The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-25

pose in creating a big local army. Within |
the borders OF the state these troops never
failed to do go5d service. on July T. 1854,
Gen. J. e. Johnston wrote Gov Brown
that ''the state troops promised well, and
have already done good service.
These proofs of their value make me
anxious that their number be increased. Is
II Rossib!e?" And on jay p, Gen. j. B.
Hood notified the Governor that the state
troops under Maj Gen. G. w. smith
fought with great ga1lantry in the action
vest erday. after the battle of Atlanta, on
July p. Gen. Smith reported that the mill
tia did themselves great credit outside the
trenches on Friday. We held our position
several hours. There was not a SIN
sic straggler." Aside from all his other
executive duties. IL was Gov. Brown, the
greatest war Governor on record, who
gathered and put in the field,an held them
for the states safety, these thousands of
brave soldiers
OF Gov Browns political career after
the war [ have nothing to say. AS to how
he got into the United States Senate my
mind has never been Gear, as / once told
him. but TO the factor 1t is fact
that he made one OF the best senators
Georgia ever had, no doubt ever crossed
my mind. l knew him intimately by per
sonal association and correspondence for
more than twenty years, and saw his
bitterest enemies become his warmest
friends and admirers, before his long and
useful life, with all its peroleNities and
cares, ended in that rest which remaineth
for the people of God in that higher and
holier and broader sphere of usefulness
to which the angel Of death bears their
departing spirits.
In conclusion. 1 beg to refer to very
patriotic prediction made by Senator
Brown ia 1880. Much has been said Of
the prediction made by Gen. Horace Bin
ney Sargent mot Dargent, as all the
newspapers had ID, and quoted by Gen.
Joe Wheeler in his recent Memorial day
address to Kinsiey c. A r. Post in Bos-
ton that when foreign war came the
North and South would rally as one man
in defense Of the "Old flag and a reunited
people In the United States Senate,
Jtne 12, 1880, speaking on the Mexican war
pension bill, Senator Brown said:
when We returned to the Union we
did so in good faith The question of the
right Of secession is settled forever. and
with its settlement our faith is pledged
to stand by and defend the constitution
and The Union. In the field you found
Southern armies to be brave men, and
brave men are never treacherous. Should
our relations with foreign powers at any
time involve this government in war, the
people of the North will have no reason
to complain of the promptness, earnest
ness and gallantry with which the people
of The Southern states will rally around
the Old flag, and bear it triumphantly
wherever duly calls If that emergency
we're now upon us, the comrades in arms
OF Sherman and Johnston, who once con-
fronted each other with such distinguish
ed heroism. would rally together in the
cause of the Union, and vieing with each
other, would perform such prodigies of
vaior as The world has seldom witnessed.
For several years past the lips that
uttered this prediction almost twenty
years ago, have been silent in the grave
Would that Senator Brown could have
lived to see Gen. Joe Wheeler and Gen.
| Fitz Lee and Gen. NJ. c. Butler and Col
w. c. oates and other heroes of the Con-
| federate gray promptly don the army
| blue" and lead gallant Southern soldiers
under the cold flag on Cuban soil ito
| such prodigies of va'or as the world has
| seldom Witnessed" Perhaps in the wise
| economy of Gods benefcient laws. it may
| have been granted the spirit Of Georgia's
great war Governor to have looked down
| from the batilemenis of heaven upon the
| veterans of the blue and the gray, heroes
| OF a reunited people. who by a valor I'M
surpassed in the annals of military his
| tory storrned the bloody nights of San
tiago and planted thereon the "old flag"
emblem Of religious liberty and govern
ment of the people, by the people and for
! the people Sidney Herbert.