The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-28
MHEELrR An LIE

vices In the army with him came NVbcoi
er. tue Marshal Ney Of tho Confederate
southern brothers came to the front 10
nght Tor the old flag. and both are today
t9rg44qlrr generals, retired in the army OF
A Santiago. after the bloody battle of
July l. when the American commander was
3tPSGut 10 order n retreat, it was General
Wheeler from the front o. the firing line,
VINO wrote a midnight appeal to his chief
70 order advance instead ~ retreat and
i lori ny that appeal was o9eyed; The
son ol Pickett whose Virginia division
made the bloody charge mt Gettysburg. was
a commissioned officer IN the army during
the Spanish war Thus we have an un
broken record IN support 81 the appeal
nov make to PENNSYLVANIA for the proper
decoration Of the battlefield Of Gettysburg
since the advent Of Grant to the presidency
more than generation ago. should great
| state ike PENNSYLVANIA, with her noble
manhood and Intelligent people. fail to be
JUST 10 herself ana to her priceless pNtr
mony in the decisive battlefield If the wur
because there are yet those who defy the
generous and chvRlric teachings of Grant
and Lincoln whom the passions Of war were
yet fresh and next to omnpotenti
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
saw the survivors of Plcketts division
and of the Philadelphia brigade meet In
the Bloody Angle in fraternal fellowship
nearly half generation ago / WIS with
them when they met for the first time at
| Gettysburg, and the heartiest welcome l
have ever seen given from one to another
was given hy both the grizzed veterans
Of the blue and the gray as they clasped
their hands In peace and brotherhood There
was not a jar In the friendly, even aflec'
tionate, intercourse between the hundreds
( Of each side WHO had come 10 refresh their
memories Of the hloodiest conflict OF our
civil war
saw these same comrades again come
together at Richmond 10 witness the I'M
yelling of The monument erected to Pickett,
and there, ms at Gettysburg, they were
all as q band Of brothers, with every trace
of cumity forgotten. Cheers came up spGn-
taueously from tine hearts OF both sid
as the old bullct-torn and faded flag OF
the Contederacy was unfulled, and as tue
Stars and Stripes were planted over all,
aud equally hearty cheers came from botu
as they passed the statues of Lee and
Ii is only q few months since the sur
viyors Of the blue and the gray who tgu7 ht
at Cedar Mountain, Va. on the 9th OF Au-
gust ls62, met la fratrrual fellowship On
welcomed with thousands who at
tended there to n'ron5 hosMtan'y ny
the shadow Of discord or the trace Of bit.
tor memories among them, and General
John H. Taylor and Colonel william Penn
LLOYD Of Pennsylvania responded to the
eloquent and atcctionate welcome that was
given the Union soldiers by their now
brethren In the South. lt Is only rev
weeks since the few survivors Of Con
fedpratc cavalry regiment met at western
Branch In Norfolk Comfy Va, to COM
nemorate the heroic struggles OF that
command I'm our civil war. There We're no
Union soldiers there TO inspire them TO any
speCial expression of fraternity, hut they
put 10 shame the lingering champions of
hate North and South, 10y proposing 10
inougurate a movement 10 erect a statue
TO General Grant.
some years ago I was guest with hun
dreds Of other members Of the Union
/ League at dinner given there to General
I Iougsfreet with him was General Alex
l aaHe chi of at
/ burg; General Howard. who commanded
one Of the Union corps at that engage
! meut, and many other distinguished o1l-
| ccrs The heartiest welcome was given
| not only to I0ngStrcct but 10 Alexander
/ and every other Confederate warrior who
/ was present. Indeed, as rule those most
| earnest and most heroic In hcld and forum
for the preservation Of the Union, were
. among the eariost 70 efface the sectional
passions created by war. II was Charles
sumner who only FIVE years after the war
had ended proposed I'm the senate that every
, Confederate flag in the North held as tro-
| phies Of brittle. should be returned TO the
South I'm fraternal kindness. True, h" was
I'm advance of public sentiment at the time,
bur loyal Massachusetts heartily sustained
| him and his re- election TO the senate was
prevented only by his death
HONORs TO CONFEDERATE DEAD.
have usually joined my brethren Of the
Grand Army of the Republic in the beauti.
full ceremonies of Decoration day, md for
many years past ! have never witnessed
the decoration Of the graves Of the brave
men who gave their lives for the Union
without their survivors sharing their floral
offerings to their fallen brethren who Wore
the blue with the graves OF ne confederate
dead If such graves were WITHIN their
reach. on Decoration day, North ana
South with each returning year the sol
dlers who fought the bloodiest battles Of
modern times uniformly decorate the
graves Of their fallen foes with the graves
Of their fallen brethren; Thus do tne sol
diers teach that peace has come, that the
nassions OF fraternal conflict have perlshed,
thot we are again common brotherhood
with equal pride in the trumphs OF our
flag and the progress OF the great republic
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PRO.
DICED FIVE GREAT COMMANDERS
WHOSE NAMES ARE INEFF ISI FAB J
THEY WERE NAPOLEON, YELLING
Ton. Won MOLTEE. GRANT AND LEE.
Two Of them VIII 90 into history as great
American commanders, and tho fame OF
hofh has been perpetuated In scores OF
statues and monuments In the North ana
IN the South. Lees character may ne
summed w IN tins bfleI ,lI ~
was one Of the geutest Snd most chlyai-
rous Of men from the beginning OF our ciyil
war until his death. He ever taught as
lincoln taught with malice toward none
With charity for all" and with the fierce
assaults made upon him in the passions Of
tbc conflict he never uttered single sen
renee OF resentment, and no act or order Of
Ice violated the accepted principle u hui
name warfare Every eye In the South
brigb+ens at the mention Of his name; no
Sontbern name Is so generally and sincerely
rnspected throughout The entire North. aud
The time has come when he, can be Justly
borored by a statue on the field Of Gettys-
hure as one Of our gTandest illustrations
OF American heroism'
WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.
II England were to begin the task Of en-
be,lishing the battlefield Of Waterloo as
we are Identifying the battlefield Of Get
trsburr, two statues would be accepted as
vim op, voice as most essential IN telling
the story OF The final overthrow Of tho
graatest warrior Of the Nineteenth century
Tho monuments of Wellington and Napoleon
would be most prominent because the visit
or from every cline would expect hrst 20
nav homage 10 them II was under the
Ronrhon kinely power that the remains Of
Ssnoieon was brought from ST. Helena
and entombed in the most gorgeous resting
nisre ~ the desd 70 be found In France
! r. -..rI-ed Years TO efface the passions