Evening star., 1898-12-15
PRESIDENTS SPEECH At ATLANTA.
HIS Remarks Arouse Great Enthu-
sinsW Among the sOuthcrncrs

sins" Among the southerncrs
"A dispatch from Atlanta Ga. last night
says: President Mckinley made memorable
the first day of the Atlanta peace Jubilee
by notable utteranCC IN his speech before
the Joint session of the Georgia legislature
this afternoon. His reception by tho gem
era assembly was warm and hearty in the
extreme, and his speech was punctuatrd
with frequent outbursts of cheering.
Upon the Presidents arrival at the cap
itol he was greeted with a field artillery
salute, and was at once escorted to Cow
ernor Gamblers Office. There short in
formal reception took place. Upon its con-
clusIon the President was conducted 10 the
assembly chamber. where he occupied the
speakers chair, with Governor Gambler on
his right
When President Dodson Of the senate
called the legislature to order tho gal cries
We're thronScu with men and women. The
Dody OF the chamber was well med with
state senators and assemblymcu while the
uniforms oi various officers and the COVER
nor staff gave a touch OF brilliant color 10
the gathering. As the Presid,nt arose tho
audience dppauued. The President spoke
as follows:
Il. is an uncommon p.easure % be thus
greeted by these TeprcScntatiy vF ...c
state of Georgia, ana II affords mo Inucn
v
you over the signing Of the treaty uf peace.
with Spain.
sectional lines no longer mar the map
of the United States. Sectional feeling no
longer holds back the love we bear each
olher. FRATERNITY Is the national anthem,
sung by a chorus of forty-siVe states and
our territories at home and beyond the
seas The Union is once more the common
atlas OF our love ana loyalty, our devotion
and sacrifice. The old flag again waves
over US in peace with new giOr.rs which
your sons and ours have tins year aGdcd
TO its sacred folds.
What cause We have for rejoicing sad
dened only by the fact that SO many Of our
brave men fe on field or sickened and died
from hardship ana exposure, and others re-
turning, bringing wounds and disease from
which they VIII long suffer. The memory
OF the dead VIII be a precious legacy, and
the disabled will be the nations cpre.
a nation which cares for its disabled
soldiers, as We have always done, Will never
lack defenders The national cemeteries for
those who feli in battle are proof that tho
dead as well the living have our love.
What an army of silent sentineis We have
and with what loving care their graves ire
kept
Every soldiers grave made during our
unfortunate civil war is a tribute 10 Amer
lean valor. And while, when those graves
We're made. We differed widely about the
future of this government the differences
were long ago settled by the arbiIramcnt Of
arms-and the time has now come in the
evolution OF sentiment and feeling, under
the providence of God, when in the splrIt
of fraternity We should share with you in
the care of the graves Of the confederate
soldiers
The cordial feeling now happily existing
between the north and south prompts this
gracious act, and il il needed further iuSti-
ticati"n il is found in the gallant loyalty TO
the Union and the flag so cpnspirGnusly
shown in the year just passed 10y the sons
and grandSonS of these heroic dead.
N ldf llDrlgIlS
unitedly, wisely and braVoly, We face the
new problems now pressing upon US, de-
termned 10 solve them for right and hu-
manity."