The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-09
MEMORY OF THEIR FATHERS.
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| Continued from Eighth PageJ
not know what was going to be the re-
| suit. As a social and political aggrega-
ton Georgia. he said. presented
a sort of a trinity like that which DR..
! Holmes discusses in. the Autocrat He
would discuss only one aspect of the state,
he said, that as it appeared TO Georgians
themselves, and not as it appeared TO its
makers or to others. Biologists Georgia has
| and plenty to spare, an occasional censor
/ is needed. He was Georgian, he said, ana
his ancestors had been for sometime be-
fore him. There was an idea he said, among
| some Georg1ans that they were better than
other communities. In one instance IL
manifested itself in addition of a syllable
! TO the name, and now some call it Ge-or-
gia. In another state of the dementia il is
called grand old Georgia" Why grand?
We must remember that Georgia is the
| youngest of the thirteen. Then others were
inclined, he said, to call it the Empire
State. What is there imperial about it
| more than about her sister states that sur
| round her on every side? Why if Georgia
! IS an empire, be not these empires also2
She is great state, he said, with her
| rivers her harbors, her timber, her fields,
and her mines, but is this not true Of her
neighbors on her right had and on her left,
| and above and below? Let us stop boast
| ing, he said, and think whether there is
not greater demand for reformers than
for trumpeters. Let her lawyers purge their
| ranks of shysters barators and this pecu-
liar product of the Georgia bar, the bailif
| lawyers. Let her newspaper men seek
| truth and not sensation; let her ministers
become more apostolic; let her railroad
| men be better than they are; let her
women be just what they are, God bless
EN-, and then we shall reach a better
state for Dragging.
Maj. Cumming said he knew he had not
adopted popular line as he was expected
to praise, he supposed. But he felt that if
this society would for a couple of centu-
ries have sermon once year on the
common foibles of the day, much good
would he accomplished He said he was
going 10 begin that series this evening
and he would take for his subject THE
Georgia Colonel.
Having reached the subject of the Geor
gia colonel Maj. Cumming gave a most
humorous account of his redtion and his
trend He called the Georgia colonel an
extraordinary folly. He spoke of what
the historian might say in the future, when
he comes to look around for the civilians
in Georgia and the officers of minor grade.
Georgia has many things to deplore, he
said, and among them was the clubbing
with the title Colonel of every politician
and every crossroads lawyer. He hoped
the Sons of the Revolution would help to
eXtinguish this folly.
However painful the presence in our
midst of the Georgia colonel might be-"
said Hon. Emory Speer in beginning his
response to the toast, THE United
States,' the presence of the Georgia major
Is exceedingly fortunate"
He alluded, of course to Maj. Cumming.
1t fell to him, he said, to speak not only
of Georgia, but of all her sister states. He
spoke of the American constitution, which,
! he said, was the grandest document
that ever proceeded from the
brain of man. It's origin, he said, might
be traced to a period as early as the fifth
century after Christ. Among the Angles
/ we find the nucleus of local self-govern-
ment; the right TO bear arms which could
not be infringed and the right of trial by
a jury of peers. These original rights
were carried across the straits by Hen
; ghist and Horsa, and the principles which
actuated the people of that period went
with them. The Anglo-Saxon, unlike
other peoples took his language and his
laws with him. II is a dominating race
which has absorbed every other race that
, ever came in contact with It, After the
reign of the second Henry, the Norman
was not known. and even the descendants
Of the Normans on the field of Hastings
were proud to call themselves Englsh-
men.
The principles of the magma charta are
, embodied in the constitution of our COM
. mon country to-day. How natural was it,
, he said, that Americans should rebel
: against the violations of these principles
. in the magra charta. How natural was il
that the cry should have gone up from
Georgia to Massachusetts, against such
oppression. And how natural was it when
the battle was won that our forefathers
should have written the document they lid.
based on principles that We're carried TO
England by Henghst and Horsa
Judge Speer concluded his address in an
eloquent burst Of oratory. His allusion to
Commodore Josiah Tattnall was provo.a-
tive of much enthusiasm, and the quota
ton from him, Blood is thicker than We
ter" brought forth prolonged applause
AT the conclusion of his address many of
the prominent gentlemen present gathered
| around him and congratulated him warm
, ".
Toastmaster Barrow introduced the next
speaker Hon. Robert Falligant who res
pended to the toast The Daughters of the
Revolution" Judge Falligant's responses
to woman are famous: he has always
shown himself al home with the subject
Judge Falligants response was in his
same humorous, eloquent and pathetic
style, all combined to make a most enjoya-
BILE response. He spoke of the characteristics
of woman in the different
ages. how her character had
developed, and how she was the
noble. patriotic and self-sacrifcing citizen
of to-day. His reference to the saying that
il took God Almighty nineteen years to
| make a Dellccl NOiDdAls Was I0ucn enjoy
ed. He agreed with Bob IngersoH in one
thing, he said, and that was that the maxi
ing of woman out of such insignificant ma
terial was the biggest success the world
had ever known
oastmaster Barrow then announced
that Cen Ewel S. Otis would respond to
the toast "rhe Army" Cen Otis said he
did not see the toast announced on the
card, but he was very happy that he was
able to pe with the Sons Of the Revolution.
He referred to the fact that those in the
army were not permitted to talk They
can't talk, he said when they feel like it.
They are not even permitted to talk when
sitting on a court-martial but then Mr.
Charlton does not give us much liberty"
The army of the United States, he said is
small but that portion of it is trying to do
what il can to keep up spirit and to be
ready in the season Of distress and trouble
when you citizens will be the army OF the
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