The National tribune., 1884-04-17
Private, Company 1, Sd Wis. Cav
REEDsBURG, WIS.
FOES NO LONGER.
Mass Meeting in Aid OF the Confederate Veterans
Homo.

Eeme.
Fifteen hundred persons attended the mass
meeting held at the Cooper URion New York,
on the 9Th inst, in aid of the movement to es-
tablish a Home for Confederate veterans at
Richmond, Va.
Colonel James r. Obeirne called the assem-
blage to order, and named the well-known vet
Gran, Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn, as chair
man, " in the forced absence of our great cap
tain, General Grant,
Corporal Tanner, who had both legs shot
away in battle and walks on two wooden legs,
came forward amid cheers and began his OPEN
ing address by saying that he was with the
movement, with his heart and soul, and from.
the crown OF his head as far down as he went"
He did not forget General Grants words to
General Lee at Appomattox, when he said TO
the great Confederate general to tell his men
to take their horses home as they would need
them for spring blowing and then distributed
100000 rations among the defeated army.
Grant in this epitomized the feeling of every
man who is willing to give credit to those who
have stood the hard knocks of the battlefield
in cause they believed to be just.
Corporal Tanner went on: Il have thought
the thing over and see that those of the other
side have not the same pictures to look back
upon that we have. The great majority of
them went out to fight for what they thought
was right, just as we went out to fight for what
we knew to be right. | know that the old Bit
terness is dying out. IF we are men we will
see to it that the sufferers who differed with us
viii find out that humanity still lives. EAp-
plause.I France gathers up in bonor tie re-
mains Of its great men, whether aney fought
for kingdom, empire or republic. We are
bound 10 take up this thing and carry it to
successful end. [Applausel We can do it and
We will IGreat applause.
The speaker told how it was frequently his
sions for our soldiers, and how the Southern
members of Congress without exception, were
always to be relied on for their support of such
relief measures for their old enemies. He said
that the building of this asylum would be an
other bond between the North and the South
Mr. Tanner told an anecdote of little son of
his and the child-dautshter of an ex- Conieder-
ate who lived next door to him. One summer
evening he and his friend were sitting on his
front porch when the little ones had taken up
position on the picket fence" in front.
Presently kiss passed between the two young
sters. john said the corporal to his neigh
Dor, Il guess the Union viii be all right in the
next generation LLead laughter and APP
plause.l
Speeches were also made by the Confederate
General John b. Gordon, and General George
4. Sheridan. The latter said: II sometimes
think it well to remember that when war is
over it is done. We sent out brigade, division,
and regiment rs fast as ne could, and the South
did only the same thing as well as they could
lianghterl, and l thank God they didn't keep
it up much longer. Laughter | know had
enough of 1t several Zines. Il I4a.;ghtsY1 We
fought and they fit, We won aud they didn't
and it is a mighty mean man that will remind
them of it--e1cept under some circumstances
laughter
A dispatch was read stating that Florida had
subscribed 81 200 To the fund