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Show NOTWITHSTANDING THE howling of the Republicans in the north, and the senseless screeching of the Okalona "States" in the South, there be among the higher and better classes of both Northern men and Southerners a feeling of veneration for the Union. They are willing to cease flaunting the "bloody shirt" and to bury all sectional strife. On the 24th last a grand reunion of the soldiers of both armies was held at Saulisbury [Salisbury], North Carolina, at which ten thousand people were present. The town was gaily decorated with Union flags, Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis, in a speech, said that he had been a soldier and urged Carolinians to learn the devotion to the flag of our country they had borne, to the other flag which has been buried forever. Senator Vance urged the realization of the full significance of this meeting. God speed, he said, the work of restoring peace, union, and harmony to our country. Daniel G. Fowler said the people of the north and south must be friends. No nation of equal numbers could have resisted the north so long as did the south, and no nation but the north could ever have conquered the south. Major Hallock of Michigan, said he was glad that his first public effort was on such an occasion. He had fought for the Union, and now would rebuke the demagogues who sought to revive the passions of the war. |