The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-02
HONORS TO THE DEAD
WHOW0RE THE BLUE
Touching Features of Cere-
monies at Arlington.
The GRAY NOT FORGOTTON
Though full Address on the Present BY Cha,
Emory smith---At Vicksburg the Blue
and Gray March To-
(By the Associated Press
gether.


Washington, May 30.-With solemn and
impressive ceremonies Memorial Day was
observed in the National capital on a
more elaborate scale than ever before.
Business was suspended not only IN the
departments of the government, but also
throughout the city. People of all classes
united in perpetuating the memory of the
heroic dead who, in countless thousands,
sleep peacefully in the eight national GEN.
eteries of the District of Columbia.
Notwithstanding the absence from the
city of the President, who usually is a
conspicuous figure in the Memorial Day
exercises at Arlington, the arrangements
were elaborate and beautiful. These were
under the direction of the departments
of the Potomac, G.. A. r., and included
a parade of the G.. A. r. Post, the Old
Guard, other patriotic organizations, and
the militia of the District of Columbia,
headed by the Marine Band; decoration
of monuments and graves; and addresses
by men prominent in pubnc life.
After a short march through the city,
the organizat tons in the parade, boarded
electric trains for Arlington, the most
beautiful of national cemeteries, overlook
ing the historic Potomac, where the
principal exercises of the day occurred
Already the $4,000 graves in the cemetery
had been strewn with flowers and each
marked by tiny American flag.
touching feature of the ceremony-a fea-
ture typifying country thoroughly re
united--was the decoration of the graves
in that section of the cemetery where lie
the Confederate dead.
At the conclusion of the ceremony of
decoration OF the graves a great crowd
gathered in the ampitheatre Hon. Charles
Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelphia
Press delivered the Grafton of the day.
He spoke in part as follows:
1.-THE issues which bred the strife of the
sections have been settled. The reunion
of the sections has been sealed in common
sacrifice. In the crucible of a common
struggle the lines of sections should be
melted and in the new destiny the map
of the Union should no longer be divided
into North and South.
1.-The old issues have passed away,
There are new questions of deep import
questions which come in part as legacies
of the old and which may tend in some
measure to excite the old feeling. There
is the problem of dealing with race
which has been emancipated from slavery
and yet not admitted to the privileges of
freedom. The educational the industrial
and, in some degree, the political aspects
Of this subject demand the most serious
consideration. The burdens and the re-
sponsibiIities do not belong alone to either
Of the old sections We may not all agree
on the elements of the problem or on the
true solution. But we may not approach
the question in the spirit of mutual for
bearance. May we not discuss it in tenn
perate and rational frame of mind? May
we not seek to understand each others
point of view and each others relation to
the subject with fair and reasonable con
sideration of the various aspects which
are entitled to weight? We have out
grown the old conditions and the old ami
mosities. Why should we not outgrow the
old narrowness and the old one-sidedness?
Reunion does not mean the suppression
of individual conviction or the sitting Of
frank expression; but why should it not
mean larger iberality of spirit, greater
breadth Of understanding and higher effort
for just, enlightened and patriotic action?'
Memorial exercises were held in many
Southern cities, among them Richmond,
Knoxville, Marietta, Nashville, Memphis,
New Orleans, Mobile, Chattanooga, and
others At Vicksburg the Confederate or
CARNATIONS participated.
At Norfolk Union veterans decorated
the Confederate monument.
The Blue and Gray Memorial Associa-
ton ia Florence, S. c., the site of the
former prison and the National cemetery
celebrated decoration day by placing
flowers on both Confederate and Federal
graves. At the Confederate cemetery the
Rev. ]. B. Shoup, Union veteran OF
Fitzgerald, Ca offered the prayer AT
the National cemetery Colonel John p
Thomas, q Confederate veteran, delivered
the grafton. The Rev. Mr.. ShouD also
made an addracS