Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-06-10
F,om the Cleveland Herald,
BLUE AND GREY.
Decorating Soldiers Graves in the
South-Union and Confe derate
Soldiers Unite in the Ceremony
at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The work of pacification in the
results of the war on the part of the
people Of the South goes on with
steadiness and certainty. The good
work Is more rapid and most salts
factory where the Northern element
is the strongest and wherein orthern
enterprise and capital has demon
strated to the Southern people the
great benefits of the new civilization.
AS an illustration of what the pres
ence of Northern business men in
large force and influence can do the
ceremony of decorating the graves
ofthe fallen soldiers at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, was attended by a most
remarkable state of things. Imme
diately after the close of the war a
large number Of Union officers and
soldiers settled in Chattanooga, and
they have been Joined by hundreds
OF others, soldiers and civilians.
Some of Cleveland's best and most
enterprising citizens have invested
more than hundred thousand dol
lars there. On Sunday the graves
of the Confederate dead were strewn
with flowers, and an Grafton made
by Col. D. M. Key, Confederate
officer. Many Federal officers and
soldiers were present and participa-
ted in the ceremony. Colonel Key
said:
l am not here to day to reopen
the wounds inflicted in thoseconficts
nor to revive the war that has en-
ded. l would'ratLer mollify the as
peritits that then existed and forget
the war-like sound we once heard. I
do not come here to defend the
cause in which those men fought,
whom we are here to day to honor.
That would be useless. The armies
in which they fought are disbanded,
the government they served has per-
ished, the cause for which they
fought is lost, hopelessly lost,and it
were useless to defend it now.
Nor would l assail the victors.
Their flag floats proudly over US
now, and wherever there is Ameri-
can soil, wherever there floats an
American ship, in every quarter Of
the globe that flag waves proudly,
VIGOROUSLY, and that Government
is honored and respected. l would
not now tear down that flag nor that
government if | could
But it is meet that we should hon
or the men who fought and died in
the cause which was lost. That
cause was our cause, and right or
wrong We stood by it. We encour-
aged these men to go forth and fight
for it, and now that they have fallen
we should be dead to- every principle
of manhood, if we did not honor
these men who gave up their lives
for the cause they believed to. be
right Those vino fought us can
not surely blame US, if on this holy
day we meet to shed tear over
those who died for US.
That contest is ended and it's re
suits can not be overturned. There
remains to those who survive from
the defeated party O. higher duty
than fell to those whom we have met
to-day to honor. In the heat Of bat
tie, amid the stirring notes Of war
the roar of artillery, the shrek Of
shot and shell, the whistle ofbullets
the rattle of drums and the call Of
bugles, few there are who can not
be reused to deeds of valor. But
when the flag we llonored and fought
for trails in the dust.and the sounds
of war are hushed, when the settled
convictions of a life time are over
thrown and trampled upon, and you
are at the mercy of the victors, then
it takes a man to appreciate and
rouse himself to act upon the duty
of the hour.
When disputes arise betWe man
and man, an appeal is made to the
courts, and by their decision both
must abide. We appealed to the
supreme arbitrament of aims. The
question has been decided against
us by the tribunal to which we
ourselves appealed, and he who will
not now abide the issue is a moral
coward This is the duty which !
wish to 1nculcate. That we should
submit cheerfully to the decision
against us. Cheerfully, l say, and
not as GROWERS. I have but little
respect for the man who, when he
has received trifing wound.makes
the air resound with his groans and
imprecations, as though be were al
; Deaths door. prefer. rather, tc
applaud the man who bears the an.
, gulsh ofsome fearful wound or pain
full operation with caltnness and res.
ignation, in silence
f 1t is no dishonpr to the Fed. "a
soldiers that they were al t.nts
driven back from the gallent lr,D,
. OF the Confederate soluirrs. Ii il
rather an honor that hnali,, til :,
5 trlulnphed over SO rtsolItt an ad
Versary.
/, | have often thougbt, tlist nritlie
side had sufficient regard for lie III
+ tegrity Of the otler,;tlli that i-,.tl>
J construed the action Of the of't
} with that CHARITY which they ought
IL was yident to all studying til,
, history of the country and consider
+. ing ifs condition that sooner o
later war must come. We i'll th