The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-29
ADDRESS or COZ. W. N. LUsE.


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COMRADES: We have met to-day Tor the
first time since more than fifteen years have
passed.
Not since we were chief actors in historic
scenes have we responded to the same call,
and come together to exchange greetings
and Tool each Others faces, some sadly
Rnged, and alasi how many missing.
We meet too, my comrades, let us hope,
/ near the end Of the most momentous era
that has been crowded into the same brief
period in the history Of any modern people.
Occupying al we do, a peculiar and some
What distinctive position amid the great
/ rushing scenes of this brief startling histo-
Il - 4 know Of nothing Elllsla ekuid more
\ sssssass4'ss~sss ssaahf aoff snougHs Essasg xIHs
Aties which dcyolve on us as vAtefan sur
viyors Of our great revolution. 1t seems
Tpeculiariy iit for an occasion like this when
after years Of weary toll and manly forth
tude, we have come together to commcmo-
rate our cause and our fallen comrades.
II Il probably the first duty Of the suryi-
v0r Of 4 revolution, after calm and intel |
| ligent retrospect of his late struggle, to |
consider It's causes, conduct and cOnse- |
queuees, that he may ut least yindicate /
his rectltude, even where he has no yicto- /
~ 70 celeDrate, or conquest toutillze. And
just here let INC observe, that whatever
thoughts may be presented in the consider
alton Of our great struggle, should not be L
taken in any present, restricted, political
sense; the occasion is one which should be
kept sacred from political preferences and
partisan differences; nor would do injue-
tice, III word or sentiment, 10 tile brave
men who met us on many weil-fought
field, believing as they did, their country
called them 10 duty there.
While the abIeEt OF American statesmen
have ardently discussed the state and fed
eral relations Of this great republic. and III
while that discussion embraced the whole
cause Of our late war, and eliminated IN I
such great disasters TO our e0untry and to
US, there il much OF truth, calunny and Z
yet to be eliminated from the q
history Of our cause, and much TO show {
that there was neither crime nor treacherv | /
In the part performed By us in manly. re- r
sistenee % what we believed intolerably +
wrong.
There Is also much 10 be.said, and much /,
70 be done BY us in restraining wfldpassion Il
where truth and reason should prevail, SO b
that reconciliation, Ike a Rrent moving a
Ipirif may aid us IN reorganizing the shat v
erred clements Of government aud society; 81
10 The reflections brought forward BY this Il
occasion, are 70 be considered from the z
Standpoint Of 1861, and not In any present y
POLITICAL sense. "
Superficial observers and powerful usurp- ! "
b, both civil and military, IL IL true, have
concluded that inaemuch 81 the war nnd al e
& cDnsequcnoeas grew cut Of an effort on a
ar part 10 sever cur connection with the Of
edsral government, and, inaamuth a. we th
we're defeated, that we are forever siicnced ca
I'D without an argument 70 xindfcafe oar 50
solitude. But sach people must not con- -
stEnd the end with tle means; they must NJ
s4lcmber there Is vast difference be-
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fprestfEin8 IL; and We may yet see them 81
thAt just appreciation Of union. or
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