The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-12

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vitino the attention of our readers to
the following communication. 1t is
now conceded on all hands that the
Southern people were misguided IN
their late attempt to dissolve the Union
and establish separate government
for themselves but the graves and the
memories of those who fought for them
ought not, therefore, to be neglected or
forgotten The gallant men who sacri-
feed their lives in what they believed
to be the cause of their country, ought
to have Christian sculpture. No right
minded person anywhere will object to
this. On the contrary, all of our coun-
trymen, whether on the banks of the
Mississippi or the St. Lawrence, are
ready to pay their tribute to the valor
of the Confederate dead, and would
wish to see them decently inferred. And
the day will come, we trust, when the
Southron and the Northman will stand
side by side, with full hearts and I'M
covered heads, above the graves of the
soldiers of the rebellion and the soldiers
of the Union, and utter words like
these "This man died in the cause of
the Union, and that man died resisting
its authority. They were brothers. They
became enemies, and fought each other
with equal valor. Those who survive
them on both sides are again brethren.
The past is forgotten. Let all of it
that was evil sleep with these in their
graves, and let only that be remembered
which will make us think better of our
kind, and lead us to the cultivation of
the Christian virtues of peace and char
itv. The Union is immortal. The pa
thence, the fortitude, the endurance, and
the valor which characterized the sol
diers on both sides in that fraternal
conflict, belong to the whole country !;
and foreign nations may know, from
the manner in which we fought each
other, and from the firm friendship
which now subists between us, that We
would be equal at least to any defence
of our territory, our liberties, OF our
honor, that might Der equired at our
hands,
We trust the 7a6leue will be well
attended, and that nothing will occur
to wound the sensibilities of any one:
For the Standard.
The ladies of Raleigh have, at considerable
trouble and expense, made preparations for
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a series of 1ajleur oicant, to come off at the
Chapel of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum on
Thursday night next, the 18th instant
When it is borne in mind to what purpose
the proceeds are to be appropriated, it is to
be hoped that every Christian hearted man,
woman and child in the community, will
take an interest in the proposed entertain
ment-so far at least as to aid and encourage
it by their presence. 1t is we'll known that
there is no other locality in the country,
where many bloody battles were fought
during the late war, as the neighborhood of
Winchester, Va. Owing to the circumstan-
ces which usually attend the interment of
large numbers in time of war, thousands of
Confederate dead were imperfectly buried,
having been slightly covered with few
inches of earth, which has been washed away
by the rains and floods of winter, leaving
their bones in many cases, exposed and
bleaching.
The ladies OF Virginia have started the
project of collecting these scattered remains
of the gallant dead together, and reintering
them in narrow space, to be surrounded by
a permanent stone wall, where they will be
secure from outrage and exposure. Each
Southern State is to have a separate plat of
ground within the enclosure, set apart to re-
ceive its special dead, with a place in the
centre for the UNKNOWN, who cannot be
identified as to what State belonging
1t is to aid in defraying the expenses of
this holy undertn king, that the proceeds of
the proposed Tableux are to be appropriated.
1t appeals to the Christian sensibiiities of all
persons without involving any question as
to the political ideas of the struggle in which
these heroes fell. They were our fellow
countrymen- fought and died in a
cause which they regarded as that of their
native land. Surely all persons must wish
to accord to them Christian burial, and to
pay that respect to their remains which
brave and conscientious men deserve at the
hands of the living. With this appeal the
ladies of Raleigh rely on the generous patron
age of the community