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Day
5
Month
June
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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[Congressman J. P. Dollerin, Ohio.] "Thi8 nation has lesa than half conquered the confedérate army if the ideas that formed the basis of confedérate politics are to remain a part of our national life." [Mail and Express, N. Y.l That in the year 1890 an American city should be robed in the rebel colors which it took the nation four years of bloody and terrible effort to tear down, is one of the most deeply shameful things in United States annals. [Gen. Sickles at Boston. Mav 30.] I read in the morning papers a description of the ceremony at the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Lee in Richmond. Now, comrades, I yield to none in the sentiments of fraternity and charity that actúate you and our country. I am unmoved by any rancour or asperity or hatred toward the men we met in battle, but l am an American ; I am a Union soldier and I lave my flag, and I say here and will say everywhere, that for Americans there is but one flag- [tremendous cheering and cries of "Good ! Good !" -the flag of Bunker Hill a,nd Saratoga and Yorktown, the flag of Lundy's Lane and Lake Champlain and Lake Erie and New Orleans; the flag of Scott and McDonough, Perry and Jackson ; the flag of Lincoln the flag of Hancock, the flag of Grant, the flag o Washington, the only flag leserving o honor from Americans. It is the only flag that should float over this broad land. It is the flag that represents the right and in all our charity let us not forget the diflerence between the right and the wrong.

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