El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-30

feeling that exists between thu two
sections. We are enemies as much as
II we we're hostile states. | believe
that the northern people bate the
south worse than ever the English
people ated France; and l can tell my
brethren fver there that there is no
love lost upon the part OF the south.
In this state of feel ing, divided as we
are by interest, by q geographical feeI-
ing, by every thing that makes two
people separate and distinct. l ask
why we should remain in the came
union together? We have not lived in
peac =; we are not now living in peace
It is not expected or hoped that we
shall ever live in peace. My doctrine
| ia whenever even man and wife tinc
that they must quarrel, and canno'
live in peace, they ought to separate:
and these two eections-the north and
south-manifesting, as they have done
and do now, and probably will ever
manifest, feelings of hostility, separst-
ed as they are in interests and objects,
my own opin on is they can rever live
in peace; and the sooner they separate
the better. If war is to come, let
with bloody hands to hospitable
graves"
The annals of congress for the years
1860 and 1861 TEEN with speeches
similar in tenor to that quoted above
It would be unwise to enter into any
controversy at this time over these
matters. But we can all contemplate
with joyful exu'tation the spectacle
pres snted tod iy-n ,rth, south,
east, west, united in q common cause:
a great military scamp, thirty or
forty thousand armed men, mostly
from the old union states, on the very
field of Chickamauga where was fought
one Of the dead lest battles of the war;
the confederate flag laid aside, and
the Stars and Stripes waving trium-
phantly over q reunited country
"Dixie," and Yankee DOODLE an6
Marching Through Georgia." and
"Mary land, 4" and "Sts- Spsngled Ban
played by the same band in the came
place, and all cheered and applsuded
one as the other.
A dispatch from Richmond, Virgil
mia, May IL, says:
To-day, for the first time
| in the history of Richmond sine.
the war, the stars and strips replaced
the cOnfsdera e flag in the decoration
of bui dings, both on the business
thoroughfares AID residential streets.
Toe capital of the confederacy bar
caught the spirit Of patriotism that now
prevail throughout the country, and
today is enthusiastic over the arrival
| of 1000 Virginia volunteers, who cam.
lfrom every section of the state and
marched westward to the white tenteo
fields of Camp Lee, which ia located al
most within q stones throw of the
magnificent equestrian statue of the
comm snder-in-chief of the confederate
armies. The scenes in the city toda F.,
were such as have not been Witnessed
Iduri G The present generation, and
called up many memories of the day
of 81 in the minds of those wht
were living during the late great srug.
gle. All this week the national airs
have been heartily spplauded when
rendered in the play houses here, with
the exception of Yankee Doodle, to
which the people'do not take very kind
ly, although that lively war tune is be-
ginning to gain in favor.
And another striking contrast is pre-.
sented in the experience of the Sixth
Massachusetts, regiment of voluntee r.
the dispatches tell the story:
Baltimore, May 2l.-Fifty thou.
sand patriotic citizens of Baltimore
welcome the historic old 9Th Mass
schusetts regiment his evening. It was
q strixing and beaut full contrast to the
rec option given to the regiment on
April 10, 1861. Then angry men, in
fl med with sectional hatred, mobbed
tne soldiers from the north on their
way to the defence of the national
capi'a al. Today the gallant men OF
Massachusetts we're received bV the
brave sons of Maryland as brothers in
arms for the defence of their common
country. Instead of stones and jeers
the once-hated 9Th was greeted with
flowers and cheers. The air was filled
with glad shouts instead of whistlinp
bullets, and the daughters and grand
children of the women who then $50 "
led on the marching northern soldie' 8
now smiled on the brave fellows and
pelted them with roses.
/ Confederate veterans we're cOnspi-
cuous in the reception committee and
the crowds that greeted the visitors
They tried to yell louder than tn
younger men, and a number of them
pushed their way through to Colonel
| Wood ward and the other officers of the
6 h and cordially shook their hands
The enthusiasm OF the people was
only equalled by their patience. For
four hours thousands of them, even the
women, stood packed on the sidewalks
and crowded alb ut the railway stations
waiting for the coming of the troops.
1t was 5 o'clock when the first two
secti' Ms OF the train rolled into the
Mount Royal station, and nigh y
shout Of welcome went up. The third
ect on arrived half an hour later.
When the troops had been formed in
marching oder on the broad plaza in
front of the station. Mayor Master and
the reception committee. composed of
ex-mayors, all The city officials and one
huud ed prominent citiz-ns, formally
received Col mel Woodward and his
staff in the waiting room.
The mayor, in q brief address, said
that Baltimore extended warm well
| come to the brave m of Massachu-
seits, and wished them godspeed and
q saIe return. MaryIand's soos would
now lin them in the de'ence of the
country, and the 6sh Massachusetts
~ou be as welcome on it's return
T. a.