Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-25
WADHAMS POST, c. A. R.
Listened to Interesting Address By
 Rev MT Haywood.

Rev MT HayWood
 Polls theater was crowded last night by Wadnam's post, G. A. It., the No- AIans kenef corp, the Sons of Neter- ans an.. others who gathered there to take part ill the Memorial day services Which consisted of selections by the Baptist Sunday school orchestra and members of the |. M. c. A., the Amer ican, Military and Lines bands, the choir of the Baptist church and an ad dress by the Rev MT Haywood, who spoke in part as follows:
 "Men of peace have small place in history beside men of war. History Is dumb about the nameless great ones who prepared the way for the deeds l of warriors. I do not undervalue the work of the soldier. But Grant was just as great as president as he was at the head of his army. Robert E. Lee was just as great when he turned his back on wealth and fame as an example to others as when he answered the call of Virginia
 l 'EThe most Christian nations have been the most militant. Spain was early Christianized, but Spaniards put to death a Peruvian ruler after he had given them fortune in gold for his ransom.
 "There has been a universal outcry about the persecution of the Jews in Russia, yet the darkest page in his- tory is the persecution of Jews in Christian England. It was reserved for the United States to fight the great est and grandest war in history, in
 the closing years of the nineteenth century
 l Better thousand wars of Europe than one Gettysburg. I am approach ing middle life, yet I was born after
 the close of the civil war. I was not even in the infantry .Naughter.) The war is very far back. If time were counted iE heart throbs instead of ticks of the clock, 1t would be longer between the~civil war and the Span Iish-American war than between the
 Revolution and the Civil war.
 t'One thing is certain--the war had l to come. It was written in the his tory of the country, and of the colonies I-aye, of England herself. It was writ ten on the flag of the first ship that
 brought African slaves to an English
 colony. The words of that great Ken lucky statesman. Henry Clay, delayed l it, and the heated utterances of others I hastened 1t, but it had to come.
 s1The framers of the constitution
 failed to state anything definite about 1 slavery, because they could not agree I Slavery is perpetual treason against free labor, against the laboring man
 the world over. If they complain now
 about conditions, 1t was 10000 times
 worse then, when the capitalist own ed not only the labor, but the Iaboring
 man as well.
 I sIn the south the war was not in
 defense of slavery, but in the defense of that doctrine for which John 0 Gal houn fought, the doctrine of states l rights Slavery came up later as an l incident of the war Torrents of elo- I quence began to flow across the land.
 The democracy Of the north and the aristocracy of the south clashed. The
 spirit of the Cavalier and the spirit of
 the Puritan met in one of the deadIiest conflicts in history.
 'The war itself opened avenues for Y mutual admiration and esteem between the two armies. A man is not half an .l American who does not admire physi- cal courage. You old soldiers feel like boys, especially when southern man begins to talk with you. Daughter
 You were boys then, and when you } came out of that four years of the hardest kind of fighting, north and : south alike, you loved and admired each other. Didn't you? .(Applause.) !, That's all right. It's Sunday. Do il yl if you like. I don't care. You cant 5 get any of these soldiers to say that s( they fought as they did for four long l and weary years lot of rascaIs and : towards"
 @ E .-- V 7. t F. " < t.s H- : The speaker referred at some length , to the rise of the south from the de. 5 spair and desolation that succeeded s the war, and to illustrate the point : told of the success of his brother, who q lost an arm in the war, in rallyina ! his fathers slaves around him, and ! so reorganizing the plantation that to ( day is the largest in the country.
 "There never was such dissipation z of labor as immediately followed the
 war in the south. But that is al . changed now. Greater than all the 2 great inventions that this country has : achieved is the restoration of good
 feeling. As Pitt and Fox sleep side by s side in Westminster abbey after thei1 long rivalry, the northerner and the
 southerner sleep peacefully together s in our cemeteries.
 United now, looking out on tho s broad fields before us, our father. $ about to lay aside the cares of life $ the old slaves going one by one, ant v the old nanny who used to care fol a us sleeping in the churchyard, W, e can meet our problems as they com, I, and know that there are no sectiona Is questions. What threatens one, me
 naces the peace and safety of the whol, s- country.
 IF T have the honor to say here il r. New England that what the gout] q wants as she goes about her heay, a task is sympathy and cooperation
 not criticism. It was not responsibI
 more than the rest of the country fo
 the existence of slavery The slave
 came in northern ships the soutl
 bought them, and the north told m 70 world about it. The race that V
 brought is now begging us for helr
 for education, for the gospel of Jesu D. Christi 1f The speaker was here fI1terr,1nfof5 b.