The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-04
COL. HERBERT SPOKE
GRAVES OF coNFBDERaTE DEAD
 IN ARLINGTON DECoRATED.
Beautiful Climax of the Days Cererno- nies is the Piacing of Wreath on Newly Made Gruve of Wheeler.

Washington, June 3.-Several thous- and persons today visited the National Cemetery at Arlington where with music and oration. tribute was paid to
 the Confederate soldiers whose bodies lie at rest beside the soldieres of the North The exercises were held in the Confederate section of the cemetery where lie 267 Confederates who died in hospitals and prisons In the vicin- fty of Washington and whose bodies were placed there through the act of the late President Mckinley. The ser vices were under tn auspices of the Confederate Veterans Association ot Washington, the Dat ghters of the Con
 federacy and ths Southern Relief so-
 ciety.
 Music was furnished by the i3th Cav airy Band Addresses were made by
 Representative John Sharp Williams of
 Mississippi, and Hilary A. Herbert, for
 mcr Secretary of the Navy. A feature
 of the exercises was the unveihng of
 the floral southern Cross" by Miss
 Elizabeth Could. It was the gift of A.
 J. McLaurin Camp No. s05, United Con-
 f,derate Veterans or the District of Columbia An immense floral wreath
 on which was inscribed the word Fra
 ternity," the gift Of the Confederate
 societies of the District, was placed on
 the monument to the Union dead, while
 a beautiful climax of the days cere-
 monies was the decoration of the newly
 made grave of General Joseph Wheeler. It Is proposed to erect a monument
 to the Conf sdcrate dee6 in the section allotted to them and during his speech Mir Williams read letter from Secre-
 tary Taft in which the latter said it would give him great pleasure te af-
 ford the Confeierates this right pro- vIded, however, its form, size and the inscription tc be placed thereon was approved by the proper authorities. Mir. Williams said he would have an in-
 scription along the lines of Charity towards aiI; malice toward none" He sugg ested .hs following: Sacred to the memory If our dead Southern
 boys who gave to the land they lived in and land they lcved as a perpetual and saving memorial of their devotion
 to the cause of the civilization oe their -ace. all their God had given them their lives"
 Mir. Herbert spoke in part as follows
 we were defeated. the Confsderacy
 is dead, and ~th 1t Is buried forever the doctrine of secession. Did you or I therefore. who fought for the Con- federacv. shed our blood in vain? Did they die in vain. these comrades of ours
 whose graves we decorate today? No, no A thousand times no. If this un- ion is now more perfect than ever the fathers dreamed of, 1t Is because, first there are now no unsettled questions to divide us and after that, chiefly be- cause of the courage and devotion dis played on both sides during the civil war.
 These are the reasons by respect. confidence. admiration have taken the niace of hatred and distrust. and out of 1 The grave in which sectionaIism was hurried. there has arisen the triumphant spirit of Americanism.
 '.History will decide that these dead corrades of ours were not rebels and nublic opinion Is ever tending toward l that conclusion"