The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-30
PROTEST. FROM VETERANS.
Union cx.prisoncrs of War Regard the
Chicago Confederate Monument as All
Insult to Our Dead.

Boston, May Cat a meeting OF the
executive committee of the National
Association Of Union ex-prisoners OF
war to discuss the arrangement TOT tne
coming national encampment, the SUD
ject of the Chicago memorial 10 tne
Confederate dead which Is to be dedl-
Gated tomorrow, was discussed, ana the
following adopted:
Headquarters National Association of
Union Ex-Prisoners of War. o
State House, Boston, Mass. May ~
Office Of the President.
Whereas, There is about to be dedicated
In the city of Chicago permanent meinor
riol of the Confederate dead-prisoners OF
war ut Camp Douglass. and
Whereas, This memorial in manner and
form, Is designed to perpetuate lie.
against which we, as surviving union ex-
prisoners of war of the Confederate prison
pens Of the south feel that we cannot re-
main silent, not only In the interest OF
truth Of history, but by the duty which we
owe to the memory Of the sacred dead, fel-
low prisoners with us. and by that duty
which we owe to our children who shall
come after US. Therefore, be II
Resolved, That we, comrades and mem
bers Of National Association of Union ex-
Prisoners Of War. utter this, our emphatic
protest against the rearing and the dedi-
cation of any such memorial as this to
the southern Confederacy and Its dead
anywhere on the soil Of free America,
and especially on soil of the loyal north.
In view Of the fact that all traces Of
Confederate prison pens at the south have
been carefully obliterated; that in no
school history furnished for the education
Of our children, north as well as south, is
allusion made to them or to the treatment
Of our comrades as prisoners Of war in
them, we see In the subtle insinuation Of
of that ragged, emaciated, dropping figure
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at Chicago; in the design of the dying pris-
oner in the panel beneath, deliberate at
temp to sacrifice truth and to falsify his
tory at the expense of our national govern
ment and Of It's loyal defenders.
When we remember the condition Of
those Confederate prisoners from Camp
Dougless as compared with that of our
comrades coming from Confederate pris-
ons for exchange, we feel that we cannot
remain still and permit wrong like this
to be perpetuated without our earnest and
sincere protest
Would those who rear this memorial at
Chicago wish us to depict the Union pris-
oner as he was on a like shaft at Anderson
Vile? We cannot but regard this memo
rial as an insult to our dead; to our flag
and government, to the loyal heart Of this
great nation.
While, therefore, we honor braverey;
while we would not detract from the hero
ism Of men who yielded their lives for
that IN which they fully and honestly
however mistakenly believed, and while
far be 1t from US to awaken anew the
passions long stilled, yet we feel that
treason and loyalty cannot be alike hon
ored and commemorated under the same
lag and true patriotism live In the hearts
of our children.
with this monument bearing the crest
and arms of cause forever lost, we have
a memorial not alone to the brave dead,
out 10 that effort, which, II successful.
would have dismembered this Union and
brought our national glory and its flag
INTO disrepute. Against that we record
this, our protest