The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-20
GREAT DAY FOB UNIVERSITY.
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reinforcement TO Georgia which Will be
for good in all her history.
words of L.. q. c. Lamar.
From Georgia the elearest voices have
come for a true reconciliation between
North and South. 1t is not for me. a
Northern man, a Union soldier and YOUR
guest, to put the unsearchable question
who was to blame? Whatever you may
think, or | may think. let us remember
that this is the year nineteen hundred
Shall I not be happy with you, when
recall the words of a great son Of GtOr-
gia then a member of Congress from Ms
sissippi, Lucius Q. c. Lamar, scholar,
soldier. statesman. jurist? 1t was in 1874,
only nine years after AppomattoX, III I,
speaking on the occasion of Charles sum
ner's death, he pronounced that great ora
ton which for elevated thought. Tor elo-
quence and profound philosophy was
never surpassed by Edmund Burke Lis
ten to his solemn words which, like
deep organ peal, thrilled every ear ard
every heart that heard them
Let us hope" he said, that future
generations when they remember the
deeds OF heroism and devotion dore on
beth sides, will speak not Of Northern
proves and Southern courage, but of the
heroism, fortitude and courage Of Am ri
cans in war of ideas; a war in which
each section signalized its conservation 10
the principles. as each understood them
OF American liberty and of the consltu-
ton received from their fathers. -
~Charles Sumner, in life. believed that
all occasion for strife and distrust be-
tween the North and South had pass d
away, and that there no longer remain Il
any cause for continued estrangement be-
tween these two sections of our common
country. Are there not many of us VINO
believe the same thing? Is cot that me
common sentiment-or if il is not, ought It
not to be-of the great mass of our people,
North ana South? Bound to each other by
a common constitution. Desired to live
together under a common government
forming unitedly but a single member Of
the great family of nations shall We t
now at last endeavor to grow toward
each other once more in heart as we ara
already indissolubly linked 20 each other
in fortunes? Shall we mol, over the honor
ed remains of this great champion OF au-
man sorrow, this earnest plead5r for me
exercise of human tenderness ana cha itY'
Law aside the ooncealments which serve
only to perpetuate misunderstandings ana
distrust, and frankly confess that on Ooth
sides we most earnestly desire to be one'
one not merely in community OF language
and literature and traditions and cour-
try: but more and better than all taat,
one also i'll feeling and in heart?
Best American sentiment.
Nothing in our annals is more touching,
more manly, more brave or more trus
than his oting sen ence: MY country
ms n, KIN one another and you W Il love
me another" Thai. gentl meS' Is the
| best American sentiment; the sentim nj
that to-day pervades all hearts, and has
at las made US one. The Puritan ana the
| Cavali have--if l may use the phrase
! found ach her out.
| Instinclively you think of ano her or at
/ MI frh ~
| Georgia, but now is The comm n her ia &c
| Of he American people, II MY w. @ ady'
| who a you d ank from the fountain
of tiers and earning In this uni -ersity-
His genius, his patriotism and his early
death have made him the lido so IN
| ard North alike. TIE 81 cons rVatlVe
| culture Of Boston had not been so thrill
Cd $ nee tn days Of James Otis ana
Samuel Adams, as when they heard that
! n atchless voice which C me o them ike
! the herald of a new e. a. Not since Brad
ford and Br wster and Wnsl w first aw
| the rock which gave hem its icy Welcom
| to P ymouth had thai sto lie stot re l
ch an inspir ng influence as WREN Henry
| G. ady even then entering the valley OF
the shadow babe them I've and trust
the New South. Wherever he went all
who heard and all who saw. recognized
on. who dwtlt in an ampler her, divln-
air. who ccu.d resist that engagi g
ersonslity, that eff ed mind, that lofty
VI? What words so ttly 5 eek our grief
AZ these of Milton when his bestowed
| friend sank beneath the wave?
For Lycidas is dead dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left h 5
peer."
Standing also for peace and good will
as is the fashion of a brave soldiers an
| other Georgian, with whose acquaintance
I have been honored, and whose friend
ship I trust is mine. 1t was he, who, in
the last deadly grapple, fought his corps
ito a fragile" and saw with breaking
heart the sun go down upon the cause he
loved. Georgia has honored him, and he
has honored Georgia. Many, many times
the people Of the North have listened with
warm. responsive hearts to his eloquent
recital of the heroic story which he knew
so we'll May l not, as one who wore the
blue, here make public acknowledgment
of the respect and affection we all bear for
that good gray head? Gentlemen, l thought
of you and / thought of Georgia, when,
three weeks ago 1 read the knightly Ian
guage of Gen. Gordon. which warmed the
blood in every patriotic heart throughout
our country Some day--Which | hope is
far distant-a marble shaft will commem-
crate his brave life and what better in
scriptfon could be craven upon ii than
the impassioned words he uttered 10 the
cOHlt duGS he lldu leu Otl 81 many a utSpNi
ate field? Il trust the time will never
come while l stand on Southern ground,
or among the chivalrous men of the South,
when will refuse to send kindly ness
age to an enemy"
Under the Same Flag.
The last two years have been fusing all
our hearts in the crucible Of history.
Under a common impulse, ralying 10 the
support of the nation in war which all
approved, we learned that North and
South love and follow the same flag and