| Show EVIDENCE OF MODERN CHIVALRY In Houston Texas they are building a confederate soldiers home where the indigent in-digent veterans of the defunct southern confederacy may be cared for during the few remaining years which separate them from the little wayside inn where all shall rest the grave ROBERT G INOERSOLL a colonel in the northern army which subdued sub-dued the south and also an irreclaimable heathen in the estimation of some of your children of sanctity will deliver a lecture at the New York Academy of Music on the filth inst to aid in the building of said home Colonel IXGERSOLI may be a heathen in the estimation of some folk but in this matter he is all o kn the matter of Christian charity Admiral PROCTOR a prominent character in the naval operations in the late unpleasantness un-pleasantness speaks out in sympathy with > the movement To the citizens committee having the bujlding of the home in hand he wrote Confederateveterans are as of yore our fellow fel-low countrymen and in regard to a hustle feel tag betweennorthern and southern soldiers the latter have long since forgotten it Out of the 1f f sOl conflicts sprang many good qualities which we might otherwise pot have possessed humanity sympathy and magnanimous feelings toward those who warred against the union The north is full of prosperity and the sou thunder th-under the new order of things is rapidly following follow-ing in her footsteps The stars shine brilliantly for us all and having secured perpetuation of the union it behooves us of the north to assist those who are now overwhelmed with adversity This is the best way to make a united country coun-try There should be no north no syouth but one nation over which the stars and stripes should wave forever will sentiments and deeds of this kind which will remove all bitterness arise ing from the terrible conflict that unhappily divided our country |
