Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-03-02
PEACE AND RECONSTRUCTION.
Some Things That Were Doing In Salisbury
Three Months After the Surrender.

The following was an editorial
in the Daily Union Banner, pub.
lished here July 18, 1865. II
brings to mind many incidents
that seem to have been forgotten
by those who knew them, and con.
tains refreshing news to others.
While the military was in charge
of the place and Of course de-
manded and forced discipline, yet
the officers and the privates seem
to have been as kind and consider.
ate as their positions would ad.
NIT of.
1.-THE blessings of permanent
and enduring Peace seems = have
been at last secured to our coun-
try. Every where throughout the
breadth> be United States, are
the laws obeye the Union rever.
enced, and the flag acknowledged. /.
After four years of bitter war,
has come a perfect calm. and the
Rebel and the Yankee sit down in
friendship with one another.
Those who lately grasped the hot
gun barrel, now smoke quietly the
calumet of peace, and talk pleas.
antly enough over the memories
of the past. The intercourse be-
tween the soldier and the citizen
has done much good It has
shown the citizen that his enemy
after all is a man very much like
himself, given to truth and hon.
or and exercising magnanimity
and benevolence, IN the hour of
his great triumph. Many friend.
ships have thus been formed which
will last forever. a monument to
the folly of rebellion and the
cruelty of war. All that is want
ed for the people to understand
each other is this intercourse
Every acquaintance made by an
officer of the United States army
with our people, is but another
argument in favor of the Union.
They behave so we'll and are SO
kind, that they cannot help max
ing friends even amcng those in
whose hearts slumber the embers
of Rebellion.
"Their Surgeons and nurses in
the Hospital are also very kind
and attentive to the sick and
wounded of the late .nfederate
army. It is a touching sight to
see-and can be seen at any hour
st the Hospital-The soldier in
gray depending for his very bread,
upon the kind officer of tn soldier
in blue. One of the union oold-
iers, named Bassett, who had been
Ward Master of the Confederate
ward, for some time. died yester-
day of disease contracted in ad.
ministering to our sick and
wounded. He was kind and effic-
lent, and his unfortunate death is
as sincerely regretted by the Con-
federates as by his comrades. Did
we have the means we would have
him buried with extra care and
place upon his tombstone the in.
scription :-Marcelus Bassett, Co 4.
"a 23rd Michigan, soldier of the
Union army, who1 died from dis
ease contr"" I'D whilst ministering
to the .> < aud wounded of the
late Confederate army-''a noble
soldier in a noble cause"
Sat the funeral of Junius A,
Fox. Esq. on Monday, passed
along silently and sadly through
the streets, we noticed among
those who escorted his body to
the grave, the Union officer walk
ing in brotherly love with the man
who lately wore sword in the
rebel cause. But why particular
ize incidents. when these things
all bear testimony that we are one
people in thought and in senti-
ment and that it was a fearful
thing to decide our quarrel with
arms-fearful is the responsibility
OF those who were instrumental ia
producing this war, and who sac
ceeded in inflaming the heart and
maddening the mind of those who
were destined to be brothers, citi
zens aud, coinheritants of this
great Republic.
''But peace has come:again, and
the great work of reconstructlng
out of the chaoic remnants of gov
ernment left by the war is rapidly
going on-especially in NORTH
Carolina. Here Gov. Holden il
working vigorously and energeti
cally for the public good, and soo1
the military will he at home. an(