Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1894, Page 9

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The list of en-| tries is unusually large, and the class of | | phia. beauties is the finest ever seen in Philadel- | FLOWERS OF SPEECH The Orations and Poems Delivered at the Various Cemeteries. BRAVE DEEDS FITLY COMMEMORATED The Noble Sentiments Suggested by Memorial Day Observance. PATRIOTISM AND HEROISM pacha SURE ee The sentiments, both in prose and verse, which the observance of Memorial day prompts, are not only wholesome, but as a rule on @ high plane. Patriotism and hero- ism and gratitude are some of the themes suggested, and when presented with the enthusiasm which the recital of brave deeds always kindles the orations of such an occasion are not only of present interest, but are of abiding importance. Below are given summaries of many of the orations and poems which were delivered today at the various cemeteries. AT ARLINGTON. The Address of Representative Martin and Col. Joyce’s Poem. The oration delivered at Arlington by Representative A. N. Martin of Indiana was elaborate and full of interest. He referred to the historic place where the exercises were being held and the memories which were evoked by standing on Arlington Heights and looking down over the city. He spoke of the dead heroes whose bodies were interred in the great national cemetery of Arlington. “But why stand we here amongst the graves of the dead at Arling- ton today?” he asked. “Why seek we not the walks of the living at this moment? Why are all these thousands of people gath. ered here now? Why this procession, the martial music and soft songs, the arms re- versed and flags draped? Why all these im- posing ceremonies? Let each one here an- swer from the heart as it may suggest, but let me reply that it is not only because this is Arlington, but because this is Memorial day, memorial of those who died to save our Union, Yes; Memorial day! Not Memorial day at Arlington only, but throughout the length and the breadth, the north and the south, the east and the west of this great and splendid Union.” He paid a glowing tribute to the flag, and touched upon its history and symbolism. He said: “When we today strew flowers upon the graves of our dead we may well the memories of the gallant men who mm to Yorktown, at Valley Forge, or at Fort Moultrie, under Wash- ington’s guidance, fought for the freedom we now enjoy. Whether under Jackson at New Orleans, under Scott at Lundy’s Lane, under Perry on Lake Erie, under Decatur in the Mediterranean, under Harrison at Tippecanoe, under ‘Mad Anthony’ Fort Wayne, under Taylor at Buena Vista, we may honor the memory of all who died un- der the stars and stripes in its defense, Honor to the Women. “Today, too, we honor those tender- hearted, brave, loving women who left home and Its comforts to seek’ out the sick and wounded upon, battle fields and in hospitals and whispered courage to the sick and con- solation to the dying. O, brave women! fit companions of heroes! worthy comforters of those who needed comfort; we pay our tribute of memory’s affection to you this Memorial day. Biographers pile high their Representative Marti encomiums of brave generals, and legisiative bodies engross in their minutes deserved praises of the leaders of armies, and to all these the soldiers who followed say amen. Our tribute today is freely paid to their memory. But methinks this day is especial- ly in memory of the dead who followed these great leaders. name would seek to pluck one leaf from the laurel of fame enjoyed by his leader. The speaker then referred to the achieve- ments and the characters of Grant and oth- er leaders of the war. “I believe,” he added, “that not one of these great leaders, if liv- ing, would check a word of mine when I say today that their achieverrents were only made possible, their fame only made sure and lasting, because of the fearless bravery and true patriotism of the men who followed their leadership and gallantly executed their command. The Common Soldier. “No man could ever achieve fame as a general at the head of an army of cowards. To eucceed at all, the general must have the active, instant support of brave sol- dlers. In spite of all that Grant could have done, the guns of the confederacy might still command the Mississippi at Vicksburg, if his soldiers had cravenly faltered and fled when that place was attacked. If his army had been cowards in the Wilderness, the battles of Cold Harbor and Spottsyl- vania would never kave been fought, and Lee would not have surrendered at Appo- mattox. If Hancock’s soldiers had been a crowd of cowards at Cemetery Hill, the force of the rebellion would not have been broken at Gettysburg. If that great host of Union soldiers had fled before Hood’s army at Nashville, ‘Pap’ Thomas’ name would have been little known today. If the soldiers of the Union had fallen back in terror before the batteries which thundered death down the sides of Lookout mountain and Missionary Ridge, Hooker would never have been known as ‘Fighting Joe.’ ” The patriotism of the common soldier, the prompt response of the plain people ‘was eloquently described. “In the mind of God himself,” he said, “what a monument of patriotism the blood and tears, the sighs and sufferings of the plain people of this land during that war must be! Fellow citi- zens, ladies and gentlemen, does not this scant recital of human suffering command your highest admiration for those who thus suffered, who today lie quiet in death, and who did this all for their country-all in defense of right--all for the land whose pro- tection we now enjoy? Worth It An. “Great as all this sacrifice was; terrible as all this suffering proved; yet, thank God, our land was saved to us, saved to our children, saved to the millions yet to come, and was worthy of {t all. The memory of our dead is sacred to us, and will be per- petuated ~~ after we all shall have gone to our rest, long after the last veteran has answered the roll call from on high, long after the sons of veterans have held their last camp fire and the embers of life died | ou omrades, our lines, once numbering mil- lions, are rapidly thinning out, and each Memorial day finds new graves filled from our ranks. It will not be many years un- til the ‘old soldier’ can scarce find a com- rade. Each sunset brings us ‘a day’s march nearer home.’ The bugle will never again sound the call to war in our ears. Peace, honorable peace, has come to stay. War's loud alarms will never ring out again for us. Where once the flag of rebellion floated the stars and stripes now wave, and will wave while time last. Where we found a divided land there is now a Union, ce- mented by blood, which will never lose its strength. Where we found hosts of foes there now are none to hate or strike. We are today a nation of sixty-five millions of people who follow and will follow the ‘old flag’ and no other. Let us remember that soon our eyes must close forever here to open, we hope and pray, where the only armies are choirs who chant praises to the Prince of Peace. Let us be ready for the change when it comes, and let us pray fervently to the Grand Commander above that war may never egain be permitted in our land. ' Affection for Comrades. “Let us remember, too, that our living comrades have a right to our loving friend- ship, and that life is too short to waste any of it in hating even an enemy, much less a comrade. Differences of opinions produce majorities and minorities in our land, and the rights of each we must respect and pro- tect as part of our creed. Let us never cherish such feelings as would lead us to indulge in harsh criticism or unjust censure of each other. Let us stand together in alding, not only each other, but all who need our help, in every just undertaking, and I am sure that the neighbors who know us and the children of the land will some day, when our time has come, strew the rose and the lily and the forget-me-not above us when Memorial day brings afresh to them memories of the old soldier sleep- ing beneath their floral offerings. “Fellow-citizens, while we commend the memory of the dead soldier to your loving care, and while we ask you to never forget Memorial day, and while we join you in praises of the great leaders of our armies, we ask you ever to cherish the living rem- nant of that great army which saved you the Union and made secure your happy homes for all time to come. The soldiers who patriotically gave service in the armies of the Union and yet survive, and the de- pendent dear ones of those dead, have full confidence that no act of this great peop) vill be other than friendly to them. They know that no law enacted for their recog- nition or assistance will ever be repealed or amended, except to make it better and broader, “The heart of this nation is big and gen- erous, and we know that its throbbings will ever beat warmly for the care of those who suffered that the Union should live.” No soldier worthy the | The poem was read by Col. John A. Joyce. It was in part as follows: We meet in bloom . tats seer te To pay respect and stand erect, ile strewing sweetest flowers Oer graves in sunny hours— ‘The graves of those who now repose these ‘shout K ‘went out Amid the battle breeze O'e: land and souading seas. oe ee And we who live shall ever give ‘Our praise and grateful tears Above the head where patriot dead Rest calmly, without peers, Through all the fleeting years. bag the true and bold s thelr me: In Maytime hours, ‘while stewing flowers Around the sylvan scene, Where reigns the rosy Queen. Bright fitting birds, with heavenly words, en melt matin lay, — 11 A sweet ong rol” to thrill the soul, ‘A requiem day by day, ‘That shall not pass away. In a. o'er winter's snow, ing crows shall tly ‘The midnight moon in hours of June Shall flood these graves with light— Allumine euch name with regal fame Eternal, pure and bright, Like stars in arctic night. They are not dead—thoy've only fled Away from homan eyes, To dwell above where God is love, Among the shining skies, Where valor pever dies. Upon each breeze that thrills these trees hear my comrades call, To join their band in that’ blessed land Where love reigns over all, Aud heroes never ful While yonder flag, like mountain craig, Deties the stcrm of fate, We'll celebrate in church ‘and state ‘Thelr glory, long and late, Among the’ good and great. We'll teach the son how fathers won On many a bloody field For Union rights in fearful fights, ‘Their hearts with valor steeled, Who died before they'd yield. We all regret and can't forget ‘The heroes who have died ‘To save this lund, free, proud and grand, Known o'er the’ world 80 wide, By battle-blood oft tried. oo. ‘Their work fs donc, no stars or sun all shine for them again; We only know they met the foe ‘On Moody hattle plain, Aud died for all our guin. ing flash and thunder crasi: er Wake them more; it in peace where sorrows cease, Away from battle corps, Upon yon shining sho: And when through rain, on sea or plain, ‘This Nation needs brave meu, ‘The youthful blood, a precious flood, Will fight each foe axai Pursue them to their den. And now farewell, ye sons who fell, ‘On mountain, vale or sea, For truth and light, for God and right— Martyrs without a plea, Who died to make men free! AT THE SOLDIERS’ HOME. Representative Cousins’ Oration and Representative English’s Poem. A+ the Soldiers’ Home cemetry the ora- tion of the day was delivered by Represen- tative Robert G. Cousins of Iowa. He spoke of the fitness of holding such a ceremony at this home, which America has made for those who bore her arms and maimed their bodies in her service. This memortal has many times been held, but, the speaker said, patriotism never tires and love forever ingers with the lost. “I know, too," he added, hat we are a | busy people; ‘too busy to make verses, too | serious to sing songs,’ but as long as lberty shali dwell among us to thrill the heart of age with memories grand, and with her painful and romantic story of the past en- raptured youth, we never can be too busy to be patriotic. “Bvery citizen of America,” he went on, ‘Is the living legatee of every Union soldier, whose will was written with his blood and probated in the court of war. When Robert ter sword of secession and of slavery, he surrendered the greatest power that was ever forged into a thunderbolt of rebellion against any nation. The combined forces of Bonaparte and Wellington could never have conquered that confederacy. Alexander and Hannibal and Caesar would have been lost in the awful storm of Gettysburg alone. We were saved from the furies of that fearful storm by the greatest and the grandest sac- rifice of human life that was ever made or offered on the altar of death’s history. We ty to comprehend it are We E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant the mas- | seek to measure all the sorrow, and are jum “But the sword of Lee,” the speaker add- ed, “has been surrendered, and the flowers of Maytime cover alike the graves of the confederate and the federal. Nature is too great and kind to foster prejudice, too wise to nurture hatred; it gives the violet roots and sunshine over the blue and gray alike. An Historic Prophecy. “A year ago I was passing Harper's Ferry, and as I looked over that historic ground, where the old log house had stood, I thought of the fire of war that kindled and flashed forth there about the time that I ‘was born; when Harper’s Ferry was upon the lips of every American; when the Cap- itol was first in danger; when the great Lincoln called for 83,000 volunteers to defend our own countryand our own flag against our x Representative Cousins. own citizens. And how they did come! That flag, ordained and fashioned by the con- tinental Co sal Boys, come and march under me—and how they did march! The Union, founded by the men who helped to keep that flag above the head of Wash- plage said, Come and die for me—and how they did die! Three hundred thousand of them! And then I thought of that historic brophecy, uttered thirty years ago, when the millions of America looked into each others’ faces, white with terror, and won- dered, What of the future? ‘When McClellan lay in the valleys of the east, holding in his quiver the fearful power of this great nation forged into the thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac, and dared not strike, when even the great Lincoln stood aghast, taking his daily ad- vice from the cabinet of circumstances, when the numbered days of 1860 and 1861 were passing like the ticking of a clock in a death room at midnight, when the great statesmen of the day prayed for the wisdom of the patriarchial fathers of our government and our beloved country seem- ed to say ‘If it be possible let this cup pass from me’—then it was that there arose and sounded far across the conti- nent the greatest and the grandest - ecy ever uttered and fulfilled in the life- time of an individual. It was the prophecy of Wendell Phillips, the scoffed and persecuted puritan of Bos- ton, the ripest scholar in history that Har- vard College ever knew—the man who walked across the stage of life without looking to either side to catch his image in the mirrors of the world—and this was his prediction: “As long as there is a slave within our borders there can be no union; and yet I believe in the possibility of jus- tice, in the certainty of Union. Years hence when the smoke of this conftict clears away the world will see under our banngg.all tongues, all creeds, all races—one wept hood—an mee the genius of liberty robed in light, four and thirty stars for her broken under her feet and an olive branch in rignt hand.’” ; ~~ Present and Fetare. In poetic language he surveyed the changes that had been wrought since the war and found in the exposition at Chi- cago the realization of Phillips’ prophecy, when “all tongues, all races” are Dememth the banner of this country. “To preserve is as great as to establish,” he said in conclusion. “With all the assur- ances of the century that is gone, with independence won and slavery destroyed, with victory and union and our great in- dustral prosperity written in our history, who will fill the page of prophecy for the century to come? Let him or her who writes the prophecy remember well the perils of a peaceful era, the rocks that hide their treacherous héads beneath a tran- quil sea, and let him tell the country that our welfare and perpetuity depend upon fidelity to law, a high regard for public morals and humanity, adherence to the Pilgrim covenant—the eternal voice of the majority—and above all, the allegiance to the Constitution and the flag, such as was borne—even unto death—by those we honor here today.” Representative English. The poem of the occasion was by Dr. Thomas Dunn English, a member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey. It was as follows: ‘The grand old flag oats overhead today, Rippling is colors in ihe breeze of May; Beneutu these rugged oaks with lofty Leads, Nature her springtime robe of verdure 5] Before us are these veterans grim and old, Waiting to hear the glorious tale retoid-~ ‘an eads; bd enfecbled now, yet ready when alarm tw take the tield again; of u later da; rouns, ° With silver tohgue; Youth, axe, aud manhood drawn from far und near, With glad and heartfelt greetings gather here, All meet in memory of the crisis when The greatest need the courtry had was men; All meet to celebrate with loyal pride, How full that need a willing land supplied. With age dim sighted, yet the poet sees Pass steadily yonder other forms than these. Without the blare of triumph or beat of drum ‘The grand old soldiers of tue Union come. In rank on ravk with quick and noiscless tread Sweeps to the right the army of the dewd. It comes from resting places far and wide, From sepulchres that skirt the riverside, From far-of buttle fields their graves unknown, From spots where fell some sentry, sad and lone! O'er bili and vale, through sunshine through storm, ‘ The martial dead return to human form; And gathering there the glorious boys in’ blue March, und saluting, pass in grand review. kiGH JOULDER-SHIFT! “Then, timed to soundless beat, ‘The swiuging step ef many a thousand feet. But, as 1 gaze upon its proud array, Tuat army in the distance melts away. These hosts are gone. They mix not with our ves AN shedows they, bat what they did survives. They found the Union shattered when they rose, The scoff of foreign, jeer of bome born foes. They sprang to arms, they fought, they fell; but none Doubted when dying, that the fight was won. Each saw with glazing eyes before him thronged A reunited people, frm and strong. His was prophetic vision, Peace extends Her resttal wings o'er those once foes, now friends; And brotherhood redominates the land Of sovereign states bound with perpetual band. If ever now a hostile foe should dare Invade with bold intent our country fair, How quick would stand in olden skilled ‘array, Shoulder to shoulder, both the blue and gray. ‘The past is gloriovs. Shall we e’er {¢ The veterans’ service and country’s debt? But few survive; age, penury, and pain Are thinning fast the veterans who remain. Shall sleek economists then grudge the meed A country gives its servants in their need? Not long these heroes need our belp and thanks, For death is breaking fast the white-haired ranks, Dear mother country! That indeed were Staining thine bonor, aaietas eo name, ‘If these were mot from out full supply, Sustained while living, honored Thou lovest all thy children! Thy love no less for men who For wen whose deeds Restored the U when they die. Let us see it for thee— rivers run. CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY. The Sentiments Uttered by Represen- tative Pence and 8. 8. Yoder. The speakers at Congressional cemetery were Representative Lafe Pence of Colo- rado and Mr. 8. S. Yoder. Representative Pence spoke of the pass- ing of years and the burden of infirmities and weakness that came in their train, bearing heavily upon the veterans of the war. “You now halt,” he exclaimed, “as if wearied. As you stand you show too plain- ly that the short tramp of today brings more fatigue than did exposure, conflict and severest march in your vigorous duys of a generation ago. My message to you is Brief. In the name and by the authority of the generation to which your sons be- long I here and now remind you that the inspired hope expressed by Abraham Lin- coln at Gettysburg on November 1%, 1863, has been fulfilled. “These dead have not died in vain.’ “On this anniversary of flowers and sweet remembrances, all voices say the people's government abides more firmly and gives better promise that it ‘shall not perish from the earth.” The burden of duty passes swiftly from one generation to another. Life’s span at best is short. The sires whose blessings gave you more of inspira- tion to do and, if need be, die, than all the sound of martial drum when first you shouldered arms, have long since gone to peaceful rest and even you, so short a time ago the active, acting, moving power of the republic, are frail from age, exposure and wounds and the blessed land whose stars you saved now must find its servitors in your A Precious Trust. “Be ye not afraid. The sons and daughters who, coming after you, inspired by the memory of your valor and devotion, have assumed the active duties of the nour and day, in field and farm, in mart and shop, are gathered here around you, and my com- mission of this hour is to speak their mes- sage and say to your thinning ranks, by the stars and stripes which you saved for us, by the Union you preserved for us, be- fore the God who directed your battles and gave you victory, we shall not shirk nor seek to avold nor put aside the proper debt comrades, if living, and if dead, then to their widows and orphans according the broadest limits of generosity and pa- triotism. “Nor do I doubt that the children of the new south, will join in this pledge. Just as VS Representative Pen the mothers and widows of the dead con- federates inaugurated the sweet custom of strewing flowers on the graves of Union soliiers, so will their children cheerfully continue, by every possible way, the proof that they, too, are glad you won the victory and, though against the rash wish of their stad gave to them @ flag to love and de- Peace in the South. He said that of all our country the south is now least disturbed. “It matters not to consider whether her people are the most or the least prosperous; whether her toilers receive the highest or least reward for their labors; whether her great agricultural class is rising or falling in wealth, from her midst there come no alarming reports of violence or riot. While from every other section come daily reports of friction and confusion, misunderstanding and conflicts, none such come to us from the southland. She has learned that no gain can come from a defiance of the legally constituted authorities of the land.” In regard to pensions he said: “There is not too much but rather too little of fa- voritism to the veteran in our laws and practices. It may be, no doubt is, true that many false and fictitious claims have grown up under the beneficent laws enacted for the benefit of the deserving, but that is in no sense the fault of the deserving and the government has no right in law or equity to ask or expect the deserving to - postponed or defeated on account there- of. “Wherever the law gives a preference to the old soldier, in employment or service of the country, see to it that by no oversight is it neglected. To the full limit that the law permits it your ranks, now so rapidly passing from the active field to the ‘silent tents spread on Fame's eternal camping ground,” should be permitted and called upon to make up those who shall make up the government pay rolls. All the pcople of the land, of all parties and sections, would urge the same, for all the people of the land, of ali parties, are grateful for your sacrifices, and know full well that the proof of it is in performance and not in profession.” S. S. Yoder’s Addre«s. After referring to the significance of the day and its ceremonies, Gen. Yoder said: |“Our love for the soldier should be as deep as the sea and as irremovable as the mountain, and next to it should be our love for the flag under which he fought. It is a significant symbol. As at the sight of the cross in the heaven the great Con- stantine was led to victory, so the sight of the flag of our country should inspire us to patriotic devotion, as an emblem of our redemption from tyranny and threatened dissolution, into a nation free and insepar- able. “Over a land torn by the fury of battles, trampled by the march of armies, picreed for the burial of the multitude of dead, nature has today spread her beautiful covering and deep scars of war are being obliterated. Opinions, cherished for gen- S. S. Yoder. erations and fought for in the field of bat- tle, are eradicated by the growth of new in- terest and the creation of new sympathies, and over a hundred battle-fields of war now move that busy host—a prosperous and happy people. “This is a day of peace and reconciliation. Whatever of politics or of prejudices stand across the track of reconciliation, business communication and material interest be- tween the north and the south will be crushed under the wheels of fraternity and common interest. It is a most commendable fact that this day witnesseth ‘scenes that of gratitude which is due to you and your | will astonish skeptics. Nearly million: men, to say nothing of the ladies and dren, observing this national Ek well for the patriot that as we recede this day sally observed. Tribute to Woman. “You veterans of the hay around the graves of comrades You outlived the fiery storm. down before you. There is no appeal to you, whose record is fire and blood, to be true to the comrade who touched elbow you fought or died in your under flag. Because you fought they the nation lives. The forms and fs those stirring times, and the events of great war, in which we bore a part, thirty years seem unreal and q the wer eo of a dream. But our recollections of the days of preparat and the campaigns and battles which jowed—with all our recollections of who lay wounded among the dying dead, of sickness and suffering in hospitals, of starvation and death in prisons, there are closely and inseparably linked sacred - —— memories of love and devotion of tender sympathy and unflinching courage of the unbrevetted, untitled heroines—wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts—the great army of noble, patriotic American women. None that ever lived were of a nobler, truer type. They made the flag which was to be the cherished emblem of home and country. They organized societies in the field and hospital. Who can’ paint in fitting words their anxiety, sorrow and their sacrifices? God bless our patriotic ladies.” Mr. Calver’s Poem. The poem was read by Mr. Thomas Cab ver. It was entitled “In the Shadow of the Capitol.” The breath of Freedom And thrills my beart yA sas Bepeath the of her In thy sweet air, And as I gaze, with ever-growing pride, i i L E i E ot written memory Egearti the your arms and fehaeeet | gl on Shy Capltor's tea dome, Weird, spectra: pageants throagh \istons: Out from thy Wondrous past, my home! iI =: - gare ome ~~ banks: ‘» Arlington's enflowered ivan height, j Aud see the spectral files, the ghostly, sume their marcies in the skies of migbt. Then, toward the north, w ‘th |, The worn, spent soldier dreams bis I see dim shades of troopers dra | form beneath the batt The noble hero dead! How well they The vigil that averts the threatened The watch aud ward that saves jeep A nat.ou's sentinels through danger's Th.tr wonoments proclaim her peeciess theme; Tae tablets of her glory mark thelr graves; ‘The lessons of the past live in each name Engraven on the tombs of fallen braves, Then the beauties of fair Flora's bowers ‘And mark thelr resting place, with band And tears that fall, far sweeter than the ‘To freshen sod that holds the hero band; And let their story live in silver song ‘That through the coming centuries shall ring, and iwecter grow as cycles poss along, ab here, in the leaty gla@ety their blades: : i And teach the world the AT GRACELAND CEMETERY. Representative Pickler’s Elequesit Words of Patriotic Citizenship. At the ceremonies at Mt. Qlivet and Graceland cemeteries the oration was Ge livered by Representative Pickler of lr | u the tion, mindful of the war, bows its reverently pays to an annual tribute t i E & i [ & ght all of flowers ears. “Fellow soldiers,” he con’ I are proud that we were comrades these fallen ones. It is pardonable it was a grand army—it was a cause. And around these graves, old sol- diers, let us pledge again our allegiance to the principles for which they ——. for which they died, and that we M4 sacredly defend their memory. But e honor the soldier, we would not the great and equally necessary work by the warm-hearted Union people at The rebellion could never have been quered but for the earnest support and couragement from the friends of Every loyal man and woman try gave money, time or labor for cess of our armies. “Your aid societies’ ladies sent inn able comforts to camp and hospital, delicacies strengthened many a and your kindness smoothed the Li ii teil f ; His low of many your number with a courage no less com- mendable than the Maid of Saragossa, or the heroine of Scutari, went down to the | very edge of the fight to rescue the wound- ed and cheer and comfort the dying gentle ministrations. And final, us covenant together that we will stand in torian of this nation over its achievements for the a years he is astonished at its un progress. Greater advancement in art, civilization, science, Christianity, the building and betterment of man his vision than has met the view of the | Egyptian Sphinx during any twenty centu- ries of its existence. Because They Died. “No philosopher,nor poet, nor statesman may compare all of previous human histofy with the history of the American nation since the civil war, in all that uplifts, en- lightens, educates, Christianizes and glori- fies man. It is not my purpose in the mention of this history to do so in any spirit of glorification of the American nation. In the mention of this progress I would on this national commemoration day solemnly and indelibly impress upon the children and grandchildren of these men whose graves we honor and upon the children and grandchildren of their comrades, and I would inscribe on the mind and heart ef the grand generation of younger men an@ women and children born since these men gave up their lives in camp or bat in letters that shall never grow dim, and would in tones of undying emphasis rivet the understanding of those of our citizens born in other lands, that the great and un- paralleled progress and advancement of thie nation since the civil war are facts in his- tory. And that they are facts that could not exist and facts that would not exist not these men ; haat without the death of these mén this dear old flag would be @ despised em- blem of the past, without honor and with out respect among the nations of the earth, That instead of its stars being in one-third in number since the war by the admission of eleven new and progressive states, those formerly borne would have been torn from and blotted from its folds, had not these men died. Our Debt of Gratitude. “Had these men not succeeded, and i (Continued on Twelfth Page) \