Monday, May 31, 2021
The Spirit of Fraternity
William McKinley, speech before the Georgia Legislature (Atlanta, December 14, 1898), in his Speeches and Addresses (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900), pp. 158-159 (at 159):
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What an army of silent sentinels we have, and with what loving care their graves are kept! Every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American valor. And while, when those graves were made, we differed widely about the future of this government, those differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms; and the time has now come, in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers.
