The evening times., 1898-06-13
GENERAL Doue1As ADDaHen.
Impressive Esercises at Hagers-
town Yeste rday Afternoon.

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town Yeste rday Afternoon.
Gen. H. Kyd Douglas made the address
yesterday afternoon at the memorial serv
ices in the Washington Confederate Gene
terry at Hagerstown.
Fully 5000 people were present and wit
messed the presentation Of a handsome
American flag to the Confederate Memo.
rial Association, by Resolute Council. Jr
| o. U. A. NJ. Of Hagerstown. The process
| sion formed at Hose Opera House, and
| embraced Resolute, Normal, Washington
and Magnolia Councils. of Hagerstown
headed by the Crawford. Cycle Band
The exercises were held al the base OF
/ the Confederate Monument. Prayer was
offeret\ by Rev. P. A. Gave, of the FRS,
Christian Church. A. c. Strife, Of Ha-
gerstown. made the presentation Address.
Gen. H. kyd Douglas accepted the fag
on behalf Of the trustees OF the-associa-
Af:erward the flag was draped Hbout the
monument. and the Confederate graves.
between 5000 and 5000 in number. were
strewn with flowers. The. dead, hurried in
Washington Cemetery fell at Gettysburg,
Antietam and South Aoantain..@<-
In his address, Gen. Douglas said:
1T was gratifying surprise that.
while many of our thoughtful and earn
est citizens were opposed to the war with
Spain. when war was declared asxaue OF
enthusiasm swept over the land In sup
port of our Governments. and-made II GER
tain that our Army and Navy would re-
ceive all the assistance OF men ana means
1t needed to make 1t a success.
''The surprises once begun. still go on.
Three years ago. when Chicago turned out
en- masse to welcome Confederate veter-
ans. headed by Hampton. -Lougstreet. the
Lees and others, who went there to un-
veil a monument which had been erected
chiefly by the generosity of Its people, to
the 5000 Confederates buried there: when
the Confederate procession. escorted by
a large post of G. A. r. veterans, the
First Illinois Infantry. now In Cuba. and
a troop of United States cavalry. ! took
occasion to state in an address there that
such a scene was not possible in any
other city than Chicago. That was true
then. and still the surprises go on. This
war has been the death Of the irreconci!-
ables wherever found.
I'VE have the grandson of Grant on the
staff of Lea; we have the son of Robert
E. Lees brilliant staff officer and rela-
tive. Marshall. on the stan of Gen. Grants
son: We have Old Joe Wheeler COM
mandi-sy United States cavalry and ready
to revive the fiery tactics learned from
Forest: We have Butler, Of South Caro-
lima, who won two stars and lost a leg
behind the Confederate battlefiag. now in
blue uniform and ready to lose the other
leg to get even: We have seen the Con-
gress of the United States voicing the
comman nds of the people-which 10 only
does when they are very LOUDLY passing
unanimously bill which sweeps away all
Confederate disabilities.
I'VE have seen for some time the sur
vivors OF the two old armies getting closer
together on Decorations Days. and send
ing flowers for each others dead some
times the same bush. in turn giving Its
tribute to each. or. perhaps.
Under the roses, the blue;
Under tho liliies, the gray
"And. now. today, We witness. for the
first time. this new surprise. the final
tribute of soldierly generosity and manli-
ness. before the curtain falls on the
bloody and unhappy drama of a civil war
begun thirty-seven years ago.
How the simple grandeur of this scene
belittles all eloquence, What a depth of
meaning 1t has. beyond translation.
"One may search history in vain for It's
parallel: it has no precedent in military
annals.
Your friends and countrymen. speak
ing for these speechiess. we receive this
gift in the same spirit you present it,
magniiies your own honor
These. my people, are silent. and can
not give you thanks: but throughout the
Southland. hosts and friends and kindred
will: friends and kindred who. perchance
are following this flag in their march to
Cuba. and who will be lifted up to fresh
heroism by your generous tribute to their
fathers and brothers. At such a time
speech. with me, is altogether helpless.
But if. from the bitterness of recon-
struction and reunion. there does not
come amity and unity. 1t will not be your
fault.
As warriors sprang from the dragon
teeth which Cadmus sowed-so perchance
these dry bones will live again. or from
their ashes. shall arise, and, with your
help. be spread among all the people an
urself:sh patriotism and lofty inspira-
ton, which shall carry this nation on
ward and upward to that summit of ma
tional usefulness and honorable greatness.
which our forefathers had in view as its
final destiny"