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given point.When the procession reached the Union League House, on Broad St., Mr. Charles Gibbons welcomed the Southern delegates.He said that he welcomed them as friends and brethren, that their souls were free from the guilty stain of treason. The Northern people knew something of their sufferings, sacrifices aml afflictions in the cause of the Union, when their homes were desolated and their helpless little ones persecuted to penury and anguish. The flag of a common country should now protect them against traitors, and secure to them the enjoyment of civil rights. The rod which had so sorely smitten them was broken. He said that when the South returned to the Union, she must come in a new garb, under the control of such loyal men as they were. With new covenants the Union must be restored, upon the broad and sure foundation of equal and exact justice to all men. He repeated his welcome to Philadelphia, in behalf of its people.Gov. Hamilton, of Texas, replied for the Southern delegation.
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The Tri Weekly Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1866
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