amid costly farms from which competition has driven the farmer in despair, but

amid cheap and sunny lands, rich with agriculture, to which neither season nor

soil has set a limit--this system of industries is mounting to a splendor that

shall dazzle and illumine the world. _THAT, SIR, is the picture and the promise

of my home--A LAND BETTER AND FAIRER THAN I HAVE TOLD YOU, and yet but fit

setting in its material excellence for the loyal and gentle quality of its

citizenship._

 

This hour little needs the _LOYALTY THAT IS LOYAL TO ONE SECTION and yet holds

the other in enduring suspicion and estrangement._ Give us the _broad_ and

_perfect loyalty that loves and trusts GEORGIA_ alike with _Massachusetts_--that

knows no _SOUTH_, no _North_, no _EAST_, no _West_, but _endears with equal and

patriotic love_ every foot of our soil, every State of our Union.

 

_A MIGHTY DUTY, SIR, AND A MIGHTY INSPIRATION impels every one of us to-night to

lose in patriotic consecration WHATEVER ESTRANGES, WHATEVER DIVIDES._

 

_WE, SIR, are Americans--AND WE STAND FOR HUMAN LIBERTY!_ The uplifting force of

the American idea is under every throne on earth. _France, Brazil--THESE ARE OUR

VICTORIES. To redeem the earth from kingcraft and oppression--THIS IS OUR

MISSION! AND WE SHALL NOT FAIL._ God has sown in our soil the seed of His

millennial harvest, and He will not lay the sickle to the ripening crop until

His full and perfect day has come. _OUR HISTORY, SIR, has been a constant and

expanding miracle, FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK AND JAMESTOWN,_ all the way--aye, even

from the hour when from the voiceless and traceless ocean a new world rose to