People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — ALL LOYAL TO THE FLAG. [ARTICLE]

ALL LOYAL TO THE FLAG.

Beene at General Gordon’s lecture on the “Bast Bays of the Confederacy.” There was a touching scene'at the conclusion of Senator J. B. Gordon’s lecture on the ‘‘Last Days of the Confederacy” before the Lincoln club at Rochester the other evening. General Gordon spoke for two and a half hours under appeals to‘‘Go on; go on. ” In concluding he said: ‘‘As I stand here tonight in yonr presence and in the presence of the great God who is the judge of us all as the selected chief of all the living Confederate . soldiers I want to present to you my honor, the honor of ail the living Confederates, the honor’ of a great people, that we are ready to join with you in waving aloft this proud banner (here he caught up the American flag from the table and held it above his head), and we join with you all who love that flag in saying that, by Gou’s help, there shall never come to it one blot or stain; that as long as the ages remain that flag shall be the most proud and potent emblem of human Ircodom in all this world.” The large audience arose as ono man and fairly went wild with enthusiasm. Old soldiers, with empty sleeves and hobbling on crutches, rushed forward with tears streaming down their cheeks and greeted their former foe. General Gordon was much affected.