Show GENERAL LAWTONS SPEECH The speech which General Lawton delivered de-livered at Atlanta yesterday on the occasion occa-sion of the laying of the corner stone of the new State Capitol was touching true and filled with the spirit of reverence and patriotism Among the main features of r his address was the fact that the United I States have successfully demonstrated that free selfgovernment is a fact and no longer an experiment Gen j oral Lawton spoke of the second war with England the war with Mexico tho numerous Indian wars through which the United States have passed successfully I success-fully and then of the great war between the States the severest and mightiest I test ever applied to the energies re sources and the endurance of a great people J which prove the capacity of man for selfgovernment He spoke of tho war as a thing that had to be and as he looked back upon it and all that four I years of bloody strife implied he freely declared that the struggle was worth all 1 it cost General Lawton paid a just and noble tribute to the North i when ho said that tho South had learned i that tho North is not so absorbed in its money bags that it will not shed its blood and risk its all even for a sentiment senti-ment He likewise did the South a deserved justice when he said that the North knows that tho South is not alto j gether given to exhibitions of fiery temper i tem-per and are capable only of much ebulli i tion and explosion without the capacity for prolonged efforts and endurance i I General Lawton accepts the issues of tho war but not in bitterness There is I something tender and holy about his i remarks when he says as Georgians we are also citizens of tho United States and claim to be as loyal to i I that great Government as any portion of i the Union Sincfo we are no longer called upon to surrender our selfrespect to do violence to our most sacred sensibilities in making that claim we are ready and willing to render service to defend her honor to fight her battles to give to every man of every section his just due In that sense we know no North no South no East no West but thank i heaven the time is past when any right thinking man of the North thinks we o shall not love our own families and I neighbors better than the stranger and j our State better than any of the thirty I eight Such sentiments are the sentiments senti-ments of the true patriot and he who would hot love his native State or Territory Terri-tory better than another State or Terri torn would not love his common country better than the country of the stranger and the alien Theresa pathos in General Gen-eral Lawtons speech when ho says that while we join in good faith in the tribute paid to the great soldier of the United States recently borne to the tomb in Riverside Park with such display and demonstration as no Roman emperor over received yet in our own homes in tho tenderer moments of our lives we mourn the illustrious sons of the South who sleep in modest graves at Lexington with a sorrow and pride which are all our own When such sentiments as these are uttered so sincerely sin-cerely and PO honestly the bravo and the generous will wish that those who utter them may receive that consideration and respect to which such men are entitled May tho time hasten when the bitterness of the war will be forgotten and the victory vic-tory for the Union will be looked upon as a victory for humanity and for the I South as well as for the North |