The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-05-07
DIsCREpIrABLE AND UNWORTHY

| Army Posts in Massachusetts, relative to
| the coming unwilling Of the monument
| to tho Confederate dead at Chicago. ought
to receive very general attention. II is
as follows:
What seen TO me 70 be a most extra
| ordinary proct eding IN this great nation
Of ours. is advertised 10 take place at
| Chicago on Memorial-Day IF this year.
| wherein "A monument 10 the memory
| Ct the Confederate dead Is 10 be dedl-
| Gated. II was an outrage TO every true
| Union man that the monument was ever
| erected. but now insult Is added 10 IN
| jury by the selection Of our Grand Army
| Sabbath IN which 20 conse rate SHAFT
| set I'd 10 commemorate the deeds OF
! men who did all I'm their power TO de-
strOy the Government. and which Govern
| ment we fought TO save. AMI this norR
! Of Mason ana D1On's line.
Comrades. the blood IF our martyred
| Lincoln. Of our noble Grant, and OF all
the men who struggled IN freed )m's cause
cries out in protest against this bias
| phemy.
| II is not within my province TO issue,
| In general orders a command 10 our posts
| 10 take action corGemnng this proposed
| performance, but ! sincerely hope thai
| the comrades of this department viii. in
no uncertain manner. place themselves
on record as resenting such exercise
| The dedication would have taken place
one year ago but for the faci that me
| funds to meet the expense could not ne
secured and il was postponed. II Is q
shame and a wonder that it should come
| now. or ever Bad as II IS. that any
| memorial should hc raised 10 the perpetu-
! alton Of the love of treason I'm any portion
of our fair land. this IS infinitely worse.
And ii we complain because those who
| fought on the other side stiil gloriiy
| their deeds what shall VIC say Of an ad-
ministration which ioans-a gift OF TINS
sort cannot be made-cannon with which
to decorate and cmbellish the ground
| on which this shaft stands?
| That. as has been stated I'm the public
| press. has been done should all TINS
| take place. and We remain silent? / say
no. A thousand times no!
We are very sorry to believe
that the animus Of this address
finds place in the breasts OF
very many men in the North. We are
also rcioiced to know that its sentiments
are repudiated and condemned by an
other very large body Of northern oitl-
zens.
At the opening OF the encampment OF
the Grand Army Of the Republic for
Colorado and Wyoming, on Wednesday
last. General Collins. commander OF that
department. I'm the opening address pro-
posed the establishment in the South
of a home for INDECENT and helpless cx-
Confederates. They are not our com
rades I'm the Grand Army sense he
said. "but they are our brothers IN the
| America sense. There is but one place
he declared. where movement of this
| kind can start, and that is I'm the Grand
Army Of the Republic These old Con-
fcdcrates." he added formed am army
whose record for bravery cast no stain
| upon our fame as a nation Of nations
That is the language of am honorable
! brave soldier who knew how TO expose
his life without reserve upon the field
of battle. but equally how TO meet his
| brave enemy whom he had vanquished
| with that consideration which his hero
ism had won, and which would cause
| him no pang Of humiliation in his defeat
The other is the utterance OF narrow
| mil dcd bigot, a man Of whom it Is chart
table to say. he IS utterly ignorant of the
constitutional history of his country, who
is Incapable of understanding that his
opponent may be as sincere as himself.
ard that defeat in contest does not neces-
sarly carry with # disgrace TO the losing
side.
The one is the utterance OF the ideal
soldier the other Of the poisoned Paru-
san who might stand to his guns upon
,he field of battle, but who would be
far more likely TO desert them and hide
his person in some place OF safety
Picketts Division of Nirgnians started
on their immortal charge on the third
day at Gettysburg with about 400 mus
kets. When It's fragments emerged from
that volcano Of shot and she'll and fire
it's l52 regiments could not muster lOyJ
men. \ number OF this command were
made prisoners by the enemy closing
i'm on them when they had marched
through such a tornado of shot and shell
"a never iol upon any other command,
and were left isolated without supports,
and II has never. therefore been
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and wounded. But we can judge OF this
from the mortality in the field officers.
OF its three brigadier-g eaerals on lay
dead on the field. one lay dying on the
field. and the third was thought TO be
in the aconits OF death. Seven of its
colonies were deal one morally wound
cd, and Ave more or less badly wounded--
all the colonies there. OF its lieutenant
cClonels, three-two OF them com
manGing regiments-were dead, and
three wounded, and there was but
ore field officer except the commanding
general, for the whole division left unhurt.
Eleven commanders CT regiments. there
fore, out Of fifteen. were killed and every
other one wounded
The men whom Picketts Division
charged were soldiers. and there is no.
thing more beautiful or more touching
in all the history of the war than ehe
testimony which the officers commanding
those valiant men who resisted that un-
paralleled charge have voluntarily borne
in their reports Of the battle 10 the mag
nihcent conduct and heroism OF Pickett's
Nirginians
That is the spirit I'm which a true sol
der looks upon his biaYe enemy whom he
has vanquishcd, ana it is creditable to