The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-31
Continued from First Page.
to you today upon the theme of greater
fraternity to the old confederates.

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| trneches at Sabastapol was not to be
reminded by the colors of his regiment
| of Culloden.
No French soldier at Austerlitz or
| SolfernfO had to read upont he tr1-
| color any "Reminiscences of the Vendee
| NO Hungarian at Sadowa was tainted
render at Vilagos. No German regt-
ment from Saxony or Hanover charg-
ing under the iron hail at Gravelotte,
| was made to remember by words writ
ten on a Prussian standard that the
black eagle had conquered them at
| Konlggratz or Langensaltzen
| 1t IS proper to urge the performance Of
a gerous act on this day when in many
places over the land the Union and Cen
iederate veterans are unitedly paying trl-
butte to all the dead, whether they wore
the blue or the gray. as well as those
VINO died In Cuba, Porto Rico and the
PhlIlpplne islands. We have been wipirg
out sectional lines and sectional animos-
tiles very rapidly recently.
On the 9Th Of last April there were
buried with all the honors of war upon
the crest of Arlington cemetery, Virginia,
336 men who lost their lives
ON DISTANT BATTLE FIELDS
during the Spanish-American war They
| had enlisted from the South, as we'll as
the president Of the United States and
MS cabinet, the commanding general of
the army and other distiguishei officers,
and concourse of 10000 people, these
dead were mustered into that, vast and
silent army that sleeps on the banks of
the Potomac where their dust will forever
mingle with that of the Boys in Blue who
lie buried on Arlington Heights And
"Over them all year. following year,
Over their graves the pine cones fall
And the Whip-pcor-will chants his spec
ter call.
But they stir not again
| They raise not cheer,
They have ceased;
But their glory shall never cease,
Nor their light be quenehed,
In the lightref peace. "s.5A471sr =. .%ss~
President Mckinley said last December.
in his speech at Atlanta, Ca, that:
| Every soldiers grave made during our
unfortunate Civil war is a tribute to,
American va1or. And while, when those
| graves were made, we differed widely.
about the futuEe of this. government;
these differences were long ago settled by
| the arbitrament of arms, and the time
| has now come in the evolution of sent =
| of God, when in the spirit s;of fraternity
we should share with you in the care of
| the graves of the Confederate soldiers"
! And a day or two after this speech, at
Mobile, Ala, Comrade Mckinley walked
arm-in-arm with Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
each wearing upon the lapel of his coat
| stripes and the Confederate battle flag
entWined thereon.
L am aware that the United Confed-
crate Veterans, at their recent meeting
dents suggestion, except as to those
| graves located in the North, and reserv-
ing to. the women of the South the duty
of caring for these in the seeding states
| and Maryland.
If the women of the South wish 10
| care for the graves Of their Southern SOL
| diers no one should take this privilege
away from them. The people of the
| South, however, and especially the old
| Confederates, have had their hearts CAD
dened by the kind offer on the part of
President Mckinley.
CAN AFFORD GENEROSITY.
When our president shows US such an
| example of fraternity and charity who
was with and one of US in the great con-
| fiict that almost tore us asunder surely
! we, in the presence of that splendid 10y
| atty exhibited by the sons of the South
in the Spanish war, can afford to be gen.
| eTOus and be willing to return to tn m
any trophies which we may possess. We
cannot forget the past and it is not nee
essary that We should, but we can in tie
! closing years of our lives forgive and as
far as possible obliterate all that may
revive unpleasant memories
Fold up the banners, smelt the guns,
Love rules, her gentler purpose runs,
A mighty mother turns in tears
| The pages of her battle years
Lamenting all her fallen sons
President Lincoln, you remember, in his
| first inaugural address rem nded his fell
! lew citizens that we would again come
| are not enemies but friends, we must not
be enemies, though passion may have
1 strained it, must not break our bonds Of
| affection The mystic chords of memory
| stretching from every battle field and
! patriotic grave to every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land will
| yet swell the chorus of the Union Whe n
again touched as surely as they will be
| by the better angels of our nature -Th' q
condition in the evolution of time has
i come to pass.
There is the American flag that in
truth waves over a united country.
1t has ever been in times past the en-
blem of freedom, under whose folds the
oppressed and downtrodden of every ma
| ton have found liberty Justice and
equality before the law. Let us do moth
| ing that will lessen the respect that is
| given to our flag at home and abroad or
that will make it an ensign of tyranny
| to any race on Gods green earth Brave
men have ever been ready and willing to
| sacrifice their lives In its defense.
CLUNG TO THE FLAG.
1 recall an incident in my soldier career
| that illustrates this. On the 10th day of
May, 1864, as we were in front of Spott-
| sylvania, G. H, Gen. Warren rode I'D
and directed that we should assault the
Confederate works In our front. Before
entering upon the Wilderness campaign
| the regiment to which I belon&Nd had
received new silk flag to take the place
of our old one that had been riddled al
most to pieces, and as we had been re-
| uuC0u " d IIdZZlG ny casualties, L Sug-
| gested to RasseIas Dawson, who was car
rying the colors, that inasmuch as he
did not appear well, to let another and
stouter soldier carry the flag into action
that day. He replied that he had picked
up the flag few days before when every
| man of the color guard was shot and
when it went down again he was going
with it. Men who have such devotion
to few pieces of red, white and blue
bunting can die, but they can never be
conquered.
No American citizen can look upon our
national ensign without emotions of pa
triotism filling his breast.
f. It is the flag that floated over Wash
ington at Trenton and Yorktown, and II
waved from the mast of the good shin
Bon Homme Richard, whose deck was
trod by the gallant John Paul Jones, In
every war on sea and on land it is the
banner under which American soldiers
and sailors have poured out their life
blood with prodigality that has beer
3 the wonder and admiration of mankind
Its thirteen, stripes, alternating red and