The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-12

not equal in number the population or
this city in which you have assembled.
The New south.
How it has promoted the general
welfare is the marvel of the past and
present century. How happily pros
porous are these Southern states of the
American Union over which but few
years ago swept all the destructive fu-
ries of civil war. Modern history af-
fOrds no instance of such utter de-
struction, and such recuperation of
peoples wealth.
1T has taxed the powers of the his
tOrian to estimate with accuracy the
losses of the Southern people resulting
from the war between the States, but
certainly 1t is true that excluding the
value of slaves. in five years the peo-
pie of the South lost in funds and by
the increase of indebtedness nearly
5000 100000 of dollars. Besides
we were indebted on antebellum
contracts for goods purchased and
money borrowed S408. 900 more.
Our indebtedness in the South was
more than 20O,000,0OO greater than the
national debt at it's highest point. 1t
exceeded by nearly 81, 400, 100000
the assessed value of all the property
of the Confederate States in 1865. This
takes no account of s3,000,000 900 es-
timated to be lost in the value of
slaves. And yet within the lifetime of
a generation how marvellous has been
the resuscitation of the Southern
States. Our State securities once
worthless, are now eagerly sought at
a large premium.
Her Commercial Prestige.
"Our country, once barren and desc
late, now annually brings forth super
abundant harvests, in the golden glory
of their grain and corn, affording
promise of abundant support to our
people, and in the snowy feeces of our
royal staple, giving assurance of CLOTH
ing for three-fourths of the human
race. Our country is network of rail-
ways, over whose vast mileage every
hour of the day are sturdily steaming
long trains laden to their capacity with
the peoples wealth, and on whose
cleaning rails glance with incredible
speed the mail and express trains,
those swift messengers of commerce,
among the chief agencies of civiliza-
ton. HarbOrs are deepened and per-
fected by government to give the
ready access of foreign commerce.
Magnificent public buildings like that
in which we have assembled, are erect
ed for their comfort and convenience.
The postal system is unsurpassed in
the speed and facility with which in
accommodation is perfected. A dol
lar of American money is worth
hundred cents in every land, in every
cline.
without Historical Precedent.
"In a brief space our people re-
gained every right and franchise be-
longing to the most favored citizen of
that government with which we had
been recently at war. This is literal
ly without historical precedent. With
the restoration of Charles H. the he
roic armies of Cromwell, whose backs,
we are told by Lord Macauley, no
foeman had ever SEEM were visited
with royal dishonor and disgrace, and
so bitter was the resentment of the
victorious Royaiists that the poor in
animate remains of that heroic Eng
lishman who with one hand had smit-
ten the Lybian pirates and with the
other had extinguished the prosecuting
fires of Rome, were eXhumed from
their last resting place and hung in
chains until they mouldered into the
common dust. After Waterloo Mar
shall Ney, the bravest of the brave
was slain by the fat-witted beneficiary
of Napoleons fall. The Polish pa
triots defeated, died under the Rus
sian knout or in the mines or frozen
forests of Siberia. Kossuth and his
gallant followers who sought to estab-
lish the Independence of Hungary. were
butchered at home, or forever expa-
triated.
The Reunion of the Two Sections.
How was it with the vanquished in
our own great Civil War? With not a
trial for political offense and not q
prescription, in a brief space to be
counted but moment in the life of a
nation, every disability removed, every
mark of subiugation erased, the lead
ers of the Confederate armies were
actually the leaders of the Union gov
eminent, judges of the Supreme Court
members of the United States Senate
and House of Representatives filling
very office and discharging every re-
sponsibility of government Finally. q
noble president of the United States in
one of his last utterances declared il
TO be the duty of the Union to care for
the graves of the Confederate dead
And more, the President of to-day. has
deliberately written that He is but a
poor American whose veins do not thrill
with pride as he reads of the deeds of
desperate prowess done by the Confed-
crate armies.
such is the magnanimity of gov
eminent, possible, and possibly only
Where power and virtue reside with
the people. Does not this government
with the record Of such material and
political blessings deserve ave and
demand, the conscientious, dilieent
and swerveless support of every SEN
tient American citizen? Yours, gentle
men, is therefore the patriotism of
peace. Need 1 say more to invoke its
highminded and righteous PERFORM
ance?"