Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-05-30
ALL ARE UNION MEN.
FederaIs and Confetierates are United
Under one Flag.

Federais and Confederates are United
Under one Flag.
Come, let US fairest flowers spread
Wherever sleep the hero dead
Nor ask, on this Memorial day,
Whether they wore the blue or gray.
1.-THE war has made us a nation OF great
power and intelligence. We have but
little to do to preserve peace, happiness
and prosperity at home and the respect OF
other nations. Our experience ought to
teach us the necessity OF the first; our
power secures the latter. / feel that we
are on the eve Of new era, when there Is
to be great harmony bet ween the Federal
and the Confederate. 1 cannot stay to be
a living witness to the correctness OF this
prophecy, but feel 1t within me that 1t
is to be so. The universally kind feeling
expressed for me at a time when it was
supposed that each day would prove my
last seemed to me the beginning OF the
answer to let us have peace"
These are the words OF General Grant,
written sixteen years ago. The condition
which he foresaw Is now indeed come to
pass. The great commander did not long
survive this noble and prophetic utter
ance. The tributes OF which he spok.
were no doubt due in large degree to
personal good will on the part OF his
former antagonists, for the southern
people saw In Grant one OF the greatest
military men of the age, a frank and
resoIute opponent. fighting to the last
while lighting remained to be done, but
ever ready to extend the hand OF brot her
hood " hen the battle was over and the
enemy had surrendered. The year Just
passed has witnessed the fuliiliment OF
General Grants prophecy.
The era Of good feeling between Fed
eral and Confederate has come. Indeed
there Is no Federal: there is no Confeder-
ate. All are Union men, united under one
flag. UNFOLDING the honor and interests of
our common country and remembering
the gIories while forgetting the animosl-
ties OF tue past. For The rst time in half
century American blood has been shed in
a foreign war, aud on this years Memo
rial Day flowers viii be strewn over the
gallant dead from North and South who
fell not In sectional strife, but In battle
aRhIuSt db AiltH Zoe.
Memorial Day does not lose its interest,
however. AZ Yeas roll on. Rather do its
associations become more sucted M the
scenes OF the great conflict are meliowed
by time. Memorial Day stimulates pa
triotism; 1t fosters wholesome interest in
the past Of our country; 1t teaches Amer
leans to value he h ritsge OF liberty aud
union, which cost 30 many lives, and 1t
proves that the American republic at
least Is not ungrstefui. The government
followed the admirable precedent OF the
Mexican war In bringing back to Ameri-
can soil the remains OF our brave men
who died in he war 1.th Spain. the
touching scene OF their reintermcnt at
Arlington recalis he lines OF O'dara re-
garding the Kentucky dead brought back
from the glorious field OF Angossura:
Sons of the dars and bloody ground
lie shall not slumber there,
W there stranger steps and tongues rcsoun!
Along the needless air.
Your own proud lands heroic soil
shall be your hstcr grave,
She claims from war Its rIc hest spoil -
The ashes of her brave.
-Pitsburg Dispatch.