The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-17

comes my
Sin blue, and assufod
welcome was not mere
Ng words for lac spoke tile
~ every Confederate present
1--WE give you q most cordial and
~ welcome to The festivities and ming
Mg of feelings aud hearts during thls
grand reunion. The time was, slrs when
we, amidst the thunder OF arlil-
lery, the roar and the cissh
of steel, we greeted you with
"bloody hands, but to-day, sirs,. we greet
you as brothers, and as such receive you 10
our hearts. In the days OF battle we did ~
we do to-day, give you credit for, your gar
lantry as soldiers on the battlefield. You
were then fighting, Us you honestly be.
lieved, to preserve the mission OF TINS great
nation, and we know you give. us credit Tor
the same. While your armies with their
overpowering numbers pressed their
way TO the great centers OF our loved
south, laying our country WASTE,
and with the resources OF the clVliizeu
world TO draw upon for men and supplies
our condition was very different
our ports were blockaded, our home indus
tries destroyed and no treasury to BACK us
The sufIerings and hardships OF our sold
| iers can never be told. ] have seen more
than five hundred in one day with bare
feet and pants worn off above the ankles
splitting snow, ice and mud, while they
with our whole army. were without loou
and this, sirs, waD endured without grumo
| ling. :,
Our brave Confederates heroically dispu-
ted every inch OF ground and did not lay
down their arms until oar loved south (the
most beautiful country on which the sun
| shines was laid waste, our homes III ashes
and more than 800 900 Of our gallant com
rades mad gone down in death. such gal
lantry and heroic endurance has not only
won your esteem, but that OF the civilized
world -,
You ,.ght to preserve the Union. We
| fought to defend our homes from destruc
ton and our wives and children from sui
fering and disgrace and to save oul
beloved south. Your armies were backed
by the treasury Of the United States
| have known the members of this gallant
old brigade on hard march for seven day
without food, except handful OF parcheo
corn to each man.
| CAPTAIN Veal paid high compliment t(
the noble and heroic woNen OF the south
who, with their own hands, spun tint
thread, made the cloth and then cut ant
made clothes for bur suffering soldiers
| nd who acted as angels o
mercy in the hospitals of the
sick and wounded.
He then thanked God that the black nigh
of war was passed; that the prayers o.
Westling Jacobs had been heare, The an
ger of IIsau was turned away" ana thai
Il ey could meet and greet each other u!
rethren, and that from the gulf OF Mexico
| to the northern lakes, and from the stormy
Atlantic to the laughing waters o
the Pacific, the bright sunlight
of glorious peace now crown!
every hilltop, illuminates, every
valley, penetrates every household, ant
causes every true American heart to pea
with low. Captain Veal in speaking of th,
results of the war, said for twenty. year.
before the war there was jealousy, hatreC
and luminosity existing between the NORTH
and the south, and that the war, like tn!
thunder storm, had purified our political
atmosphere and while the great loss o.
money and property, and the greatest
| of all losses-the vast rivers Of
| blood which had been shed-was
was most deeply deplored, yet it has proved
a great blessing to the south and 10 the
whole country, One of the greatest bless
| ings bestowed on the southern white popu'
lation ito say nothing of the blacks) was
| the emancipation of the slaves, as we are
far better off without them. 1t has been
great blessing to our entire country, as
sectional jealousy and hatred has passed
away, and from east to west and from north
to south we are to-day united people
cemented together by blood so strongly
that designing politicians can never again
tear us asunder. To-day, sirs, we stand be-
| fore the world as the strongest and greatest
nation of the earth; and The united nShl
we now have to make is against monopo
| lies and oppression, and to defend and
maintain the constitutional liberties OF a
fir sc government, purchased Tor US py the
blood of our forelathers. Again, fellow
soldiers of the late Union army
We extend to you our hand OF friendship
and heartfelt welcome TO the festivities
of this grand reunion.
E,O. Mcintyre, formerly of 10th New
| York cavalry, bat now of Delaware, ONO
Major Wylie, of Dallas, but formerly of the
Union army, made stirring speeches..
| SECOND DAY.
The association was called to order at II
a, m, by President Veal. Alvarado was
selected as the place for the next reunion
| to be held on tie first Wednesday ana
| Thursday in August, 1883.
An election of ofiicers for the ensuing yeai
was held, which resulted as follows W., u
Veal, of Dallas, president; Captain Wheeler
of Corsicana; Lieutenant (Judge) Joe AID,
bott, OF Hillsboro, Lieutenant Ben Barnes, ol
Alysrado; Captain 7. Ball, OF Plano; Judge
IL. Hardy, OF Bryan; Captain w. w. Pevy,
of Waxahacbie, vice presidents; w. Nj. q.
Hill. of Dallas, treasurer Major a; M
Deckman, OF Waxahachie, secretary. Reso
buttons were then passed, among which was
a general invitation 10 all ex.Confederates
and all ex- Union soldiers to be present at
the next NEE ling.
The memorial services held were very i'm
pressiye, and there was hardly drJ eye on
the grounds, as the songs in which several
hundred voices were united, re-echoed
throughout the woodland
ihey sang Sweet By-and-By," my
DAVIS arc Gliding Swiftly by" "Pisgah, F"
"Snall We Gather at the River" Gather
ing Home" etc.
CAPTAIN W. Il. Veal delivered e poem,
The Army Of the Dead. his own compo-
siton, which was received with the heartiest
applause. The benedictiOn was pronounced
and the meeting dispersed.