Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-07
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LIE address OF General WADE Hamp
ton, at the dedication of the Confederate
monument in Chicago, is one of those
which 60 to obliterate all trace of sec
tional feeling. mo monument in tie
world has such an honorable history as
attaches to this one," he said: "That
marks the graves Of no victorious soldi-
ers, but of the followers of a lost cause;
it stands not on Southern soil, but on
Northern. The men who rest under its
shadow come from our far off South
land; and it owes its erection not to the
comrades of these dead soldiers, but
mainly to the generosity and %magnanim-
ity of their former foes, the citizens of
this great city. All honor, then, to the
brave and liberal men of Chicago who
have shown by their action that they re-
gard the war as over, and that they can
welcome as friends on this solemn and
suspicious occasion their former
enemies. AS long as this lofty column
points to heaven, as long as one stone OF
this foundation remains, future genera
tions of Americans should look upon it
with pride, not only as an honor to those
who conceived it's construction, but as a
silent though noble emblem of a restor-
ed union and a reunited people. In the
name of my c%omradres, dead and living,
and in my own pane, l give
grateful thanks to the brave men
men of Chicago, who have done honor to
our dead here, not as Confederate SOL
diers, but as brave men who preferred
freedom obtained by a dishonorable sac
rifce of the principles for which they
were willing to die. Of the 5000 Con-
federates buried here, not one was an
officer, all we're privates, in no way re-
sponsible for the unhappy war which
brought woes upon our country. And
yet these humble soldiers, any one of
whom could have gained freedom by
taking the oath of allegiance to the fed
eral government, preferred death to the
sacrifice of their principles. Can any
possible dishonor attach to the brave
men Of Chicago because they are willing
to recognize the courage and the devo.
ton to duty of these dead Confederates?
X X When the North called on it's
citizens to rally to the old flag they,
too, responded to the summons from
a sense of duty, as did the PEG.
pie of the South to the call
made to them. State allegiance and
state pride in each case was the moving
cause which arrayed millions of men in
arms in this country, and, while the war
that brought them out and caused un-
told misery to the country, it has taught
a lesson to the nations of the earth that
America in arms can defy the world. 1t
seems to me, too, that it should inculcate
another lesson in us, and that is that the
time has come when the actors in that
fearful fratricidal strife and those whom
they represent should judge their former
opponents as they should themselves be
judged. This can be done without the
sacrifice of principle by either side, as
the example of our mother country has
shown us. York and Lancaster, cava-
lier and roundheed, no longer wage wal
on each other. All are Englishmen,
proud of their country, and the red rose
and the white are emblems of peace aud
of the glory of old England. Can we
not all be proud of the prowess of the
American soldier?