The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-21

means Simple justice to these brave and
patriotic men, who yielded at last to over
Whelining numbers aud resources; justice
TO the Southern people whose devotion TO
their cause must be measured by the
countless sacrifices they made for it; JUS
tice TO their present attitude toward the
American republic, whose honor and free
dom and flag they are always ready to de-
fend; justice 10 the self-respect and man.
hood of Southern youth, who are to stand
for all time with Northern youth, in de-
Tense of popular liberty; justice to the
past and justice to the future all demand
that our own posterity and all mankind
shall know the meaning of these phenome-
MAJ demonstrations over the thinned ranks
Of a broken, but proud and once resistless
army.
Our heroic brothers Of the Union army
need no such care in guarding themselves
from misrepresentation and for the reason
that they are, so to speak, the special
wards of this great nation. All Of its en-
ergies, all of its influence and a large
share of its taxing power are subject,
When required, TO their demands. Besides,
as a rule, it is true the world over that
victory itself vindicates, while defeat
dooms to Misrepresentation the caHse of
the vanquished.
Let us hope, however, that impartial
history, secured through the labors of our
broad minded and able historical commit
tee will avert from our people such a
wrong.
Again, and finally, l press the question,
what is the Utmost meaning of these Con-
federate pageants? Are they due to any
covert or sinister aims, or, in the remot-
est degree to- self-seeking? Their open
sessions and published proceedings, which
all the world is challenged to inspect, fur
nish the answer DO these reunions and
popular demonstrations, which attend
Isnr, ,1v
suggestion of disloyalty to either of the
tremendous results of the war-the free
dom of the slave and the eternal unity of
the republic? The protection of the ne
gro by Southern courts, his reliance for
security upon Southern sentiment and his
education through white taxation in
Southern schools, furnish the SOuths an
swer as to the first 10 the second loyalty
to a perpetual union of the states and to
the honor and glory of the Tepublc-the
South has been continually answering since
the close of our civil war; and she is an
swering to-day by the presence and PROV
ess of her heroic sons at the front in the
war with Spain. Her Lee, her Wheeler.
her Bagiey, her Blue, her Hobson and her
thousands of volunteers who sprang to
arms at their country's call are answer
ing from their camps from the Philippines
and from the jungles of Cuba You my
Confederate comrades would be there if
the country needed you. Many of you
assembled here would have been there, but
for impaired health and failing strength.
Butaour sons and grandsons are there.
With our prayers and blessings they are
enlisted in this war for high and holy pur-
poses. Among the great ends to be at
tanned in this conflict with Spain, the free
dom of oppressed islands in both oceans,
the wider influence of America in the
councils of the nations, the increased re-
spect for her power on land and sea, there
is still another achievement TO be attained,
no less glorious and far-reaching, namely: