New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-10
TIE Blue AND TIE GRAYIY UNISON.

MEETING AT COOPER UNION IN BEHALF OF
HOME FOR EX-coNFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
meeting was held In the hall of Copper
Union last evening the anniversary of the surrender
OF General Lee at Appomaox, TO further the movement.
for erecting at Richmond Va home for needy disabled
exContcderate soldiers The hall nearly filed,
number Of ladies being present The desk and the pillars
back of the stage were draped with the stars and stripes
over a bust of Washington Gilt horseshoe ana
beneath were the words in gilt " Blue and Gray Inc
band of the Rice Post, G. A. r., No. ~ sous OF
Veterans played martial airs during the evening.
Among those on the platform were General D.
oBeirue Corporal Tanner. Albion W. Towgee General
John B. Gordon. General Loring, General Lilly, Judge
Maekay OF South Carolina; W. Hancock Clark, ana Cap
tain Arthur Splitter, of Richmond. Va.
Corporal Tanner of Brooklyn. introduced by Cen
era OBeme as the chairman OF the meeting ana was en-
Enthusiastically cheered lie said:
This project ia in the spirit IN which General 1ra,
told Lee to take his horses home, as they woud De hceu
TO do the spring pou ching Let do something ior me
lose faith in humanity and the cOslmon doctrines OF
Christianity And here would say tna for4Sd IBID
to rest on when pensions were Gcisanueo i
Union soldiers. Let reach out the hand OF fmPaln
now that we have one country enc naI snI !
one destiny from Maine to. the Gulf lApplause'I
Major Quincy exCOnfcderate read number OF letters
Of regret the first being from General Grant saying thst
be would have been glad able TO be present to preside
and adding that be offered bis sympathy and financial
support Other letters and kilograms OF regret all ex-
pressing warm sympathy, read from General
Hancock. General Chrstensen General Samuel W CTaw-
ford General II. Bristow, c. p Huntington, Senator
Hawey General Roger A. Pryor, General o. b. WILCOX
and the Rev. T. De Witt TaimaGe.
Corporal Tanner then introduced General John
Gordon ex-senator from Georgia one who had oeeh
wounded five times at Antietam General GOnon Sao'
Asau exConfederate soldier who laid down his arms az
AppOmatOX greet You with profound pressure AitcT
nearly twenty years OF peace IcanSay thai te W
the closing times of the war showed not connlc'
of principles Of government but or construction;
The North resolved that this should be but one grand
republic. No army inspired Ivy such motives coulu ne
less than grand army. Both armies were patriOic;
both were republican. Devotion TO liberty ana me Pi-
cplcs OF the Constitution the fountain from "Ihcn
comrades even then in having the same purpose, when
will never die in American soul We need TO De com
rades In fact tonight we meet tonight 10 forward
movement 10 befrlcnd those who were valiant, tDonSn
vanqushed which will do more TO cement reunited
country than all political harangucs ana Platforms III
fins movement the eOoucncc OF the Northern soldiers
will reach the Southern soldiers sensibiles ApauSeJ
General George A. Sheridan said:
Wedid not see our flags 90 down in the whirwind OF
defeat And II is mighty mean man VINO VIII iehhhu
another of defeat except such an occasion as ms Al
that the South wants Is chance TO be trusted lhere Is
left down South. And II there shoud ever DC
a massachusetts anu Georgia 10 Hsit
side believe the sword OF my friend General Gordon
woud he among the first drawn Ill the deencc oil Ills
country
General Floyd King OF Louisiana, and Judge Albion '"
Tourgee also spoke.
The secretary announced that the boxes for the enter
tanmcnt at the Metropolitan opera House on April 80
would be auctlOned of at the ST. James ho'ci next
Tuesday evening.