The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-05-16

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100. ,,,Ioviuv paragraph with regard Il
r.r.pt demonstrations:
co,~,,.smsn La!par's earnest appea 1ol
,,liorsl fraternity, which has been greeted
wi,b ,uch generally cordial approval from
-, ,o,thern press and people. tound sIngG
j.r response in one OF the speeches made Al
| the Harrisburg army rtunion on Non
dsy. General Wilcox, in addressing the
Ninth army corps, proposed that Long.
streets corps, which they had most
frequently engaged il battle, lie Ill
vted 10 join with them III EcXt year
celebration, aud tie suggestion was received
with applause. Ii such demonstration
could 10 made with sincerity anG genuine
feeling, and without yielding to the oppor-
tunity for political theatricalS when 1he
| working" statesman would be quick 10
see, il would be il most renarkaDle ara lh-
structive celebration OF the close OF the nrst
decade Of peacc. The spectacle OF the blue
and toe gray, side hy side under the old nag,
recounting tic stEieS n which one had lost
and tie other had won, would do more 10
dissolve the little bitterness that yet lies stag
nant Ia some hearts, and make universal am
nes.y reality, than thousand speeches.
We ind the following in the Pittsburgh
Dispatch:
If Union veterans co On inviting the sur
yiyors Of the Confederate army to meet them
at annual rtituipps, aud preparing to deco
rate the graves of dead southern soldiers
even q. they do those Of the North, how are
the politicians 20 fare for OratOrv through
next snd subsequent fall campaignss Fare.
well tic "reminiscences Of armed treason !"
and continued retel sentiment" in Dixie
that were wont to fire the populace. Still,
there is no need 10 be sorry for the change.
The war was well fought. and the North
won: so it truly becomes tie North not only
10 forgive, but 10 be the first TO put its for
giveness upon record, aud to extend the ira
ternal hand with even more than old-time
friendship across the chasm.
At an adjourned meeting Of the Union
soldiers of Baltimore, for the purpose Of
making arrangements to decorate the graves
,f Union soldiers OH the 30th Of May, held
On Thursday evening, the following pro-
,eedings occurred:
DR.. Theodore T. Lang. colonel of the
Sixth West Virginia cavalry, offered 4 reso.
luton that the president of the meeting al
point three or more gentlemen 10 commu-
nicate with the officers ''for the decoration
of the graves of the Confederate dead sol
diers," ard to earnestly and ieciingly solicit
their cooperation III paying tributes by de-
coratiug upon the same day. without dis
tinc.ion, the graves Of the gallant dead Union
and Confederate soldiers.
Colonel Lang said he was influenced to
offer the resolution from sense Of duty, Of
right, and Of justice TO both the living and
to the dead. The time has arrived, he said,
when sectional feeling should no longer eN-
list. 1t should be Il thing of the past-ncver
again to be referred to in malice or unchari-
tableneSs. Already the Two sections are
going hand in hand in every business aVoca-
ton of life and every political opinion. Then,
to put into practice the meaning and object
of the resolution, he held, would be the last
great growing proclamation of amnesty
upon both sides, that will end at once and
forever all hostile feelings that we will meet
each year as we should meet, free and I'M
divided American people, one and insepara-
bic, doing homage alike to the blue and to
the gray, who gave up their lives in pre-
serving the Constitution of our fathers as
each honestly interpreted that instrument
Then let us join hands in paying this solemn
but beautiful tribute to the fallen soldier
and let US rather seek TO vic with each Other
in the gracefulness and gentleness WITH
which We decorate alike the graves OF all.
There being only few persons present, th'
resolution was laid on the table for tn
present.