El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
The BLUE - The GRAY
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country He said it thrilled his heart
when the last wa was mentioned, aod
when he thought of his comrades who
stood by bin on the fed of battle and
devoted their lives to the maintenance
of the principle for which they hal
fought. The captain paid tribute to
the G. A. Il. veterans. and drew les
son from past experience in demon
stratiOn that there shall be no more
internal war to devastate this fair land.
But we are under a bond to stand to-
gether to defend the flag (applause)
from whatever source the danger
comes. All asperities between the sec
tiOns are buried forever. | know not
of north and south in case the war
which seems most imminent, becomes
fact. There are old scared boys in
blue and gray enough to vindicate
the rights of America against the foe.
When patriotic inspir alton dies out we
will deserve to be blOtted out from
among the nations of the earth. God
preserve us from the day when patri OF
will not rise to defend the flag against
a foreign foe. The captain made an
warmly applauded.
Miss Harrison sang, "Tenting To-
night on the old Camp Ground" with
the choir to join in the chorus. This
effort was also heartily applauded.
DR.. Yandell was the next speaker.
Like the others, he was deservedly well
received, and in the course of his brief
address made hits that tickled the
audience.
When asked for his speech DR.. Yam
dell said: 1.-THE few remarks that |
made were simply to fill in my time
aud were not committed to paper, nor
can l reproduce them from memory.
Through Misunderstanding, thinking
there were to be but two speeches to a
side, L had prepared notes for a speech
of about thirty minutes, on a subject
suggested by General Malloy, Amer
icanism'-inspiriug and singulariy sug-
gestive-at this time with our country
on the verge of war; in such presence,
the veterans of both sides met as COM
rades, once estranged and thereby
closer bound;' our country united, OF
one mind, as never before in its glOr-
iOus history, and grown electric with
patriotism; confederate major gener-
al in the post of danger, trusEed by the
nation, guarding tue national honor:
the children of the men VINO followed
the g. ars and stripes and the children
of the men who followed the south ern
cross keeping step TO the music OF the
unionl On arriving at the hall | first
learned my mistake and that speeches
were limited to five minutes. OF course
that killed my speech and what 1 said
was simply to fill 10 my place on the
program. This explanation l make
because l hold that the man who
thrt ugh his own fault, after sufficien nj
notice, infiicts for want of preparation,
a ram ling disconnected talk on his
audience, shows lack of resp ct for the
public and lack of goo1-br eeding.
81 have myself been the victim in toe
many limited to five minutes rounds
OF oratOry, where the contestants for
championship nonors in long-distance
linguistic contests know no such words
rs break away, and where the gong
was never sOunded-to intilct a thirty
minutes effort on an audience, the vic
tins Of misplaced confidence who eX
pect only five minute rounds and the
gong promptly sounded for break-aways
l intended to say in my ia'k-but for
got in my anxiety not to exceed five