The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-08-20
GENERAL FITZ. LEES TRIBUPE.
Ho Says the North and South are Reunited
Forever.

Ho Says the North and South are Reunited
Forever.
The New York Herald says General
Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of General
Robert e. Lee, and the Democratic nom
inee for Governor of Virginia, was the
centra os attraction in the crowd of dis.
tinguished military men and civilians
who thronged the corridors of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel Sunday evening last. Ac.
cording to report in the Herald, Gene.
raj Lee said words would not answer him
to express his satisfaction at the warm
reception given him and his fellow
Southerners at the hands Of the North.
He said that when he was riding il the
funeral procession with General Gordon
ss an aide to General Hancock, he was
filed with emotion upon seeing picture
of General Grant, with the inscription
below: "Let them have their horses |,
they will need them for their crops"
"That line brought Appomattox back
TO me like come sad dream" said Gener.
al Lee. 1T was touching coincidence.
General Gordon and were the two re.
manning corps commanders of the three
who were with General Lee when Grant
gave utterance TO that magnanimous
sent. -nent. General Gordon saw the
inscription the same moment that did,
aud our eyes instinctively met as we rode
by. / didn't know what General Gordon
felt l. was ready to use my handkerchief.
You can't imagine what those words i'm.
piled. In the Confederate army every
man had to supply hio own horse, while
in the Union army everything was sup.
Dl;eti Dv tne government
'The demonstration of General Grants
funeral means that the Union Is now
more firmly aud inseparably united than
1t was twenty years before Buchanan's
administration. The war was the inevi.
table elimination of differences that had
to be settled by blood. Before the wal
there was always talk of breaking up the
Union and secession whenever any issue
was brought up for national arbitration,
aud the South would invariably threat.
en- secession If her whims were not
gratified. OF course Immediately after
the war wounds were fresh and there was
little show of any disposition for recon.
ciliation. But, Notwithstanding this fact,
q reconciliation would have been effected
had it not been for the policy of the.admin.
istration succeeding Mr.. Lincoln's. The
government then sent men down South
to rule us who were uuprincipled and
unfair, and the colored man was placed
in our Legislatures to make laws for us.
This was too eevere transformation, and
the South felt that she was being belittled.
It was putting the bottom rail of the
fence on top. The people got 80 they
didn't take any interest in the govern
ment nor the country. ANY insignifi-
cant little carpet.bagger would be sent
down there and boosted into Congress,
and our own men would be thrust inthe
shade. I am strong Democrat and talk
strong Democrat principles, and I'm
going to add that this was done for no
other purpose than to perpetuate the
Republican party.
''But now, God be praised, all that is
gone by. That was the work of politi-
clans, and the South has found out that
the people of the North-tho body of
the people, I mean-had no hand in it.
Old issues are eradicated in the South
now. The colored man is no longer re.
garded as an usurper, and he feels that
be will not be returned to slavery. We
don't want men to represent us who will
people have come to love the North for
th0 EAuuoJ 1tuISIudt GtcaLe
ment they have received since the war,
and they have been long;os ;or this
grand opportunity, which has at last been
afforded, to express their hearty good
will for the Union. No man has done
more, and neither has any circumstances
nor series of circumstances, to propitiate
the feelings Of the South and bring about
the grand millenion than General Grant.
The suferings of General Grant awaken.
ed the sympathy Of the whole South,
and the whole South is now glorying in
the treatment its old commanders are
receiving. Just think of it Here are
General Buckner and General Johnston
and General Gord,n and General Wade
Hampton and myself-all rebel leaders
being made the the lions of your city,
and We are all OVERLOOKING with gratitude
in return. We came here to make up,
There is no divided North and South
now. It Is. the Union forever. The
South feels that 1t is part of the coun.
try once more, and takes an interest In
the prosperity Of the whole undivided
land. The South Is already reyiving."
Whea asked what he thought of New
York az thu burial place of General
Grant, sigh escaped the lips Of General
Ice, and he answered tnat he was in fa.
vor Of Washington as The proper place,
where the old comrades of General Grant
could be buried around him. He added
that he understood General Sheridan and
General Sherman to be also in favor OF
the National Cemetery as the resting
place of the dead hero, and when asked
what he thought of the idea of placing
General Leo and General Grant together,
the dead Confederate Chieftain's nephew
smiled sadly, and said he had never
heard the suggestion before, and that he
wonld like to see so grand project car.
ried into effect. ~
"That would be reunion sure enough
wouldn't it?" said the General enthusi.
astlcally. "Bnt am afraid 1t would be
q matter too complicated to perfect, ow.
ing to the fact that the fnmilies Of both
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