The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-17
GOVERNOR JOHNSTON
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Several Hits.
removing Is the speech OF Governor John
ston OF Alabama at the bano,,si, u,h;os ~,
cinaed the Atlanta peace jubilee;
| seems to me peculiarly appropriate
tn'' 'his ceieoratlon should be had here IN
lne central State OF the South ann s,n,
nuoIe, In the home city or A man ,vh,ssa
ssenius set another star in the Sontbsrn
n,,, and his patriotic eloousnce firs,
az Tue Voice OF sectional animosity.
ha,,, s ytnIsiatuiate the president ON his
ue.as apie to make this trip TO Atlanta
| with lesA discomfort and annrebsnsinr
| lnah one he undertook some thirty-iivs
years ago; and ann sure he prefers iho
hihu OF not time he will have in the old
| 'town tonight to the kind he eynerIe,cai
then. A' eNpe'ienceu
Georgia Is distinguished in MANY WAYS
chieny IN the fact that she les next IN
A.aoahla and some partisan newspapers
and lohtlcal prophets. Alabama is. OF
course the greatest of all States in tho
abundance and variety of her reso,,rca.
puc Georgia has two things wherein she Is
e ~ both going out into na.,s
states' one appealing to the tendsrest
reooiections OF predatory boyhood. nd tho
other inspiring the most patriotic hone of
the iuture--her watermelon and her Goa
stitution.'
Coming to my text, can say that the
Denomination or war found all the States
ready; not one In the Sisterhood hut had
her lamp trimmed and glowing with ma
triotic light; all differences as to the right
luiness or expedtency OF the war disap-
peared and once more the msn of the
Ncrth and OF the South were ready 10
cement the Union with their co-minglinu
blood nus
he conditions were not the same in all
the States; some had well organized ANA
ehlclen troops ready for instant service:
ueorgia was peculiarly happy in that the
can upon her never reached such propor-
tlons put that 1t could be filled by the
coioneis on the staff of the governor with
CUT any community ever missing-or,
possibly regretting-them; Ohio had only
10 take 1.-THE of her late disappointed
candidates for Feleral patronage and her
quota was full. and every one happy; es-
peciaiiy as there was reasonable hope that
none would return.
New York only needed to call on the
newspaper warriors who always SNUFF the
Dattle from afar off Immunes, many OF
whom were acquainted with men who had
mad the yellow fever and of whom not n
lew actually had the Group ann survived
the elementary pangs Of unrpe fruit.
rushed to the front.
Democrats and republicans, gold bugs
and silver looms and even the populists
came from their political graves. and all
forgot party, currency. section and anilno5-
tiles, and stood for the country. Even the
women--God bless them-ve volunteered and
were then. as now, the mainstay and h M
of the infantry.
one thing, Mr. Chairman. was a thorn
in the flesh of the State governments, mat
was the physical examination the volun-
teers were subjected to. Nothing but per-
lection was admissible. man short of
an eye, sven II it were not the shooting eye
or with missing finger. or too mucn or
too Little circumference. was not in it,
The only way Shafter and Wheeler could
have gotten into the ranks would have
been TO have had themselves mixed UP and
made over into two respectable men. Fitz-
hugh Lee could never have larded the lean
earth as private, and Napoleon Bonaparte
would have been turned down. Fortunate
ly. no test was had as to brains. aud con-
seuuently a large number OF officers OF
high rank were able to get in.
Experience obtained from our late fam
lily disturbance has taught us that the men
who win the battles carry the muskets 80
we We're extremely particular about the
privates, and quite Indifferent as TO the Of
icens. The consequence was tina. we had
the best privates ever assembled in any
army and some of the fat est generals.
I'm conclusion. Mr.. -a-<,7man. II the
States had encountered as many difficulties
N getting UP the quotas as they have in
getting back the money expended We would
now be on the eve of the Santiago cam !
1aign.'