The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-10
MEN WHO WORE THE GRAY
ST0NEWALL JACKsON'S VETERANS CALL UPON MAJOR M,KINLEY.

Patriotic Words of Their Spokesmen-
 Major Mckinley Profoundly Affected
 Canton, O., Oct. 9.-The ex-confeder- ate veterans who called on Major Me- Kinley to-day numbered about 1000. They were men who fought under Stonewall Jackson, and hundreds of them never voted the republican ticket. They were accompanied by nearly 1000 Of their friends and kinsmen. At Ma ler McKinley's house the reception giv- en the visitors was most cordial Mrs. Mckinley leaned out on the sill from a second story window and waved a small silllen banner The 1000 specta- tors greeted the southerners with a storm of hurrahs. The cheering when Major Mckinley appeared was long and vehement. The speaking in behalf of the ex-confederates was done by A. P. Funkhouser, editor of a paper at Har- risonburg, Va, and General J. E. Roll CT. General Roller, among other things said:
 ''Do we not love this country of ours Are we not devoted to it's highest and best interests? Would we not follow it's call wherever it might go? I tell you that this Is the flag of our country, and we teach our children it is worth their hearts devotion and worthy of any sacrifice that they can make in the world (Applause). We wish to assure our party friends of the north that the republican party has an existence in H. ;A ,,l.A Al,.o spect of as loyal and as brave and de- voted adherents as ever followed a standard anywhere on the face of this earth (Applause).
 Major Mckinley in reply cordially welcomed the representatives of Vir- ginia, the state of Washington, Jeffer- son, Madison and Monroe; the state that gave Ohio to the federal union. He then said:
 'sPatriotism is not bounded by state or class or sectional lines. We are a reGnited country Tremendous ap- plause). We have but one flag, the glo- rious stars and stripes. Tremendous applause.) A flag that all of us love so l we'll that we mean to transmit in honor and glory of our children, north and south. Sectionalism was surrendered at Appomattox, and the years that have K followed have removed whatever lin E gering existence remained. Indeed, if anything was needed to utterly and ef- fectually destroy it, it has been furn- N :shed in the events of the contest now upon us for the honor of the American E name and that permanent peace which was the dying prayer of the great cap K tain of our armies, U. S. Grant. (Vocif- N erous cheering)
 N "The spirit of fervent Americanism is E abroad in the land, and no more earn K est or sincere is this sentiment in the \ north than in the south. This year the N words borne on your breasts to-day, " mo north, no south, no, east no west; Il the unuion forever sound forth like a K bugle note calling patriots together and K are an expression of the purpose of the Espeople both north and south. (Tremen- K dous applause) It proclaims liberty and honor as the high aim of every sur- Y vivor of that great war, on either side, and of every patriot in the country.
 "The inspiring and unconquerable ! sentiment of this campaign is country N first, country last and country with N stainless honor all the time. The voice N of patriotism strikes a responsive ! chord this year. The voice of prejudice ' and hate is lost in the grand chorus of x peace and good will, national unity and \ national integrity. No stronger evil ! dence, no higher testimony, is reduir- \ ed to prove that sectional lines are ob- ! liberated and that the war has long been over than the presence in Canton to day of this large assemblage of ex- Confederate soldiers, travelling from the valley of the Shenandoah, in Virginia, which marked that bloody pathway of the war, to testify their devotion to the unbroken and ver-to-be-forgotten Union and their purpose to uphold its credit and honor forever. (Great cheer ing)
 Their presence here betokens new departure. It is an inspiring and up- lifting scene. It lifts us above the plane of mere partisanship. The soldiers who fought against you are here to give you hearty and hospitable welcome, march, ing side by side with you under the same flag. (Long continued applause.) No longer have they arms in their hands. but love and respect for each other in their hearts. It Is spectacle which our eyes have longed to see, north and south, and a consummation devoutly wished and prayed for and for which, sensible as I am of it's im port I cannot find words to give my gratitude suitable expression. (Re- newed cheering.)
 q think I may be pardoned if I say that have great pride and gratifica- ton in this call of ex-Confederates. It has touched my heart profoundly It is probably the first call of this kind that was ever made upon a presidential candidate of the republican party, or possibly of any other party. 1 regard it as another and most significant as- eurance that complete reconciliation has come, and that the south and the north. as in the early lifetime of the republic, are again together, in heart as we'll as in name
 ''It will quicken every patriotic pu'se from one end of the country to the oth- Pr. It is a glorious example of patriotic devotion which might we'll be emulated by some people, north and south-few bf them, happily-who would profit by tanning the flames of passion and prej
 udice. by arraying one portion of our country against the other. (Great ap-
 plause.)
 Let it be proclaimed that the men of