The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-19


lsh crown by their combined heroism, av-
arice, and religious zeal.
In the meantime tne Americans as de-
cfared by the German philosopher Less
ing, were building in the New World the
lodge of humanity The determined mallg-
nifty of the Spaniard toward the adventure
Gus men of our race who were fringing
the Atlantic coast with sparsely people,
ana widely separated settlements as
promptly disclosed They had threaten
TO send an armed ship to remove the Nir-
I sinia Planters. They laid claim 10 Carolina
and they directed powerful armed expedi-
ions against the young colony of Geor-
gla. They We're now to meet not the help
Tess savages who had been their victims
but men of that same fighting strain who,
in this good year breasted the hall OF
death, s~armed up the nights and planted
the colors on the entertainments of San
tiago. / pause TO reflect if l claim TOO
much for Georgia strain. Let me remind
you that Gen. Joe Wheeler is a Georgian.
Into the thick OF the fight he went, pallid
and sick and wan.
Borne in an ambulance 10 the front,
ghostly wisp of a man;
But the fighting soul of a fighting man,
approved in the long ago,
! Went to the front in that ambulance, in
the body of Fighting Joe
| "Out from the front they were coming
back, smitten of Spanish shells
| Wounded boys from the Vermont hills
and the Alabama dells
Put them into this ambulance; I'll ride
TO the 'front.' he said;
And climbed TO the saddle and rode right
on, that little Old eX-Confed.
Fevered body and hero heart, this I'm
ions heart TO you
! Beats out in love and reverence-and TO
each dear boy in blue.
/ Who stood or fell mid the shot and shell,
and cheered in the face of the foe
FAs wan and while, to the heart of the
fight rode ntt9e old Fighting joe.
THAT field where the Georgian and
| Spaniards on that momentous day in 1742
| met is yet called the Blood marsh The
! commander of our colonial forces was
! James Edward Oglethocpe To his mill
! tary genius and the herosm of his slender
| force, is due the fact that the Southern
| territory of the United States was not add
! ed to the dependencies of SPAN. That di-
| lustrious Englishman should ever live in
! the memory and Veneration of the Amer
! lean people Born in 1886 and surviving
| until 1885, his eVentful and romantic life
| connected the reign of the Stuarts with
| the Independence of the United States
| The officer of Marlborough and Eugene,
the contemporary of Pope and Swift and
| Addison, the intimate friend of Reynolds
! and Goldsmith of Burke and Samuel
/ Johnson, through strong benevolence of
! soul the founder of one of the original
| thirteen states afterwards as ranking
| general of the British army refusing to
| command against the patriots of Wash
| ington, it is demonstratab,e that he did
more to exclude the Spanards from Amer
/ lean soil than any other man of the Eng
! lish-speal1ing race, save the successor Of
/ Washington, the President who evinces
! his fervid love of country and graces the
! occasion by his presence to-day.
May the worn and wasted followers of
| Gomez and Garcia come to appreciate the
! blessings of liberty under the law. No
other wish is in eonsonance with the aims
! of the American people. We would moi. If
! we could, be their masters. The gigantic
power Of the country has been put forth
for their salvation, and for their pacifica-
ton. Connected with them by bonds OF
/ genuine sympathy and indssoluble inter
est. we wil labor with them to secure for
them established justice, domestic tran
guilty general welfare and the blessings
of liberty to themselves and to their pos
| terity. For the common defense, in the
blue ether above the beautiful island of
Cuba. IS poised the Eagle,
whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm. and in the
Of sunrise CLEANS when earth IS wrapt in
gloom.
II was not enough, however for the Amer
| lean people TO recognize the independence
! of the Spanish American republics 1t
soon became our duty to notify the world
that in certain eventuaties, il was our
purpose to defend their national existence
The holy alliance, as It was termed, had
been formed. The great Powers who sign
| ed the famous compact declared its pur-
pose to maintain as Christian doctrine, the
proposition that useful or necessary
changes in legislation, or in the adm.nis-
trat.on of states can only eminate from
the free Will and well weighed convictions
| of those whom God has rendered response
! bic for power. Whom had God made re-
| sponsible for power? What is a well
| weighed conviction? These are questions
| about which the irreverent Americans
might perchance differ with royalty We
| had been lead to believe and yet believe
| that the voice of the people is the voice of
| God When. therefore the absoution of
| the holy alliance, not content with smoth-
| ering a feeble spark of liberty in Spain
| initiated a joint movement of their arms
| against the Spanish American republics
| il gave the people of our country che
| gravest concern. In the meantime our ro-
| lations with Great Britain had grown cor
/ dial That they may grow ever stronger
| and more cOrdial should he the prayer Of
every man of the English-speaking race
An unspeakable blessing to mankind of
the struggle from which we are now
emerging. is the genuine brotheriy sympa-
thy for the people of the United States,
/ flowing from that land
OF old and great renown
Where freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent TO precedent
As soon as Judge Speer had finished
there were loud cries of Mckinley" No
Kinley." The President had turned to
leave but as the calls continued he re-
turned and coming to the front Of the
box spoke as follows:
"Mv Fellow Citizens: / have been deep
lv moved by this great demonstration.
| have been deeply touched by the words
Of patriotism that have been uttered by
the distinguished men so eloquenuy in
vour presence. 1t is gratifying to US TO
| know that this never ceased to be a war
of humanity. The last ship that went
out of the harbor of Havana before the
! vor was declared was an American ship