of the white man
/ of the south No man can go and look al
/ the result of the skilled labor of the Negro
| in yonder building and do otherwise thar
/ go off and say that there is an end to the
/ argument that an oppressed people, begin.
/ ming in darkness and in ignorance, could
| ever achieve so much in thirty years
''In this republic, in the state with ITS
1 glorious history, you can leave the old
/ bell and feel assured as you go that II
| is in the hands of loyal and loving people
who will cherish II as tenderly and as de
votedly as the infant is cherished at its
4 mothers breast"
There were other speeches by eloquent
men, the crowd cheered while "The star
| Spangled Banner and Dixie was play.
| ed by the band, and the liberty bell ex-
ercises were at an end.