The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-12-21
M'kinIsy Captures Atlanta
The President and Party Visit the Peace
Jubilee There Last Week.
sPEAzs TO LEGISLATURE AND AT
BANQUET

BANQUEI
The President and suite visited the At
lanta peace jubilee last week. The legis-
lRture was in joint session to receive him.
He spoke to them as follows:
Ii is an uncommon pleasure TO be thus
greeted by these representatives Of the
state of Georgia, and it affords Inc much
qualification to be here and rejoice with
you over the signingo of The treaty Of peace
with Spain.
Sectional lines no longer mar the map
of the United States. Sectional feeling
each other.
Fraternity is the national anthem, sung
by chorus of forty five states and our
territories, hoEle and beyond the seas.
The Union is once more the common atlas
of our love and loyalty, our devotion and
sacrifice.
The old flag again waves over us in
peace, with new glories which your sons
and ours have this year added to its
sacred folds.
Whas cause we have for rejoicing, sad
dened only by the fact that so many of
our brave men fell on the field o- sicken-
cd and died from hardship aud exposure,
and others, returning, brought wounds
and diseases from which they will long
suffer! The memory of the dead will be
precious legacy, and the disabled will be
the nations care.
A nation which cares for its disabled
soldiers as we have always done will
never lack defenders. The national GEM
o.eries for those who fell in battle are
proof that the dead as well as the living
have our love. What an army of silent
sentinels we have, and with what loving
care their graves are kept
Every soldiers grave made during our
unfortunate civil war is a tribute to Ameri-
can yalor.
While, when those graves were made,
we differed widely about the future of
this government, the differences were
long ago settled by the arbitrament of
arms and the time has now come in the
evolution of sentiment and feeling, under
the providence Of God. when. in the spiri.
of fraternity, we should share with you
in the care of the graves of the confeder-
ate soldiers.
The cordial feeling which now happily
exists between the North and South
prompts this gracious act, and, if need
ed further Justification. il * found in the
gallant loyalty 10 the Uu ion and the flag
- couSpicuously shown in the year just
passed by the sons and grandsons ofthese
heroic dead.
Wat a glorious future awaits us if
unitedly, wisely and brsvely we face the
new problems now pressing upon us. de-
ternined to solve them for right aud hu-
manity,
At banquet held after the close of the
Jubilee, Wednesday evening, the Presi-
dent responded as follows TO the toast
Our Country:
Il am nOta stranger to your hospitality.
You have always given me a courteous
and cordial reception. Ny first visit
was under the auspices of your fellow
citizen, Captain Howell, and another dis
tinguished GeOrgian-the brilliant Grady
-s-nee called from the field of activity
when he was at the height of his useful
ness, and when the whole nation cOuld
lily spare him and sorrowed at his un-
timely death.
Then we were engaged in an economic
opinion prevailed, and heated discussion
ruled he hour. do not forget that then,
although advocating the theory of taxa
tiOn. seemingly opposed to the majority
sentiment of your State and city, you ac-
corded me an impartial hearing. Stran-
ger as was TO all of you, you made me
feel at home, and from that hour Atlanta
won my heart My subsequent visits
have only served to increase my admira-
tiOn for your enterprising city.
-Four years have gone since last met
the people of Georgia in public assembly.
Much has happened in the intervening
time.
THE nation has been at war-not with
in its own shores, but with foreign pow
era war waged not for revenge or ag-
graudizement, bat for our oppressed
neighbors, for their freedom and amelio
ration.
DECISIVE WAR.
at was short, but decisive. 1t recorded
succession of significant victories on
land and sea. IL gave new honorsto Am
erican arms. IL has brought new prob
lens to the Republic, whose solution will
tax the genius of our people. United we
will meet and solve them with honor to
ourselves and lasting benefit to all con-
cerned. The war brought us together;
its settlement will keep US togeta aer.
Re united - glorious realization. 1t
expresses the thought of mind aud the
long deferred consummation of my
hearts desire as | stand in this presence.
1t interprets the hearty demonstration
here witnessed, and is the patriotic re-
frain of all sections and of all lovers of
the Republic.
"Re-united-one country again, and one
country forever. Proclaim it from the
press and pulpit; teach it in the schools;
write it across the skies. The world sees
and feels it; it cheers every heart North
aud South, and brightens the life of every
American home. Let nothing ever strain
it again. At peace with all the world and
with each other, what can stand in the
pathway of our progress and prosperity ?"