The age-herald., 1898-10-20
Feast of Reason at the Chicago Ju-
 bilee Banquet.
EDITOR HOWELL'S ADDRESS
He Responded to the Toast Our United Country North and South" and in Burning Words Described the
 Brothery Love Animatng Men Differ ent Sections of the Union.

the time being in impenetrable mystery. Looking backward, we can see how the hand of destiny builded for us and assigned tasks whose full meaning was not appre- hended even by the wisest statesmen of their times. Our colonial ancestors did not enter upon their war originally for inde- pendence. Abraham Lincoln did not start out to free the slaves, but to save the un- ion. The war with Spain was not of our seeking, and some of its consequences may not be to our liking. Our vision is often de- fective. Short-sightedness is a common malady, but the closer we get to things or they get to us, the clearer our view and the less obscure our duty. Patriotism must be faithful as well as fervent; states manship must be wise as well as fearless not the statesmanship which will command the applause of the hour, but the judgment of posterty.
 '"The final determination of our purposes awaits the action of the eminent men who are charged by the executive with the mak- ing of the treaty of peace, and that of the senate of the United States, which, by our constitution, must ratify and confirm it. We all hope and pray that the confirmation of peace will be as just and humane as the conduct and consummation of the war. When the work of the treaty makers is done, the work of the lawmakers will be- gin. The one will settle the extent of our responsibilities; the other must provide the legislation to meet them. The army and navy have heroically performed their part. Mo, l l wisdom to perform theirs"
 Clark Howelrs Address The men of the south who have delivered addresses during the jubilee have won golden opinions The speech of Judge SpeeT of Georgia at the opening of the meeting of yesterday was revelation to those who heard him, and the address of Clark How ell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who responded to the sentiment, "Our United Country, North and South," was in all re- spects equal to that of the eloquent speaker from his own state who had preceded him. It caught his audience and caught them hard. MT. Howell spoke as follows:
 MT. Postmaster and My Fellow Coun- trymen: In the mountains of my state, in county remote from the quickening touch of commerce, and railroads and tee- graphs-so far removed that the sincerity of its rugged people flows unpolluted from the spring of nature-two vine-covered mounds, nestled in the solemn silence of country churchyard, suggests the text of my response to the sentiment to which I am to speak tonight. A curious text, MT. Postmaster for an occasion like this, and yet out of it there is life and peace and hope and prosperity, for in the solemn sac rifice of the voiceless grave can the chief est lesson of the republic be learned, and the destiny of its real mission be unfolded. So bear with me while I lead you to the rust-stained slab, which for third of century-since Chickamauga-has been kissed by the sun as 1t passed over the Blue Ridge. melting the tears with which the mourning night had bedewed the in- scription:
 Here lies a confederate soldier.
 He died for his country"
 The September day which brought the body of the mountain hero to the home among the hills which had smiled upon his infancy, been gladdened by his youth, and strengthened by his manhood, was an ever memorable one with the sorrowing concourse of friends and neighbors who followed his shot-riddled body to the grave. And of that number no man gainsaid the honor of his death, lacked full loyalty to the flag for which he fought doubted the iutice of the cause for which he gave his life
 Another Roll of Martyrs
 Thirty-five years have passed; another war has called it's roll of martyrs; again the old bell tolls from the crude latticed tower of the settlement church; another great pouring of sympathetic humanity and this time the body of a son, wrapped in the stars and stripes. is lowered to it's everlasting rest beside that of the father who sleeps in the stars and bars.
 There were those there who stood by the grave of the confederate hero years before and the children of those were there, and of those present no one gainsaid the honor of the death of this hero of Fl Caney, and none were there but loved, as patriots alone can love, the glorious flag that en- shrines the people of common country as it enshrouds the form that will sleep for ever in its blessed folds. And on this tomb will be written:
 Here lies the son of confederate soldier.
 He died for his country
 And so it is that between the making of these two graves human hands and human hearts have reached a solution of the vexed problem that has baf11ed human will and human thought for three decades. Sturdy sons of the south have said to their broth CTS of the north that the people of the south had long since accented the arbitra- ment of the sword to which they had ap- pealed And likewise tr,e oft-repeated mes- sage has come back from the north that peace and good will reigned, and that the wounds of civil dissensfoD were but as sacred memories Good fellowship was waited on the wings of commerce and de- velopment from those who had worn the blue to those who had worn the gray. Nor were these messages delivered in vain. for they served to nave the way for the com pIete and absolute elinnination of the line of sectional differences by the on'v process by which such n, result was nossih'n. The sentiment of tho great ma 'oritv of the peo- nle of the. south was rightly spoken in the message of the immortal Hil and in the burning eloouence of Henry Gradv--both Georgians-the record of whose blessed work for the restoration of peace between
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