Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — OLD TECUMP TALKS. [ARTICLE]

OLD TECUMP TALKS.

Chicago, September 111—A Timas apeetat from Salisbury, M. C„ any* a grand reunion of tbo survivors of foe Confederate end Federal anntos boo boon arranged to take pises there on tbo Sd of October. Invitations were seat to both armies. Lieutenant-general P. H. Sheridan politely declined, on aeoonnt of pressing biwtoees engagements. He expressed bis hope of the surras* of toe movement. General W. T. ffiMraum wrote a letter which .has created ne little exoHement. The letter to as follow*: Tbe tone w too remote tor me to make a promisee bat I assure yob that it would be roost agreeable to me personally and aaefellv to meet yon on aay suitable occasion. Thera in ne nee of my missing terms. Whenever end wherever the honest men of North Carolina seek to allay sectional sad party animoaitie* and to cultivate feelings of fraternal respect for their fellow etttsen* of toe United States. It witl be to me meet tomptieg to some to Salisbury. I woaldfer prefer to oome alone tbaa as barer*. wilt a mat army, leaving desolation behind; but I most not be com sum* as amen ting to toe proposition that Confederates and Oaten mm warn alike worthy es a celebration for tbe terrible history of 1861ffiL I would mnoh prefer toeotpe on eome eivle oeraetoe, when ail are absolutely equal—al! altoe intorastod to toe present and future giorv fegSgTySS S&ZSJS. war. theagh we believe the people ge> orally wore opposed to miweelee; and I will say that yonr meeting, it confined to the surviving snt diera es North Carolina, win ha to feet e Confederate reunion, who* I weald oertainly be eat es pieea - “All eoldier* to tbeir' social reunions glorify tbeir deeds of hereto*, ami this reunion will bardlv be an exeeption; and it would bo n strange night for General Sherman to cheer the. vtotona* of hie imrmiM. sad remand to toe etaim that beoanaa toe soldiera of North Cwolins were brave, aad tree to tbeir State ami Itarth . js^SSSS. I f ° B * ,u '