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adulterous and sinfui gen
eration, of him alse shall
the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh
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Gospel of St. Mark 8:38.
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Georgia Cavalcade
(Historical reiease by office of Georgia's
Secretary of State, Ben W. Fortson, Jr.)
COMMENCEMENT SEASON RECALLS
STUDENT ORATION OF 1867 THAT
ALMOST CLOSED ENIVERSITY
By Gus Bernd, Historical Research Assistant,
Georgia Department of State,
The present school commencement season has
both similarities and contrasts to those graduation
exercises of the days of the Old South when
classes were much smaller, speeches longer and
participants generally more excited about the
whole thing. One of the most historic commence
ment programs of those held in the State of
Georgla wok place on the carnpus at Athens in
186/ when the State was under .'military rule of
Reconstruction days. Ben Hill, Joseph E. Brown,
Henry Grady, Howell Cobb, and other noted per
song were pregent. And it was a classmate of
Graay, Albert H. Cox, who stirred up a furor with
ali oration.
It was one of those occasions when pent-up
leelings are let loose and every one has a good
wine, at least temporarily, The people were sore at
the KHadical Recounstruction Acts of that time
which were being put into eftect in detriment to
the South. And in Georgia, former Governor
Brown was cooperatling with the carpetbagger,
scalawag government, something the great major
ily could not understand, though Hrowi later re-
Geeuied higself in this regard.
‘lhe students on the University of Georgia cam
pus were stirred up'as they have been over many
pulitical developments that have occurred through
e years. And they were just as daring and out
spoken then as now, asserting their Ireedom oof
gpeech and action to tlie nth degree. 'Thus the
aunosphere and situation when young Albert H.
Cox spuke on ‘“l'he Vital Principle of Nations” and
aulged 1 a bit of politics to ihe extent of assert
ing by the use of imnuendo that Joseph K. Brown
was a traitor to Georgia. As would be expected
Alhiens embraced Cox as a young hero, with con
gratulations trom Ben Hill and others descending
upon him freely. The band blared forth “Dixie.”
‘tne flare of patriotism engulfed the campus, Hill
and Cobb were praised; and Brown was roundly
damned in nearly every fraternity house, literary
gociety, dornuatory room, and in the streets., Lile
on the campus became unbearable for Julius L.
Brown, scn of the Xx-Governor, until in the end
tolerance asserted itself and permitted him to re-
Imain.
When General John Pope, Federal military
commander in Georgia, heard about the oration,
he placed the University under the axe of his
broad and dictatorial powers. It seemed that the
Cox oration plus the cooperation between Ben
Hill and the studenis in opposition to the Hecon
struction measures would cause the closing of the
institution for an indefinite time. But Ben Hiil, as
was olten the case, came to the rescue again, This
time Hill went to Washington and persuaded
General Grant to allow Georgia tg remain open.
After all, Albert Cox had given merely his own
personal opinion. It would be indeed unbeeoming
of even a bad commander to deny the opposition
freedon: of speech and to close a State Universily
because the students and people of the State and
School disagreed with him and his subordinates.
So the University of Georgia continued, graduat
ing Henry Grady the following year and thous
ands of other fine Georgians since,
‘l'ne Cox oration and subsequent events caused
by it are but a few of the many interesting hap
penings of old times at the University of Georgia.
One may read about them with enjoyment In
_“College Lite in the Old South” by Dr. E. Merton
Coulter of the present Georgia faculty, Dr. Coulter
is a foremost authority on Georgia history and the
author of a number of outstanding works on
Georgia and Southern history. As another com
mencement season comes and passes, the thoughts
of many will no doubt turn to these old pleas
antries of early education in the red ole hills. Days
when Georgia Greats such as Crawford Long,
Alex ‘Stephens, John B. Gordon, Thomas R. R.
Cobb, Bob Toombs, Henry Grady, Albert Cox, and
cpers irod familiar campus trails that still re
ceive the prints of eager feet; witness the glances
of ambitious eyes; and the hopes of determ:ined
hearts.
From a . . . national view, we have a powerful
weapon, but, if I were you, I should maintain my
composure and hold my+oil stocks—Sumner T.
Pike, member of the U. S. Atomic Energy Corr.-
mission, commenting on the possibility of atomic
enery replacing present fueis,
We Believe All Will Be
.
. Pleased With Result [
We believe eventually all glélt'!lxu%s will bel
pleased with the results of Tuesday's election
when a $1,000,000 bond issue for school purposes
was overwhelmingly approved, /
The vote was one of the largest ever polled in
the City of Athens. And it was polled between the
hours of 9 and 4 o'clock. The largest vote ever
polled in Athens was in the last election for Mayor
and Council when approximately 3,900 votes were
cast, but the voting at that time took place be
tween the hours of 7 and 6 o'clock, four hours
longer. (The law changing the voting hours and
keeping the polls open during the hours of state
and coungy elections was declared unconstitutional
on account of an error by an attache of the Geor
gia Legislature. The bill should be re-introduced
and tne hours made to conform with state and
county election hours,)
There was a diiference of opinion, of course, as
to the wisdom and necessity of issuing bonds for
school purposes, whifa is to be expected on almost
any question, The fact that the opposition was
negligible no doubt is gratifying to the Board of
Education which requested the bond election in
order to finance a school development program it
believes is vitally needed, More than 2,500 citizens
agreed with them in Tuesday’s election,
We believe the 356 citizens who voted against
approval of the bond issue are pleased in that if
approval had to coie it was by sich a big volic.
There can bev no doubt about the people having'
wanted the bonds passed, They carried heavily ml
each of the five City Wards. The results should |
convince all that the people are behind the schuml
program,
It is sometimes a difficult decision to make
when certain risks are involved but we are con
fident the bond issue approved Tuesday is neces
sary and that Athenians acted wisely in giving
their approval. Communities as well as individuals
must take their courage in their hands at times
and venture forth according to the universal law
of development. When an individual or commu
nity is atraid to,assume the risks of growth stag
nation follows. We congratulate Athens on ot
not being afraid to grow.
Recognizing Franco Need
The Alnerican govesiinent's Spanish pulicy,l(
says Senator Taft, seems to have been guided by a|
“Communist-front philosophy.” That accusation
does not seem very fair or very accurate. It is no
more “Communist-front” than that of any other
government that has abided by the UN resolution
of 1946 to withdraw ambassadors from Madrid,
Perhaps the resolution was unwise, Certainly 1t
was unsuccessful. As Secretary of State Acheson
admits, the withdrawal of recognition did not
effect any reforms in the Franco government, But
the resolution is still in force. It ig hard to see
how this government could help the United Na
tions or itself by leading a fight to repeal it.
It really does not seem to matter too much
whether we do or don’t have diplomatic relations
with Spain, The main function of a diplomatic
mission is to look out for the interests of its own
country, both public and private, in another coun
try whose government is legiauy constituted,
Recognition does nct imply approval, as the
anti-resglution people have so often pointed out.
We maintain normal relations with Russia and
with other governments whose practices we do not
like. And Franco’'s government is probably as
legally constituted as the Communists’ is in Rus
sia. Each got to the top through military victory,
and neither has given its people a chance to ex
press their free feelings about its continuance.
. The trouble is that Senator Taft and others
can't seem to think or talk about sending an am
bassador back to Madrid without going ahead with
arguments in favor of cutting Franco in on Euro
pean aid and including him in the North Atlantic
alliance. One would think, to hear them talk, that
Spain’s friendship in the event of war would be
about the most important military asset that we
could possess.
The United States can’t do anything, short ol
war, to restore individual, political and religious
ireedom to the Russian people, to free them from
the threat of physical terrorisnv and the yoke of
intellectual enslavement. But that is no reason why
we must ignore a similar catalog of tyrannies in
Spain. That is no reason why we must strengthen
the .govemment that perpetuates those tyrannies,
Mr. Acheson realistically says that the United
States and western Europe have never insisted
that “Spain, which has never been a full-flow
ered democracy, must become so.” But he does
think that the Spanish people must be made so
realize that they cannot be accepted back “into
the family of western Europe” unless they take
some steps to liberalize their government. And he
thinks that this country and western Europe
should do what they can to assist the Spanish
people toward that end.
This is the policy which sme people call incen
gistent, and others call sentimental, But it can also
‘be called idealistic —the word for a force which
we hope has not been permanently exiled from
diplomatic thought.
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