Banished and Recalled. 
 
 REMARKS 
 JOSEPH B. CUMMING, 
 
 INTRODUCING 
 
 Hon. Emory Speer, 
 
 ORATOR OF THE DAY, 
 
 July 4, 1897. 
 
 AUGUSTA, GA. 
 Chrpnicle Job Printing Co. 
 1897. 
 

 
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Banished and Recalled. 
 
 REMARKS 
 
 JOSEPH B. CUMMING, 
 
 INTRODUCING 
 
 Hon. Emory Speer, 
 
 ORATOR OF THE DAY, 
 
 July 4. 1897. 
 
 AUGUSTA, G-A. 
 Clirpnicle Job Printing Co. 
 1897. 
 
BANISHED AND RECALLED. 
 
 No American citizen, doing anything he may be called on to 
 do in celebrating this day, ought to need any other inspiration 
 than the day itself and its inseparable and undying memories. 
 Surely the small but very gratifying and highly honorable part I 
 have in the program ought to find all its materials near at hand. 
 Nevertheless, in somewhat the spirit with which the devout 
 Christian turns naturally to his Bible in all the interesting occa- 
 sions of life, to find there a voice for his feelings, I am apt to 
 have recourse to another immortal volume to arouse my slow 
 brain or to speed my halting speech. So, from the moment I 
 learned I was to be something more than a mere listener on this 
 most interesting occasion, a line of surpassing beauty from 
 Shakespeare has been making music in my thoughts. 
 
 You all recall the “induction” to the Taming of the Shreu — 
 how the prince, returning from the chase, finds a poor, drunken 
 vagabond at his gate in besotted sleep. He gives his attendants 
 directions to bear him gently into the palace without disturbing 
 his heavy slumber; to convey him to the most luxurious apart- 
 ment; to lay him in the most voluptuous bed and to draw its silk- 
 en curtains about him. He charges them to let his waking senses 
 be greeted by the softest lights, the most delicious perfumes and 
 the most enchanting music. He is to be surrounded in the hour 
 ■of returning consciousness by obsequious courtiers, whose duty 
 it shall be to persuade him that this fair environment is only his 
 due; that he is indeed a prince. He is to be convinced that for 
 many years he has been a victim of insane delusions, imagining 
 x imself the poor drunken tinker, Christopher Sly; but that this 
 is the hour of returning reason; that Christopher Sly was a 
 dream and the prince is the reality. 
 
 So, as he awakes, the courtiers, “with low submissive rever- 
 ence,” attest their joy that their lord’s reason has come back from 
 its wanderings in the realm of degrading delusions. "Wilt thou 
 have music?” asks one. 
 
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 “Hark! Apollo plays, 
 
 And twenty caged nightingales do sing.” 
 
 “Say thou wilt walk, we will bestrew the ground; 
 
 Or wilt thou ride, thy horses shall be trapped, 
 
 Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. 
 
 Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar 
 Above the morning lark; or wilt thou hunt? 
 
 Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them 
 And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.” 
 
 And the princely contriver of the plot, finding the poor awak- 
 ening tinker amazed and dazed by this wonderful transformation 
 and halting between bewilderment and belief, himself adjures 
 him in the sweet line I spoke of as singing in my brain: 
 
 “Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.” 
 
 The prince appeals to him: 
 
 “Bethink thee of thy birth, 
 
 Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.” 
 
 That is what we are doing this day. We bethink us of our 
 birth _ right and call home our ancient thoughts from banishment. 
 For there was a time, so long ago that a generation has been 
 born meanwhile and attained middle age with no knowledge of 
 it — a time, however, which lives in the memory of us elders — 
 when this was wont to be a day of days, a day of oratory and 
 eloquence, a festal day, a day of civic pageant and military pomp 
 and circumstance. 
 
 Since then more than a third of a century has intervened, dur- 
 ing which the Declaration of Independence and all other voices, 
 once so audible on this day, have been unheard in this Southern 
 land. In the first years of this long silence, the tremendous exi- 
 gencies of the passing hour engrossed our every thought and 
 taxed our every faculty. Next came a period of stupid and humil- 
 iating misgovernment, well fitted to estrange us from the once 
 cherished traditions of the common country. Then followed the 
 
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 struggle — which still persists, forsooth — against the hard con- 
 ditions of these latter days — a struggle which has left little time 
 or opportunity or heart for aught but the material side of life. 
 
 Whether I attribute it to its proper causes or not, the fact itself 
 exists that for more than a generation the Fourth of July, its 
 memories and observances were exiled from this Southern land. 
 We now “call home our ancient thoughts from banishment." and 
 we intend to enjoy the delights of the palace which our own 
 fathers builded. 
 
 In the furtherance of this high purpose, our first choice in the 
 matter of the chief function of the day fell upon the eminent citi” 
 zen — jurist, scholar and orator — whom I shall have the honor co 
 introduce to you. He graciously consented to make his large 
 contribution to this revival and thus give auspicious beginning 
 to this new dep arture. 
 
 I would be d oing a superfluous thing to spend words 
 in making him known to you and be wronging you by further 
 deferring' the pleasure you will have in hearing him. Therefore, 
 without adding to the delay I have already made and for which 
 I crave pardon, I present to you the Honorable Emory Speer, 
 orator of the day. 
 
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