Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1874 — fruits Meet for Bepentance. [ARTICLE]

fruits Meet for Bepentance.

Among “the things that make ! foi'peace” wo count'as one of the most I eanliful and efFe<-tive, a recent incident in South Carolina. The remains of two Union soldiers have reposed in neglected roadside graves near L-nicaster in ihatTlfte-, since February, 1865, when Kilpatrick's ! cavalry was skii'mishing thereabouts. Last month their bones Were disinterred with reverent ami tender care bv the Lancaster survivors of the Confederate army, ; placed in coffins and guarded by them in the court house, for several nights, while awaiting transportation, and forwal’ded for honorable? burial ip the National cemetery iift FlorwHoepthe railway also, by direction of the president, an old I Confederate officer, conveying them free of charge to Columbia. The i - ' ... i Southern soldiers engaged in this fraternal act also sent to the United States officer at Columbia a let. ter, written 4>y Judge Mackey, of i the Sixth Circuit,- saying that they were moved thereto by the strewing i ot; flowers upon the graves of comi fades at Madison. Wis,, last Deco- ' ration day by the Grand Army, by 1 the reeommendation.ot the Govern • or of Ohio that the State enclose the ! Confederate cemetery at Columbus; and by the earnest brotherly feeli ing of Grant, Sherman and other! Union officers at the reunion of Mexican war veterans in Washing- ■ ton, last January. And the judge, thus writing, says: “This act will meet with disfavor only from that ' select band of Southern patriots,' . who, amid the general clash of arms devoted their great mental energies ! to the ascertainment of the law- of ; safe distances as applied to project- ! iles, and stood firmly by-tkeir hmne-s j until, their homes were invaded rCoL.Black. U S. A., responding to d . the letter, foresees “the dawning of I a new, and better era; when the sol--die-rs o Like ..Union -wmL-oLMie_Caur J : federaey, with clasped hands and ! united hearts,” shall serve theircommon country, and closes tiitis: ; i “Please accept for yourself—tried in war and true in peace—and con- ' viy to all those whose kindly, gen- ■ erous interest and action in this ' matter will challenge the approba-j lion and admiration of cordial I thanks on my part, as well as in be" 11alf of those who on this occasion I have the honor to represent.” These be„“tlm things thatm.ake for peace,’' we repeat; and we can hard-, ly think that bv next Decoration ilay thereTvill lie a iK»rthern orator or journal to quarrel over flowers ! laid above thegraves ot Confederate I dead.-kgjr/g.yu'/i/ ( llepuhlican.