. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. capital of this section in developing the vastresources of the southern states. (Applause.) To accomplish thisthere must be strong fellowship and mutual confidence existing between thepeople of what was once known as the Confederacy and the section con-taining the great cities of the north. There should be closer unionbetween all sections of onr country, for there is great and i^rand andglorious work for all true lo\^al men and women to do, and they shouldstand united to promote our national welfare,


. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. capital of this section in developing the vastresources of the southern states. (Applause.) To accomplish thisthere must be strong fellowship and mutual confidence existing between thepeople of what was once known as the Confederacy and the section con-taining the great cities of the north. There should be closer unionbetween all sections of onr country, for there is great and i^rand andglorious work for all true lo\^al men and women to do, and they shouldstand united to promote our national welfare, that the republic mayalways endure. (.\pplause.) I do not believe that the Columbianexposition of 1S93 was a more momentous e\eiit in its future iniliK-nceupon both our city of Chicago and upon our Nation than is this secondreunion of the great representatives of onr civil war, more than aquarter of a century .after the object lesson taught b\ (iraiit ,tiul Lee at.•\ppomattox and thi- jirecepts left to us by the immortal Lincoln ofcliaritv toward all and malice toward none. (Applause.). LlKliT-GEN. STEPHEN D. LICE. DLKISG TlIK SIXTIES.


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