The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-31

southern officer in command of tn
northern divisions OF the United Cor
tederate Veterans, was chosen I
barry the work forward. The fun
given in Chicago by General Corridor
Of Georgia Citizens of Chicago ais
subscribed $4,000 and subscriptions b.
Confederate veterans and Others i
the south brought the fund up to tn
necessary amount. Tne monumen
was three years under construction
The largest assembiage of dishn
g1iShed Confederate veterans eve
Eeen IN the north was one Of the not
able features of the occasion. Thos'
present included Generals John B
Gordon, Wade Hampton, Jane!
Longstreet. Stephen D. Lee, Fftzhugl
Lee, Harry Heth IS. G. French, e. c
Waltham, NJ. c. Butler L. L. Lomax
Marcus J. Wright, Frank c. ARM
Shelby, William H. Payne, Fayette
Hewitt. C. A. Evans and Joseph H
Lewis Nearly all these distinguished
visitors, accompanied by their wives
End families together with represen-
tatives of the Confederation ASsocla-
ton of Washington, D. c., Camp Moul-
srie Sons of Veterans of Charleston,
S. c.. and representative delegations
from Atlanta and other points south,
arrived yesterday. They were met at
the depots by comrades in arms, who
preceded them and by the local recep-
ton committee, composed of Federal
and Confederate veterans and the
leading professional and business men
OF the city with a suitable escort, and
driven TO their hotel. Later they at
tended a matinee performance at the
theatre. In the evening they We're
welcomed to the city by Mayor Swift,
General Gordon responding. This was
followed by a most brilliant banquet
ut Kins'eys.
Liberty Bell Rings.
Today's ceremonies began with the
ringing of the Columbian liberty bell,
firing Of a national salute by battery
ID, n. G. on the lake front. Then
carriage parade of renoH ned northern
and southern gentlemen was formed
and moved under military escort to
the Twelfth street depot and took
trains in waiting for lakewood ceme-
terry, where the dedication ceremonies
occurred. The military escort con-
sisted OF the well-known first regiment
J. N. G. under command of Henry L.
Turner, as well as the Chicago Eus-
sars, mounted organization OF
seventy-five men under command of
Captain Quincy.
The dedication ceremonies were
opened by prayer by Col. Joseph d.
Pickett, chaplain of the Kentucky
Orphan brigade c. S. A. Then Cen
eral John c. Underwood in a few in
froductory rem arks, placed in the
chair, Rev. Dr. W. II. Bolton, pastor
Of the Centenary Methodist Church and
past commander U. S. Grant Post 2S
G. A R., Of Chicago, who delivered
a brief address on assuming his du-
ties
Tie dedicatory Grafton by Lieuten-
ant General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, followed.
Wade Hampton's Address.
The scene presented here today is
one that could not be witnessed in |
any other country but our own, and /
for this reason, if for no other, it |
presents a significance worthy of the |
gravest consideration Years ago, |
brave men from the north and from |
the south stood facing each ott er in |
hostile array and the best blood of the /
country was poured out like water on |
many q battle field. Thousands, nun
dreds Of thousands of our braVest
sleep in bloody graves; men who gave
their lives to prove the faith of their
convictions; and now. north and
south, standing by these graves wher-
ever they may be, grasp hands across
the bloody chasm and proudly claim
Federal and Confederate soldiers as
American, men who have given to
the world as noble examples of cour-
age and devotion &c duty as can be
enrolled on the page of history. Nor
IS this all that marks this occasion as
exceptional and remarkable, and
which should render it memorable in
our annals for all time to come. No
in the world has such an
honorable history as attaches to yon-
Ger one. That marks the graves OF
no victorious soldiers but of the fol-
lowers Of a lost cause; it stands not
on southern soil, but on northern; the
men who rest under it's shadows !
come from our far off south land; and
1t owes it's erection not to the COM
rades of these des ! soldiers, but
mainly to the generosity and magnan-
unity Of their former foes, the citi- :
zens of this city All honor, then, to I
the brave and liberal men of Chicago /
who have shown by their action that f
they regard the war as over. and that T
they can welcome as friends on this a
solemn and suspicious occasion their i
former enemies. AS long as this lofty o
column points to heaven. as long as t
me stone of It's foundation remains,
uture generations of Americans
should look upon it with pride, not s
,nly as an honor to those who con- !.
,eived its construction but as a silent L
hough noble emblem of a restore" !!
lnion and reunited people. u !,
Gives Grateful Thanks. v
In the name of my comrades, dead =
md living, and in my own name, give :. :.
-rateful thanks to the brave men Of
yhicago, who have done honor to our =
cad here, not as confederate soldiers, a
nut as brave men who preferred i'm II
risonment and death rather than ,,
reedom obtained by a dishonorable is
acrifice of the principles for which is
hey were willing to die.
OF the 5000 confederates buried here, IL
ot one was an officer: all were prl- lie
a:es and in no way responsible for IS
he unhappy war which brought an
lad of woes upon our country. And O
ct these humble private soldiers, any 81
ne of whom could have gained free ii
ON by taking the oath Of allegiance W
} the federal government, preferred &C
cath to the sacrifice Of their princi-
les. Could eny possible dishonor at ia
ach to these brave men Of Chicago &C
ecause they are willing to recognize st
ne courage and the devotion to duty 81
{ these dead confederates? e1
We of the south measure cur dead IN
omrades buried by the standard ap- CT
lied to men after death, and you of IN
hicago have measured them by the tn
,me standard, the only standard by :.
hich WEI can measure men, and by IN
oplying kais you have show that you IN
ave come TO the highest standard "a
luchsafed to men and on this north Ge
nd south can stand, with honor alike W.
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