The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-21
IN RANKS OF PEACE
THE VICTOR AND VANQuISHED
GREET EACH OTHER on
CHTCKAMAUGA's FIELD.
AND THEY MARK HISTORIC SPOTS

~-Thousands of Veterans and VISIT
0rs Present TO Commemorate the
gaIor Alike OF the Blue and the Gray
Addresses by Many Distinguished
Public Mena-Old Confederates in
Uniform Garry a Union Flag.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept 20-Tbis,
the third day Of the exercises att nJaLt
upon the dedication Q. the b&ttlcf IL to
the nation as 2 park, cp9ned with q
grand civic and military parade. tha
visiting cabinet officers, governors and
their stats and the various military Or
ganizations took part 1t brought more
people into the city proper than have
been here at any ore time since the
dedicatory exerci es began. Tdou7ands
who have been storpirg in tie taverns
along Missionary Ridge, Lookout Noun
tain and other places Il Ire sublibs
were all here TO day T1en thousands
came in from the surrounding count y,
so that the streets and tboroughfares
were thronged to that degree that it was
next to impossible to gel about.
It was few minutes past 10 O'Clock
when the parade started. A platoon of
police led, followed by a military band.
Then came Vice President Stevenson and
party in carriages. In the succeeding
carriages were Lieutenant-Gen Scho-
field, Secretary of the Interior Smith,
Postmaster General Wilson, Secretary Of
the Navy Herbert, and Attorney General
Harmon, United States Senators, Con-
gresham, Governors and StaffS, Park
Commissioners, Tennessee Legislators,
Mayor Ochs, citizens committee and in
vited guests.
Another platoon of police came next
and then the United States Troops, the
Ohio National Guards, Tennessee Ma
tional Guard, Capital City Guard, of
Georgia, and the Chattanooga School
battalion.
The formal exercises of the day were
held in the big Barnum tent near the
government building and were presided
over by Vice President Stevenson.
After music by the band, the Rev. DR..
s. T. Nichols, of St. Louis, offered
prayer. The first address was by Geo.
W. Ochs, Mayor of Chattanooga, who
said:
Chattanooga stands to day sponsor at
the second baptism Of these historic and
hallowed surroundings. Baptized first
into immortality by the blood Of the
American soldiers, shed amid the crash
and roar Of the fercest, bloodiest and
most desperate battle of modern times;
baptized a second time amid the soft,
sweet anthems Of peace by the touching
tributes of re united nation, which is
now embalming in perpetual memory the
chivalry, the sacrifice and the military
prowess Of her sons, this city will for
ever tenderly cherish as sacred heri-
tage, these imperishable memories
as demonstrating the valor, heroism and
sacrifices of American soldiery.
E'The city of Chattanooga took the
deepest interest in the national park
from the very outset. The Country and
the municipality felt it a duty and a
privilege to aid in the stupendous enter
prise in every way, and all possible priv
ileges and rights were freely and cheer
fully given.
It is gratifying to note that in pre-
serving the history Of the terrible battles
here abouts there has been no discrimi-
nation. Equal care has been exercised
in marking the Union and the Con
federate lines; armies, wings, divisions,
brigades and batteries Of both are indi-
Gated by historical tablets with equal
study and precision
This park is thus the symbol,of the ra-
tion's second birth, the holy ground
where amity and reconciliation have
erected on the granite and in bronze the
record of a country's heroes, a country
now indestructibly and indissolubly re-
united; country proud alike of her
sons, remembering that whether they
died for the cause that was lost on fell for
the cause that was won, their deeds add
ed new lustTe 10 American arms and
their achievements exalted American
yalor"
When the applause following Mayor
Ochs had ceased, Senator Bate, of
Tennessee delivered an eloquent Grafton.
He referred to the erection of Confed-
crate monuments at Chicago as an indi-
cation that the sectional feeling was
obliterated and then turned his attention
to the causes which led up to the war.
The Missouri Compromise and fanaticism
had something to do with it. The denial
Oh equal rights to equal States was the
real cause. Whatever may have been
the right or wrong, the South believed
it was right, and in Difference of this be-
lief, it accepted battle. The South claim
ed and asked nothing more than equal
rights, not only of persons, but of
State. Less than that was subordina-
ton and not equality. War was
she only resort. It's irreversbble result
would not be again questioned.
"Pubiicists might draw distinctions be-
tween just and unjust wars, but in civil
war for inalienable rights, victory could
not sanctify the wrong, nor defeat in
validate the right. Il had been devel
oped that the North was more powerful
than the South aud the North had out
side resources to draw from. Beyond
that 10 one could draw Iightfal con
clusion. That must be left to history
In conclusion he said it was vain TO
surround America with fortresses az
modern cannon would demolish them.