The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-18
WIT, WISDOM AND PATH0S.
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carriage in which I sat with the Postmas
ter General, passed him by, extended his
hand TO me, and said President Mchiu
ley, am glad 10 see YOU Qaughter)
need not say that he was man OF rar'
Intelligence anG dis animation. Laugh-
teri But since thu. time, s,rarge as I
may seem. have nIs been n 4avOrite wan
my associates of the cabinet Qaughter), al
though the attack of this evening is the
first time that the feeling has taken eX-
preston. There were Indications this
morning. do not say that l saw any
member Of the cabinet. or Il there was any
cabinet minister l 60 MOI say which one
il was that stealth1y approached the
apartment al the door of which the Pres
ident had left his shoes. and attempted
10 put Them on his feet. (Laughter)
But leave these small matters aside
daughter, and let me tell YOU that il
is rather an embarrassing thing to speak
on this occasion. Nobody likes to he dou-
be-faced, but on this occasion ! almost
wish 1 were. Qaughter) Here in front
Of me are sprinkled these grim warriors,
with their terrifying epaulets on their
shoulders, dreading every one of them the
moment when the close of the war win
compel their removal Oaughter) And
behind me the still more dangerous bat
teries of these sparkling and beautiful
eyes. I am further embarrassed by this
letter of your distinguished felow-citizen,
Mr.. Purse, who, when he invited me here
and said / was to speak in behalf of the
navy, suggested with great delicacy that
as the speeches would be on Saturday
night, and the exercises must c.ose by u.
must be governed accordingly. I at first
thought it a delicate suggestion that my
remarks must be brief. it afterWard oc-
CURED TO me that il was a generous offer
that might talk until u 0aughte) and
as it is now 80 mintes to l. it gives me
eleven hours and half 0aughteD in which
to tell all that 1 do not know about the
navy, although 1 generously intend to
leave five minutes in which the Secretary
OF Agriculture and Gen. Wheeler viii tell
all they do know about agriculture, women
and war
Let me, as the Postmaster General has
done, thank you most cordially for this
invitation. When il came it raised visions
of Sunny South, and the delight of visit
TO that blessed land. l wrote a letter at
once TO the most beautiful woman in the
world-and l dare say it in this presence
p ceiling her in the language of the old
beautiful New England cultured poem
Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me-
1 am going to Alabama with my banjo
on my knee" Naughter)
"And though the weather was so cold
down my back, and though even on our
way here the clouds overcast the sky. 7
nave yet found in your generous hospital
ity, in your cordial greeting. in your kind
ness, indeed a realization of the Sunny
South. (Applause) You have done me spe-
claI honor beyond that general welcome;
and here and now, gentlemen, 1 thank YOU
from the bottom of my heart for this
which you have presented to me. (referr-
small "a ion hof
cred the cream) Q1aughter) this military
nat, which shows that in your juden ent
az ieast, whether or not you think l am
OF presidential timber ought an addition 70
belng at the head of the navy to be az the
mead of the army. Naughter) You win
allow me 10 say, however, that you have
MADE mistake in the dimension II
were to judge from the size, I should think
that the hat was intended not Cor me- hat
for the Postmaster General daughter
Il recognize also a compliment not only
10 myself, but to my colleagues. in the
eloquent words of your Mayor referring
10 the great men of the past suggesting
tnat on these streets they had walked. |
knew he meant to suggest that perhaps
hlty years from now, some Mayor of ihe
CITY OF Savannah would be saying ION
these streets, down these rivers. into this
restaurant, went Gage daughter and AL
ger and Smith-C. Emory Smith to iden-
tify Observation-Disclosures Wilson, end
ten newspaper correspondents who wrote
their speeches, and in their publication
the next morning corrected any mistakes
In their delivery. Qaughter)
You do not know how much I felt at
home. Everything goes on here just as It
does when / visit the cattle shows and
fairs and anniversaries in Massachusetts.
The same man has met me and has said.
as IL l had never heard the pun before
although / have never heard anything
else-that he knew / was Long but he
had no idea l was so short The same
hend has been to me and whispered in my
ear, confidentally that more than 100 peo-
pie have told him that he looked very
much like the Secretary of the Navy and
that they cannot be told apart.
And other interests connect me with
Savannah. One a most tender recollection
TO me-that two of your citizens born in
this city were my class mates at Harvard
College. One of them, the respected DR..
Elliott, who stin lives; the other, as 1 re-
call him in the glory of his youth as
beautiful as an Apollo, Samuel Breck
Parkman, who dies early in the war; but
whose memory is cherished by his class
mates as tenderly and as reverently as if
he had died on Northern soil, or in the
Northern army (Applause) come from
n.
coin, who is associated with your history
here, and who yielded to a superior British
force. in consideration of which Gen.
Washington, with the gallant chivalry OF
a Southern gentleman and soldier per-
mitted him afterwards at Yorktown to re-
coive the sword of CORVALLIS at the time
of CORVALLIS surrender. (Applause)
From New England, too, came that
Gen. Greene to whom you have referred,
recognized by all military historians as
next to Washington the greatest soldier
of the revolutionary war. Nor do 1 forget
that of the Old thirteen, Massachusetts
then-Maine not having been separated
from her-represented the northern end Of
the line, and Georgia the EXTREMIST South
(applause); and while all the states be-
tween Joined hands together these two
stretched out each its hand, which was
not joined to another, to embrace across
the sea in a link which, though interrupt
ed for a time, is now welded together
stronger than ever. (Applause)
"As to the navy, ladies and gentlemen.
what can / say that is not already i'm all