The Yale expositor., 1898-06-10
DR.. SMITHS ADDRESS
Concluded from last week.

call or the matchleSS nerOlSm ulspldyeu
upon the field of death. Rather their
treatment of their vanquished foes Is
without a parallel in history. In over
throwing the shareholders rebellion
four hundred thousand lives were lost,
at least twice that number of men dis
abled and over million wives and
children made widows and orphans.
For four long years our heroic men
followed the flag of our country, Ior-
getful of self and disregarding person,
al interests, asking only TO be lea
against the enemy. They had seen
their comrades fall by the thousands,
they had witnessed blood running like
water. they knew about wives and
mothers weeping for those who should
come no more, they had heard the wall
of anguish from their starving, scurVy-
stricken comrades in the prison pens
of the South and were familiar with
every phase of the hardships and ter
rorS of war.
FINALLY the end came and the enemy
who had caused all this was in their
mower. How then did the victor treat
the vanquished? Did he endeavor to
obtain revenge for his sutferings and
labors? Not at all. Right there when
the last gun was fired and ere its
echoes had scarcely died away he for
gave all. But more than that. When
Lees army surrendered his men were
in a furnishing condition. From the
Union wagon train went rationS TO his
hungry followers and from Union
haversacks the patriot soldier took his
remaining hard tack and divided them
with the men who had been his enc
mics an hour before. It was so all over
the South. AS a Southern lady, in des-
cribing the return of their soldiers
to their homes, said to me, "Nhe
our men met Yankee soldiers they
were treated like brothers" This
treatment of the Confederates was an
evidence Of the highest nobility. Our
bows in blue, obedient TO the precepts
of our blessed religion, did good to
their enemies. Not forgetting their
tolls and suflerings, with their bullet
riddled and battle-scarred flags to re-
mind them of the dangers passed, with
thinned and decimated ranks to recall
their slain and disabled comrades,
these men who had already proved
themselves heroes in battle, III the very
hour of triumph forgave and fed Their
yanquished foes. Search the whole
record of the past and you find moth
ing grander in human magnanlmlty.
1t not only evidenced the loftiest man
hood but also the most exalted patri-
otism, for it built up bond OF brother
hood at AppomattoX that has ever
been growing stronger and stronger
Our soldiers not only conquered the
gray in battle, but what was far better,
they conquered their hearts by mag
unanimous treatment of the vanquished
and benefcence TO the Charleston
earthquake and yellow fever sufferers
so that when" recently columbia
called her free-born sons TO lend heT
hope and aid rebel yells were again
heard from that section, but they were
against a foreign foe, blending in q
mighty chorus with cheers from the
loyal North, and both were in defense
of the old flag.
From the day when the brutal Span
lard landed upon this continent to the
present his career has been one or pc
culiar atrocity. For the kindness OF
the natives, he with base ingratltudC
repaid cruelty; for honesty he return
ed treachery: and for noble, exalted
manhood he substituted robbery, lying
and subterfuge. In Mexico he found {
civilization grander than that of Spain
the only blot upon it being the sacri
flee of captives in war TO idols, Il thing
not as bad as the Spanish inquisitiol
which sacrificed men for difference o.
opinion. This civilization Of the AZ
tees the Spaniard overthrow that III
might pillage the inhabitants and for i
substituted the degrading system o
peonnage which has cursed Mexico IL
all her subsequent history. In PERI
he found people that had built grea
cities, fine dwellings, magnificent road
and pursued the arts of agricultur
and weaving, and who not only love'
one another, but had such grand sys
TEN Of civilization that they had abol
ished want, misery and restitution Il
the land. In this respect the Inca CIV
lization was a model, and yet the Span
ish barbarians, under their brigan
chief Pizarro, after treacherously over
coming them, trampled that civiliZa
ton under foot and built an accurse
system of slavery upon the ruins.
view of the misery they spread | ca
well sympathiZe with the Indian, Wh'
being urged by one of the priests
become christian that he might go {
heaven asked if there would be an
Spaniards there, and on being answer
ed i'm the affirmative, said, "Then | d
not wish to go to that place becaus
however good it might be as soon
the Spaniards got there they. Woul
convert that heaven into hell.
Europe covered DelOTS lHG dtIOCluiI
of the nnspeakable Turk and cravenl
permitted the brutal murder of me-
women and children in America, bu
thank God. in this western world is
nation that had the courage to say
the barbarous Spaniards that their Ion
career of crime and infamy, culmin
ting i'm the murder, starvation and on
rage of men, women and children
Cuba must forever cease upon this co
tinent. declaration that Columbia
LOYAL SONS both of the blue and OF Il
gray, armed in the sacred cause OF n
mainly, will make good by driving Il
treacherous, murderous Spaniards Dao
where they belong, in their own inqul
itorial halls on the other side OF u
Atlantic.
We can decorate the graves of o.
heroic dead to-day as never betor
since in the uprising against the spa
iards we see the full fruition OF G
cause for which our blue fought al
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