The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09

 esty, of courage and of hard common sense.
 Men Made Better.
 And now let me say a word, speaking not merely especially to the brotherhood, but speaking to all citizens. Governor McMillin, MT. Mayor: I fail to see how any American can come to Chattanooga and go over the great battlefields in the neighborhood, the battlefields here in this state and just across the border in my mothers state of Georgia (cheers and applause), how any American can come here and see evidence of the mighty deeds done by any men who wore the blue and who wore the gray fall to see how any man can come here and look on these evidences and not go away a better man, prouder of the country; the valor the self devotion, the loyalty to the right as each side saw the right. tApplause) Yesterday I was presented with cane cut from the Chickamauga battlefield by some young men of north ern Georgia n the cane were engraved the names of three union generals and three Confederate generals. One of those Union generals was at that time show ing me over the attleheld-General Boynton. (Applause.) Under one of the Confederate generals, General Wheeler, I myself served. (Applause.) In my regi- ment there served under me in the ranks a son of General Hood, who commanded at one time the Confederate army against General Sherman.
 ''The only captain whom I had the op- portunity of promoting to field rank. and to whom this promotion was given for gallantry on the field, was Micah Ten kins of South Carolina, the son of a Con- federate general, whose name you will find recorded among those who fought at Chickamauga. Two of my captains, and by a strange fatality the best two cap tains. were killed at Santiago. One was Allyn Capron, the fifth in line who from father to son had served in the regular army of the United States, and who have served in every war in which our coun- try had been engaged. The other, Bnkey ONeil, whose father had fought under Marr when on the day at FrederrcF spurs; his brigade left more men under the stone wall than any ether brigade did. 1 had in my regiment men rom the north and the south, mer from the east and west. men whose fathers had fought un- der Grant and whose fathers had fought under Lee; college graduates, capital ists' sons, wage-earners, the man of means and the man who all his life had owed each days bread to the days toil had Catholic. Protestant, Jew and Gen. tile Among my captains were men whose forefathers had been among the frs. white men to settle on Massachusetts bay, and on the banks of the James. and others whose parents had come from Germany, from Ireland, rom England, from France.
 They were all Americans and nothing else and each man stood on his worth as man to be judged by 1t and to sue ceed or fall accordingly as he did well or III. Compared to the giant death wrestles that reeled over the mountains round about this city the fight at San tiago was the merest slxirmish, but the spirit in which we handled ourselves there-I hope was the spirit in which the men handled themselves in the big war and spirit on which we have got to face our duties as citizens if we are to make this republic what 1t must be made
 Yesterday in passing over the Chick