The Irish standard., 1910-03-19

There tllat WdHI vow " uelp ME SCI
tie. I did not ask YOU to agree with
me, but I ask You to talk with me anG
listen to what I have to say, and, ir
kindness ana friendship want to see
Mason and Divon's line obliterateG
from the mcp Of the United States
and on it the words written, "Oul
Country" (App'ause.)
I am tired of secticnalism. God
knows l got enough of it fighting.
do not want any more of it. 1 dc
not want any speech in the senate or
anywhere else that stirs up strife be-
tween the old soldiers or citizens who
are not in the army.
l do want to bring about peace.
veterans, perhaps. We disagreed, and
you We're the victors; but we still
think our generals were good men,
and our people were good people; and
we do not dispute that yours were just
as good as ours. Our people down
south are not quarrelsome over these
things at all We have a few blab-
mouthed fellows that always want to
make d fuss. but they are not even
worth "cussing." So l will not use any
invectives against them.
We want you to think we'll of us,
and there is no use calling us traitors.
They used to call George Washington
a rebel and a traitor, but we do not
think so ourselves; and l do not think
any OF us fellows were traitors, while
we may have been rebels. l do not
deny that. We thought we ought to
fight for our states, and we disagreed
just on a little section in the constitu-
tion-a very small thing to fight
about, but We made an awful big fuss
when we got at it,
Now, nobody can take away the
glories of either side A man had as
we'll attempt to scale the ramparts of
Jehovah and pluck from heavens
diadem Gods brightest star as to
snatch the laurel from the brow of the
conqueror OF the conquered that stood
under the apple tree Of Appomatox.
They go together; they are all ia
nous; and there were good men on all
sides. They disagreed, and they
fought for it; but when one side con.
quered and the other was conquered.
we took our. oaths of allegiance, and
l can hold up my hand before high
heaven and before this senate TODAY
and say that | have never violated
That oath that l took to be good cit
izen of the United States, and I new
CT know of soldier of the confeder-
acy violating that obligation.
This is my fathers house. | am
proud to be in it. l am proud to be
associated today with the men I see
around me. l have read the papers
and / have heard you all abused and
&CIouICu, UtI L ullu lldL LlllS Is Illt-
finest working body of men with whom
! have ever been associated. l had no
idea of the amount of work that was
incumbent upon a man who occupied
It seat In the senate. If he does his
duty, he has great amount of labor
to perform for the benefit of his coun-
try-of our country l know no north,
no south, no east, no west; but love
my country, every part the best.
love Mississippi because it is my
home. A man always loves his home a
little more than any other place. 1
love the particular spot where l live
better than any other spot, and you do
the same. We have there ties of friend
ship and love and everything that we
have not anywhere else.
Now, gentlemen of the senate, /
have made these few remarks. hope
you will take them in, and l hope you
will give consideration to them. l
hope you will believe that am telling
nothing but the truth, and l want to
say. in kindness and with regard for
the senator from Idaho (Mr. Heyburn)
that want him to come down south
and come to my cottage on the prairie
and l will show him a little of the
southern life. When we get through
we will come back here and we will
walk into Statuary hall, and what l
will say to him? will say, Help me
persuade the senator from Indiana
(Mr. Beveridge) to take the Lew Wal.
lace statue out OF here, and hide it
away in some river or pond where it
never can be seen any more, and build
a statue worthy of so great man as
Lew Wallace" 1 have admired him
ever since l read Ben Hur" and ever
since | heard Of his getting a little
out of temper at the battle OF Shiloh.
l reckon he must have had a good
deal Of human nature in him. He Is a
man that ! was very fond Of and