Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-12

ing together around the same camp hrcs and
marching side by side in the same ranks. un.
der two old battle stained, bulet.rddled ban.
ners that had once led their opposing forces!
You couldn't do it, ch2 Wei, You need not!
There was no draft for this muster. They
were all volunteers, and do you know, good
reader Of the blue or the gray have an
idea,hat ifyou live long enough, and are situated
where you can attend a meeting ior raising re-
cruits for this new service. you'll catch the
spirit and put down your name too.
They came from Iowa and from Louisiana,
from Kansas and from Texas, from Missouri
and from Arkansas, and mingled together in
camp life for three days, and closedthe reunion
to-day by visit to the battle ground. had
never conceived such scene. do not know
that history furnishes such parallel Here
are score Of officers from each side, with
hundreds Of privates, talking over the scenes
Of the battle on the very spot where they had
once been opposed in mortal combat That
little hill or tongue OF land jut,ing out into the
valley yonder, they all agree to call 'bloody
hill On its crest is rude heap of stones
which mark the place where Lyon fell, and
over which most OF the bloody work was done
Siegel'S furious Germans made their onslaught
from the hills in the rear, across the creek yon
der. And so they 60 on pointing out where
charge and retreat and onslaught were made,
and where comrades fell
Is it imagination, or are these men unwont.
eddy sober as they review these scenes and talk
together There seems no restraint upon them.
They are manly men, yet chasiened and sober
somehow. while the gray locks are creeping
over all their heads. II testimony and
observation can be trusted, no more orderly
body of men were ever brought together for
soldiers reunion. No clashing nor nharmo-
mics could be discovered in public or in private.
They studied only the things that make for
peace. All Eel, wha, one OF the speakers from
Arkansas said his people had learned, tina,
Zone stack OF corn OF cotton is worth more
than a thousand sabres or stands of arms"
One evening was given up to speech. making
at the unveiiing OF the monument just erected
by the citizens Of Springfield in the centre of
the public squares, TO the memory Of General
| Lyon. Speeches were made by Unionists
and ex-Coniederates in turn, and from both
parties funds had been contributed for its
erection
Neither were their dead comrades in the two
cemeteries yonder forgotten. 1t was touch.
ing thing to see those great stalwar men from
| he ria n haa IctA
for the names of those they had known; and
when they found them they placed flag to
wave over each; then turned their feet with
respectful mien and thoughtful interest, to visit
the graves OF their fallen foes.
On the battlefield to-day meeting was call
ed and a temporary organization Of the "Sur-
viving Soldiers Union League was effected
by the election of officers. The objects of the
organization, as stated, are ''to cultivate ia
ternity, strengthen union, promote peace, and
secure prosperity And who shall forbid the
bans?
Preacher-like, | cannot we'll close this dis
course without some practical reflections:
1. Let no one say toohasiily that they could
| ''c' NhS"SS NJ suSh SeSiSS. Lying nun
comes; and fving grace, for special crcum-
stances surround ones life.
>. The soldiers are ahead Of the preachers
in this manner Of fraternity. They 1.-THE preach
ers) have barely touched 6nger-tips "across the
bloody chasm,' while the soldiers have spun
yarns about the same campfire, and drank out
OF the same canteen. As there is something OF
the soldiers and the preacher both in me,
can do either, and have done both
3. We soldiers have never passed that little
resolution, "While receding from no principle,
we do hereby declare our regre, for, and with
drawal Of &C.; and we think we have gotten
along quite as well without it as the preachers
have with it. Really now did that little piece
Of diplomatic regretfulncss do any one much
good, or bring any one so very much nearer 10
any one else1 Take our word for it, il YOU
preachers, North and South, ever get any near.
er to each other, il will not be by the force OF
any resolutions concereing the pas, which you
may have adopted, or ever will adopt; but it
Will be by the power Of convictions concerning
the common work God has Tor you to do in the
presen, and in the future. - Dong1ay r. Pr
nam IN Metc York Eoanselin.