Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-28
BRETHREN NOW.
Touching Tribute to the Memory of
General Grant by Georgia Elk.
Confederate Soldier.

GALBNA, H., April 27.-Galena. the
brated the 18th anniversary of the great
leaders birth Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartor-
is. accompanied by her daughter Vivian,
represented the Grant family. Judge En-
DRY Speer, Confederate veteran of Ma
con, Ga, was the orator of the day.
Upon the arrival Of special train from
Chicago. the public demonstration began.
A street parade was formed at the depot,
composed of cavalry, veterans, civic So
cieties and thousands of visitors, which
marched to Turner hall, where Judge
Speer delivered his Grafton. He said
I'VE are brethren now, shoulder TO
shoulder, under the glorybright ensign
of our common country, and | thank God
that with the clear vision of the dying,
the noble patriot whom we commemorate
to-day lived to see this truth. In simple
phrase he wrote: L feel that We are on
the eve of a new era, when there is to
be great harmony between the Federal
and the Confederate. | cannot stay to be
Il living witness to the correctness of this
prophecy, but | feel it within me that it
is to be So The universal kind feeling eX-
pressed for me at the time when it was
supposed that each day would prove my
last seemed to me the beginning of the
answer to Let Us Have Peace
with such emotions in his heart, this
great American died. Amt, my country
men, his prophetic words We're true.
Now in our countrys need we re
united people. His magnanimity TO
southern men, his sodierlH fidelity to his
great adversary, has found its reward in
devotion to his country of that other Lee,
who amid the curses and the treachery of
the stealthy Spaniards. the pestilence
among their victims. and the cruel massa-
ere of our sleeping sailors, with consum-
mate courage and manliness has main
tanned the honor of the Stars and Stripes.
Far to the south. in the State of my
birth and love, in park in beautiful Sa-
vannah. noble men and gentle women
have reared a monument to the Confeder-
ate dead On its face, taken from the
grand poetry of Scripture are these
words:
Come from the four winds. breath.
And breath upon these slain that they
may live.
'.The prayer has been granted. They
live. Q my countrymen, in millions of
their gallant sons ana hfHSlncI, quicken
ed into life and power as American cit
liens by the generosity of Grant and the
magnanimity of the country he served :;
and in the day of our countrys need. UNI
der the flag of our fathers. in even line
with the veterans of the Union and the
noble manhood of the North, the ground
shaking with their measured tread, and
the cries of the enemy drowned by the
Rebel yell, clearing the way with their
flaming volleys. they will bear down upon
our country's foe. Then the truth will be
seen of all men, that the Union which
Washington fostered and Grant did so
much TO save. will be indeed perpetual,
the greatest citadel of civil and religious,
liberty on earth glory to the most high
Cod and blessing to humanity in all
the years to come
The celebration was held under the aus
nces of the Grant Birthday Association.
President Mckinley addressed the first
meeting, which was held in 1923.