The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-20
BE TRUE TO OUR PRINCIPLES.
POLICY OF IMPERIALISM WILL
THEN GET ITS DEATH BLOW.

sented-A Speech Full of Patriotic
FervOr-The Lesson of the Old Lib
erty Bell Applied to the Present.
The Daughters of the Confederacy were
entertained last night at the Confederate
Veterans Hail by the members Of the
two Confederate Veterans associations and
the Sons Of Veterans. The programme
was varied and. enjoyable throughout. The
evening was one that will be remembered
! with pleasure by all present. The hall
was filed with the ladies and the veter-
ans and sons Of veterans. there being
| probably over POO in all.
Gen. p. McGlashan presided, and, in
opening paid a tribute to the memory of
! Gen. Robert E. Lee. It is the pride and
the privilege of the people of the South
to homo" as their great captain a man
| whose nobility of character, whose purity
Of mind and submity of resignation I'M
der defeat rendered him even greater than
in victory. 1t was as much by his virtues
as by his deeds that the name of Lee
has been rendered immortal His was
type of the noblest and grandest of human
nature. 1T is well on his natal day to
! gather together to do honor to his men,
Dry. Let US also at this time remember
the services of those survivors of the
armies that followed him to the end, who
have gathered together in association TO
| conserve the precious memories of the
past"
Gen McGlashan paid tribute to the
Ladies Memorial Association and the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
After a piano duet by Mrs. Nicolas and
| Mrs. Chapeau there was a recitation by
Miss Baker, a spirited description of
scene in the battle of the Wilderness,
which was greatly appreciated by the vet
Grams.
Hon. Pope Barrow was then called upon
for speech. Mr.. Barrow, who is i'll with
the grip, was unable to speak at length.
He told of the priceless heritage of birth,
of the pride that the sons and daugh-
ters of the revolution felt III their noble,
patriotic ancestry. Fifty or one hundred
years from now, said he, the progdest
boast, the brightest blazon of heraldy, the
thing the Southern boy or girl man OF wo-
man, will point to with the greatest pride,
will be that of descent from a soldier of
the confederacy. when they realize in
coming generations that in their
veins flows blood that in the
face of defeat walked steady
tasty into the jaws of death, to the very
mouth of the cannon and they will say, Il
would not exchange this heritage for that
of an English earl This is the feeling,
Mr.. Barrow said, that should be cherished
and cultivated. 1t is a sentiment as pure
as gold. Teach it 10 your children,
said he "Culviate in them love for the
past; carry its precious memories with
you to the last breath, and transmit them
10 your posterity."
A hxyN fol
lowed. Then came a recitation, the story
| of an old English veteran, by Prof. r. j.
NcIlveen. Mr.. ]. r. Saussy was down
! for speech, but was unable to be pres
! emit Banjo duets by the Messrs. Nell
veen, and a dialogue by the same gentle
men, preceded the closing speech of the
| evening, that by Judge Robert Faligant.
| Judge Fallisant was as happy as ever,
! and there was an agreeable mixture of
! facetiousness, humor and patriotic love
! of the South and its memories in his re-
| marks that made them especially crafty
| ing.
After paying his compliments to the grip
| and passing a tribute to MIR Saussy as one
who would cast a CLEAN of sunshine over
the tomb" Judge Falligant branched off
! into some anecdotes and personal remi-
| niscenCes TO sustain his claim that a sol
| dier's life was not altogether one of hard
ships. that there We're many hours of fun
| in it as well as of danger and that the
memories that the veteran possessed re-
manned fresh in his heart and mind until
the close of life. The "reminiscences We're
full of interest as well as of amusement
| and there was keen enjoyment of all the
details that threw side lights on phases of
a soldiers experience which have not been
| brought much to the front during the re-
cent war.
At the close the judge took a serious
md fDr. Al In tic
| most eloquent strain on the devotion of
! the South to principle and of the vital
| necessity at this time for its young men
to adhere to the same principles that ac-
tuated their forefathers in two wars and
prevent themselves from being carried
away by a wave of Imperialism which was
| in defiance of the spirit of that liberty for
| which their ancestors died.
1--WE have had martial scenes in Savan-
! nah for several months past" said Judge
! Falligant. 1--WE have seen the banner Of
our common country floating over thous-
ands Of its brave sons we have seen the
| march of troops and the panoply of war
/ We have known that the name of America
has been on every tongue, in every land
| We have seen an illustration of what is
| great and glorious in American Charac-
ter and have felt a common pride in the
valor and patriotism of our countrymen
| Yet when | look about me in this hall
on these emblems oil what IS called Inc
| Lost Cause" l know that they are the
! memorials of those who for four years
| illustrated American bravery and Ameri-
can devotion to principle so nobly that the
world will never cease to do reverence to
! their memory"
Inbred in the Southern man and woman
| Is devotion to principle, said he. There is
! something vital in the Southern character
which devotes itself TO principle The civil
war was the best illustration of this. The
| Confederate flag was the emblem of prin-
| ciple The monument to the gallant Con-
| federate soldier stands as a memento and
memorial 10 all that is great and grand
and true not only an Southern but in
| American character. From the inception
of our history to this day there has been
glorious line of distinction running
! through the South, of soldiers and of
statesmen from Washington to Lee. ali
welded TO principle. In the fast struggle
between the sections the South was but