The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-03-21

his raid through my country and
went by my fathers house my wife
presented that order to his adju-
tant and they gave us a guard and
protected the house
Another time a gentleman, who is
living yet by the name of Captain
Brown, of the Seventh Illinois, and
| had a little engagement. That Sew
enth Illinois was the meanest regi-
ment 1 ever saw for it never wanted
to quit fighting Oaughter) The
Seventh Illinois and the Second Iowa
were the worst men l had to fight:
but ] am glad when see them alive
today. When we meet We shake
hands, we are the best of friends,
and Captain Brown of the Seventh
Illinois and ] have kept up a CORES
pondence ever since the war He is
living at Leon, Iowa, now; and if you
think I am not telling the fact you
can call on him and prove it. AS
have said, he is still living, and 1
hope he will live a hundred years
and that l will live to see him de-
Gently buried. Oaughter)
Now, gentlemen, | did not get up
here just to make you laugh. I want
to tell you something that will not
make you laugh. Down in Mississippi
pi where l live, when l go home and
go to my bed to sleep and dream
sweet dreams of the hours l have
spent here in the Senate, I sleep with
the sword of Damocles hanging over
my head We have a problem to set
tie there that l want you to help me
} settle. l do not ask you to agree
with me, but l ask you to talk with
, me and listen to what l have to say,
and, in kindness and friendship, |
want to see Mason and Dixon's line
!, obliterated from the map of the I'm
tied States and on it the words
written Our country" applause on
the floor and in the galleries.)
I am tired of sectionaiism. God
knows l got enough of it fighting.
-. do not want to get any more of it.
: l do not want to hear any speech in
the Senate or elsewhere that stirs up
strife between the old soldiers or citi-
zens who are not in the army.
do want to bring about peace.
am an old confederate; you are old
veterans, perhaps. We disagreed,
10 and you were the victors; but We still
think our generals were good men
u 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 quarreling over
these things at all. We have a few
| blab- mouthed fellows that always
want to make fuss, but they are not
i even worth "cussing." (LaughterD
> So I will not use any invective against
= them. We have them down South,
; but they are not my sort, and 1 have
u got more influence with the people
than they have, talk with them as
u I talk with you tell them the
truth and the facts, and I tell them
we have friends here, but they do
= rot see things as we do.
We want you to think well of us,
and there is no use of calling us
traitors. They used to call George
Washington rebel and a traitor;
but We do not think SO ourselves;
and | do not think any Of us fellows
d were traitors, while we may have
been rebels. don't deny that.
% We thought we ought to fight for
> our States and we disagreed just on
little section in the Constitution
=, "a very small thing to fight about,
|, but we made an awful big fuss when
g we got at it, Oaugnter)
l. Now nobody can take away the
glories of either side. A man had
It as we'll attempt to scale the ramp
Il arts of Jehovah and pluck from
e heavens diadem Gods brightest
star as to snatch the laurel from
II the brow OF the conqueror or the
e conquered that stood under the APP
e pic tree at Appomattox. They GO
{ together; they are all famous; and
there were good men on all sides
They disagreed and they fought foi
it; but when one side conquered
and the other was conquered, We
took our oaths of allegiance, and
~ can hold up my hand before higr
II heaven and before this Senate to-
1t day and say l have never violated
a that oath that ! took to be G good
y citizen of the United States and
l. never knew of a soldier of the con,
l federacy violating that obligation.
This is my fathers house. an