The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-18
shoro may be "ins pigs eye" 20 mike som"
others eco diiIerontly,we know not, yot, ne,sr-
thcles', some o!hors, IL appears, do sec II die
ferently,
anLnrans, REUNION.
ferontly.

Oh eAHeple k'hNlhiDa W Oiu cOurdues
who, nearly ,wsaiJ years ago, met and
lsbored IN c1u'e that they believed 1t
their sacred da,y to care for and defend
with even tbtir lies blood. Throughout the
day there seemed to be the utmost enjoyment
and thus far Dallas has abundant cause to
congratulate herself at the presence Of these
soldiers of former day now in our midst.
During the period of war and in the camp is
the time and the place 70 find out human
nature as 1t is. Then and there men throw
off their DISCUSSES and appear justr as they
are. There amidst tho danger and privatiop,
the true inwardness of the man
crops out. If there be any irritabieness of
temper, any uglineas of disposition, any de-
feet of character, it is sure to crop out on
the battle ground and the tented field. If,
on the other hand, there be those virtues
that sdorn humanity, they, too, shine cut in
clear cut conspicuousness. Hence it is that
friendships formed under these circum-
stances are friendships of character
that have their origin in
congeniality of nature. Similar sufsrings in
critical periods, similar successes under ex-
trsordinary auspices, bind together men.by
hooks of STEEL In years of terrible war with
all that that implies, there are so many inci-
dents of ones life that loom up in the genera
plano like promontories near the surging sea,
that they become indellibiy fixed in
the minds and hearts of all particle
pants. Therefore it is that the re.
union Of old comrades like these that meet
here now are especially enjoyable. There
have been objections urged against them,
and recent article in western paper as
serted that they only tended to keep alive
the spirit of rebellion and discomfort when
every policy ofprudence urged that itshould
be suppressed. This is not true and is only
a narrow minded and sectional =. view.
The reverse is the case. The
Grand Army of the Republic and its kins
bred organizations produce no such effect,
we spprehend, upon the northern mind as
hostility toward the southern people. It is
even go with our conyivial associations that
meet every once in while in frsternal
spirit. Those entitled TO membership are
nearly all long since past the military age;
they did their service in their time; they
were nearly oil farmera or merchants,
or engaged in other peaceful oc-
equations, and enlisted under the
war banners not to "seek the bauble |
reputation at the lannon's mouth" but be-
cause their country called upon them to insist
upon principle it believed entirely right.
Not one in thousand but would not weep
to see another war; the visions Of the dead
and dying, of the wholesale carnage and
slaughter that battle brings, the
scenes of thickly
populated graveyards all ridged with
mounds COMMUNICATING the merits of the
loving and the true, are all too vivid to make
The alarm note of war welcome sound. Be-
rides this, 1t has long ago come to be cue.
omary for northern soldiers to invite their
southern brethren, and vice versa, to all
heir gatherings. On Memorial Day, the an
liversary of some event, when aged men and
women, devoted sisters and mindful brothers
md desolated widows 60 to the cemeteries 10
plant forget-me-nOts on the silent tomb
tones beneath whose psllid shape
ome hero lies buried, 1t is source of salts
action to see those iwho wors the grey and
hose who wore the blue commingling their
,rief and their woe. Soldiers all they were,
linking differently, fighting alike; antsg-
'nists once on the bloody plains, friends
low in the civic pursuits of life.
surely such flowers of determination as these
an spring from no poisoned root. Such /,
doris of affection can proceed from no deadly
'etals, and be who deems II otherwise is
imself fit only for tressons. stratagems and
polls. That some irasciole temperament,
ONE unforgiving nature or ssme crszed pol.
'ician may do or say some things that fail
, bear out these things, 10 doubtless true.
this instance as in mosi others through
fe, yet they are exceptions. not the rule, the
islarial spots in rich region, not iadica. !,
We of the region itself. We feel assured
nat the common sense Of the country un-
ers.snds and estimates these reunions in
ist this manner and by this standard. The
onstant inter-communicatioa and rapidly
rowing and extending trade re-
ltions that are bringing together
be citizens OF all these states are !,
ne muscles and bones and the flesh Of the !,
hole body polite that nothing can over )
over. Yes, LET The reunions come, The !,
ftener and the more Becsionslly mixed the
sitter. Nay, fear them not, not even half :
much as the pleasing reunions between
Is Briton and the American. There Ia no
gnihcsnce to them save that which breslhes =
% spirit Of genuine convivisliiy and philaD-
ropy and common patriotism. Il
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