The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31
AT OTHER POINTS.
Ex-Lieuf. Gov. Hanna's Address Be.
fore BrOwnsburg Veterans.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BROWNSBURG, Ind, May 30-Decora-
ton day was observed here by the largest
crowd ever gathered here. Ex-Lieut. Gov.
Thomas Hanna was the orator of the day.
After decorating the soldiers graves all re-
paired to the Christian Church, where the
remainder of the programme, consisting OF
speeches, music ard recitations, was car
ried out. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Hanna,
after giving the causes of the war, the con-
fiict between freedom and slavery, showing
the magnitude and greatness of the war,
giving statistics showing loss of life, bat
ties ETC., and showing the sentiment now
existing, and ever since the war, in the
South: that they thought they were right
then and that they think so now, quoted
from Southern schoolbooks, read an ex-
tract from Senator Bates speech at the
dedication of Confederate monument at
Knoxville, from a speech delivered by Rev.
Cave on Decoration day in Richmond, Va,
and also from an article written by ex-
Gov. Peter Turney, of Tennessee. and, after
reading Inscriptions on Confederate monu-
ments in the South, he then said:
Our Republic is now engaged in a war
with foreign power, and the army that
we have now. together with the men that
have been called, number more than quar-
ter of a million of men. Union soldiers and
their sons as brave men as ever lived, have
enlisted and are ready to carry out the be-
hests of our Nation in this struggle; men
who were engaged in the late rebellion,
Generals Wheeler and Lee, and many Con-
federates and their sons. who followed the
stars and bars. are now following the stars
and stripes, and all seem to vie with eaGh
other in their devotion to the flag. would
not say anything on this occasion about the
sentiment of the South, as to the part they
took in the Confederate cause, but from
he or "a Lee
appointed brigadier general by President
Mckinley said at a Confederate campfire
speaking of the war of issl-S5 We fought
for a cause We knew to be right and we
made a magnificent record. l have never
read of such hight as we made. Mr..
Hanna then read from the Confederate Vet
eran.. published in Nashville, Tenn, re-
port of the meeting alluded to. After trans
acting the usual business of the camp Gen.
Lee was introduced, and Commander
Laughton called upon him to give express
sion to some guarded remarks. General
Lee, the report says, smilingly complied,
saying: Turn out the guard; I'm going to
make some guarded remarks. He then
went on, according to the report in the Con-
he had felt when among Confederate sol
diers, and stated that he was reminded of
teen years It struck him as funny that
these boys should be singing the Star
spangled Banner" when they had. in 1861.
fought so hard against it. There never
was band that fought against that flag
harder than you boys he said. and here
you are r singing the .star-spangled Ban
and the tears bore off the throbbing of his
grandly patriotic heart, which threatened
to spill over 1t seemed strange to him that
Captain Cunningham should be singing the
''Star-spangled Banner" but he did not
wonder at his not getting the pitch the first
time. After paying fine tribute to the Star
spangled Banner" and his pride in it while
at Havana, he referred to our great war
here in the sixties. and said: We fought
for cause we knew to be right. and we
made magnificent record ! have never
read of such fight we made
When enlisted in the Union army said
Mr.. Hanna, and followed our flag on the
march. in the field and in, camp; when
slept at night with the earth for bed. my
knapsack for a pillow and the stars for a
cover l thought l was doing patriotic
duty and obeying the commands of God
himself. l thought so then and l think SO
now. | want my children and my neigh
boris children to think so. and | want them
taught in the public schools that the men
who gave up their lives died for the right.