El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-27
Blue and GRAY.

Last Saturday evening an entertain
ment was given at the opera house fol
the purpose of raisine funds to be de
voted to the erection of q monument In
| this city in memory of the heroes who
| fell on both sides during the civil war
The attendance was good, and the
young women who conducted the en-
tertalnment have reason to congratu.
late themselves.
After the orchestra had assassinated
a patriotic medley, Judge Crosby
proceeded to announce the purpose OF
the entertainment. He said in part:
II have been asked to represent the
committee having in charge the pro.
Jsct of erecting suitable monument
in this city to he memory of those who
wore the Blue and the Gray. No time
could be more fitting than this in
which to demonstrate to the world that
dislOyalty is word unknown to Amer
leans. We see Butler, a Wheeler, q
Fitzhugh Lee, fighting shoulder to
shoulder with Miles, Merritt, and a
Shafter, to uphold the glory and honor
of our great and common country.
SIT is time that all the asperity, ami
mostly, i'll feeling, desire for revenge,
of 80 years ago, should pass away. Yes,
we may truly say, they have passed
away, and now the ex-union man and
against "a common foe, not directing
their sabre thrusts at each other, at
their brothers, but against the foes of
our newer civilization.
sit is easy to say that this war
might have been averted. However that
may be, we are now exhibiting to the
world boundless fighting capacity, a
heroic character unsurpassed in all
modern history.
to the death, and hundreds of thousands
were slain, we demonstrated to the
world what American blood and Amer
lean valOr we're worth. And now when
these two great armies are fighting
side by side, instead of face to face, the
world will see that the men that won
and the men that lost are now and for
ever joined, insepsrable and uncon-
querable.
"Nothing could be more fitting than
a monument to the memory of the
dead on both sides, now linked in ever
lasting affection and comradeship.
When we find glorious Dewey, q son
of Vermont, his name linked in
glorious fame with the name of Hob
son. q son of Alabama, there is one
evidence that the north. and the south
have forgotten the past and are once
more loving members of the same ma
tional family, willing and anxious to
support the national government with
their lives. and to put the great prin-
ciples of our free nation in practice
throughout the world.
SIN arranging for;the erection OF this
monument, let US not be in q hurry
Let .us organize committees, appoint
trustees, and go stO work proper v.
We must have monument thorough
ly suitable to the great purpose for
which it is erected, and one that will
be the pride of our city. Let everyone
give something according to bis abili-
ty."
Mrs. Baker sang solo, and as an en-
core gave .'Colum bia, the Gem of the |
Ocean" Miss Blacker's recitation. |
''Blue and Gray" being the story of |
two pairs of eyes that met without a |
chape ron, followed.
The duet ''Dixie" by Miss Crosby |
and Mics Windsor, was one of the best |
received numbers on the program.
These two young women were dressed TO |
represent typical plantation darkies,
and did their part we'll, even if the |
did rub the cork off in |