New-York tribune., 1900-05-31
DEPEW AND HILL SPEAK.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE WELL
FILLED FOR MEMORIAL EXER-
CISES IN THE EVENING.


Army. Senator Depew and Ex-Governor Hill were
the orators of the occasion. Both took exception
TO the recent statement of Senator Tflman that 30
per cent Of the Southern people still wished that
they had succeeded in dissoving the Union. Joseph
A. Goulden, chairman of the Memorial Committee
first introduced Senator Depew, who began his re-
marks by saying
tiquity expressed by Comrade Gouiden. I don't
think there are auy vounger men in this audience
tonight than he and I vet took part in the first
Memorial Day exercises ever held in this country
thirty-ive years ago.
When the laugh which the silver-haired Senator
had raised by his rejection Of the fmputation of
old age had subsidized the speaker went on 70 con-
trast the sorrowful observance of that first day
with the cheerful ceremonies of the present, both
in the North and especially in the South, where
in the blue and the gray march side
by side TO the same graveyards TO decorate the
tornbs Of fallen comrades. Senator Depew then
said that Sentor Tillrnan entirely mistaken In
his estimate Of the souths view of the outcome
of the war and maintained thar probably 95 per
cent glad that the Union had been dis
rupted. Then he added:
From this day forth Memorial Day will include
the heroes of the Spanish War From this day
rest on the Atlantic coast nor the Pacific coast
ands Of the Pacific the blessings of American lib
erty and where that flag will stop in its magnih-
Senator Depew vociferously appauded.
HILL REPUDIATEs TILLMAN
Ex-senator Hill began his remarks by giving
brief history of the Civil War and when he came
speak OF its results said:
Through the baptism of blood came our National
regeneration 1t was fortunate for mankind-for
the South as well as the North-fortunate for our
material prosperity, fortunate for the cause of
free government everywhere, that our country was
supposed that this proposition had been con-
a distinguished Southerner the other day in a de-
bate in the United States Senate boldly asserted
that they had succeeded in dissoIving the Union.
When the statement was promptly criticised he
explained that he might have placed the per
centage rather too high. but otherwise he did not
I beg to suggest that the distinguished Senator.
whose personal relations with myself are most
must be mistaken in his assertion, which evidently
was made without reflection and in the heat and
It cannot be true. It is contrary to the express
sions Of nearly all the leading Southern states
men, in and out of Congress. for the last quarter
of century, No great soldier of the Confederacy
reflection upon the common sense of an Intelligent
1t does not accord with the patriotism and 10y
atty which were universally displayed in the South
citizens rallied enthusiastically and untedly
in vindication Of the honor Of their Government
and who followed so bravey and gallantly wher-
ever the Stars and Stripes LED, whether on Cuhas
soil or in the far distant Philippines
The young of the South. born since 1855.
sharing none of the bitterness. the prejudces nor
New South" so eloquently described by that
in one of his magnificent and soul stirring address
es. surely DO not regret that they were born under
helped to establish in the days Of 1776 the days
glorious revolutionary memories, the common
A dissolution of our Republic would have divided
the glories Of Bunker Hill from those or Yorktown
which were intended to be ever inseparahle. =
dissolution would have perpetuated on portion Of
this continent the evils II not the wrongs OF
grets that such system. with all its baneful in
fuences was destroyed? A dissolution would have
have witnessed that spectacle which Webster. in
his great speech in the Senate years ago in reply
ing another Senator of South Carolina, prayed
that he might never behold, namely. the broken
states discovered discordant beIligerent
No the distin glished Senator has misapprehend-
ed and unintentionally misrepresented the temper
and sentiments Of the great majority Of the South.
Neither a5 per cent nor 10 per cent nor any other
considerable portion of the southern people now
that the God Of Battles did not so shape the
the American Union. Of which they are to-day as
proud
HILL FRIENDLY TO THE BOERs
Ex-senator Hill following somewhat the same
line of thought Senator Depew had done, spoke
next on the future Of this country and incidentally
hinted at sympathy for the Beers saying among
other things:
It NAV safely be asserted the mission OF this
Nation has not been fulhlled-it has not ended-it
has only fairly commenced The beacon hght OF
liberty has been lit by and placed upon an emf
world view il. and must not be extlnguished
until the right of free people 10 govern them
selves has been everywhere recognized
is needless tnat the influence or this
Government far as the same can consistently
be exercised should be exerted in behalf of the
spread OF republican institutions and against the
encroachments and agEressions OF plutocratc or
monarchical rule.
We interfered in Cubs, against the iniquitous and
hecas oa pnie we OF ,ebered he Maine but upon the
broad ground OF humanity and civilization; because
we remembered the eternal principles OF the Dec
laration OF independence; because we remembered
what our forefathers had suffered from royal
armies and from the imposition or unjust taxation
are instinctivey and Inherently opposed 10 oppres
sion wherever Ii exists whether near our own
doors or in any quarter OF the globe.
We cannot abdcate position as the foremost
republic OF the world. 10 which tho oppressed OF