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[Gettysburg's field.
lrtffl.ADBI.PHIA lmiGADE AND
fplCKKTrS DIVISION MEET.
I lutorf, ll"t ** Frlend«-A Great
T* ot Henewe.l Ilrotli-
r? JMl -fipteche« by Feder-
s!l iiii.t Confederate!.
L, Jnly 2 —About flvo hun-
■ .i.or^'of the Sixtj-nintb, Seventy-
Knn* Handled end Sixth regiments,
Cm tile Philadelphia brigade, which
fepicnona , p.rt In the third
«f^»t Gettyabutg when confronted
l^at'i dirieion ot tbe Conf.derate
Tj.et bexe this afternoon. The
taihich they extended to the snr-
Iff their old snt’gonists to-night waa
* *.« Pickett's men were received
J railroad station by the Pbiladel-
Liod escorted from the depot to the
|j, r ,l ,-here a stand-op lunch was
nun’after which all made for the
l*a-t boose, where the first camp
(ubloe and gray upon the historio
11 of Gettysburg wae held. At 9
fin, meeting »** called to order fcy
Br Frazier, who said:
T - cmrades, and friends: The
CJot tailing tbio meeting to or-
Lwo issigoed to me. This ie, as
Imow the first fraternal meeting of
ittd gray thathaa taken place on
Uotie grounds, and standing beside
fialiig piece of the honored dead,
Unfe the last full measure of their
atothe Uuioo, I say to yon that
jgtltsl meetings of the blno and
|)Somnr«to create and maintain
Ifendibip among tho people of the
*,ncntb»n anyiblog else that has
atrrince the xtar for the preserva-
fdoBiion ended, and I hope to see
llbilteve they will, bo held ail
hdee(run G tiysbnr at d Vioks-
| Kooning well the eelings that
itbe meeting, I can t.ui say tbis
j meeting of the Ph adelpbia
[. i: d Pickett’s diviek n,‘w indeed
- rji bearts »nd » onion of bands —
llMOOOs can sorer;
jiothoisfa and a union of luoas,
ddM 1114 of oar Union forever.
•bare the pleaanre of presenting
0 ff. 8. Stockton, presiding officer
lasting, with the statement that to
n than any other, is due the oredit
Mit about"
Jaektoo, upon assuming the chair,
liuked hit comrades for the honor
1 1 open him, and bo wonld take 00-
■ply to remark that he believed
eiudaod done here npon this frs-
Mticg of tbe bine and gmy would
litr >od gratifying era iu our conn-
lioty. As presiding officer, it was
Hurt duty to present Golmel
■B Bints, president of tbe Pbilv
k Brigade Association, who would
It Hldter’a welcome to onr fote In
Ilatrin, dt voted and lasting ft Unde
‘.MACON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1887.--TWKLVE PAGES.
VOL. LXII. MO 13.
on saxes' SFECCU.
Itmsstepped forward and Slid:
peCtiiens and Uemb rs of Piek-
Iwnoofthe Army of Northern Vi*.
I la bonorahle and pleasing duty has
ntelmeby the Pbtl.dalphlzBfU
lilt Second Division, Second Corps,
If tit Potomao. This veteran biigade
ItaitiQ army, composed of tbo S xty-
Iktintj-Bist, Haventy-woond and
wdnd aud Sixth regiments at Pooft*
hVulantttra, Upon more than or e
kfanag the dark honrsof the IW-
Iwognititd your ptopl* iu aotivo
luditleUtuonr lot to moot in
I my and do ally conflict in what
)|bacalltd tho crisis of the battle
itrg, within sight of tho masts c
a. Or tost memorable h.teruoon
IUMI. The most won lurful Intel
"pit that a benefident area
b-stoied upon man
ly of memory, tho power to
a tho inntt reeeaaeo of the brain
'• and teanea tbat for years
Dtmint, and which in torn lead
pan rapidly before tbe miud,
Jw the mentulvlew moat vividly
"ttni tceneo of this historio
■ tlmn gave from memory .
•Itkgutnt description of tbe bsitlo,
•!»« abate of Pickett's division In
devotion, aaenfioe and c mrage
1 m the history ot onr oonntry.
a a ^ mao,” said he, “oan at this
history ol the war or reoall
winduuto mo the hand of D1
tea deielc ping throngh trial
e Ural courage and tenacity for
' patriotism which exalt and
i's * people. Wo have
I * a few momenta on the
kt'. . **ltle, for tho reason
FuTf *°d associations compel ref-
iwttod,^ soldi!rs of tbe contend-
m *«t as diix -ns of z united
Bauee are dead, aud now
iri 1 * W e who have fought as
iisa**? filaeuss the past, if need
nJP}®* Ule Peeaent, as travders
,J* ““a cvnniei* by way
- i.fc mountain top and review
t7“™ogh which they havo passed
LT**? ““he roadover which they
and from the 8tate of Pennsylvania gener.
ally, to the Virginians. Colonel McClure
sai 1:
M foHows: 8 Divi6ion Aaaoclation, responded I Alexander K. McClure, of rhilailelphia, who
“Friend’a T , ■ . 'had b’en chosen to extend a weloome from
mvself and ? ' i <lo9lr8 £ot the ciUzCTS o£ Philadelphia partionlaily,
, ■c unrades to tender you onr and from Ha hi.i. „f
heartfelt thanks for the kiDd, oordlai and
hearty welojme extended ns on this an
occasion never to be forgotten by us, bnt
cherished aud remembered as a bright spot
n the checkered pathway of life. If in
the remarks which I desire to make, a snb-
joot on which I have thought much and
felt deeply, I should be led to say some-
thing which might be better left unsaid,
attribute them to the warmth of my feel
ings on tho subject. Bear in mind that I
atujspeahing in no representative|capacity,
hot I am solely re ponmblo
for tho sentiments I utter.
I erhaps somo of you have seen
an artiole in the Ntw York Herald on the
subject of the union mennroent to be
erected on tho spot selected by Hancock’s
end Pickett’s divisions, which should be
national in its character, not commemora
tive of any particolar division of either
army, but to the memory of tho dead of
both arrniee—a monument of American
valor and magnanimity; a monument which
wonld stand as a pledge of perpetual union;
a pledge of perpetual rec mediation; a Miz-
rah stone, its shaft pointing upward, call-
ng spoil heaven io witness onr reconciiu-
tkn and the renewed covenant that
neither of us would ever paso it
to harm the other, and saying, iu the
language of tho Scripture, ‘The Lard
watch bctweeD thou and us.’| Soon after the '
publication of tbe article referred to a com
mittee was sent on beta to make arrange
ments for tho erection of a monument to
Pickett's Division on tbo battle-field of
Gettysburg. Failing in tbis, my comrades
o! Pickett's Civilian have decided, aud I
think properly, to place tbeir monument to
onr dead on Gettysburg bill in our own
beautiful Hollywood, where they may rest
in pesoo till awakeued by tbe sound of tbe
last trumpet to appear before Him who will
give them righteous judgment. Feactto
their ashes. They gave their lives for a
cause they deemed sscred, and mortal man
ciin do no more. There too, I hope to rest,
when life’s datiea are ended, in tbe bosom
of my dear natite State,
loved and honored since I havo
lived and honored anything—never more
than now in her adversity; prouder of my
heritage as a free born son of Virginia than
to have inherited a orown i J any other land;
proad of her history, filled as tt is with thi
record of heroio deods; proud of her heroes,
who have illustrated American valor; prond
of her statesmen, who have shaped tbe des
tinies of 'his mighty nation; proad of her or
ators, whose eloquence has thrilled nations;
prond of brr cause in the late straggle,
proad of her efforts to preserve peace and
avert the awful colamiliea brongbt upon us
by war, on effort so persistent that those
who knew her not said sncoringly tbat she
ennld not be kioked out of the Union.
Proud other when, failing to seoure honor
able pave, fully countiug the cost, she
bored her bosom to the strife deeming, if
need be, all else well lost jn the bright path
dot^ 'and honor
of
'V'
sons who ralliod iu her sine and for four
years beat back tho pitiless storm of war
!.urlcd npon her, exhibiting to the world
ex imples of heroio fortitn lu worthy of tho
mothe r that gave them birth; proudest of
nil that, when worn out and exhausted by
thtir victories, the Bkatterod remnant were
compelled to yield to overwhelming num
bers Bad resources, they grounded
tbeir arms and turned themselves
to tbe task of rebuilding and restoring
tbeir mother Stale to the prond position sho
had eV. r held in the front rank. Such ur.-
my sentiments, honestly entertained, freely
expressed. What shall I say for those, my
comrades, endeared by privations shareei,
hard-, hips endured and dangers enooun-
tered. Scarcely ts there a battlefield from
Bull Bun to Appomattox on which some
unedeartome did not orown with their
lives their devotion to their
nativo State. Dear comrados, honored
as men, loved as companions, oold in death
will my heart bo ere 1 cense to love and
honor you. Yet my bean is large euongb
to embrnco my wbolo country, from tbe At
lantic to tbe Pacific, from the lakes to tbo
gulf, to r.j.,icu in h. r pmepi-iity, to gh.rj
in her greatness, to feel a thrill of pride
when her oourse is as glorious as her might
is resistless, when her magnanimity equals
ber power.
And to you, gentlemen of Gettysburg,
let me say this is an opportunity to display
magnanimity worthy of this great nation.
Leave to time the tcuchstone which tries
nil human action, the question
of right end wrong involved; let the his
toriun yet unborn try tho case, and posteri
ty will render a vordict which U apt to be
just to them. Let no leave it. Its deeds
have been done, its drama closed. Bnt for
our country there remains a future. .IVo
too are makiog history. If tbis occasion,
being in tbo interest of peace and reconctl
iation, will fill a bright page in tbat history,
with what lustre woold that one shino
which wonld record a similar reunion na
tionsl In ita character, in which should be
butied all rsneor and hatred; from which
we i-iuldgo forth not merely cit'zius but
friends and brother), mimatod by one aim
—tbe greatness and glory of onr common
country. Adopt in its true spirit tho union
monument snggesltel, and with a magna
nimity great enough to embrace onr whole
country, deep enongh t* bnry in oblivion
“After the more than fraternal greeting
so eloquently expressed by the representa
tives of the survivors of the Philadelphia
Brigade and of Pickett's Division, it is an
easy task to speak for the City of Brotherly
Love and for tho Keystone State of tho
Federal arch, whioh ore in hearty sympathy
with the peace and brotherhood which mark
this notable reunion. ”
Twenty.flve years ago you mutually con
secrated thia ground. The shock in which
your respective commands met was the
bloodiest of all the many sangnnary con
flicts of our civil strife, and its Issue trem
bled the decisive battle Of tho war. It ranks
with Thermopyloo in desperate courage,
bnt tho heroism of the warriors of Leoni
das, whose Spartan laws mads defeat dis
honor, regardless of position or numbers,
piles beforo the volunteer soldiers of Han
cock and Pickett, who willingly dared and
died for their conviotioDS. It wasastrange,
end conflict Men of the same race, inheri
tors of the same traditions and the same
laws, met in deadly straggle so solve a
great civil problem, which had vexed
the most enlightened and patriotic
statesmanship for three-eiuarters of
a century. Tbe ignorant, incoustderate and
dishonest say that it was causeless; that it
was preoiuitated by babbling demagogues
w ho ride in the tempest; but no such agents
conld have called a million of the most in
telligent, peace-loving and genorons people
of the world to five years of fraternal war.
There were agitators and demagogues who
hastened the war, as there are agitators and
demagogues who have hindered peaoe sinoo
it ended; but there are irreconcilable theo
ries left unsettled in tbe foundation of tbo
government which tipened in intensity and
enlarged io interMt until up in fulsolution
was no longer possible. A less heroio peo
ple could havo avoided our civil
war, but with eaob oitizen
a sovereign the bravest and noblest of all
the peoples of tho earth had only the choice
between dismemberment of tbe Uolou or
cemertlrg it by the arbitration of the
sword. Never did opposing armies accept
battle with sterner purpose. Every shotted
gun hoarsely thundered tho fsith of tbe
warrior who employed it iu tho harvest of
death. Every church cf its belief in the
North end South sent up fcrvcDt prayers to
the same God for tbe triumph of their re
spective flags, and in liie manner called for
thanksgiving and.prsiae when victory came
to cither. Every pulpit appealed to tbe
patriotism of the people in the name of tho
Baler of nations to sustain the causo of
its section as n holy elnty, and from
every battlefield c nne heartfelt thanks from
the victor and abiding faith in supplication
from the vanquished—all from the samo
altar to the same judge. Both oould not
triumph, and at Appomattoy came the judg
ment of tbe final arbiter that the National
union shall be indissoluble, and that th*
v atjoiml rnvi iK'.'tl "D.-lt 1,1- ..Ill'll" 'fill
itbin trie 1 nutations of Us own funda
mental law. And from Appomattox came
the promise not only ot peace bnt of broth-
t rhood. It eamo to North and South Dorn
the great captain of con filets. Hero aud
victor in war, he was uo less a hero and
victor in peaco. The shattered legions of
L e did not leave that historio field ene
mies of Grant. He did moro than conquer
an epemy— ho conquered and gathered ns
the greenest laurels of hla victory the
lovo of the Confederate warriors and
the respect of the Sooth for tbe Union
which its sons hail so valiantly battled.
When presented to the nation ns tho candl-
.1 f.ir tin- highest civil trust of ilm world,
his battle cry tbat answered those who rev-
elo.1 in the turbulence of hato was “Let ns
have peace” Among bia earliest appoint
ments when called to tho Presidency was
that of Lee, under whose eye the memora
ble charge of PiAett’s Division was made,
and later in kls administration a Confeder
ate soldier sad statesman sat in his cabinet.
This canned pesoo and brotherhood under
the inspiration ot tbe victors in our bloody
civil strife, add his dying testiment comes
from Saratoga bequeathing fraternal love and
national muon to tbe bine aod gray. Well
muy civilians welcome iu hetrty r.union the
now silvered and farrowed survivors of
the deadly conflict on Cemetery hill, when
such lustrous teaching and example com
mand it, and I greet you In the name of
tbe great North ioseperably Interwoven
with tho great South in sympathy, inter
est and in fellowship. Free government
D stronger at homo and mightier abroad to
day because ot the wounds of civil war,
anil onr cliildr n and onr children's chil
dren will tarn to Its sacrifice and sorrows
and Ita irrevocable judgments as tho Barest
guarantee that the government of the peo
ple by the people aud for the people shall
not perish from the earth.”
come as survivors of a great battle which
illustrated the greatness and glory of the
American people, and dropping the curtain
over the past, we hail you as onr brothers
and sisters, with all tbat love and pride
which must ever thrill the hearts of rll
good and true oili/.ens of the continent of
fro commonwealths.
No morn does that spirit nnimate which
once hurled our bodies agalust thono im
pregnable hosts. Wo have oome forth
from tho baptism of blood and fire in which
onr brothers were consamed, as representa
tives of a new Sonth, and we have long
years ago ceased to bear in onr hearts any
residuum of feeling bom of the conflict.
Did any unmanly feeling Unger in onr
bosoms, we would not bo here to-day to
gra->p tbe bands of those who have met
ui with a brother's greeting and a
brother's love. Above tho &3hca left by tho
war and over the tombs of secession and
African slavery we havo oreated a new om-
piro and have bnilt a temple to Anu ticin
liberty in whteb you and I oan wrrehip t».
golber, and over it we have run np th -S’ir.
spangled Banner, and we clirg t j it with
all that ancient love which should ever
cl well in tbe hearts of men and women from
the lands of Geirge Washington and
William Penn. I utter it as a sjntiment
that comei welling up from every bosom of
Virginia and tbe South, that tbe man who
woold rekindle again that fealiDg which
fil'.'donr land with doath and tears, and
grief and mourning, with graves and suf
fering, is not only unworthy of tbo high
title of Amerioan citizen, bnt even ot that
of hnntan being, and should find no home or
friends on , irt’i or in heaven. l.-tiM pol
itician, for nelfisli and unworthy purposes,
fan tbo dead embors of fratricidalstrife, bnt
iei ihe great, warm and generous heart of
e-rr nation, with tbs throb of tin- re-an, as
if movod by Bll-tho tempests of God'swbolo
universe, speak ita thundered condemnation
ot any e ITort so vile, wicked and unworthy.
No each lessons ara taught to tbo memory
iri till lif. or d-'ids of I.inc'In or Grant,
ui oome to Us as echoes from their sacred
tombs.' Ob, my oountry! What a calam
ity was it for tho South when tho asiaaein's
lullot struck down Abraba n Lincolnl In
•A W—until imj OOUnlry, deep enongll It uuryiu uni"""
We welc ime you to tbis the bitterness and hate Of past strife, build
■ ««1U BleaortM with » true 0D lhe ,„ ot suggested a monument tolm-
v. II, 1 ”* performance of I mo rt<iliza American valor and demonstrate
diV.L d a, WUohonor,b, >«‘l alt American magnanimity. Let the
J;. 10 y° u ,liat whole country jom with the national gov.
t MM fit mi nt and ev< ty State in the Union
and complete it, if possible, by the twenty,
fifth anniversary ot the liitlle bead oat
your invitations, and, my word for it. Get-
ly.bura will vitDefis each a gath^riDg ft*
tho whole world has seldott aeen—its hills
and valleys dotted with white tents; not
filled with engry combatant*, reedy to hurl
each other to destruction, but with the
highest type of Americtn manhood,
ready to 'J°(n
MM»»»„«., "--wuw HI 1UU luat
KJa-JJ® PhiUdflpbU Brigade
Itjrl/L’h 1 * reception bee the cor-
‘"hP 0 ** “nr eitizros of
^potsau. of life. And now
tfn to
■hunt of iff v * icktU *‘ division,
ri, tbi'I? j 8*d« association and
Kg” d ««ite that you will
*tt8cn52a' lr .* t * y *1 Gettysburg
3°o . W# welcome Ji u
r*te» in,T b,4Te “Mere iu war.
h tlL B .h c * nM Jo»»retrno ci i-
•si, l ,u ■wmiflii IU
A ■n ^heeauMjou are trno ti i-
! ll«1«J here ba
M
'M
|*Wllt|i n ".’ ct {n -
,,!r ’lU,7i" L . 4 KWloe u« to higher
ItfieZgP**!* of tbe oonsUtu-
Dhtirea- ib^'h* rnau y determl-
Ocd ii, 111 '* 1 conscientiously
| l hi, iu jJJl® fines tiona and is-.ni a
l*H*5s..s j Bd * •“ 'hiding feith
wEtetfcjkJ tf wpnbUc,
fn ll touY r ', A ' fro “ » clocil aud
5f!* l «Uie»kibi* d * T n Israel, say.
JjhrvLIr £r‘ ld 's , > “I Israel that
Hevtoei^Jho to-day b calling
l * t h la th»V° hlfiher end nobler
****»! of tif* J1 * humanity and
alfcJT""' “rw.
and
haefa in trun
UeartyYfconciliation, wticb shsJl make
us again a united and bapR P«op'®- D J
this and write Ibenameof A Ulrica higher
ou the toll of true fame tha» yon oould
have done bed yoobeen »bU$ write jew-
■fi-lvea victorioofl on trery baUfciiela ol toe
W Bfi believe th ( l tbU eng-
geallon will oummend lu * lt . ,<, A ood ,“*, n
an rvwb we in out brawl land,
%i J U property caeied out
«U1 do more to restore (friendship
in the lections then *ny otheione thing
wlich conld be dont Be*Af conntry-
mer. embrace Hr* °PP?r**T“ 7 .iji
oi*e pace on Ameiictn hia.ofj wu h Mhaji
shine with InaUr nn«urpeii«d by aly record
ed linoe the world began.
coLoxmie M’ctunn* wK/xwt
rjnTr*" ,rl *ri4n* # Uad- Uj^nthe eonclo.‘ion CapUj»
* Bi^iinond, waaiato aptech Colonel Bines iilrodoctd Ulonel
midst of all the bloody tempest
still had a soft place in
great heart for us. And
w that the storm has passed and passion
subsided, who of the Sonth does not
> and rovero his memory, and the
emory of tho great captain who was kind
und magnanimous in the hour of victory at
pomattox, who said to Leo, “Let your
ii take tbeir hordes home to make bread;"
io, when ho had triumphed, said "Let ua
vm peace,” And who iu his dying hours
blared that tbe greatest happiucKri he felt
to seo the good feeling springing np
vwocn the North and South. There is
t a true man South to-day but who feels
if he would like to stand at the tombs of
ir.ooln and Grant to plant a flower there
d water it with tears in the presence of
fee hog like this, too Hacr*d and deep for
teranco. What matters it who shall keep
l YtUe fljgri Th<y passed into vou*
tihUOdTt. biAvti iuia hirtMy csiaoat, un
touched by dishonor, after a baptism of
blood that made tbe grey jacket a mantle of
glory, and wo aro as willing your people
should keep them as onrs. They are in tho
hands of oar government, and to whom onr
honor should bo as dear as their own.
Never again will the old battle flags wavo in
strife. They have gono down forever, but
thoy wont down in glory and honor. They
aro dead, and wo love and follow alono now
the living flag which floats from Key West
to the British channel, straight from Bun
ker Hill to Ban Francisco. As wo look at
tho banner of onr oonntry floating yonder,
wo ODly remember tbat since the birth of tho
nation it has been tho emblem of liberality
and the refoge of the oppressed; that Sonth
ern and Northern men boro it in trinmpb
from Saratoga to Yorktown, from Lundy'
Lino to Now Orleans, and that as united
brethren wo Hosted it over tho walla ot
Tripoli and tho halls of the Montezumoa.
We forget that it waa ever borne against un,
V - _ _. X M AM A# ill .". XT A.lt
not periah
OOL wm. B AYLETT,
who anooeoded General Armistead &8 cem
mander of the brigade npon tbe death of
Armistead, having been chosen to respond
on behalf of the btate ol Virginia to Venn-
syKama's welcome, said:
“Brothers and ei*Lers of the Keystone
State, ccmrade* of the great battlefield, my
countrymen all: We are here to-day as
friends and kindred of a cminion country,
sent to yon ty the Old Dominion as un ex
preaaion of her love and confidence. When
\ our invitation reached ot it touched onr
hearts in a tender piaco, and the ap*.ech of
welcome which ba* jnst teen delivered so
eloquently U worthy of tbe orator and the
great Slate and ci y which be represent*.
Not only do wo receive aud aball over treas
ure the'noble sentiments of Col. McOlnre,
as the voice of Pennsylvania
and ber chief city, bnt also
c f those brave men who met ns hero tw*n
ty-four years ago wita a valor that we conld
not overcome, and wuo meet ns hero to
night with a loving welcome so dear to m
and to onr people Not only do wo cher
ish the sentiments so nobly expressed, sc
warm and trno from tbe hearts of onr
brethren < f the North, but, remembering
the evocation and profesilon of tbe gifted
speaker, we hear in loud tones the voice
tbe great American preea— that power
mightier than armies or navies, mightier
than swords end the soeptres of king*, on
whose enpp. ring arm the Goddess
of Liberty leans, and whose daily
utterances proclaim that peace, friend
fihip and love once more bind tbi Atm rici
people with 9 f oldtn bands of indissoluble
and perpetual union; tho dims, whose
1 tbontand toegutn none c-»u nilence; whose
champions,
Bll nnbrlbed at Fr**d
Faithful and Arm, br w*rd«n of Uod.
Yes, my country rum, the pre** and the
brave and genetcus aolditr* of our land
fere brought th « night aod the-** n-ne* to
pdas. All honor and love to both. We
and as wo seo aronnd ns men of the'North
who have como down South and made onr
homes their home and our people their poo-
jle, wo hail to-day and henceforth all Amer-
cans everywhere as brothers, and claim
tnat onr homes and kindrod extend
lrom sturdy Maine and tho
grand old Bay States to whero
the gentle breeze High* throngh tbe orango
groves of Florida; from whero tbe Missis-
hippi, the father of waters, heaves his
mighty bosom, to tho groat lakes; from tbo
jreat lakes to the P.idflo, where tbo repub-
lean colossus holds in his benumbed grasp
the furs of the Arctic, and there, in sight of
the continont of Asia, proclaims tbe people
united for all time and great in all the tri
umphs of Anglo-Sixon welfare. The race
boned and sunk out of sight
forever, tho bitter memories of tho
war and tho griefs and sorrows
of North and South, HJ wo recall them
at all, lot it bo in a dream of poetry and
homage. England rememembers to-day
tbe wars of the Roses and the rival house*
of Lancaster. The glorious and imperisha
ble record of valor and renown aro wntuc
upon the highest realms of fame by North
and South aad claimed as a common priv
ilege and joint offering for all time to come
by iu» Vault* auivt'ivMU p«uplw
latest posterity.
Bpeeches were also made by General W.
F. (Baldy) Smith, General T. O. Owen,
General Isaac P. Wlst&r, Colonel John II.
Taggart, and olhera, for the "blue,” and by
Colonel Charles T. Loehr, secretary of
Pickett's Divirion Association, Colonel J.
F. Crocker, Colonel Robert M. Btribling,
Dr. J. A. Marshall, Colonel Timoleon
Smith, Colonel Kirk OLey, and others, on
bthalf of the "gray."
geance and deatrnction, will illustrate the
general impulse of brave men and their
honest desire for peace and reconciliation.
The friendly assault there to be made will
be rosistless, because inspired by American
chivalry, and its renult will be glo
rious, because conquered hearts will be
its tropica of succens. Thereafter this bat-*
tU Held will be conseorated by a victory
which shall presage the end of the bitter-
n< ks of strife, the cxpoeure <- f the insincer
ity which conceals hatred by professions of
kindness, condemnation of frenzied appeals
* 5 passion for unworthy purposes and the
eating down of all that stands in tho way
the destiny of our united oonotry.
hile those who fought and who have ho
much to forgive lead in the pleasant ways
of peaoe, how wicked appears the traffic in
sectional hato and betrayal of patriotic sen
timent. It surely cannot be wrong to de
siro tho Bottled quiet which fihall light for
onr entire oonntry the path to prosperity
and greatness, nor need tbe lessons of the
war be forgotten and its results jeopardized
in the wish for that gennino fraternity which
injures national pride and glory.
I should be very glad to accept your invi
tation and bo with yon at .this interesting
reunion, bnt other arrangements already
made, and my official duties hero w ill pre
vent my doing so. Hoping that the occa
sion will be as successful and useful as its
promoters can desire, I am 4 onrs very
truly, Gbover Cleveland.
FROM JOHN BUEUMAN.
Mansfield, 0., June 18, 1S87. Your
noto of tho lGtb, inviting me to be present
as a guest of tho Philadelphia Brigade at
Gettysburg on tho 2d, 3d, and 4th days of
July next, to attend a reunion of tho sur
viving members of that briibdo and of
Tiuketi'a uivision of the Confederate army,
is received. It wonld give mo pleaanre to
witness so interesting an event, but an en-
gtigi'iiient made here for the Fourth of July
will not permit. Sachareanion outhebattle-
ffeld cf Petersburg, of opposing forces so
distinguished for courage and heroism, will
bo a stroking and hop-f ul evidence of the
respect that bravo soldiers always cherish
for gallant enemies, lessening the animosi
ties of war. Union soldiers readily and
heartily acknowledge tho oonrage and
horu-rtlj of purp )ne ot Confcd. rate ho’, licr*,
and this feeling is, I believe as readily re
ciprocated by thorn, There should be no
enmitv or prejudice between them, and
now that all alike feel that an indostrnctible
union binds ns together thero should ho a
cordial and hearty fellowship between the
blue and the gray. lint this !,•. ling riiouhl
accompanied by u sincere desire to preaervo
for future ag«s the beneficent results of tho
war. In this tbe Sonth, as well ns the
North, is deoply interested. It was to pre-
seivs the Union and to secure to all tho
blessings of liberty that tho war was waged
and won. Upon this basis there would bo
no longer a danger line betweeu Union and
Confederate soldiers, or Northern and
Southern cltizeus, but tbo conrago and pa
triotism of both would be the common
pride and heritago of the American people.
I ti-sr,' l.e '-••el tt f** *~ • s»• — -j»sC^ ”1
will be an important step toward ho desira
ble a result. Very truly yours,
John Hheiimax.
TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUB.
Cob A. J. Loehr secretary, of Pickett’s
Division Association, was mainly instru
mental in bringing his Southern friends to
Gettysburg after tho refusal of tho Gettys
burg Monumental Association to permit
them to erect their monument whero Arm
stead fell, lie has work< ' day and night
for months to make th' liuthorn end ot
the rennion a success. \\ tiam B. Block-
ton, John W. Frazier, A. W. McDermott,
Hugh McKoever. Wm. O. Maspn, John E.
Reilly, John L. Bowers, Julius Allen. Wm.
Prior and Col. Charles IL Hanes, were most
aotivo in bringing about the reunion from
the Philadelphia end of the line, the first
five named having been working the matter
np for moro than hix months. Tho happiest
hit of all was the combination blue aud
gray badges of tho California regiment, the
seventy-first of the Pennsylvania line.
A SENSATION AT GRIFFIN.
THE TOWN SKINNED BY A PLAUSI
BLE STRANGER.
Tim Pevloin Device* of MaJ. H. <>. Wood’to
• IUiN« Money - II«.UetH~~"
\. Of It and Lenvet For Tarti* "***
luknown.]
Griffin, July 2. Our city is very tntioh
excited over the disappearance of H. O.
Wood, who left this city nearly four weeks
wo with the expressed intention of attend
ing to a business matter that had connec
tion with the establishment of the proposed
Merchants National Hank, with whioh he
liegwu pi
Georgia Hotel
npon it and
partner.
A TKUK. HLE DROUTH.
LETTERS Or BIURET.
John W. Frasier, secretary of the com
mittee of arrungementa, stated that lettetj
of regret bad been received from the Presi
dent and bis Cabinet, from Senator Sher
man. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, Hon. Edwin
M. Fitl* r, mayor of Philadelphia, General
Louis Wagner, Hon. George W. Childs,
George W. Curtis, Charles A Dans, Senator
D. H. Hastings, adjutant-general of Penn
sylvania, Gibson Peacock, and others, two
of which, one from the President end the
other f.om Senator Sherman, ho wonld
read:
TOE president's LETTER.
Executive Maxhion, Washisotoji, D. 0.,
Jane 24, 1887.-1 have received jour invi
tation to attend as a guest of tbe Philadel
phia Brigtdr*. a ream <u of ex-Confederate
Holdier* of Pickett’s divinions who survived
thtir terrible charge at Gettysburg and
thono of the Union army null burg, by
whom it wan hero.' »lly fitmiteJ. The fra
ternal m-ctiog of these soldiers npon the
battlefield where twenty-four Ago in
deadly fray they fiercely Bought ea.'hoth*r'«
I live*, where they haw their comridtn full,
| and where all their thought* were of Ten-
3fany Countlea In ILIuoU un-FWlAConaiu
aGreut IUmI <i f ' >»t.
Chicago, July I.—A loon paper sayn: No
snob drouth as now prevail- ha* existed in
Illinois aud Winconsin for rnauy years.
Tho roads are ankle deep with dust, pastures
are brown and tho leaves on forest and shade
trees shrivelled up, and each hot breath of
air from tho cloudless horizon drives them
away in showers. Creeks have ran dry and
tho water in 'arger streams is lower than
ever kuowu before. There has not been a
soaking rain in this part of the conntry
since March. Two showers in April and ono
each in May ond Jnno, had bat temporary
effects on crops. Stunted yellow spears,
bending disconsolately over immense
beds of dost are the only evi
dence that farmers ho wed any
corn tbis year. Tho leaves of the froit
trees are falling eff and tho frnit, which
promised to Le plenty, is wrinkled and
dried to the stem. Raspberry bafihes look
a* though th*y were producing » cr« p of
hliot, so infinite small aud hard are the ber
ries. Tbe dronth has become bo terrible
that poblio prayers are being offered for
rain. Fences . long tho pnblio roads and
tbe dead walls of villages are plastered with
hngo bills calling for special services at
district school homes and churches. Fires
are burning in the woods and pastures for
miles aronnd are scorched. Farmers haVe
lost many cattle in these fires,
which seem to spring np in a
dozen places at once. Reports
from all parts of Henry and adjoining conn-
Ufa tell of intense suffering from the drouth.
Drinking water in many towns has been
polluted, while the betls of creeks are cov
er*- 1 with <!• < ayiug till*. 1'h* drouth iu »ho
northern and central tier of counties of Illi
no is is not any more serion* than it is in
Wisconsin. The Badger State i* literally
burning up, and frnit and crops *re nearly
destroyed. Reports from uorthwentern
Iowa state that the dronth has keen broken.
entire particulars as learned by
yonr correspondent, «re rh fol
lows: Iu February, 1S8G, n grntVman
representing himself Major II 0. Wood,
a very wealthy lumber de.ler of Boston,
and tho owner of forty per cent, of the
Auii'^keag un!!*, came to this plaoe with W.
H. Moor, a former citi/"n of this ph.ee,
whom he met in Atlanta. From Moore ho
secured $400 on the representaUon that
he had bought the
and pAid $1,200
wanted Moor foi
Wood then dt posited $8t 0 in the (hty No
tional Hunk here, and, hh An invalid who
had come South for his health, he woh gen
erally received in a very hospitable mAtiner,
being a man of handm me ntylo aud appear
ance*, und upon occasion very agreeable
manners. H« secured h noto from h lady
At tbe hot:He where he waa boarding given
by a local firm, tor Ri.ruo, repreneniing to
her that he wan about to start a bank and
would give her ntock in tho same.
This he hypothec itod and used the pro
ceeds, buying an expensave borne end
buggy and living in elegant style. In Jnly
he was elected captain of the Spalding
Greys, and iue name nigiii gave a bau-
quet at tho armory, at which many of tho
bent po plo of the city were preHent, hh was
alno u lady introduced uh his sister, of Bos
ton.
AiiA.V thU time ho bought four acres of
land at the Hutuh end of town and proceed
ed to beautify it in good style and taste, and
to erect a huihII wooden cottage on the Maine..
On the 30.h of August ho whh quietly
married to the only daughter of ('apt. ii. I\
Hill, oue ot the richest men cf Griffin, and '
started off f.»r a European tour. When he
got to Atlanta he had hi* wife mortgage her ,
hrid >1 present of 400 a-sres *>f the be-t land
in Spilding county Cur $ ,200, on which
thoy proceeded to Enrepi. Ou their re
turn iu November 200 acre* of the land was
Hold at $20 i.u uerf, idthongh $4*1 won
ulltgf-d as tho conkideration in the till**.
The proceed* were unod to pay tho mort
gage on th* laud and to refund to Moor
and the • lady referral to the money
ii.‘h they were becoming anxious.
Hjon after the othfq two hundred acres
i ; 'i ui ilipfiiffi- price. At thm time
he exhibited to friend* h* re a bank book
showing a deposit of $20 into at the Mer-
chunU' Bank cf AtlaLtu, which hank s'litea
tliut he never had over $2,000 deposited
there at one time.
Really this spni.g Mnj. Wood hloaoLM a
Hcl.< rue to hturt unntii* r bunk here. Tho
new bunk wo* to bo called the Merchants'
National, and wm* to liuve a capital of $200,-
U'<), of which $‘»'Hmu w«h tol>e furnish* d by
hituRdf and other local capitali*^, und
$150,000 by Bouton men. He was
to bo president, W. E. II. Searov vioo-
presiyent and D. D. Peden.au «xp»ri«iioe
gentleman, formerly in burines* here, was
io be c.mhior. in purdi luce «»f thisscht-me
tho old bank building ou Solomon atreet
was at fonco started to bo repaired, and
has really been mi:c:i improved iu appear-
anoo. Not wishing, however, to uum oesiia-
rily antagonize an already established in
stitution, Mr. W vod tlun offered to buy out
the Griffin B inking Company with its cap
ital stock of $50,000 for $75,000, paying
$2,000 cash and giving his note for $73,000.
This being for some reason declined he
approached Messrs. 8?arcy and Peden und
secured $2,000 from each of them, in
order, hh he huid, to p*y eff
$1,000 borrowod on $20,0(0 of bjnds in
A Little Cyclone.
Chicago, Jnly 2.—A special from Foree
man, Ind.. says: A little cyclone passed
over this place from the southwest y* t
day. The west side of Heosan l re, House
man's general store was stove, in aud sev
eral o her Luilding* b.uily damugi-d Jameii
K-ij IhH'- h ii‘ *»r b.r.-, w** etru-k by
lightning. Ilsin and bail accompanied the
wind. There was great exciumer.t, bnt
nobody hart
I>avitt on » btuinpiof Tour.
DrBLiN, July %—Micbu*l Divitt hoR
started to funp S:ot!nrd on the Iiinh
question- He will afterward* go on n
Ntumping tonr through London and the
north ot England.
I Pie i
.rly. Dr.
Atlanta, which bond* he wished to deposit
for the bank in Washington. Mr. Peden,
however, was too wary to bo CAQght uopro-
tected, an l holds a rec# ipt for Li* money
sigood not only by Wood, us prisideut of
tho new bank, but by Mr. Searcy, kh vice-
president. As Mr. Searcy is financially
responsible far that Amount, Mr. Peden
will not be a loser in any event, however it
may effect Mr. Searcy. It was with theso
fund* iu bin p >*8*-*riou that Mr. Wood
loft for Cincinnati on the 7th of June us
above stated. More than this, it i* stated
that a bank of tbi* city has received notice
that a noto for $1,000, Indorsed by Mr*.
Wood, will be dm* and payable hero in July,
suoh a note being, it i* Mtrongly sormin^l, a
q’.i.'k aud «-.i-y w»»y while in Atlanta to m-
cire mor* mom-y f.>r the expense* ot the
Cincinnati trip.
Information from Washington is to the
effect that no application bus been mode
for a charter for a n itional bank. Neither
the wife of the absent bxnk president or
any oue eise baa had any communication
with him whatever, save a telegram tr >m
Cincinnati t ro days after his <1* nurture,
statiLg that be wo* called to New Y <rk on
burin*-*-.* roniiK'tcd *ith the vault that ho*l
been ordered for bis proposed bank fiorn
the Hall S if.* ein 1 I. >ck C< mpany, of Cin-
cinnati, by re tmu of a strike among the
employes of that company. He i* not ex
pected back by anyone. There are other
rumor* about him we r»frain from
mentioning and that cannot be est*bli*bod.
WANTS TO BE A STATE.
A Convention to Adopt a Cou-tt-
tutlon.
Salt LakeCitt, Utah, July 1.—The Utah
COUatllQUOLai coaveut. OotiipOix-a ot 75
dole gates < 1 -cU*l at county convention*, met
in tbe legisUtive chamber of tho rf*y >.*>1 at
noon yesterday. Jadge Warren N. I)asen-
b .r>, i a. \ u, w if, . i«- .1 t.-mp *»ar> pi«a-
i * -.t. nt. i or. j t\ -1.1 orcein:/ttiun ii>>n.
John 8. Caine, delegate to Congrc**-,
cho-en president ot the convention. Or in-
i/ition w.», |"f dul .a l a full M-t of i,ili-
ccrs ilccted, and the convention adj rrned
till to-day, pending th- appoints.' t of
standing ccmmittees. Interest in the more*
ment is general and intsuHe. Everybody
Lels that great importance atuchen to this
n*:w » :: *rt i -r ‘-i.»t-h*oi. An earn# *t en
deavor is btiog mode by conservative Mor-
EUOU8 to gria t’>t* r - .per■•turn ol all oiarncu
and partus in the prodding**
Tha Tblztle As.filn Win*.
Gliku.w, J .1) 1 in the Clyde regatta
to day th»* TnutU startod and won e*«iir.
A v«*rv Hght n^rUiweet wind prevaikd
throughout.