The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-03

HtVv W oAo cltiSS OI HIS enemies, ana the
exultat.on of another cluss, who will
speak against the Indications Of his own
heart.
DECORATION DAx--BunYlSG THE
HATcHET. In his oration mt Louisville,
KY, OH the 29th, Secretary Bristow said !:
The two grand results of the war, which
moro than compensate the country for
all its sad berenvements and vast ex-
pendltureS, and waste of moncy and
property, are the extinction of slavery
and the recognized indissolubility of
our national union. The time is not far
distant when these will be accepted as
blessings by the people of every section.
The men of the South will sooner or
Inter admit that success in what they
undertook would have been a pricyolis
misfortune, even to themselves What
they may think of their action in the
past Is OF little moment, so far as it can
affect the present and future interests Of
the country. What we have right to
expect and insist upon is practical
loyalty, In the future, to the country.
and cheerful ubcdiencr to its Constit;:-
tion and laws. Mere historical and
sentimental loyalty is Of far less consc-
quencc; we ask no sacrifice of conviction,
no humiliation. While we must differ
from those who sought to dissolve tho
Union, md look from different stand
pont upon the history Of the struggle
that ensued, we may concelc to them
the right to hold such opinions rs they
like in respect to the past, and claim
from them only IL cheerful and hearty
loyalty to the present.
The day WAS the most memorable in
n CT II
Confcderatcs, whites and blacks, united
in a joint decoration of the fallen dead
on both sides. There were mt least !, 900
persons in the procession, which moved
from the State House at o o'clock to Oak
land Cemetery, where sleep the dead sol
diers OF both armies sido by side. The
State departments, County and CITY
offices and stores We're nll closed The
speakers stand at the grounds was
erected half on tho Federal and half on
the Confederate side, rock wall only
dividing tho two cemeteries. Hon. IL
G. Caldwell, United States District
Judge, presided. Addresses were deli
vered by General Edgcrton. on the part
of the Fedcrals, and by Mnjor Geo. A.
Gallagher, on the Confederate side. An
original poem, by Mrs. S. II. Allen, was
read, after which the graves were strewn
with flowers. a hatchet, carried by nm
e1-Confedernte, wnS buried on the Fcde-
raj ground, with some ceremony. After
the exercises were through with at this
cemetery, the procession reformed and
moved to st. Holly Cemetery, where are
about 500 Confederntcs buried. After
decorating their graves, Federal buried
q hatchet there also. Everybody united
IN the ceremOnies-hi9h and low, white
and colored, Federals and Confederntes.
Democrats and Republicans Ithas been
holiday throughout the city.
General Forrest, in note to TIE COM
mittee at Memphis in charge of the cerc-
monies ut the National Cemetery, nc
cepting their invitation to participate,
says: II appreciate and am in full SYM
pathy with the spirit Of manly friend
ship and reconciliation which has
prompted the recent interchange of so
many soldierly courtesies among those
who, with equal courage met often MS
foemen upon the field of battle, and sim
cerely trust tina: the time is not far in thu
future when the soldiers of the late war
will cease to remember the angry pas
slons engcndered by the bloody strug-
gle. Between those who were true to
their colors during the late war there
car be no hate or bitterness. Since NIL
nave no" ono nag ana one country, there
ought to be no estrnnSencnt or sec
tional antagonism. General Pillow, in
response to n similar invitation i'll behalf
OF the Mexican veterans, returns cor
dial acceptance.
COLD STEAM. IA Philalclphinn has in
vented a new motor. Bv a mechanical
contrivancc, he claims that he can change
Mnter from nm unnlns nstin Huil inf, -,