The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-31
ALL UNDER ONE FLAG
The Blue and the Gray Meet and Clasp
Hands Under Its Folds.
ELOQUENCE AT CHICAGO
Southern Soldiers Whose Tomb Is
i'm a Northern City-A Shaft
That Shows the Old Lines
Have Been Blotted Out.


cially the historic Mason and Oixon's
line" has been obliterated on the map
of the United States, and in the leading
feature of the Memorial day ceremon-
les here to-day ii would seem that poll
tically as well the dead line laid
| down more than a generation ago to
mark the territorial division between
our slave and our free territory has
been thrown down. With the dedica-
ton to-day in this. one of the staunch-
est of the union cities, in the heart of
the country whence came the blue
coated warriors who marched From
Atlanta to the sea-" of a handsome
monument to the memory of those who
wore the gray and fought for the lost
cause under the stars and bars. the
confederate high water mark was es-
tablished far north of that set at Get
tysburg by force of arms; this, too
with the ungrudging consent Of the
staunch unionists among whom it is
placed and with the countenauce and
| assistance of the veterans in blue. foes
in arms but friends in peace, doing
honor to an acknowledged valor, which
is now the common heritage of our
common country.
The dedication was accompanied by
perhaps the most impressive and inn
posing ceremonies among the exercises
set down for Memorial day in any
part of the union. At Cottage Grove
avenue and Forty-fifth street, then i'm
the outskirts. but now in the heart of
the city, a stockade was built during the
civil war and named Camp Douglass
and there many thousands of confeder-
ate prisoners We're confined between
the years 1862 and 1865. The men, held
there under restraint which befell cap
tives of war, had spent their lives i'm
the balmy climate of the South. and
the rigors of a Northern winter told
upon them severely. As a consequence
5000 of them were liberated by death
and were buried in Oakwood cemetery
1t was to the memory of these 5000
who had died in the military prison in
an enemys country that the monument
was dedicated by their comrades and
opponents in arms, on the spot where
they lie buried.
1t is the first monument to the con-
federate dead erected in the North,
and the event was perhaps without
parallel in history. The largest assem-
blage of distinguished confederate vet
Grams ever seen in the North was one
Of the notable features of the occasion
Those present included Gen. John b.
Gordon, General Hampton, James
Longstreet, Stephen Lee, Fitz Hugh
Lee, NJ. c. Butler and Gen. Joseph
Shelby. Most of the visitors arrived
yesterday. In the evening they were
welcomed to the city by Mayor Swift
General Gordon responding. This was
followed by a most brilliant banquet
at Kinsley's
To-day's ceremonies began with the
firing the national salute by Battery
ID, ]. n. c., on the lake front. Then a
carriage parade of renowned Northern
and Southern gentlemen was formed
and moved under military escort to
Twelfth street depot and took trains
in waiting for Oakwood cemetery,
where the dedication ceremonies oc-
Cured. The dedication ceremonies
were opened by prayer by Col. Joseph
d. Pickett, chaplain of the Kentucky
orphan brigade, c. S. a. Then Gen.
John c. Underwood, in few introduce
tory remarks, placed in the chair Rev.
DR.. w. II. Bolton, pastor of the Cen
tenary Methodist church and past
commander of Grant Post No. 9, G.. A
r., of Chicago, who delivered a brief
address on assuming his duties. The
dedicatory Grafton by Lieut.. Gen.
Wade Hampton of South Carolina fol-
lowed.
1.-The scene presented here to-day is
one that could not be witnessed in any
country but our own, and for this rea-
son, if for no other, it presents a
significance worthy of the gravest con-
sideration. Years ago brave men in
the North and South stood facing each
other in hostile array. and the best
blood of the country was poured out
like water on many battle field. Hun
dreds of thousands of our bravest sleep
in bloody graves; men who gave their
lives to prove the faith of their con-
victions. And now, North and South,
standing by their graves, grasp hands
across the bloody chasm and proudly
claim Federal and Confederate soldiers
as Americans, men who have given to
the world as noble examples of courage
and devotion to duty as can be en-
rolled on the page of history.
Nor is this all that marks this occa-
sion as exceptional and remarkable and
which should render ii memorable in
our annals for all time to come. No
monument in the world has such an
honorable history as attaches to yon-
der one. That marks the graves of no
victorious oldiers, but of the followers
of a lost cause; il stands not on South
ern soil. but on Northern: the men who
rest under it's shadows come from our
far-off southland. and it owes its erec-
ton not to comrades of these dead sol
diers. but mainly To the generosity and
magnanimity Of their former foes. the
citizens of this city. All honor to the
brave and liberal men Of Chicago. who
have shown by their action that they
regard the war as over and that they
can welcome as friends on this solemn
and ausp.cious occasion their former
enemies.
AS long as this lofty column points
10 heaven. SO long as one stone Of its
foundation remains. future generations |
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