Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — OLD TECUMP TALKS. [ARTICLE]

OLD TECUMP TALKS.

Be Beat Wise* Batten; hte Boldly Mi ttta KaMilha Different*® Betveea f Trefifirii ib4 Loyalty. 4 - U Off TWnwmt MM WOULD FRML OUT Off FLAOM AMO SO 80 MAST OOS- ' FMDM RAT KM. , General W.T. Sherman was invited to attend areoaioaof tto oarrfvare of te Cool ail arati aad Federal qrwio*. at Salisbury, North Carolina. October &L He deteired in tto fiaUawtog Hosoqotavßa® A wan fftmreftrvtre I Wimosioi. D. C . toll. 3 18)9 I Messrs Ov A. Bhrehsm A. O Hilvhortnq. 4toa A Ramsey oed Charles Pries Palistory, M. OU Q"?* I ”®®*;-* fcty to etereowlodre receipt of your letter of A«ga*t 39, inclosing a eirealre and Inviting me to unite with tbo snrvivorasff th® Into civil war, in a reunion at SsliobafT. N. a, aa Thursday, October 23, 1879, Tto tima is too remote for mo to maka a premire hat I assure you that it would bo moot agereoble to urn personally and Socially to meet yre on auv suitable ooessi-m. Three!* os see Umy mine lag terms. Wtooovar red wherever te bonnet men of Martel Carolina meet to allay seetfonsl and psrtyaaimosidea, and to oalttvaco feelings of frotersire sad respeot loethtor feltow-eitisen* of tto(J*£ tod State®, it will b* to mo mat tempting to come to Salisbury. I would for prefer to oomm alone (baa. a* before, with a vast army, leaving desolation behind, bnt I must not ho eonstrrea as assenting to the proposition thst Confederate and Union men were alike worth? of m celebration for the terrible history of 1861-5. rt I would much prefer to ooinn on some oivte ooeasion when all ore absolutely equal. sM alike iutorooted in the present sud future glare of our common oounhry. There wore very few Litton soldiers lu North Caroliua during tto war, though we believe the people generally wore opposed to secession and war; so that year meeting, if confined to surviving soldiers te North Carolina, will bo In font a “Confederate reunion," where I w.mld certainly to out of P AU toldir-fS in their auouil reunion* glorify their deeds of heroiam, and tbit reunion will hardly be aa exooptiou, and it would to a s trait go sight for General Sherman to ttbnnr tbe victories of bit eue.uiea. aad respond to the claim that, beoause the soldier* of North Carolina weep bravo aud true to their State and section, their oause wa* m sacred oa ear*, whioh finally triumphed aad made our Uuldn more glorious and more resplendent than before Were I present, and yaa soould suppress this natural feeling, I weald fi-el myaeif sa intruder, marring the natural happiueu of a festive occasion. I know that tbo soldier element were the first to lay the angry partisan feelings of the war, tmd are now loaders in the new epoch wbio.i is sure to add wealth and prosperity to our whole oouaUy, end wheu some uocadoa arises when wa may all moot on ooinmou ground iu No. th Carolina to Oelebrste some Revolutionary event, or to encourage some in odors ente.-prue, it wdl give me great pleasure to come to Salisbury to Raieigb, to Guilford Court-house, or ssy other plaoe is the “O-d North State." Wishing you au agreeable reunion, hut asking you to excuse me, I am, with re*poet, your* ms*t trul/ W. T. SoskJUii, Goner oi.