New-York tribune., 1900-09-19

Ing cities and thrifty people. in enduring peace
the fair land OF the sun and the sky.
Because Of the inclement weather the ~pro-
posed exercises board the batteship Kear-
sarge were omitted and Captain w NJ. FoIger,
Of that vessel, was introduced, and accepted
the tablet on behalf of the officers and men,
extending to the State and the city their appre-
citation Of the gift.
Captain Willard H. Brownson, commander of
the Alabama, was also introduced, and spoke
on similar lines.
The exercises were concluded with an histori-
cal address by the former Secretary of the
Navy. Hilary A. Herbert, who spoke in part as
follows:
How wonderful is the march of history since
pendent Confederacy-the bloodiest war that ever
shSok 9 % dur for four on lana
the Alabama, destroying millions of United States
commerce, denounced In the heat of war as a
pirate, that commerce destroyer going down in
heroic b battle T. to the bottom Of the sea- of 1.-THE the
kearsarge. floating the old flag. just as the new
snd s o3 e to Old 20 aG%n
close OF the mighty confictuthe sincere sub,
between the soldiers who had fought each other
of war could not extinguishNthe process Of recon:
str dGw aHd painful b dd OF
the final fraternization. first of the soldiers and
tions-the calling Of an ex-Confederate soldier to
command the Navy Of the restored union-the or
TO the waters Of Central America to maintain, the
Week Of the old ship on Roncador ReefNthe Con-
gress Of the United States at the suggestion Of
the naming of this splendid vessel, on the deck
Of which we now stand for the old Kearsarge-
and the new Alabama Were still the stocks
dent of the United States himself a gallant
SCenfederafe soldiers to Command Union Soldiers
sold soIders"the Congress of the United states for
the first time in history sustaining with
unanimity the Government in its fight with for @
march Of American manhood and chivalry and
fbe soas o Ensasd the Governors aDd
peoples of New-Hampshire and Alabama, under
hands 70 send forth freighted with the prayers
bait 6aftleshRps. SHIPS the new Kearsarge and the new Ala
bama.
slmple-the people of the two sections have at
last come to understand each other as never be
the battlehelds Of the Civil War, and the mists Of
We of the south began to see each other just
were and had been
REBUILDING OF THE NAVY.
When at the beginning Of the XLXh f COpgTesss EIt9s
Speaker Carlisle as to the committee on whse
a preference for and placed the Naval Com
mittee. My reasons were that the time had come
to rebuild the Navy, the foundations OF which had
just been laid by Secretary now SENATOR Chand-
er and that in my 0pin4a an G Hons Could
serve his constituents more efficiently than IN any
would be TO aid in dispeing section prejudice The
Navy had borne conspicuous part in the preser-
walton of the Union-a part, by the way winch Is
not even yet fully appreciated by the country.
Political animositeS could not obscure the patriot
ism of ex-Confederates when they should unite In
voting moneys to rebuild that Navy, no part OF
which moneys to be expended in the South
Southerners would be best serving their section in
serving the country, and thus serving at the same
time the cause of reconciliation. In these sentl-
meuts nv constituency agreed with me and held
IN nv hands. My eX-Confederate colleagues IN
Congress agreed with and L am sure you Will
agree IT is not anss that We should all claim
that the rebuilding Of our Navy has had It's snare
In the work Of reunion. And now let me say Tor
The officers of the Regular Army and for the ofr-
GERS of the Navy, many of whom are here to-day,
that in the restoration of kindly relations between
the sections Army officers and Navy officers were
the very foremost. From the day when the nag or
the Confederacy went down, no matter on which
side his father had fought, cadet from Alabama
al West Point Annapolis was exactly and IN al
things the peer of a cadet from New Hampshire,
and there was not a Congressman from the South
who did not know II and acknowledge 1t gratefully
in his heart. ,..-, , l.. -
this dav TO attend this Union jubilee this hearty
handsha king of New Hampshire and Alabama.
testifving in unmistakable language that every
citizen Of our country can least realize the full
force of those words: Each of the forty-hve
states of our National constellation shines with an
eo1aI degree of splendor, and no star on the bue
Of our country's flag differs from another star
thereon in glory
The exercises were brought to a close by
dinner to the invited guests and naval officers
this evening.