The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-23
A REMARKABLE CERE1ONY.
Unwilling of Confederate Monument
at Jacksonville, Fla-Confederate and
Federal Veterans and Federal Troops
from the North and the South Join
In tho ExarriaAs

Federal Veterans and Federal Troops
from the North and the South Join
In the Exercises.
jacksonville, Fla, June 16.-The
unwilling of the $4,000 Confederate
monument today marked one of the
most patriotic incidents in our
national annals. Indeed. it was sur
rounded by so many peculiar circum-
stances that nothing in this country
has ever equaled it. 1t becomes
chapter in history strange in coinci-
dence and remarkable in surround
ings.
Eighteen years ago on the piazza
of one the hotels of this city sat
soldier ex-president. while the citi-
zens of jacksonville passed and re-
passed, marking the presence Of
statesman who had made the laurels
of victor unfading forever by pxo-
claiming over sea OF bitterness:
'Let us have peace"
To-day his grand son as a member
of the staff of General Lee, stood
reviewing an army of soldiers in
blue, veterans who had opposed each
other on the battleiields. and thous-
ands of Floridians marching to do
honor to Confederate soldier in
bronze, who viewed with the cold
stoney eyes of the past, a living
chapter of our current history.
A regimental band from the land
of the old Yankees stepped proudly
to the strains of march and Old
Glory waved in the southern breeze.
The new Yankees from North Caro-
lima and Virginia, clad in blue too,
took up the echoes with the spirit
stirring strain of Dixie" Behind
them trooped the old Federal veter-
ans, and then came the old Confeder-
ates under the stars and bars floating
besides tho stars and stripes-peace-
full; all the men over whom the
banners foated grim but quiet, with
eyes looking to the future and not to
the past.
A Federal army in Jacksonville
marched amid the plaudits Of the
people of an extreme Southern state
past the reviewing stand occupied
by Lee and Grant. under the eyes
of Harrison, whose father was a
Federal general and Republican
president, and of nephew of the
vice president to unveil monument
dedicated by ex-Confederates to the
Confederate, who is dead except on
the pages of history.
Victory will perch on our banners
in the war with Spain. but not even
the victory of Manila or victory on
land as decisive, could promise more
for our future than the peaceful
exercises that Southern sun smiled
upon in Jacksonville today.
Through the streets of Southern
city tramped an army in blue, led
by Lee, in whose name and fame is
concentrated Southern history from
the beginning, and at the foot of a
pedestal that lifts up the typical
Southern soldier to the reverence of
the age stood Sartoris, who is
Grant to us now, and Harrison at
home with the people from whom
his ancestors sprang. The South
and the West and the North marched
through the streets-the boys in blue
from Illinois, New Jersey, Iowa
Wisconsin, Virginia and North Caro-
lima, brothers all save as they are
rivals for the first place in the charge
and the last in retreat when they
! face the enemies of their native land
On the other hand the flag of re-
united country fioated in the semi
tropical sun. Veterans of both thu
blue and the gray remarked on every
! side that it was their hearts delight
to witness at last such a sight. Il
was great lesson to the nation, an
| event that must become historic.
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