Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-12
TnE BLuE AND eRAf.
Re-Unicn Of the Unionists and Confederatss al
Gettysburg, and Some Frafernal War Talk.

'euysbuTg, ana some krafernsl War Talk.
Gettysburg was on Sunday the list. the
scene of different sort of gathering from the
one assembled there just twenty FIVE years
ago. 1t was reunion of the survivors OF
the battle, in which the men ofboth sides par.
ticipated.
In the evening, dress parade in the pres,
cnee of 1000 people was followed BY Il sa
cred concertby the Frankfort band Reynolds
grove was u throng of humanity for an houl
before the memorial exercises of the LIST army
corps were called 60 order. During the gath.
erng of the audience, Gen, Longstreet was
escorted TO the stand, and hundreds of veteF.
ans oil the blue shook hands with him Gov
Beaver and his staff and number of con.
| iederate survivors occupied seats. Gems.
BeHNer and Longstreet were received with
cheer. Gen. II. p. Halstead president of the
First Army Corps Association, opened the
exercises and introduced Bishop Newman OF
Washington, xbo, in fervid invoeation
gave thanks for the bravery and Ieroism 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 OK
tended the first army corps veterans and
eomplimented the keystone state on her
constant and substantial testimonials of ap-
probation of the soldiers He considered
this great dayton the first army corps 70
meet after a quarter of a 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 tkis, 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-
membeFnd that here the first corps held in
eneck for six hours two-thirtls of the eonfed-
crate army
George Frederick Smith, the war governor
ftf
counted il 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 az was displayed ON this spot,
The confederate general, James Bongstreet,
was next introduced, and received hearty
cheers. He said he was not on the field in
time to witness the engagement between tho
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 sympathy such as was born in the
hearts ofall who know how to appreciate That
ieellngand 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 its fate, but not for want of
valor he said: "Picket's charge has not a
parallel In the annals of war; and touching
~ alluding to the dead said ..such is the
same service sometimes demanded by the
usages of war; CHANGING toward Round Top,
lyon browning heights are now far more
pleasant for frnternal meetings." In closing
he said: 'sThr ladies are present. God
bless them, and may they dspel all al
iusions that may come between the people"
The band played Dixie" before Long
streets Speech and Yankee Doodle after
which Gen. Fairchild was introduced and
A..
years have made II possible TO sandwich
confederate and a yankee between Dixie and
Yankee Doodle ~
He did not know q better object Ipsson for
the young than these fraternal gatherings OF
those two once hostile armies. He agreed
with Gov. Beavers opening remarks concern
ing he 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 n day to pay
weil-merited tribute to the dead.
Prof Williams, of Providence, X. l., Prof
Estine, historian of the first corps and sever
al Others spoke briefly
SECOND DAY OF THE GErTysBuRG REUNION.
There was a strange similarity between this
day tthe Bird of july and that of twenty-five
years ago. Then the armies of Meade aud
Lee confronted each other, So to-day the
federals and confederates were once more on
field and again was the ono on Seminary Ridge
and the other on Cemetery Hill Nothing
unusual occurred to break the monotony un-
I'll the Unions and Gonfedrates met once more
at almost the same hour at which they had
joined in deadlv combat twenty " five years ago.
The signal corps association of the Army OF
the Potomac. Determined to erect an impos-
ing tablet on Little Round Top com
memorative of the work done by this
brunch Of the army in the battle
. al F4t
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 he present,
but part of his poem was read by Gen. Hora-
ito &. 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 halowed 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
wps 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 a fairy
tale. What other civilized stat stretches
from ocean To ocean with such unehallenged
continental dominion, with such a. varied
realm of natural grandeur aud beauty, with
so vast n population, so free, so intelligent,
so industrious, so eoHtented? Not easily nor
rapidly can the passions sprung from bitter
local differences and cherished and strength
ened for generation disappear. Often in
hot and reckless protestation those dying
a., 4,
muttering thunder of o retiring storm. But
the central fact is bright as fixed star. The
line across the Union drawn by the flaming
sword of hostile. social and industrial insti-
tutions and irreconcilable theories of the
nature aud power of the government itself
this latent revolution and naseent civil
war have disappeared forever. At the end
of 100 years the Union is the sacred seamless
garment # equal rights, of harmonious in
stitutions, of aceordant views of the govern
ment, in which 60, 900, 900 of people in thirty
eight states are tremendously arrayed. The
suffrage is the handspring, the heart of our
common life, and whatever affects il injurious
~ touches the national sensorium and the
whole country thrills. No community polit
cally founded upon the legal equality of the
suffrage can habitually disregard that
equality without moral deterioration, grow
ing indifference to the authority of the law,
and destruction of
THE Observation-Disclosures PRINCIPLE,
lfignorance and semi-barbarous dominance
be fatal to civilized communities, not less so
is constant and deliberate defiance of law.
In a national union of states, where fair cleo
tons are assumed. systematic fraud or vio-
lence or oppression Of votes, in the event of
closely contested poll would inevitably de-
stroy the conviction that the apparent re-
suit would be challenged amid disorder. 1t
is not enough that a national election he
fair; it must be the national conviction that
r. e Al. q
commonwealth cannot reach across the Po-
tomac aid impose their will respecting the
suffrage upon the mother of states. nor ran
the States of New England dictate legislation
to the states of the Northwest. But the Fir-
ginian knows that the Pennsylvanian is Wit
ally interested in his action. Iowa and Wis
consin know that Maine and Rhode Island
have q common stake in such local laws and
as Washington and Pinckney. Jefferson and
Madison and Martin took counsel with Alex
ander Hamilton and DR.. Franklin and
Rufus and Roger sherman, bent upon
o common purpose, but with due re-
gard to every local condition, so
will their sons confer fraternally forbcaring,
until the great problem of the suffrage and
all other problems are solved. Can we wrest
from the angel of this hour any blessing SO
priceless asIhe common resolution that we
shah not hbye come to the consecrated spot |
only to declare our joy and gratitude nor
only to cherish proud and tender memories,
but also to pledge ourselves to union in lie
sublimest significance? Here at last is its
sacred secret revealed II lies in the patriotic
instinct which has brought to this field the
Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of
the Potomac. Ii lies in the manly emotion
with which the generous soldier sees only the
sincerity and courage of his ancient foe, and
scorns succession of q lingering enmity. IL
lies in the perfect freedom of speech and per !
feet fraternity of spirit which now for three
days have glowed in these heroic peris and
echoed in this enchanted air.
Mrs. S. N. Brooks, mother of Hugh NJ |
Brooks alias Maxwell the ehloroformer of |
T. Arthur prelter and har daughter Annie |