Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-13
The FORAKER BILL.
iNS
coNTEnERATEs.
BURROWS ON TIE MEASURE
,rac Action Proposed, ..lsut a Decent
Thing for the General Govern
,,c., TO Do-Tkcrc should &c No
objection Mt the south.
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WASHINGTON. D. c.. December T.
,c,o,isl,.-"I think it but decent thing
,a- nation 20 so mark the graves OF
those who were 50 unfortunate as 10 De
taken prisoners OF war and dc IN the
,r;so,s Of that nation, and be buried oy
lis army,
This statement made by Senator Bur
rows 20 the correspondent OF The Dis
match. seems 10 summarize the opinion o.
nearly every Northern man IN Congress-
with reference 10 tho bill INTRODUCED ny
Senator Foraker, of ONO, pfoNioiita ett"
Inc government Of the United States marx
~ 1899 ~ those solaiers and sailors
II the Southern Confcderacy who dico N
Federal prisons during the CIVIL Mar.
THE rlirty-sevca years that haze passed
,i,ce grim war held the nation IN 'h'an.
ron.irlled the Senator have soitencd INC
hearts of the men who We're theH loes' anu
have, made them all feel 2s broths'S II
"a this spirit that makes the Scue-.ef1l wo-
fse.1 decorate the graves OF inc Northern
colder. as well as that Of the southern.
who died in the cause he loved 1t Is this
sprit that prompted Senator Foraker, VINO
fought on the other side 10 otfe" ms hlil.
However II seems that the Southern
People love 10 provide for their own dead.
They love TO take care of the graves or
4Ilcir dead heroes themselves. Hereto
fore. they were not willing that the Norfh
should take any care of them. When the
.alc President Mckinley proposed that the
,7ederal Government should ..roW no
North and no South in the care Of tho
graves of the dead OF the Civil War, the
South was not fully willing, but held that
II WIS their OWN sacred duty. Had 1t
not been for the unwillinsness Of the
South, the Government. against " ...ch the
people there fought. might now be caring
Tor the graves az the Southern soldier.
PRESENT BILL DIFFERENT.
But the present bill! is different. The
esaves il would mark arc graves in North
srn States. away from the care and pro-
lection of the people who hold them most
dear. They are narneless graves, and
Unless some such action be taken, ,acir
existence via seen be forgotten. The
Northern people are ;noTed by common 2u
mainly TO do this
In this cas- there viii probably be no
objection on the part of the South TO
The proposition. and il seems that within
few short years the unmarked graves of
ihe Southern dead, who sleep in Northern
soil. VIII have lie same care and attcn-
lion as those of the North.
ALREADY there are Southern graves be-
ing cared FOR By The North a case in
point IS the National Cemetery at Ar
linston. There 0ne may see the grave
Of the Southern soldier as well taken care
Df as the grave Of the Northern soldier
As the years go BY. the spirit of liberality
seems 10 take deeper hold and ii seems
that the day is not far distant when there
VIII Sc no North and no South in caring
for tho dead OF the great war This
opinion is freely expressed. and the bill
introduced by Senator Foraker. is taken
AS but an index TO the brotherlv feeling
which Is SO fast oPliterating the lines
which divided the country in 1861