Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
Rouors to the Federal Dead.


eral dead, moved from the City Hall at
o'clock Saturday down Princess street to
Front, down Front to Market, and thence
to the National Cemetery. Company II, .
9th Infantry, on post duty here, in full
uniform, with reversed arms, formed the
escort A hearse properly decorated and
bearing upon its sides the words HONOR
TO OUR NATIONS DEAD" drawn by six
horses, with attendant grooms. and Federal
soldiers. as pail bearers, was a marked fea-
ture in the procession. The orator. Gen.
J. G. ABBOTT, Major UPHAM, and other Off
GERS, with a few residents Of the city, fol-
lowed in carriages and on horseback.
Some two hundred negroes, each bearing
a cross of evergreens, composed the re-
mainder of the escort. Bands discoursed
most solemn music during the march.
The whole moved under the direction OF
A. II. Galloway, as Marshal.
We were not present at the Cemetery,
and therefore cannot speak of the cere mo
MES or the Grafton. We take il that a.
passed off fitting the solemn occasion and
worthy the memory of those to whose
honor it was dedicated.
This is as it should be, and hal The
movement originated in the spontaneous
outpourings Of the people. or been auChor-
lied by the General of the Armies, and
not come from c political organization, it
would have yet been more grateful trlb-
ute and assumed more National aspect.
In no Southern heart is there malice to-
wards the Federal soldiers who bravely fell
fighting for their government, and none
would deny them the honors due the
brave. In the grave at least, all animosi-
ties aud preiudices should be buried, and
no i'll words should mar the memories of
those who died battling for what they re-
garded as their duty.
The Southern people do not begrudge
the money they pay IN taxes to purchase
and ornament the National Cemeteries and
build monuments to honor the Federal
dead. They only plead to be allowed to
pay their meagre tribute, unmolested, to
their own cherished heroes to erect, out
of their scanty private resources, the
memorials of their affection and gratitude !;
to collect together the bones of their
fathers, brothers and sons from the fields
of their glory, and deposit them where the
hands of love can garland their graves.
They only ask, in return for their payment
to do honor to the Federal dead, to be al
lowed to do honor also to their own soldier
dead they ask that military edicts shall
not prevent the outpourings of their grief !;
that the honored evidences of their graft
tude, which should find echo in every brave
heart, shall not be used as proofs of their
disafection to the Government, and made
the means of continued oppression and in
creased sectional prejudices.
OUR KENANSTILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
KENANsvu1E, n. c., May %, 1868.
Editors Journal The grand impeach-
ment having fzzled out and all things
being in quiet state pro tempore, we are
allowed once more to breathe fresh air and
read papers whose columns are not crowded
with items of the cold song, etc.
Our burgh Is now dong nothing at all IN
the way of t-ading--reminds one of the
poets
''Heart like peaceful lake,
Is only ruf1ed by birds
OF passage wandering by
So it is with our town, occasionally
gentleman OF the laughing-gas profession
comes along, or some one appeals to the
bankrupt not financial, but matrimo-
NAL, which is advisable for all young men
with the stamps.
The schools (male and female) are
moving along in common with other af-
fairs. somewhat thin, owing to the pupils
from the country being engaged on farms,
etc.
A terrific hail storm visited this vicinity
last night, doing immense damage to the
growing corn, orchards, gardens, etc. and
strange to ssy, it's course was Of an oblong