The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-02-15


from his lips and heart. tnr4aJ w. iisSh
ergles to the rehabilitation ~ en-
~ .no accomplishment of the nnion
~ nJoy pr0dlgal's feast every dav in
" oIe week ana every week in the Wear
a. % many OF which he is nade to Ma
o on1 part OF host and supply the fatte5
0"'i "S wen as the prodigal. (Applause
AO'est ExDOneuts of Ignorance
nave heard it charged against few
poople OF my time that they didn't know
She war was over but these have alva,,s
oeeo considered among the ablest ovno1
nepts OF ignorance in Georgia. The T..
CelligenC among us have known tbat tho
o. was over Tor thlrty-four years. M,
chairman, and we have not recooniza6
00C S'rI hale almost generation.
nc am oltlOn of the president is
n nDUle one 10 live in history as the re-
sVorer Oh peace to lOng-contending secs
o.ons' 10 go down to latest posteritv as
enos destroyer of sectional animosities is
PROUD emInepce fit to stir sferce am
oiVioh IN Caesars mind Far he If
II I'd me TO question his words or mo-
lives. That the president earnestly De-
+s'reS the peace for which he so elonTent.
~ spoke in Georgia's capital shall not
! question here. but declare the sin,nIe
patent truth. There was airaadv ,na pao
oo."een the north and south. There
was already harmony and fraternal love
E%oOClopdl nate was already dead. Neither
.ne testament of bleeding war nor the
pomp and glitter of the presidents
march brought harmony to the people
OF the union. If by either the blind
were made to See and the deaf to hear
the truth which has been clear to ali
VINO would see and hear for almost a
quarter OF century, then has some good
oeen accomplished, though it was cost
~ lesson to the people of the United
States. But it would seem to me thai if
there are those here and there on either
SIDE VINO are yet unrecOnciled, their
hate, the growth of forty years. is too
deeply rooted to yield to the blo wing of
rams horns and the shouting of the
multitude. Great applause.l
IL my nelghbOr is nv friend. we do
not daily rush into each others arms.
with proteStatiOns of eternal friendships
and declarations of undying love, Hon.
est friendship needs not such. If we
have been enemies in the past and are
friends we do not discuss our differ.
ences or our dead. The first we buried
with the honest handshake that closed
the chasm. The last are sacred.
1.-The presidents march through Geor.
gia was a splendid pageant. Georglans,
always loyal and true, vie with each 9th.
er in extending hospitality to the la
tons head. They threw their caps as il
they would hang them on the horns OF
the moon, shouting their appreciation,
but, Mr.. Chairman, the sons who threw
their caps in '9S are no more loyal to the
union than the fathers we're from the
day they gounded their arms in '65 and
rene we'd their broken allegiance. The
holy faith that warned their sires in.
spired the sons of '98, cloud applause. }
Then let us have done with these con-
Stantly recurring reconcilIatiOns of the
north and south. irene we'd applause }
Cherish h Confederate Dead,
Speaking tDr myself, The son>of a
confederate soldier, and one who loves
the memories of the old south, while
Chank the president for tho honor he
would now do our martyred dead, and
while | shall not be found blindly op.
posing the consummaliOn of his purpose,
| but declare the truth when | tell yoU
the people of the south do not ask it
The unknown dead that sleep amid the
high mountains of Virginia and in the
green valleys of Tennessee AID KIN
| tucky, whose graves are washed by The
rbuIent waters of the Mississippi,
and whose last re QUEEN is whispered 10y
the IheaDdering Chickamauga the rip
plirg Rappahannock and the historic
James, are a heritage of eternal glory TO
the people of the south.
On fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
"They are ours, and they sleep well
as they are. God forbid that their bones
should ever be made the football OF
party politics, to be kicked from side to
side of this chamber by political ath-
letes. as occasion may demand. We &C
cept the words of the president, Mr..
Speaker, but we insist that this shall be
the last reconciliation of the sections.
Let this De the final ratification of the
treaty of peace between the north and
south. (Applause.)
"ToO much harmony pals upon the
taste. Too many recOnciliations bespeak
too many differences.
"Thc time has come in the evolution
of sentiment and feeling, under the
Providence of God, when in the spirt'ot
fraternity we should, to the last man,
shakeoff this horrid nightmare of sec
tlopal hate, from whose paralyzing grasp
our fitful and hysterical awakenings for
twenty-five years have made tie angels
weep and the nations smile. cloud APP
plause.)
"Let this last march through Georgia
end forever the differences of half a CEN
fury. Let it obliterate all traces of that
other march, whose blackened trail
marked the close of actual war. Let the
hegira OF 1861 be forever swallowed up