The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-16

BLUE And GRAY.
Old Foes Clasp Hands at
the National Capital en-
Route for Antie-
tam.
A REUNITED PEOPLE
Archbishop Ryan's Ringing Ad-
dress !" Let Us Have
Monuments
A REUNITED PEOPLE


WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 1S96.-veter-
ans Of the Blue and of the Gray, en-
route to the field Of the battle of Antie-
tam, held reunion in Washington to-
day. under the auspices of the Philadel-
phia Brigade, officially known as the Sec
ond Brigade, Second Division, Army of
the Potomac. They go to Antietam to-
morrow morning to dedicate the monu-
ment erected in memory of their COM
rades who fell in that battle. Beside
members of the Army of Maryland, who
nave been invited to enter with the bri-
gaoe in fraternal meeting on the field
Governor Lowndes and staff. the Mary
land National Guard and the Fifth Regi-
ment Corps, under command of Adjutant
General Il. Allison and General Briggs
are expected to attend. The monument
is an imposing structure, erected at a
cost of si5, 600. The plot on which the
shaft of Vermont granite stands has an
area of eleven acres, owned by the bri-
gade. 1t is seventy-three feet high and
starts from a base fourteen feet square.
die six feet thick and Weighing twenty
eight tons. interposes between The base
and the saft. The latter rises to a height
OF Hfty-one feet five inches. Appropriate
inscriptions mark each side Of the monu-
ment- The memorial stands at a dis
tance of 400 feet from the Hagerstown
Pike and is approached by macademized
driveway that circles entirely around the
base.
The members of the brigade to the
ltulflDCI VI several nuQQfGu, uQQGT COM
mand Of Gen. John w. Frazier, reached
the city at II: 80 o'clock A. M. in a special
train over the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, and the first session Of the re-
union was held in Central Hail. The
veterans We're welcomed to the National
Capital by Mr.. George Truesdale, Com
missioner of the District. and after in
vocation by Rev. j. w. Bandere, Chap
lain Department of Pennsylvania, G. A
R., and a brief Introductory address by
Gen. Frazier, the following programme
was carried out;
THE North :, Hon. Charles f. War
wick Mayor of Philadelphia.
The South" Gen. VIM. A. Hemphill,
Atlanta, Ga.
"A Reunited People, Archbishop p. ].
Ryan, philadelphia
Song, .sThe New Rosette" Miss Louise
Nannette Orndorff, Baltimore.
Army of the Potomac" Gen. James A.
Beaver, of Pennsylvania.
Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. VIM.
r. Aylett, of Virginia.
The address OF Archbishop Ryan, the
only civilian on the programme was of
unusual interest. He said:
Veterans of the Northern and Southern
Arnies:-I am invited to address you on
the subject of a Reunited People" Dur
ing the war no part of the country felt,
der States like Missouri. Kentucky and
Maryland. | was rector of parish in
St Louis, and attended both the Union
and Confederate. sick and wounded that
DO not believe that even men who
were on the battlefield could have more
fully realized the evils of the great sep
aration BY war than we who We're in the
border States. Hence we rejoiced the
more on an occasion OF the reunion of the
people.
to erect monuments either in the North
or South to the great soldiers who had
fallen IN battle. because these monuments
seemed destined to perpetuate the sad
mam0r1nS n tfao 1N.1+
when found Northern soldiers going on
to Richmond for the unveiling of
statue to the gallant Southern soldier,
General Pickett, whose valor they adj
mirsed as well as felt, and Southern SOL
diers coming North to celebrate the
memories Of Union heroes, / thought
within myself, let us have as many nonu-
nlents of this kind as possible.
| am proud of the people, North and
South, capable of such reconciliation, and
desire with all my soul that such re-
indeed, that 1 fear a separation, but 1 do
fear certain perils which threaten the
entire country do not mean perils from
without, but dangers from within, and
I call on you. Northern and Southern
veterans, to unite in meeting and van
gushing these moral foes. The first
source of danger which L see arises from
too much self-reliance and decrease of
religious faith and dependence on God.
Many amongst us are forgetting that re-
llgIon is an element in our nature, the
deepest and most powerful, and no State
can continue to exist without its support
ing influence. who destroys religion.
says Plato, "overturns the basis of hui
man society," Take it away and what
would be the security to property to
reputation, to life to morality? Our con-
tinued existence depends upon our ma
tional morality, and our national morality
depends upon religion. Therefore, he who
seeks to undermine religion is the great
est enemy of his country Of course this
opinion does not imply any union of
Church and State. which in our circum-
stances is out of the question: but separa-
tion of Church and State does not imply
separation of God and State. We Justly
boast of the great liberty of speech al
lowed in this free Republic, but we NAV
ask may not such liberty occasionally
degenerate into the most dangerous IL
cense? 1t does SO when it is used TO
poison the intellect and the hearts of
such men by evidently false principles.
Soldiers of the Republic honest men
frown down and If necessary, | am al
most tempted to say, strike down the
men who would thus seek to
ruin the country which your fathers
shed their blood to liberate and you shed
your blood to perpetuate.
FINALLY, gentlemen, let us put an end
as soon as possible to all religious bigo-
try Let Catholics and Protestahts clasp
hands and VOW that we shall do all that |
we can to defend and perpetuate the in
stitutions of our country
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