Show oat U ar feelings it ia delightful to contemplate the veterans of the civil war the americans on both sides of those great questions that had to be submitted to the arbit romant of battle for settlement meeting 83 frienda on one of the of the re liun it ia a delightful incident it shows atie strength of this reat government of oars the republic adios able so to withstand with lt of thai mighty luse maks one bold to that any kind of a crisis can ba subverted for the good of oar dai 11 aa actual in government has grown out of the civil war so long as the republic stood on cal so iong aa the doctrinal doctrina doc trina of divided governmental power held sway in the minds of a larga oe conr citizen jaaj so long was oar republic weak and liable to go to places in the first storm the lesson had 0 o be learned that this is a nation and not a conglomeration of nations that cancerous growth on conr body politic in the form of african elavery had to be cut away it could not be removed without blood flowing ant the republic was left in a healthier state after the operation bath aids have agreed that such IB the case bit they still felt their hood tingle with the war spirit it was hard for the blue and i ha gray to commingle when finally some leading lights on both sides arranged for the G A R events that have just occurred to be south of the allason many whose battle wounds still ached i hook their heads and said it will never do when the north proposed to break away from old conventionalities and dedicate a monument at chicago to the confederate dead was feared by those same fanatics thai the children of the republic would be given incorrect ideas of the great rebellion now that the confederate Can federate dead in the north have been fittingly honored and the union dead in the south as well the confederate dead are mutedly remembered by the surviving veterans of both aidea and now that both sides have been together ou one of the bloodiest battlefields and fraternized together where once they fought the leabon that is taught is one of the best that could be presented to all classes of the republic the lesson ia that the war ia ended we hopa the boub where the war sentiment has been ane severest will profit most it is quite natural for the whipped side to harbor ill feeling e longest tho conqueror ia usually magnanimous and can well afford to be it was easier for the north to honor the confederate dead than it was for the south to treat po cordially as they have the yankees alive but tho south has acquitted itself most honorably and what they have just couo will more effectually bury the bloody shirt than all the antagonistic speeches of southern in congress if now the south will break away from aclid democratic tendencies all will know that the war ii not only ended bat almost entirely forgotten |