Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
The Blue AND TIE, CRAY.
Those Who Once Wore Them Seeking to
BE Friends But Republican Politicians
Would Prevent 1T If They Could


Those Who Once Wore Them Seeking to
BE Friends But Republican Politicians
Would Prevent 1t If They Could.
That the "bloody shirt 1" is by no means
discarded by Republican leaders is demon
strated by the avidity with which they seize
every opportunity of displaying it, The
orators and the organs periodically break
out in TRADE against the South and seek
to rekindle the passions Of sectionalism
Blaine, Sherman, Chandler, Foraker and a
host of lesser imitators have exerted all the
powers Of their elOquence in disseminating
ISLANDERS against the South At the same
time, says the Albany ATglss, the men who
bore the brunt of the fighting on either side
during the war are equally active in seizing
upon every opportunity TO display their
friendship for each other. The numerous
meetings which have taken place between
the survivors of the great armies led by
Grant and Lee, have testified TO the genuine
ness of the united and fraternai feelings
that bind the North and South together, and
have served as severe rebukes to the dis
union sentiments that sway the bloody
shirt" orators and organs. As this dis
union spirit may be expected TO exercise no
little influence in Republican circles during
the approaching campaign, it is matter Of
which will go far towards entirely crushing
it.
The reunion of the army of the Potomac
and the army of Northern Virginia on the
field of Gettysburg on the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the famous battle in July next
will be such 4 spectacle of fraternity and
goodwill between the sections as must ST.
lence even tho political ghouls who prowl
among the graves of the honored dead in
quest Of political capital Generals King
and Sharpe, representing the army of the
Potomac, were in Richmond ON Sunday to
make arrangements with Lees veterans for
the reunion. The invitations sent out in
clude all the survivors of all the
Union and Confederate armies, so
that on the first four days of July this
year it is expected there will be the
greatest reunion of Northern and Southern
soldiers known since the close of the war.
President Cleveland is to be invited to de-
liver an address, and on no occasion during
his Administration viii he have such an OPP
portunity to speak more feelingly on the
happy results which have been accomplished
during the past few years.
Under his administration, for the first
time since the beginning of the war, the res
toration Of the Union and preservation Of
the constitution were accepted by the Fed
eral Government as imperative facts. For
the first time in twenty years the South
was trusted and treated accordingly, and
for the first time in twenty years the coun-
try had an Administration which knows no
North, no South-nothing but the Union.
The system which regarded the South as a
nest of traitors and which considered it
dangerous and impolitic to do any thing
that might make the South feel as if it were
a recognized and trusted member Of the
Federal sanity, was abolished forever
under President Cleveland's Administra-
ton. Thesectional feature which had not
only been retained by the Government, but
which dominated all others for twenty
years disappeared in the light of the first
genuine Union Administration since the
war. 1t is meet, therefore, that the man
who was instrumental in bringing about
such a welcome change, should be invited
TO speak on the historic field of Gettysburg
before the assembled veterans of the North
and the South. In the presence of such
glorious reunion the "bloody shirtn NAV
well be put away and the sectional haran-
CUES of Blaine, Sherman, Chandler, ingalls,
and others be silenced. 1t is an auspicious
opening for the Presidential campaign, a
ratification meeting of the establishment of
close friendship between the once divided
sections, the deliberations of all angry feel
ings and the assurance of loyaSy to our
common country. On the field of Gettvs-
burg, the politician who skulked from
danger when the Nation was in her agony,
and who is now loudest in endeavoring 10
revive war feeling, will receive such re-
buke as will put him to shame