The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-16
REJOICING OVER PEACE
Patriotic Demonstrations at At
lanta's Great Jubilee.

Atlanta, Dec. 16.-In the richly dec
GRATED dining room of the Kimball
House last night the Atlanta peace jul
bilee, which brought to this city the
president of the United States and re-
suited in utlerances by the executive
which have cemented hard and fast the
bonds between the north and south, was
brought to fitting close by an elabo-
rate banquet. Covers were laid for 800.
All the citys distinguished guests
were present and seated at the presi-
dents table. Many prominent men from
all parts of the south also graced the
tables.
The President Warmly Welcomed.
The peace jubilee. which has been q
marvellous demonstration of patriotism
formally began on Wednesday with 8
reception to President Mckinley ana
other distinguished guests of the city
at the Georgia statehouse, where the
legislature was in session. The senate
and house, acting jointly. received the
president and his party with express
sions of courtesy, which later develop
ed into an enthusiastic ovation. On be-
ing presented President Mckinley said
in part:
Every soldiers grave made during
the civil war is tribute to American
valor, and while, when these graves
were made, we differed widely about
the future of the government, those
differences were long ago settled by the
arbitrament of arms, and the time has
now come, in the evolution of senti-
ment and feeling under the providence
of God, when in the spirit of fraternity
we should share with you in the care
of the graves of the Confederate sol
diers.s
A wild cheer went up from every
throat in the typical southern audience
"a cheer that echoed and reached
through the chamber until it was taken
up by the crowd outside. Continuing,
the president said:
1.-THE cordial feeling which now hap
PLY exists between the north and south
prompts this gracious act, and if it
needed further justification it is found
in the gallant loyalty to the Union and
the flag so conspicuously shown in the
year just past by the sons and grand
sons of these heroic dead.
What a glorious future awaits US If
unitedly, wisely and bravely we face
the new problems now pressing upon
US. determined to solve them for right
and humanity
Sectional lines no longer mar the
map of the United States. Sectional
feeling no longer holds back the love
we bear each other. Fraternity is the
national anthem, sung by chorus of
As states and our territories at home
and beyond the seas. The Union is
once more the common atlas of our
love and loyalty, our devotion and sac
rif1ce. The old flag again waves over
us in peace with new glories, which
your sons and ours have this year add
ed to its sacred folds
OF all the conciliatory speeches which
have been made since Grant said, LET
us have peace nothing has more deep
ly stirred a southern audience than the
simple words of President Mckinley in
the Georgia state house
President Mckinley yesterday after
noon reviewed the military and civic
parade, which was unquestionably the
greatest pageant of its kind ever seen
in the south. The president was COM
PEELED to bow almost continuously to
the cheers from the crowd. A roar of
welcome denoted the position of Cen
eral Joe Wheeler and the cavalrymen
who followed him through the civil war.