The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-21

lasting Impression upon InOSe VINO
saw it, was a company Of confederate
veterans attired in their tattered old
uniforms of Gray, carrying the Stars
and Stripes. AS they passed through
the miles and miles of streets, they
were rendered an ovation that would
have honored ala emperor. The one
next to the last carried an olive
wreath. an emblem Of peace and love.
A Great Parade.
The third day Of the exercises at
tendant upon the dedication of the
battle field at Chickamauga as a park
opened with a grand and civic and
military parade. It brought more peo-
pie to the city proper than had been
here any time since the dedicatory ex-
ercises began. The streets were so
thronged that it was next to impossi-
BILE to get about. In carriages were
President Stevenson and party,
Northumberland Schofield, Secre-
tary Of Interior Smith, Postmaster
General Wilson, Secretary of the Navy
Herbert. Attorney-General Harmon,
United States senators, governors and
STATS.
The formal exercises of the day in
ment building, were presided over by
Vice President Stevenson. The first adj
dress was by George W. Ochs, mayor
Of Cha ttanooga.
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, delivered
an eloquent grafton. He was heartily
appl9uded. After music by the band,
General Charles Grosvenor, of Ohio,
spoke. He was frequently interrupted
by applause.
Gen. Gr0sTenOr's Address.
General Charles H. Grosvenor said
IN part:
spot to celebrate the heroism of the
American soldier, the great results of
battle and the greater victories of
peace. We do not come with words of
elimination or with memories charged
with bitterness or envy. We join here
as American citizens upon one of the
great battle fields Of great war, to
dedicate for all time TO the American
people these monuments and this bat
tie field. We do this to remind those
Of coming generations Of the heroic
races from which they are descended;
10 exhibit TO them the enormous cost
of the institutions beQueathed to them,
and placed in their keeping; and to
forever appeal to those who are to
come after US, that they guard, pro-
and immutably, the results of the
great war.
I've do not come with words of
Criticism or bitterness-we of the
north. The achievement of which we
are prodesr is, not that we conquered
in war and by physical force over
Threw the armies of the confederacy
but that we restored the union of the
states; that We stood in the deadly
conflict, not to change our institutions
but to save the union; not to commit
revolution, but to save the flag as the
representative of a great union; that
we fought to restore the constitution
as the supreme law of the land.
'But more proudly yet do we con-
template the fact that these efforts
were not unavailing; that the result
aimea at has been accomplished, and
that the union of the states today is
union of hearts and union Of
hands and union of states none can
sever.
rs there anything greater. anything
more charming to the heart of an
American patriot than the love of the
American people for this union, this
constitution and this power? It is our
projection against enemies abroad: it
IS our assurance against disturbance
within; ii is the beacon light to other
nations and the sheet anchor of ours
II is the doctrine of the American
home, the American fireside, American
institutions. the American union and
the American flag. And we will pro-
tect it at home and we will vindicate
# abroad. And in the hour of its peril,
in the hour of its danger, if that hour
shall come, in the time that tries the
future of this great fabric of govern
ment, If the hour shall come there
will rally to the flag Of the union,
there will rally to the constitution of
the country, there will rally to our in
stitutAons, whether it be to protect our
territorial Integrity. our dignity as a
nation, or our position upon great po-
Htical questions, international in their
character, there viii be found the men
and the descendants of the men of
1861. who fought to uphold it; the men
and the descendants of the men who
at Gettysburg and South Mountain, at
Shiloh and at Nashville, and here upon
this sacred spot, stood and fought and
bled and struggled, going forth as a
mighty army with banners, to vindi-
cate, to cherish and to protect the flag
end the union that We love"
Frank at Least.
When Grosvenor finished, Governors
Morton, of New York Woodbury., of
Vermont, Matthews, Of Indiana, and
Turner, of Tennessee made short talks.
Governor Woodbury. said that during
but now the southerners would have
to teach their children the south was
wrong.
Governor Turner took exception to
this.
81 believed I was right during the
four years and nineteen days I served
the Confederate army" he said, land
at the end Of that time thought I<was
right: still think 1 was right, and
shah teach my children so. No one is
more loyal to the Stars and Stripes
than I, and none more loyal to the gov
eminent. but I never can be convinced
the south was wrong"
This rather frank expression caused
great stir in the audience, and when
the meeting adjourned it was the topic
of general conversation on all sides.
oates and Slavery.
At Barnum's tent tonight there was
gathering there of the survivors of the
army of northern Virginia and that
wortion of the army of the Potomac
Shlch fought at Chicamauga. General
s.. c. Walthall, of Mississippi, presided
Colonel w. o. oates, governor of Ala
hama, was the first speaker. He held
that slavery, while contrary to national
rights. was a lawful state institution
of the United States.
IT was not for slavery the south
fought, however, for the majority Of