The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-20
Clark HoweIi,s speech.

The men of the South who have delivered
addresses during the jubilee have won gold
en- opinions. The speech of Judge Speer
of Georgia. at the opening meeting of yes
terday was a revelation to those who had
never heard Fim and the address of Clark
Howell, of Atlanta, who responded to the
sentiment Our United Country, North and
South was in all respects equal to that of
the eloquent speaker from his own State,
who had preceded him. 1t caught his audi
ence and caught them hard. Mr.. Howell
paid tribute to the soldiers of the North and
South who fought side by side on the Cuban
battlefield. In eloquent terms he spoke of
the passing of sectional hate and the knit
ting Of the people, divided by deadly strife
thirty-five years ago, into one happy Ma
tion ready at any moment to unite it's
mighty forces against a foreign foe. Con-
tinuing he sald
How was the world to know that the
burning fires of patriotism, so essential to
national glory and achievement, had not
been quenched by the blood spilled by the
heroes of both sides of the most desperate
struggle known in the history of civil wars?
How was the doubt that stood, all unwill-
ing, between outstretched hands and SYM
pathetic hearts, to be, in fact, dispelled? If
this doubt, only from the cfucible of war
could come the answer. And thank God,
that answer has been made in the record of
the war, the peaceful termination of which
we celebrate tonight. Read it in every
page of its history, read it in the obitera-
ton of party and sectional lines in the con-
gressional action which called the Nation
to arms in the defense of PROSTATE liberty,
nd ha 0f ho cr,lo %
human freedom; read it in the conduct of
the distinguished federal soldier, who, as
the chief executive of this great Republic,
honors this occasion by his presence to-
night. and whose appointments in the first
commissions issued after war had been de-
clared made manifest the sincerity of his
oft-repeated utterances of complete Sec
tional reconciliation and the elimination of
sectional lines in the affairs of government.
Differing with him, as / do, on party issues,
utterly at variance with the views of his
party on economic problems l sanction with
all my heart the obligation that rests on
every patriotic citizen to make party second
to country, and in the measure that he has
been actuated by this broad and patriotic
policy he will receive the plaudits of the
whole people, Well done, good and faithful
servant
''Portentous. indeed have been the devel-
opments of tAe past six months the ma
tional domain has been extended far into
the Caribbean on the south, and to the
west it is so near the mainland of Asia that
we can hear the grating of the process
which is grinding the ancient Celestial en-
pire into pulp for the machinery of civiliza-
tion and of progress.
But, speaking as a Southerner and an
American. l say that this has been as
naught compared to the greatest good this
war has accomplished. Drawing alike from
ali sections of the Union for her heroes and
her martyrs. depending alike upon North.
South, East and West for her glorious VIC
tories and weeping with sympathy with the
widows and the stricken mothers wherever
they may be- America. incarnated spirit
of liberty, stands again to-day the holy en-
blem of household in which the children
abide in unity, equality, love and peace
The iron sledge of war that rent asunder
the links Of loyalty and love has welded
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