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JJevcr Fail, to Betor Qtj Hair to Its Touthful Color. Curt. -.:p ij'Mun ft hmir tulm(. fiy,ti'i 1 1 Wat Pmim BUY Harr ( .de SOUTH BOSTON, VA. SOLD BY 4 D. Y. COOPER, HKNDKltSOX. X. 1 &'-y Mrs. Job Person s Remeay eft's !"WHITE VIEW-" EX-OOV. NORTMEWN TALKS ON THE NECikO PKOBLEH. 1 he Eloquent Georgian Discusses the Subject Before a Boston Audience Abuse of the South Will Not Settle t or Abate Lynching Pleads for Toleration and Non-interference, and Declares the Relations Amioble Between the kaces. Kx-tioverno tieoria, niaiU: W. J. Northern, a notable snei'ch Boston on the evenin; of May -Jjni. He spoke in Trernont Temple before the Congregational Club, and was listened to by a lare audience. His subject was '-The White Man's View of the Itelations of the Xerointhe South." A press ilispatch says the people of Boston showed deep interest in the address which, through lack of time, (iov. Northern was eonicllel to cur tail, though he occupied more than two hours. It was the general verdict that there has never before been heard in Boston such an exhaustive statement of the attitude of the South on the iici;ro iiest ion. While sonic of ( ;iv. Nort hern's state nieiits did not meet the approval of the audience, his speech as a whole met witlij;reat favor. This was show n by an expression from the floor, when the speaker was about to close, by a person who moved '-that the gentleman be per mitted to deliver the whole of his ad dress if it takes all niht."' The motion was greeted with ap plause and ex-(; ernor Northern con tinued for another half hour. (i'iv. Northern spoki; in part as fol lows: 'I am not here In apologize for the South. The South has her ills, her sins and her crimes. What section has not? The South has had and will have violent shocks to her civiliza tion. What section has not? The South lias had her sorrows, (lod knows they have been grievous and hard to be endured. Whenever the South lindsan ideal government without sin, a people perfect in law and perfect in its en forcement, the South will do its re spectful obeisance and ask to be led into its broader civilization and its better power. Till then, and not till then, we shall stand abreast of all other sections, elainiino; as broad a civilization as anv, and challenrinr those without sin to cast the first stone at us. "So much 1 desire to say for the white people of the South. For the negroes of that section I cannot decline to say that, taken as a mass, I would not exchange thorn for any I have seen in any other parts of the I'nitcd States without tremendous money boot in the exchange. I am the friend of the nero in my State, and thev recognize in me one of their strongest defenders. I am not here to defame them, (lod forbid! I am hi re to speak their worth, when they deserve it, and to condemn them when their wickedness so demands. "Lest I may be misunderstood, I desire to say, with emphasis, that I shall not speak to you iu any sec tional or partisan spirit. Let us thank (lod that sectionalism is, or ought to be, dead. "With a grandson of (Irant on the statT of Lee: with Fighting Joe Wheeler, clad in the uniform of an American soldier, rallying the charge under the flouting folds of the Ameri can Hag: with brave young Bagley, giving his life blood to cement into eternal brotherhood a divided nation: with Bruiuby. tarrying amid the shouts of his applauding comrades the Hag of the Union lirst planted in the Philippines; with Hobson, brave and heroic, a spectacle for (lod and for man, as he stood upon the bridge of the Merrimac. the embodiment of the South's loyalty to the Union, surely, surely, the South will now be heard without prejudice and with due consideration for what she may sav. NK;itO MISTAl (JUT AKTKK WAK. "After the war the negroes were promptly made citizens. They were enfranchised and not only made equal with their former masters, but they were taught that liberty meant license, and that the domination of the white man was the one thing for them to strive, for and attain. The people of the South looked not only upon abandonment by the negroes, but upon absolute treachery among her own people. Many men who had been true to their colors during the war, now broken down in fortune and without hope for the future, believed thev saw political elevation for them selves in the use of the negro's vote. "Uniting themselves to the carpet-baggers and scalawags w ho Hock ed to the South like vultures over a dving carcass, they ate carrion to gether, as in all the shame of union leagues and midnight jwlitical ma rauding they planned for the negroes' antagonism" toward the white people that lias proved the bane of the negro and the white man at the South. Here began the separation between the negroes and the white people of the South. The breach was widened bv the appearance of the military all over the South, not only encouraging the schemes of division and domina tion concocted in the uniou leagues, but offering support and defense by sucn arms as iuii;oi w uvcui. "Our Legislatures were composed of negroes and carpet-baggers, our laws were made, on the one hand, by those absolutely ignorant to our in stitutions and our government, and. on the other, by those who had no sympathy with our interests and not a dollar in our business. BLINDED OPPOSITION TO WHITES. "Since that day the negro at the South has been determined to oppose everything politically that he believes the white man wants. "Upon this subject l'rof. H. M. Browne, a negro and a member of the faculty of Hampton Institute, one among the best schools for negroes at the South, says: " 'The greatest enemy to the negro and the greatest obstacle to his pro gress is the politician, and the negro politician is the worst of all.1 " -It may be said that in 1KG0 the colored race was totally illiterate,' says Hon. W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education. Tn 1870 more than Ho jer cent, of the colored population of the South, ten years of age and over, could not read nor write. In 1880 the percentage of illiterates had been reduced to 75 per cent., and iu 18 'JO the illiterates com prised about GO per cent, of the colored population ten years of age and over. In several of the Southern States the percentage is even below .10 per cent. " Tn thirty years 40 per ceut. of the illiteracy of the colored race had disappeared. In education and in dustrial progress this race has ac complished more than it could have achieved in centuries in a different environment, without the aid of the whites. The negro has needed the example as well as the aid of the white nirr.i. In sections where the c il .red population is massed and re m cd from contact with the whites liie progress of the negro has been retarded. He believes in educating his children, because he cm see that an increase of knowledge will enable them to better their condition. But segregate the coloied population and you take away the object-lesson.1 NO INTKUMAinn.WiK. The relations of the negro to re ligion and society were next con sidered by the ex-(jovernor. In re gard to intermarriage he said: "Intermarriage at the South not only makes the union void, but sub jects the olliciating clergyman to punishment in the chain gang, the penitentiary or heavy money line, in the discretion of the judge. "If the people of the North see lit to differ with us on this point we will not have any dispute over the matter, as the people of the South are not much given to the effort at control of other men's matters. We are iu perfect harmony with the old adage: 'There is no disputing about tastes.1 "I heard a very admirable speech from a very intelligent negro, before a Southern Baptist convention, dur ing its session at Birmingham, Ala. The negro preacher was discussing the race problem, and when he reach ed this feature of his subject be re marked that many people seemed afraid the negro would at no distant day demand social equality. He then said there need be no fear on this point, as he knew many white men he would not allow to sleep in his bed. "So we are pretty well agreed on both sides down South that social equality is not desired by either race, and, in my candid judgment, it will never obtain. Social equality would beget amalgamation, and amalgama tion would result in miscegenation, and miscegenation would be an open violation of the law of (lod. (Jod made one a negro and the other a white man. It is the opinion of the people of the South that He intended them so to remain. "Miscegenation by law will never take place in the South. That may be accepted as an established fact and settled beyond question. Inter marriage at the South need not'be argued a moment. Unless the South breaks the record of all history, there is only one alternative left, and that is that the negro must be dependent, in a measure at least, upon the white man. as he cannot hope to dominate him. A KKiHTKOl S SETTLEMENT. "The relations between the races at the South are in no sense alarm ing. Under (lod we will work out the problem in righteous settlement for both races if we are left alone. "Negroes are employed upon our farms in preference to white people. They are used as coachmen, mechan ics, and in all trades. They never suffer for lack of work if they want a job. We provide for them good schools, that aro superintended by the same boards as control the white schools. Their religious training is carefully guarded by the churches in all the denominations. Confidence is constantly strengthened, as the ne groes are beginning to know the white people at the South are their best friends. "It is ouly a very small per cent, of negroes that are malicious, crimi nal and mean. The race should not suffer in reputation because of the bad character of a few. The better part of the negroes, and this is by far the larger part, are beginning to co operate with the white people for bet ter conditions. IXCEXDIAUY NOKTIIEKN" NEGROES. "In addition to denunciations by the press, our colored brethren of the North have assumed dictatorship over the white people at the South. Iu a recent issue of the papers of this city appeared an account of a meeting, I suppose, of colored peo ple, described to be enthusiastic, in which it was said, referring to the re cent lynching in Georgia: 'The cli max of the evening was reached, how ever, when Captain Williams and Lieutenant Jackson said that every negro should carry a Winchester and wherever a nesrro was killed their brethren should go out on the high ways and the byways and the lirst white man thev saw should be shot down.1 'This is one way to settle it. accord ing to the colored people of Boston. Not one word about the villainous scoundrel who did the double tragedy a human liend. Kill every white man you meet who dares defend the women of the South against such iniquitous outrage, and the race prob lem will be settled in the South! "The colored people of New York met about the same time and banded together to invoke the venjreance of God upon Georgia and the South for the lynching of Sam Hose, and not one word of sympathy for the home destroyed, the man murdered, the wife outraged, and the children be smeared with the blood and brains of their murdered father. "May I say to my friends, the colored people of the North, if they will look after their own business and attend to the lawlessness that occurs in their own bailiwick, they will pos sibly have quite as much as they can prolitablv manage. I would be glad to know what they said about the mob of 150 men who strung up Brad ley, near New York, charged with stealing Martin Kelley's pocketbook, as reported in the New York World, April 21st. There it is said that some of the mob wanted to burn Bradley, and that women fainted while the deed of horror was being enacted. There is a difference, a great difference, everyone knows, be tween Tweedledum and Tweedledee. THE SAM I EL HOSE LYNCHING. "You need not ask me if I approve the horrible enactment that occurred within forty miles of my home a few weeks ago the lynching of Samuel Hose. God forbid that I should. 'Do you condemn the burning as strongly as it was condemned through the Northern press?1 I answer em phatically, just as strongly. 'Then you approve the course taken by the Northern press in the matters of lynchings at the South?1 Pardon me, if, in reply, I say that I condemn the course of the Northern press upon lynchings at the South with all the vehemence of an offended nature. It is incendiary, unfair and cruel in the extreme. "Now, hear me! What was the policy of the press at the North, with only two exceptions, so far as I know, in the lynching of that villainous liend. Hose? Great scare heads 'Another negro lynched at the South. Fiendish brutality on the part of the whites toward an unfortunate and defenseless negro. Inhuman devils burn a colored man within fifty miles of the capital of Georgia and gloat over his tortures like demons. Surely these people have been remanded to barbarism and become savages in a civilized land.1 "Not one word of sympathy for a pure and virtuous woman; her honor gone; her husband murdered in her presence; she and her little children dragged in the fresh, warm blood of the dying man, and not one word said about this doubly horrible out rage. "Surely, in all the North, is there no sympathy except for a negro? No kindly feeling and no tender word for the defenseless women of the South, who carry with them a living shame, in a living death, in a life all too long for its miseries, if it lasts but for a day? "I submit that the policy of the press at the North, in condemning simply the lynchings, while they maintain an ominous and painful silence about the crimes that provoke them, is incendiary in the extreme, as it encourages negroes to a repeti tion. It is worse than cruel to the broken-hearted victim and the com munity that has suffered death in its tenderest relations. "The policy is unfair, as between lynchings at the North and lynchings at the South, making always llesh of one and fowl of the other. Let it be fair and we will sooner be breth ren. "What was done, under similar conditions, in Ohio, Oregon, New Jersey, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illi nois, New York and other States that have had similar or even less of fenses? No State claims greater or more advanced civilization than New York, and yet, it is only a few years since a wild" and frenzied mob cruelly murdered eleven innocent negroes, whose only offense was that they were negroes, then burned the negro orphan asylum over the heads of three hundred little helpless negro children, simply because they were negroes, and the little ones barely escaped by the back door, while the maddened mob beat down an entrance at the front. Why did not the great State of New York control the mob better than Georgia did? "Do you ask me how these lynch ings can be stopped at the South? I answer promptly just as they can be stopped at the North, and in no other way. Stop the outrages' and the lynchings will cease. Continue the outrages and the lynchings will always follow, regardless of threats by the law, whether in Georgia, Min nesota, Illinois, Ohio or any other State. "Is it forgotten 'that the people of Massachusetts themselves burned a negro woman at the stake who had been simply suspected and not con victed of poisoning a white man and his wife? We can't tell what is going to happen, even in the best regulated families. OPPOSED TO MOB LAW, "IiCt it be distinctly understood that, personally, I am absolutely op posed to mob law for any and all causes. I shall not take your time here to give vou mv reasons. Per sonally and officially I have done everything known to me to suppress it in my State. But there is an un written law, not peculiar to Georgia or the South, but dominating condi tions iu every State, that demands the quickest execution, in the quick est way, of the fiend who robs a vir tuous woman of her honor to gratify his hellish diabolism. Human nature is tne same throughout the civilized world, and say what you may, Mas sachusetts will not be one whit be hind Georgia when you make Mrs. Cranford the wife of a farmer in your State and Samuel Hose, a brutal fiend iu human shape, a neighbor near her home. "I repeat again, mob law is ter rible. You know its blood and slaughter in your own State. Georgia can no more suppress it than Mas sachusetts or New York. Until Mas sachusetts, New York, Illinois, Penn sylvania and other States can control the wild fury of a mob, let us be done with denunciations upon Georgia when she fails. Georgia and the South ask nothing but to be given the same consideration as other States and other sections. government's kesponsibility. 'When the Government appoints a minister to Austria and the cablegram comes persona non grata the name is recalled and another substituted at once. Why Austria and not the South? Why dominate the South with an appointee who is persona non grata when Austria can get what she wants? Why dominate a section whose people, or a section, are more thoroughly American than any other section of the continent; a section more devoted to American institu tions than any other section as such, because of its more American citizen ship; a section that defends the American flag with as loyal hearts, as heroic, daring and as patriotic de votion as ever characterized a liberty loving citizen of the nation? Let the North answer me, why? "Now, then, if the slave trade, the promoter of slavery in America was a sin, whose sin was it? Not the sin of the South, but the sin of England, the Dutch and New England. "If the conferring of citizenship and the battlot upon four millions of people, absolutely untaught in the simplest elements of Government, was a mistake, whose mistake, was it? Not the mistake of the South, but the mistake of the North. "If the avenues to division and hate and blood anil carnage, outrages and lynchings and violence and mobs have been opened up at the South through the ballot given to the negro and the politics taught him to pursue in the destruction of the white man were a sin, whose sin was it? Not the sin of the South, but the sin of tke North. "If the people in the South sheltered the negro in his absolute poverty, fed him wrhenhewas hungry, furnished him means to accumulate property and money, educated his children to prepare them for useful ness in life, to whose honor is it but the honor of the men who have borne for a generation his burdens while he gave marked ingratitude in return through his votes? "The negro problem at the South will not be settled in a day. Step by stej), as it marches into the future of the nation, it must be met by the conditions best suited to the detail of its solution. It will never be settled by abuse of the South, and the North had as well understand that fact now as later. What is needed now is, at least, toleration and non-interference, if the South is to become responsible for results. A ONE-SIDED VIEW. "And the good ladies of Boston, God knows I would not offend one of them for the world, refined, cultured, pure as the driven snow, the em bodiment of all that is lovely and true and inspiring.1 ' "I read your speeches de.live.red last Saturday. I agree fully with all you say about the horrible barbarism of lynching. Say more on that line and I will say 'Amen,1 But, oh, how painful to me when I reached the end! All your sympathy for a human devil, and not one word for the woman, outraged, delicate, cultured and pure, sitting to-day in the shadow of your burning words in the bitterness of a sorrow, a shame, a loathsomeness which I pray God you may never know. You have not given me one word of tenderness or sympathy to take back to her. "God pity the day, the cruel day, upon which we have fallen! "At this point I hestitate. My duty to injured innocence demands that I speak. MAKE THE CASE YOL'lt OWN. "Make the case your own. (Will you pardon me if in this presence I tell a part of this horrible tale of woe and misery and loathsome wretched ness, that you may, somewhat, un derstand?) Let it be your daughter, sitting at tea, with her husband and little children, happily enjoying an meal. A bloody murderer with the steaitniiv approacues ami i.i -1 i blow of a fiend buries an axe to the eye in the husband's head; he fells him, beats his brains till they spread in sickening borrow over the floor. He raises his devilish hand and strikes a stunning blow upon the face of a little child your grandchild. Can vou imagine? He drags it across the bleeding, dying body of its father, your daughter's husband, and leaves it senseless, its father's blood dripping from its little skirts. See him as he takes . another child, your grandchild, by the heels in one hand and his axe in the other, while he de mands of the mother her consent or the cruel murder of her child. Be present in your thought at that su preme moment, and hear her saying, Save my child!' See hiai, then, as he confronts, in all the appalling horror of fiendish glare, with uplifted axe, the trembling form of the wife, your daughter (can you imagine?;) curse as only a demon from hell can swear; jerks her down your daughter (can you imagine?) and rolls her in the warm blood of the only one she had hoped to defend her from such awful, awful, awful cruelty and shame. Hear her piteous cries as she writhes, in the embrace of a villain, and then see her, as she falls at her father's gate your gate (can you imagine?) half clad, and in a death swoon, to tell her horrible. sickening, loathsome story (a story I cannot tell here, and which has not yet been told because of its loathsome ness. Hear her tell it into her loving mother's ear, and tell me, would you feel that the punishment of the nethermost hell, whether admin istered here or hereafter was too much for such a human liend? What Mould you do? What would your neighbors do? What would a mob in Massachusetts do? I am not asking what ought to have been done. As to that, you and I are fully agreed.1 Ex-Governor Northern closed by pleading for better understanding be tween the North and South. Discretion is the salt and fancy the sugar of life; the one prenorve,the other weetena it. Bovee. s FIGHTING JOE WHEELER HIS ELOQUENT AND SPEECH PATRIOTIC Delivered at Charleston During the Confederate Veterans' Reunion the Armies of the South Laid Down Their Arms but Not Their Belief In the Truth and Justice of Their Cause Battle Scarred Veterans are Fast Passing Away. "The history of our country, when compared with that of all the eras that have preceded us, shows that our civilization has produced the highest class of men and the noblest type of soldiers. The very idea of liberty nerves Ihe soul and fires the heart. Defeat but exasperates, adding desperation to vigor and energy to determined resolve. "It was the teaching of fathers and mothers who fled from the oppression of caste and class, braved the un fathomed ocean and landed upon these shores, confronted by wild beasts and savage Indians that the highest honor and greatest privilege was to fight for country, its safety and its honor. "If the people in the North excel in some qualities, it is also true that those of the South excel in others. It has been said that tenacity of pur pose, thrift and perseverance pre dominated in the Northern character. This may probably be so, but it is also true that other characteristics are more noticeable among the people of the South." Gen. AVheelcr declared that the military history of the Southern peo ple has been a prominent feature in history from the lirst settlement of this country. He cited Washington and the other Southern commanders of the Revolution, Winfield Scott and Andrew Jackson and the other heroes of the war with Mexico, and then passing to the war between the States he said: "The battle-scarred veterans, who during four years of bloody warfare dazzled the world with the splendor of their heroism are fast passing away. The few who remain gather annually to renew the friendship, which formed among such scenes is the warmest and most enduring. No greater heroes were in the legions led by Alexander, Hannibal, Char lemagne or Napoleon, for your achievements excelled all theirs. "In the greatest battles of the Civil war you contended with men of en durance, fortitude and courage, men with the same birthright of freedom, imbued with the same spirit of lib erty, men who were as conscientious ly contending for what they deemed the right of the Federal Government, as you for what you just as lirmly held to be your rights. J "While pur Civil war I may truth fully assert, was the most sanguinary recorded in history, it was also the most remarkable as in there was no element of personal hostility, and the soldiers as individuals, could- not in the nature of things, have entertained feelings of hatred for each other. They fought not from revenge, not from malice, not from desire to shed blood, not from ambition, simply be cause they felt that they led the path of duty. "It was a war fought to settle questions that for more than half a century had been matters of the most earnest, and I might say bitter con tentions, increasing in intensity until an appeal to the God of Battles was rendered inevitable so that no arbitrament save that of the sword was possible. When the South yielded.it was to numbers, battalions. artillery, to the unlimited resources of the Federal Government. "The armies of the South laid down their arms, but not one iota of their belief in the truth and justice of their cause did they surrender. With energy and determination they met the new problems confronting them. "Above the carnage, above the wail of widows and the cry of orphans, above the desolated homes, above the fields overgrown with new forests, there arose a new civilization and a new union, one niche in whose temple holds a ligure whose name shall be honored throughout the ages. Lee, whose matchless skill, whose soldierly spirit, whose wonderful en durance, was only equalled by the grandeur of soul which accepting the fiat of war lived out to its full close, the noblest life recorded in all history for the admiration of posterity. "As between the soldiers on either side, there was no real enmity. Mutual admiration for each other's prowess is the sentiment of all brave men, and with admiration respect naturally increases. "The lifetime of a generation has softened the memories of that con flict, and side by side, but North and South have stood together in battle against a foreign foe. "We meet here to cherish and in- tensifv the memory of the great struggle in which voj were actors. Your devotion to duty, vour courage in battle and your unmurmuring en durance, was your heritage from vour ancestors." Gen. Wheeler touched upon thw question of expansion be declaring that Southern soldiers and Southern statesmen had ever taken a promi nent part in all movements looking to the enlargement of our territory. "History for all time," he said, "will record that it was uuder South ern presidents that we have, wrested from the wild, Indians the greater part of the -'2,388 square miles, which lay between our thin lines of settlement on the ocean and the Mississippi river; and under Southern president that we have added to this domain an area nine times a great as the present area of thw original thirteen States While the various negotiations 1 w t. . 1 nrA r 1 1 T" (Inminum were beino- nai, ana our nonunion were being enlarged, adding the irlorv of the country, chiefly through the influence of the Southern element ; most bitter opposition was developed i in other parts of the Union. i "It is a matter of which the South ern jeople may well take pride, that during all the great progress and ad vancement of our country, including the armed contest of last year, and which I am glad to say now appears to be happily ended, no section of o: r land has been more devoted to the cause of our country and to uphold ing its honor and prestige than the people of the Southern States. "Those upon whom rests the cares, duties and burdens of government have encountered no embarassment or complaints or criticism from Southern States. None of their brave volunteer regiments have asked to be released of active duty and when the request has come from Governors of other commonwealths, volunteers ; from the Southern States have ; promptly begged for the honor of ; tilling their places iu the front of; battle. "The position in which the Ameri- can people find themselves to-dav was not sought bv them, but is the , , -, .. . . logical result of conditions thrust ujKn the country by a course of events beyond our control. If it be said thev were foreseen ami pre- dieted it must . alsn h admitted ilit no power iu our grasr ' "v """ before the gaze of civilization confront ed bv !?rave responsibilities. The su- era inul tha t n n 1 rwi preme test of the American institu- tions is involved, and the American system of Government is 011 trial. "It is said by some that while England, Holland, France and other nations may extend a protecting hand to peoples and lands separated from the home country benefiting both the protector and the protected, that we shall be utterly unable to accom plish such a purpose. To admit this proposition is to admit that our system of Government is lacking in the essential qualifications which every sovereigu power should pos sess. In one year we hare risen to first place in the family of nations; to make the smallest retrograde step, would be at the expense of thj' prestige we have won. To return to the starting point of a year ago, would be to lose what it would take a century to regain. In answer to those who say that the policy of our forefathers forbade the extension of territory, I would point to Jefferson and the Louisana purchase, Monroe and Florida, Polk and Texas, and the vast territory acquired from Mexico, and later to Andrew Johnson and the acquisition of Alaska. "If there be any who contend that we should not permit the Island of Cuba to become a part of the United States, and its people if they desire it, to enjoy all the rights of Ameri can citizenship, I have only to point to the ollicial declarations of our great statesmen commencing with Thomas Jefferson and running through almost the entire period of the first half of this century. During al'. that period our honored states men and Presidents from Jefferson to Buchanan laid down in their message and state documents the imperative necessity of making the Pearl of the Antilles a part of the United States." In concluding his address Gen. Wheeler paid an eloquent tribute to the women of the South aud the part they bore in the war and the dark years that followed, saying: "Although some of those blessed women are still with us, many more have long since goue to their reward, but they have rocked in. cradles, the principles, miuds and characters which are to eoutrol the future of their beloved land. The thought which I wish to impress upon the minds of the generation to whom we must soon intrust a sacred charge. Tor the Confalerate soldier's race is nearly run, and the injuction which I would leave with yuur sons and daughters for the davghters have j the nobler part, and I know they will faithfully perform it is this: "See to it that the women of the Confederacy have, in their posterity, a monument more lasting than any that could be built of stone" DEWEY DINNERISIS. Ge. V. Hobart, in Batimore American, j See, de conkwearinn hero cwme., (iawge, is yo hongry? Bratdem li'l kettle drums, (iawge. U yo' hongry? 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