Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-17
ALL YANKEES NOW.
HONOR TO CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.
The Blue UnItcs with the Gray In
Paying the Tribute - Interesting
Circumstances - Lee, Grant, and
Harrison.
Harrison.

JACKSONVILLE FLA, June 1.-THE
unwilling of the 10000 Confederate monu-
ment to-day marked one of the most
patriotic Incidents In our national annals.
Indeed 1t was surrounded by so many
peculiar circumstances that nothing in
this country has ever equalled It. 1t be-
comes a chapter in history, strange in
coincidence and remarkable in surround
ings.
Eighteen years ago, on the piazza Of
one of the hotels OF this city, sat a SOL
der ex-President, while the citizens of
Jacksonville passed and repassed. mark
ing the presence OF statesman who
had made the laurels of victor I'M
fading forever by proclaiming over a sea
OF bitterness: Let us have peace"
To-day. his grandson, as a member of
the staff of General Lee, stood within a
few feet of the same spot reviewing an
army OF soldiers in blue, veterans who
had opposed each other on the battle
fields, and thousands of Floridians,
marching TO do honor to a Confederate
soldier in bronze, who viewed with the
cold, stony eyes of the past living
chapter of our current history.
regimental band from the land of old
Yankees stepped proudly to the strains
of march, and "Old Glory" waved IN
the southern breeze. The new Yankees
from North Carolina and Virginia, clad
in blue, too, took up the echoes with the
spirit-stirring refrain Of Dixie" Be-
hind trooped the old Federal veterans
and then came the old Confederates.
under the Stars and Bars. floating beside
the Stars and Stripes. Peaceful all the
men over whom the banners floated;
grim but quiet. with eyes looking to the
future, and not TO the past.
ANOTHER FEDERAL ARMY.
Federal army in Jacksonville
marched. amid the plaudits of the peo-
pie Of an extreme Southern State, past a
reviewing stand occupied by a Lee and
a Grant, under the eyes Of a Harrison,
whose father was a Federal general and
a Republican President, and those of a
nephew of the Vice-President, TO unvel
a monument dedicated by ex-Confede-
rates 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 vic
tory OF Manila, or a victory on land as
decisive, could promise more for our flu
ture than the peaceful exercises that
southern sun smiled upon in Jackson
vile to-day.
Through the streets of a southern city
tramped an army in blue, led by Lee.
In whose name and fame Is concentrated
southern history from the beginning at
the foot Of a pedestal that lifts zap the
typical southern soldier to the reverence
Of the ages, stood a Sartoris, who is
Grant to US now, and a Harrison, at
home with the people from whom his an
Cestors 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 Carroll
na-brothers all, save as they are rivals
FOR the first place in the charge and the
last in retreat. when they face the enemy
of their native land On every hand
the flag of the reunited country fioated
in the semi-tropical sun. Veterans OF
both the Blue and the Gray remarked
on every side that 1t was their hearts
delight to witness at last such sight.
1t was a great lesson TO the nation, an
event that must become historic.