The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-16
SOUTHERNERS ARE WARMLY GREETED Take Prominent Part in C. A.
 R. Ceremonies MEET IN PANEUlL HALL coeneI Gay of Atlanta Was One of the Most Important Speakers and
 Words Receive Hearty
 Response.

Boston, August 15.-The most notable
 gathering of the Grand Army of the Re-
 public in the evening aside from the camp
 fire, was the banquet in historic Faneuil
 hall, rendered oy Edward W. Kinsley,
 post number 1ls~of .Boston. to a score Of former Confederate officers and to La- Fayette post number 1t0 of New York city.
 Commander Joseph B. Little of LaFay-
 cite post. the first speaker, paid trib-
 ute to the guests from the south, who,
 he said had joined hands with the north
 in supporting Old Glory-one country, one flag ,one citizenship
 Before introducing the Rey. E. A. Hor- ton, the chaplain of Kinsley post. Toast
 master Taylor declared that 1t was worth all the ''gold brick Philippine islands had cost to see reunited by means of the Spanish war the people of the north and the south.
 The succeedius: speakers included Gov
 ernor Bates, who offered the welcome of
 Massa chLsetts, Col. J. Anderson of Kins-
 ley post, Commander in Chief John C..
 Black of the Grand Army of the Republic. who extended . greeting to the Confeder- ate officers and who declared that every trace of hostility between the north and
 south had been obliterated and Gen. John B. Castleman of Louisville, Ky, who
 dwelt upon the spirit of union between the north and sou.n.
 Colonel Gay Speaks. The last speaker, Col. Edward s. Gay of Atlanta said:
 q don't feel that I am asked to re- joice with you in the triumph of your arms in the civil war and the defeat Of the CT use for which every true confed- crate soldier was ready to sacrifice his
 life, but we do rejoice with you that the principles for which the south contended
 in the union and out of it survived the terrible shock of war and apparent defeat and today we may hold these principles m common as essential to perpetuity of
 our form of government where the rights of all are guaranteed and the weakness
 of one becomes the strength of all in an indissoluble union of indestructible states
 Accepting in good faith the terms of surrender the men of the south return
 
 the gloom of waste and want and poverty. they girded their loins for the conflict of progress and peace and here we are. that you may rejoice with us, that our coun- trymen of the south have met and are
 meeting the issues of the living present in a manner worthy of their record in war"
 Colonel Gay called attention to the great material progress In the south, and referred also to that fact that the sons of the south were not laggards in the | Spanish war. In closing. he prayed that
 ''The day be not far distant when 1t will not be necessary to display bloodstains
 and tattered banners as evidence of greatness and glory"
 Reception for Southcrner. One of the striking features of the day was a reception which Governor Bates held in honor of party of distinguished | southerners, all ex-Confederate officers,
 who are attending the encampment. Col. Ed S. Gay of Atlanta, responded for the !, Confederates, expressing the deep grati- 1 fcation that exists through the south at i, the friendly act of a northern Grand | Arm post, Edward w. Kinsley, No 13, of | Boston, inviting himself and comrades to | come and break bread with them during | the encampment.
 Another social event of the day was the
 reception in Pierce hall rendered by the | ladies of the John Adams Chapter of the l D. A. R., to General Black, c. I. C. l of the G. A. R.; Mrs. Sarah Winans president of the W. R. C., and Mrs Belin- | da Bailey, president of the ladies of the | q R