Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-12-22
AND MUST FoLLoW THE DAY, THoU oANsT


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"When the news flashed from the
wires a few days ago that the treaty
of peace would be signed there came
also this statement, that there would
be complication with the nations OF
Europe If we attempted to hold our
new possessions in the East, giving
as q reason that we lacked diplomatic
manners. My oountrymen, think OF
it We can assure these old worn
out nations that, perhaps we may not
havo the politeness of the French
dancing master, but they can rest
assured of this fact, tn, ; we do not
lack diplomacy, skill nor. courage,
and whether on land or water, the
American diplomat, soldier and
sailor, is the equal, if not the supe-
rior, of any diplomat soldier or sailor
that the monarchies of Europe can
produce.
"Judge Day spoke a great diplo-
matte truth when he said, "A peace
treaty can contain anything which
the victors put into it, He was ap-
plauded on this side of the Atlantic.
No European diplomat ever spoke a
truth moro tersolY or more directly
to the point.
eff we had been y nation that par
leyed with doubtful terms, American
independence would not to-day have
been a fact. Over one hundred
years ago our patriotic forefathers
proposed to England in uumistaka~
bic terms the wishes and Intentions
of this country. 1t did not take an
hour to understand what we were
driving at. Our people arc plain
and unassuming, and I pray God
that they may continue this way for
ever, honest and true. Spain thought
we were joking when we demanded
Cuban independence. They said we
were towards and would not fight.
They called us pigs. They were
startled and dazed by the lightning
stroke that came from our splendid
battleships. (Applause.)
"Thero are great questions pre-
sented to this nation to solve. Tie
majority Of the people of this coun-
try, | fully believe, have made up
their minds to retain all of these
countries that the providence of God
has delivered into our hands. Some
cry out imperialism if we extend
our boundaries and take in these new
possessions. Others say we are leav-
ing the old landmarks laid down by
our forefathers, and there is danger
in doing 30. The American people
are not fools to be misled, nor are
they towards to be scared by any
such statements.
"This is not q matter of politics,
but of patriotism--not a question OF
supporting this administration, but
of sustaining the government in the
honest effort to secure the full fruits
of the war.
"Thc United States has never yet
added Il foot Of new territory but
what glorious results have followed
1t docs not require prophet to pre-
dict, if we will follow up and secure
the full benefits of this great war,
that lasting and beneficial results
will be the outcome, surprising any
thing that has boen experienced in
the history of this great country
And if we do this, the United States
will attain place among the nations
of this earth, the height and breadth
OF which no one has yet dreamed
Of" (Applause)
GA little over three years ago
during tho great Cotton States and
international Exposition, there was
celebrated on these grounds Blue
and Gray day. I had the honor o1
presiding over large and enthusi.
astlc meeting held in the exposition
auditorium. This meeting was ad.
dressed by distinguished and promi
nentt Governors from the North, one
of whom said 'The time, if not al.
ready here, should be here now wher
the North and the South only sug.
gest geographical divisions, and no.
thing else. If we ever fight again
and | pray God we may never have
to, but if we ever do, we will fight
on the same side and we will fight
under the same flag, and that flag
will be tho glorious stars and stripes
tho same our grandfathers lifted up
the same our fathers bore. In many
a battles tempest it shed crimson
rain and to-day it means that, what
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