The National tribune., 1894-01-11

tAmfhENa.
Atlanta, Ga, is early in the field in quest
of the GAR National Encampment for
1895. At a recent meeting of the City Coun-
Gil resolution was passed unanimously to
invite the GAR. to hold its 29th National
Eneampment in that city, and money was
appropriated to pay the expenses of COM
mittee to visit Pittsburg and extend the
formal invitation.
The Atlanta Constitution, which is quite
enthusiastic over the project, says editor
tally:
II Atlanta secures the meeting Of the Grand Army
of he Repnb in 1855 IL will bring to this city not
less than 100 O00 visitors. or all places a more APP
propriate selection than Atlanta could not be made
for the Encanpmcnt of ls9J. The exposition will
be In full blast nj the time, Hrd the Grand Army
will have a splendid opportunity to The South
on dress parade. Such selection would be a
fitting reosgniion. the part of the Grand Army
Of the Republic of the fact that the war is over,
aud that the sectional hatcbet is everlastineIy
buried
Let the Grand Army of the Republic meet in
Auanta-rigiii here where thousands OF That ceIe-
brated organization participated in some of the
most historic movements of the WARM Atlanta
in around which tire most desperate encounters
in the long conflict between the two armies took
place. The country immediately surrounding
Atlantis Is the historic Of any of the battle
grounds of the war. and section Of the country
is inviting for visit of the veterans nf 1sst-eJ
Atlantis b. te place for the Eneam pn1ent OF 1885,
and we must have i'll
Thares IL daoiro
comrades to have the National Eucampment
held some time in the near future in Atlanta.
Sherman led from Chattanooga have
strong yearning to see again the picturesque
mountains and beautiful valleys over and
through which they wrestled for 100 bloody
days with Johnston's hard-fghting legions
They want to see the beautiful city which
has risen on the ashes of the country town
that was the goal for which they fought, and
to gain which cost, on both sides, more
human lives than there were souls in
its population. Their comrades of other
armies also want TO see their battIefieIds and
the historic city. The Atlanta Committee
of Invitation will meet with a very cordial
reception by the National Encampment and
find strong body of supporters among the
members. Whether it will have a majority
viii depend largely upon the inducements
offered by other places
Before leaving the subject we should like
to say to the Constitution that the selection
Of Atlanta is not at all necessary to show
that the Grand Army of the. Republic
recognizes that the war is over. Nobody
recognized that so promptly as the comraaies.
They quit fighting the instant that the fac
of surrender was hoisted, and mighty glad
were they to quit. They have never had the
least desire to begin again. All the talk of
| fighting has come from other sources. The
| only thing that would move them to fight
would be the endangering of the settlement
made by the war. They are the best friends
and well-wishers the South has. and if the
South had only been half as willing to heal
| the wounds Of fraternal strife as the G. AR.
has been sectional feeling would long AFRO
have disappeared.