The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-10

49, KNOWLEDGE that all things are possible
- an American boy. II he Is poor, so
----h the better. for he is then untram-
--zrsd. and. like the young eagle. can soar
- crow the stronger from the reliance
- his own unaided powers To young
- endowed with energy. courage. self
-r-.nce and integrity. all things are at
-sfnsble. When any party or any set OF
~ teach the people TO rely on the gov
lament for aid TO improve their fortunes
=, natter whether IL comes in the form OF
--o-ection, the sub-treasury scheme, the
and loan scheme, nat money. OF the free
image of cheap and deprecated silver
collars. il will result in their enervation.
ps-ernalism is the canker which corrOdes
free institutions, and should the American
raople, through the instrumentality Of the
ballot. tamper with the sanctity of public
and private obligations. by changing the
measure of value, it would be an exercise
NJ paternal power fatal alike to public
and private morals, and, il may be. 10
u0nular government.
Looking forward TO party alignmen.s
ard future affiliations, 1 am not in sym
rathy with the suggestion which comes
from populists and democrats of popu-
Ustic tendencies that we should cast our
fortunes with the sedge-brush states of
the Rocky mountains. When recall the.
prolonged nightmare through which Geor-
gia and her sister southern states passed
in their struggle for statehood, for man.
hood and for a place Of honor and dig
nifty in the American union. In this
march through the wilderness the Demo-
cratic party was their pillow of cloud by
day and of fire by night.
Ii is now the fashion with some to
stand by and applaud the Stewards and
organs and PETERS when they denounce
the democracy of New York, and would
stir the southern heart in revolt against
it, We can never forget that during the
days of our tribulation, there was but
one spot in all the north above which the
star of hope always cleaned with I'M
diminished light, and that spot was Man
haitian Island. From the day the Re
publican party abandoned the idea which
animated Abraham Lincoln, that this was
a union of understandable states, and pro
ceeded to reconstruct and recreate these
southern states on the basis Of universal
negro suffrage down to the hour that the
Fifty-third congress purged from the stac-
ute books the last vestige of federal in
reference in our local affairs, New York
city was the Gibraltar of the democracy
u was the Malakoff around which ragged
the political struggle for our redemption
and as each great battle was fought, no
matter by whom we were led-whether
Seymour, Tilden or Cleveland, or whether
we were victorious or went down in de-
feat, the flag Of the unconquerable de-
mOcracy always 1oated in triumph above
this impregnable fortress. l. therefore,
enter my protest against this proposed
abandonment of our old allies, and this
proposed new alignment with that region
in the west from whence no democrat
ever comes, and where republicanism and
populism and the cause of fiat money
and free silver hold perpetual sway.
But, my countrymen, how fortunate the
age and how suspicious the times in which
we live. The protective tariff system I'M
der which we groaned for so many years
has been stricken a blow from which it will
not recover, and the burden which it i'm
posed on the shoulders of our people has
been relieved. The last remaining statute,
authorizing federal interference in our To-
cal affairs, has been repealed. Sectional
strife has at last given away to patriotism,
and we look back to the war as into the
crater of an extinct volcano. That malig-
nant spirit which warned capital to remain
away from us, and which turned immigra-
ton to the inhospitable regions of the west
by holding us up to the eXecration of man.
kind. has, at last, been extinguished.
Everywhere in all the departments of the
government are to be found our trusted
brethren. holding official place and power,
and there is scarcely a country on the
habitable globe where the flag of the re-
public is not represented by some honored
son of the south. At last we are on the
border land of that greater south which is
destined, in the near future to astonish
the world by the extent and variety of its
agricultural products. the number of its
Industrial enterprises. the wealth of its
commerce, the learning of its schools, and
the purity and vigor of it's social life.
Who will deny that he who presdes over
the destinies of this great republic, the
President of our choice, the President
chosen by the Democratic party and the
President Of the whole country, before
whose splendid courage and exalted pa
triotism sectional animosities have van
ished, has not more than any living man
secured the opportunity and open the way
for our prosperity.