Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-20

south celebrated the fourth with music,
speech and display of bunting. There
was. however, wide difference in the
sentiments that filled the fourth Of July
speeches on the different sides OF mason
and Dixon's line
In the north the orators theme was
the preservation Of the union. In the
south ii was liberty-the liberty tnat
the seeded states were seeking, to set up
a government of their own.
The speeches in the south, and the ut
frances of the press on the sentiments
of the fourth, were just as sincere, Just
as fervid, as those in the north. Inc
contrast they presented to the thoughts
of the dav in the north is of value to
the student of today. for ii shows how far
apart a kindred people can DRIFT on the
bright sea of patriotism.
In all the southern cities fifty years
ago today all business was suspended
Soldiers marched, bands played, games
we're INDUCED in and flags waved-not
the stars and stripes of other years, but
the new flag of the confederacy.
In New Orleans leading newspaper
gave this expression. to the SOUTH
views an the fourth and its meaning;
"The confederate states of 1851 are act
ING over again the history of the Ameri-
can revolution Of 1776. The actions OF the
british king, which were recited in the
declaration of Independence as history
of repeated injuries and usurpauons, ali
having in direct object the estapnsnuieiit
AZ an absolute tyranny over these states
have been repeated in spirit, and iter-
ally copied in many Of the measures Oh
the government at Washington.
This was an exact statement VI u
south's beiiew of fifty years agoT-or OF
the beliefs of all OF It's people who dio
not espouse union principles---under the
doctrine of the Individual sovereignty OIL
the states.
..Therefore the fourth of July Is pre-
ar,inentlv an anniversary to be preserved
and comrnenorated by the adherents OF
state sovereignty" continued the paper
quoted. "The Confederate states are
guarding with their swords tne ancisilt
Rritish liberties, which educated and as
a,.,i;,,ad the original thirteen colonies for
the work of overthrowing the arnieu -
ranny of a great empire.
1To them. therefore, belongs the most
saeret rights of property In the memo
ries of independence day, as the loyai
,nher,tors of it's principles and glories.
NORTHERN. SENTIMENT.
AS these words summed up southern
sentiment on the Fourth of 1851, the
following from speech by GaIusha a
Grow of Pennsylvania on ms eiection
70 the speakership of the house OF
renresentatives SO years ago today.
summed up in ardent style the senti-
ment of the north: s
"Desponding patriotism may be as
sured that the foundations OF our
national greatness still stand strong
and the sentiment which beats today
in every loyal heart Will for the future
be realized.
"No flag alien to the sources Of the
Mississippi will ever float permanently
over its mbuth until it's waters are
crimsoned with human gore, and not
one foot of American soil can be
wrenched from the jurisdiction of the
constitution of the United States until
it is baptized in fire and blood. (Vocif-
erous applause from the floor and gal
lleries, which lasted for many minutes.)
| In God is our trust and
The stor spangled banner forever shall
wave
DER the land of the free and the home
of the brave.
Suppressed applause.) Those who re-
gard it as mere cloth, bunting, fail to
appreciate it's symbolic power.
'wherever civilization dwelis, or the
name of washington is known. it bears
on it's folds the concentrated power of
armies and navies, and surrounds its
voaries with a defence more impreg-
nable than a battlement of wall or
tower. #E
wherever on earth's surface an
American citizen may wander. called
by pleasure business or caprice, it is
shield securing him against wrong er
outrage, save on the soil of the land of
his birth.
"As the guardians of the rights and
liberties of the people, your paramount
duty is to make it honored at home as
| ii is respected abroad. government
that cannot command the loyalty of its
own citizens is unworthy of the re-
spect of the world, and q government
that will not protect its own loyal
citizens deserves the contempt of the
world. (Applause.)
''He who would tear down this grand
est temple of constitutional liberty,
thus blasting forever the hopes of
crushed humanity, because it's freemen,
in the mode prescribed by the constitu-
ton, select a chief magistrate not ac-
ceptable to him, is a particle TO his
race and should be regarded as a COM
mon enemy of mankind.
THE union once destroyed is a shat
tered vase that no human power can re-
construct in its original symmetry
Coarse stones, when they are broken.
may be cemented again-precious ones