Evening star., 1895-09-20

date the right, 1t had been developed that
the north was more powerful than the
south, and the north had outside resources
to draw from. Beyond that 10 Che could
draw rightful conclusion. That must be
left to history. After comparing the re-
sources of the north and south at the time
of the rebellion, he referred to the battle
of Chickamauga, describing 1t from his
point of view. Next he told how the south
had struggled since the war to get on its
feet.
In conclusion he said 1t was vain to sur
round America with fortresses. as modern
cannon would demolish them. The only
safety was in union. Let 1t be remembered
that the confederates who fought against
the federals recognized their valor and
claimed their Lee and the federlls Grant
as grand characters who adorl American
history. .''-
Next there was music by the band, and
then Gen. Charles Grosvenor of Ohio spoke.
He was frequently interrupted by applause
Gen. Grosvcnor's Speech.
Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio spoke upon the
legislation of the war. Said he:
Its mighty edict was written upon a
hundred battlefeds. The voters were
columns of troops; the ballots we're bull
let's and the bayonets and sabers and the
fixed ammunition Of mighty armies. The
thunder of the gong of Sumter proclaim
ed the court open, and the parties came
Into the dread presence.
''The south marched and fought for an
Independent confederacy, to be corner
stoned upon the peculiar and special insti-
tuition about which they had gone to war.
I'VE did not go to war to emaacipate the
slave, but we did go to war with The full
consciousness that the slavery question
was one of the great questions that was
producing the war; and he was a man Of
shortsightedness on the one side or the
other side who doubted that the result Of
the conflict. the end of the war, would pro-
dCce either emancipation or perpeluation.
An institution so intertwined about the
very heart of great mass of the Ieople,
and thus becoming one Of the promoting
elements of controversy, and thereby in
cidentally, If you please, producing a con-
Met, and thereby fmperiling the life OF a.
nation. could not stand unless the side that
defended 1t ccald stand.
But these were not matters of discus
sion in those days. Witness the fact that
in the south the enemies of slavery march
ed and fought to overthrow the Union.
Witness the fact that in the north thous-
ands and tens of thousands of men not of
the republican party, not OF the abolition
party, not indorsing the purposes of eth
er, when the Union was imperiled. march
ed and fought and struggled and prayed
ard gave their utmost of money, of effort,
of wisdom to save the Union and destroy
We did not go to war to destroy slavery.
We did not go to war to humiliate the
people of the south. We did not go to war
for any ACKNOWLEDGMENT. We went to war
principies-to which l have referred. We
went to war to legislate.
I'VE put in motion in the great congress
of war the passage of bills that aftsrvard
were passed upon the bloody battleields
OF the country; ard all that stood in the
way; everything that came incidentally
into collision. and everything that came,
rerchance by accident, if you please. to be
1pimical to the great end sought, was
wiped out and destroyed. There was Eot
ar institution dear to the hearts of the
American people other than the worship
of God Almighty and the protection of
family and home that would not have been
destroyed in battle had it stood in the way
OF the accomplishment of the great pur-
pose of that war.
Your purpose. my southern brother, was
to overthrow the Union and to establish
the proposition that you had a right to go
out of the Union and make of yourself
another nation. Our purpose was 20 estab-
Esh the fact that the Union could not be
dissolved. and that you could not go out of
the Union, and that We were but single
people. That was the legislation that was
demanded by the great congress of war.
Both sides made the demand for which
they were ready to, do, battle.
And war did legislate.
And Here upon this legislative field,
whore political questions were to be set
tied and perpetual conditions were to be
imposed upon the people of the United
States. this conflict took place. and more
than 10000 men fell, killed or wounded, in
this bloody conflict. 1t was an offering
upon the altar of a country's salvation, of
country's publication. of country's
rehabilitation. of country's glorification.
that was worthy of the magnificent results
Il at followed the war.
And this battle. with the other great
battles of the war, legislated: and that
lation has become the keystone Of the arch
and the foundation stone Of the structure
Some OF it's legislation has been written in
the Constitution.
will ho fIrrf ptc1o lon,
1t will be execution. 1t will be simply the
csrryipg into execution of the. decree that
was rendered in the great battles of 1SGl-65
TIE whole OF it Is summed up In the enc
great proposition: The Union is 'oae and
inseparable, now and forever
When Gen. GrosVenor had finished Cows.
Morton of, New York. Woodbury. of Yer.
mont, Matthews of Indiana and Turney Of
Tennessee each made short talks.
Gov. Turney Causes n Sensation.
Gov Turney caused something of SEN
sation in Ills speech. Gov. Woodbury. had
said that during the war each side be-
lieved it was right, but that now the south
erners would have to teach their children
the south was wrong.
Governor Turney took exception to this
in his speech.
II believed I was right during the four
years and nineteen days I served in the
confederate army" he said, land at the
end of that time thought I was right.
still think I was right, and shall teach my
children so. No one Is more loyal to the
stars and stripes than /, and no one Is
more loyal to the government, but never
can be convinced that the south was
wrong"
This rather frank expression caused a
stir In the audience and when the meeting
adjourned was the topic of general co1ver-
sation on all sides.
The meeting then adjourned.
THE MYSTERIOUS SHIP.