New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11
THE Blue And GRAY.
Re Union Of the Unionists and Confederates It
Gettysburg. and Some Frafernal War Talk

scene of a different sort of gathering from the
one assembled there just twenty-five years
ago. Itswassa re-union of the survivors of
the battle, in which the men of bothsides par
ticipated-
In the evening, dress parade in the pres
ence of 10 900 people was followed by a sa-
cred coneertby the Frankfordband Reynolds
grove was a throng of humanity for an hour
before the memorial exercises of the LIST army
corps were called to order. During the gath.
ering ofthe audience, Gen. Longstreet was
escorted to the stand and hundreds Of veter-
ans of the blue shook hands with him Gov.
Beaver and his staff and a number of corr
federate survivors occupied seats. Gems.
Beaver and Iongstfeet were received with
cheer Gen. o. P. Halstead, president of the
First Army Corps Association, opened the
exercises and introduced Bishop Newman of
Washington, who, III fervid Invocation,
gave thanks for the bravery and heroism dis
played here in the maintenance of eonstitu-
tional liberty
Gov. Beaver was enthusiastically received,
especially by the veterans. Gen John G.
Robinson, orator of the occasion, thanked
Gov. Beaver for his cordial welcome ex-
tended the first army corps veterans and
complmented the Keystone state on her
constant and substantial testimonials of APP
probation of the soldiers He considered
this a great day for the first army corps to
meet after quarter of century on the field
made historic by their yalor, and asserted
with emphasis that not half has been told of
the deeds OF this command in this, one of the
most important engagements during the en-
tire battle: giving full credit to what others
had done here, he thought it should be re
mem bered that here the first corps held in
check for six hours two-thirds of the confed-
crate army.
George Frederick Smith, the war governor
OF New Hampshire, on being introduced
counted it one of the most important events
OF his life to be present, and after brief re-
marks closed with the expression that he
should never cease to hold in highest regard
the men who had done this great country
such service as was displayed on this spot.
The confederate general James Iongstreet,
was next introduced, and received hearty
cheers. He said he was not on the field in
time to witness the engagement between the
LIST corps and the troops of the South was
glad to be present and participate in these
exercises, for he saw in them the development
of a sympathy such as was born in the
hearts fall who know howto appreciate that
feel1ng. and thought none knew better how to
manifest these feelings than the troops of the
LIST corps.
After speaking of the advantages of the
federal position he said that here the south
ern army met it's fate, but not for want of
valor he said: 'Picket's charge has not a
parallel in the annals of war, and touching
~ abiding to the dead said, .ssuch is the
same service sometimes demanded by the
usages of war, = glancing toward Round Top.
lyon GROWING heights are now far more
pleasantfor fraternal meetings. In closing
he said: 1.-THE ladies are present, God
bless them, and may they dispel all al
lusions that may come between the people,
The band played Dixie before Long
streets speech, and yankee Doodle" after
which Gen. Fairchild was introduced and
started out with the sentence ssTwenty-fye
years have made it possible to sandwich a
confederate and yankee between Dixie and
Yankee Dood1e'''
He did not know better object lesson for
the young than these fraternal gatherings of
those two once hostile armies. He agreed
with Gov. Beavers opening remarks concern
ing the use of the Sabbath for this purpose,
and thought no day too holy to visit these
scenes and hold memorial services over the
dead. In times of war it was not too holy to
fight on Sunday, and with proper motives in.
the heart this was not too holy a day to pay
well-merited tribute to the dead.
Prof Williams, of Providence, r. l., Prof
Estine, historian of the first corps, and sever
al Others spoke briefly.
SECOND DAY OF THE GETTYSBURG REUNION. &
There was a strange similarity between this
day (the 3rd of July) and that of twenty-five
years ago Then the armies of Meade and
Lee confronted each other. So to-day the
federals and confederates were once more on
field and again was the one on Seminary Ridge
and the other on Cemetery Hill. Nothing
unusual occurred to break the monotony I'M
til the Unions and Confedrates met once more
at almost the same hour at which they had
joined in deadly com bat twenty-f years ago.
The signal corps association of the Army of
the Potomac. Determined to erect an impos-
ing tablet on Little Round Top com
<,f a
branch of the army in the battle,
At the conclusion of the parade Rev. Twitch-
ell of Hartford, Conn, opened the exercises
with prayer. Gen. Robinson of New York
presided The poet of the occasion, George
Parsons Lathrop, was unable to be present,
but part of his poem was read by Gen. Hora-
ito c. King, secretary of the Society of the
Army Of the Potomac When the orator,
George William Curtis, was presented he was
greeted with hearty applause. Mr.. Curtis
spoke as follows:
On this field we consecrate ourselves to
American union. In this hallowed ground
lie buried not only brave soldiers of the blue
and gray, but the passions of war, the jeal-
ousies of sections and the bitter root of all
our national differences-human slavery. As
the fate of Christendom was determined at
Tours, that of American independence at
Saratoga, and that of modern Europe at
Waterloo, the destiny of the American union
was decided at Gettysburg. Fellow Ameri-
cans, in telling any part of the story Of
America we seem to boast. The simple
statement of the truth sounds like q fairy
tale. What other civilized state stretches
from ocean to ocean with such unchalIenged
continental dominion, with such a varied
realm of natural grandeur and beauty, with
SO vast a population, SO free, so intelligent,
SO Industrious, SO contented? Not easily nor
rapidly can the passions sprung from bitter
local differences and cherished and strength
ened for a generation disappear. Often in
hot and reckless protestation those dying
emotions will break forth like the distant
muttering thunder of a retiring storm. But
the central factis bright as a fixed star. The
line across the Union drawn by the flaming.
sword ofhostile, social and Industrial insti-
buttons and irreconcilable theories of the
nature and power of the government itself
this latent revolution and nascent civil
war have disappeared forever At the end
of 100 years the Union is the sacred seamless
garment of equal rights, of harmonious in
situations, of accordant views of the govern
ment, in which &C, 100000 of people in thirty
eight states are harm oniously arrayed. The
suffrage is the handspring, the heart of our
common life, and whatever affects Injurious
~ touches the national sensorium and the
whole country thrills. No community politi-
cally founded upon the legal equality of the