The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-31
BANDING OF GRAY AND BLUE.
TRUE PATRIOTISM MARKS DECORA-
TION DAY.

Heroes of Both Armies Under Flow
ers on the Northern Memorial
CeIebration-Thr Burial of Sec
tionnIiSm the Theme of Many Of
the Orations-North and south side
by side at the Grave of Ensign
BuEIey.
Washington. May 30-In the center Of
the field of The Bivouac of the Dead"
the great amphitheater OF the national
cemetery at Arlington President McKin-
ley ana three Of his cabinet to-day joined
6.o09 other citizens IN doing honor to the
patriotic dead.
Ceremonies were held spontaneously in
several parts Of the cemetery, but the
main ceremony was in the amphitheatet,
close 10 the old Lee mansion.
Two thousand or more people gathered.
while on the platform was "A distinguished
company. headed by President Mckinley.
Vice President Hobart, Secretary of War
Alger, Secretary of the Treasury Gage,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Sen
ator Thurston of Nebraska, the orator Of
the day.
Prior to the services, there was a pro-
cession Of members of the Grand Army of
the Republic, the Sons of Veterans, the
Woman's Relief Corps and the general
public headed by the Fourth Artillery
band hating for a minute for brief SER
vices at The Tomb of the Unknown"
the band meanwhile playing dirge and
then marching through the grounds and
proceeding to the work of decorating the
graves.
The address of Senator Thurston was
listened to attenively, and prolonged APP
plause greeted his reference to the absence
of sectionalism and 10 the presence of Ad-
miral Dewey in the harbor of Manila. The
presidential party left a the conclusion Of
Senator Thurston's grafton, driving almost
Immediately back to the city.
simultaneously with the exercises in
the amphitheater a smaller assemblage
gathered on the front porch of the man
sion where the Confederate chieftain, Lee,
spent much of his life, to attend special
naval services at the tomb of Admiral
Porter. Ex-Secretary Of the Navy Hilary
A. Herbert of Alabama was the speaker
of the day, and an address was delivered
also by W. H. Michael chief clerk of the
state department.
Secretary Herbert said, in part: Here
rest the hallowed remains of the heroes
of the army and navy of the Union, but
here also are heroes of the Confederacy.
all sleeping in the same soil and covered
by the same flag, and eX-Union and ex-
Confederate soldiers and sailors are here
alike to pay united tribute TO the deeds of
those who made forever glorious the
epoch of our great civil war.
Never was there a civil war like ours
and never were the fruits of a war rich
er or more benifcent. There was no COM
promise. Secession, the issue, and slav-
cry, the incident, were settled forever
nothing was left for dispute and as he
God of nature intended it should be we
became at last one country, such union
of states and of people as Washington
and Franklin and jackson fought for,
dreamed of and planned for, but never
lived to see
II would not pluck a leaf from the chap
let that adOrns the brow of any soldier of
that war, Federal or Confederate; vet il
Is only fair to say that while history has
done no more than justice to them, it has
not done full Justice to the sailors of the
civil war. The union navy supplied re-
suits out of all proportion to the men en-
listed IN the army and the navy, aye even
out of all proportion to the cost of the
operations of the two branches of the
service. Certainly none know better than
the Confederates the telling effect of the
blows delivered by the United States navy
during the civil war. and 1t may be that
without them we should have had two
governments where We now have one, and
that Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee would be
to-day commanding army corps on the
south side of line of forts and customs
houses running across this continent from
east TO west, while Brooke and Shafter
commanded on the Northern side of the
line"