The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-12-21
Mckinley 10 the South.

luent MCKINLEY before Inc Leglsla
ture of Georgia on Wednesday last
was certainly the most eloquent ant
Impressive of all the many eloqueu
deliveraeces be has made 10 his ex
tended public career. 1t is one of tht
few speeches that intelligent anC
thoughtful people, North and South
will turn to read over and over again
to gather in the full measure of it;
patriotic and exquisite expression.
The following paragraphs from this
address will be preserved among the
immortal declarations of American
statesmen
Sectional lines no longer mar the
map of the United States; sectional
feeling no longer holds back the love
We bear each other. Fraternity is the
national anthem, sung by chorus of
forty.five States aud Territories at
home and beyond the seas. The
Union is once more the common OBJ.
ject of our love and loyalty, our de
vOtion and sacrifice. The old flag
waves over US 10 peace, with new
glories which your sons and ours have
this year added to its sacred folds.
Every soldiers grave made during
our unfortunate civil war is a tribute
to American valor. Aud while when
those graves were made we differed
widely about the tature of this gov.
ernment, the differences were long
ago settled by the arhitrament of
arms, aud the time has now ccme
in the evolution of sentiment snd
feeling under the providence of God
when in the spirit of fraternity we
should share with you in the care of
the graves of the Confederate sol.
diers.
Since the delivery of Mr.. Lincoln's
great speech at the dedication of the
soldiers monument at Gettysburg, We
have had no public utterauce from
the craftsmanship of the country that
so nearly approached Mr.. Lincoln in
the eloquence that reaches the popu,
lar heart and fingers as sweet in.
ceuse with succeeding generations
1t is so sincerely manly, patriotic and
fraternal ; so pure in diction and SO
terse in expression, that none will at.
tempt to read it between the lines be.
cause it was evidently the Chief Mag
istrate of the greatest republic of the
world speaking from heart to heart
with the people who are the sovereign
power of the nd
Mr.. Lincoln's Gettysburg address
was made on the battlefield that dat
ed the downfall of the confederacy,
and it will be cherished in the CRATE.
ful memories Of the liberty.loving peo.
pie of the world while freedom shall
have worshipers. President McKin.
ley's address at Atlanta dates the alb
solute disenthrallment of The Ameri
can people from the lingering dregs
Of sectional prejudice which have SO
long been kept alive by demagogic
political leaders.
1t will be turned to by the people
of the South who have so bravely
borne the fearful retributions of their
defeated cause, as the first deliver.
anae that has come to them from a
Republican President ilr open hon.
esty declaring that sectional resent.
ments have finally perished, aud that
benceforth the living and the dead
who wore or supported the blue and
the gray in our civil war have reached
the highest measure of fraternal fel.
lowship.
And while it will be ever cherished
in the memories of the Southern peo.
pie, it will be as gratefully cherished
By every true patriot of the North
Great as h We been the achievement:
of President McKinley's administra
tiOn in war, the country will turn c
his truly patriotic address at Atlanta
as one OF the most memorable anC
enduring u'teTances of any President
and as ranking with that of Abraham
Lincoln at Gettysburg, philadelphia
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