The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
THE BLUE AND GRAY
SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE
Unpeiling of Confederate Monument in the National Cemetery
at Arlington June 4 Will Be Epochal Epent-Takes
Up Story of Country Where Washington
Monument Leaves 1t DIFF

Structli0 ADOPTED ny 1tfiS- Z
he was in his grave and coaad not
longer combat it, and, always, he was
for a bic OF c%o-equal States.
The South once locke upon Abra-
ham Lincoln as the i-mpeFSonat1on OF
all that was odious. Two years ago
although there was difference of
opinion as to the shape it should take,
there was not a single voice, North
ern or Southern, in Congress against
granting him the most costly memoir
ial ever voted by that body.
II Federal Constitution.
The other factor, the Federal con-
StltutlOn, Vs. more potent than even
the memory Of Abraham Lincoln. Its
bedrock is the equality OF the States.
home-rule. 1t was love Of, and rev.
erence Of, home rule under that con-
| stitutiOn, that caused intelligent pat
riots everywhere finally to exult when
the people Of the seeding States re-
covered finally, in the seventies, their
right Of self-government.
There were not Southerners chatting
under the domination Of the alien n
the freedman, but Southerners rejoic-
ing in the restoration OF home-rule
who were seen fOcking to defend the
flag of the Union in the war with
Spain.
The enthusiasm of the South for the
flag in the war with Spain electrified
t1C ASC1lh, III Will that Wal was
over, President Mckinley, who had
himself been a gallant Union soldier,
made a speech at Atlanta, December
21, 1898, that touched the heart Of
the South as it never had been touched
before. In it he said:
Sectional lines no longer mar the
map Of the United States, sectional
feeling no longer holds back the lov
we Dear each other. Fraternity is
the National anthem. sung by a
chorus Of forty-Hve States and our
Territories at home and beyond the
seas. The Union is once more the
common altar of our love and loyalty.
our devotion and sacrifice. The old
flag once again waves owe us in
peace with new glories which your
sons and urs have this year added
to it's sacred folds"
Genesis of the Monument.
Further on he said:
And the time has now come, in the
evolution of public sentiment and
feeling the Providence Of God
when in the spirit Of fraternity we
! should share with you in the care Of
l the graves Of Confederate soldiers"
This thought was q seed soWr
in rich, warm soil; it ook DOT a,
once; then came the plant and it.
growth, and now we have, in thi.
monument. the full flower; it's fruit /.
Z L Cil ISN1
ing.
D On the same trip South at Macon
Ca, an enthusiastic Southerner insist
: ed on pinning q Confederate badge OF
n the lapel Of Mr.. McKinley's coat. TIL,
President smilingly wore it.
Q Following Pres. Mckjnley's Speech.
Il In their annual reunion at Charles
ton in 1898 the United Confederat,
veterans m the President 70
a u~tteraHces at Atlanta
In Washington. d. c.. committee O
the broadway Reuss Camp Of Con
federate veterans. Of which DR.. S. T
Lewis was chairman, and two mem
bers OF which belonged also to Cam,
\ III, began very early to Investigate
- the graves Of Confederates in Wash
F" ington City and its environs.
General Marcus J. Wright. an tx
Confederate, prepared a bill which
on motion OF Senator Hawley. Of Con
- necticut, an ex-UniCn soldier. be
. came a law June s, 1900, under whic
- the bodies Of 267 Confederate soldier
= were gathered into a beautiful sectio
E of the National Cemetery at Arlin.
4 ton. adorned with walks and tree.
as and name Of every soldier. wher
available. was inscribed on a Inarb]
ne maidstone.
The blueprint OF the plot of III
section. as II came from the hands I
- the officers OF the War Departmen
had the round plot in the cent.
ne marked ~conspicuously M.
re The Broadway Rouss" Con,n,itt.
gs had co-eperated faithfully with n
Department officials throughout !.
IS his work.
On the Memorial Day" next aft,
ne the completion OF the C~oDfeaers'
n section. the ex-Confederate orpani-.
ms ton OF Washington City. after de-
n ating their own graves, march.
slowly over to the granite mopume,
representing 2111 Union dead or
tn, placed a tribute to Northern val,
b IN the form OF a large floral SHE
as containing the words from pra.as
n Mckinley's address:
ice IN h Name Of Fraternity,
"a C~onIeaeraie Veterans, June Z, 1s93
ng And President Roosevelt on III
! Gay sent AS his tribute to the exec
"a Ieoera'e dead, a bountiful supply