Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-25
Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty:

The Confederate Veterans of Richmond
 Send Greeting to Admiral FOOte Post Of
 This City.
 Major William A. Lincoln, of Admiral Foote post of this city, has received the fol- lowing letter from John E. Lane, of Robert E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans of Major Lincoln stating that lecture was soon to be delivered in this city for the benefit of the Richmond camp.
 RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 20, 1884. William A. Lincoln, Esq Admiral Foote
 post G. A. R., New Haven, Conn.
 Dear Sir and Comrade-Your appreciated letter of the 3d inst. happened to be captured by one of our committee, who had it pub- lished in the Richmond Dispatch, but the original became mislaid and it is only to-day that 1t has been put in my possession, and l shall hasten to reply so that it will reach the post before the day of your proposed entertainment for the benefit of the fair fund of the Robert B. Lee camp No l, Confederate veterans, to assist them to take care of their crippled and in digent comrades, to establish Soldiers Home, etc. We are receiving quick and gen. erous responses from the G. A. k. and from the people throughout the length and breadth of our common country. Our ap- peal has struck the popular heart, and If this movement of reconciliation and brother ly love between the men who did the fighting on both sides in ''the inevitable conflict" is properly fostered and encouraged, it will do more to extinguish the last spark of sectional enmity than the eff forts of all the politicians, statesmen and demagogues in the land; and who abler, who more willing to do this heroic, sublime work than the G. A. R. and the 0. V. marching in solid phalanx, hand in hand, shoulder touching shoulder, hearts beating in unison for ''one country, one flag, one destlny?" So let us do away with this talk of north and south Let there be no north, no south, no east, no west; but one great and glorious United States, 8 nation embracing the future American continent" The ''boys in blue' and the "boys in gray" have now common country and common flag, and the latter challenge the former to give more steadfast allegiance to either than they do now and will continue to do so. Let there be no more harping of ancestry; the great and good men as 8 general thing sprang from the masses in the olden times the same as the yeomanry of the land bring forth to-day, with no blue blood to trace as pedigree; and thus it will ever be with true Americans Away with caste and ostr acism; let every man be the architect of his own fortune. The South is in earnest for their advancement in the line of progress and with the men who did the fighting in the rank and file of the Confederate army, saying to the men who dld the same in the Union army "Let us have peace," and with our children forevermore dwell together in fraternity, charity and loyalty. In consequence of the huge dimensions our fair has assumed (some- thing entirely unlocked for, and at the urgent request of friends in and out of the G. A. R. throughout the country from Maine to Texas from Oregon to Florida, in order that each and everyone may have an opportunity to contribute their mite, and to perfect our arrangements to make the fair 8 grand suc- cess-which we are now assured 1t will be- the committee have decided to postpone the opening until the 1st of May. The comrades of Lee camp. O. w., send greetings and extend the right hand of fellowship to our comrades of Admiral Foote post, G. A. R., and I say, and 50 say we all, that if ''you uns" either individually or collectively ever see proper to come Ion to Richmond" to drop into Veteran Hall, you will find the latch on the outside and on the inside Eve uns" ready and willing to bid you welcome to our camp fire. Fraternelly yours,
 JNo. B. LANE,
 O. M. and Sec'y Com. on Fair.
 The lecture referred to will be delivered this evening by Hon. Samuel F. Jones of Hartford, his subject being ''Mormonlsm and Mormons in Utah. The lecture will be illustrated by beautiful views. It mas been pronounced by the press as very entertain ing lecture and should be largely attended. The subject is a cheering one and it is cheering sign of the times when the "boys in blue' of the North so far forget the past as to fraternize and lend helping hand to the Rth0rc in oravp af tha Snuth