The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1903, Page 7

THE SUNDAY OALL, LINCOLN--Malice Toward RNone. Second Imaugural Address, Delivered March 4, 1865. On the occasion corresponding to this, four years ago, all thoughts were anxlously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it. All sought to avold it. While the inaugural address was be- ing delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the U without war, the insurgent agents were in th eking to destroy it with- out war—seeking to ve Union and divide the effects by negotiating. Both parties de ted war, but one of them would make war rather than let it perish, and war cam . . One-eighth of the tion were col- ored slaves. not dis rally over the Union, b ! These slaves contribute pec r and powerful inter- est, All knew the w 1 somehow war. To strer interest was would rend claimed no right to do more than either party expected the magnitude c neither anticipated that the cause of t conflict itself should cease. Each looked t less fundamental and astonishing. Both re. he the same God. Each invokes his aid against the ot t y seem strange that any man should e to ask a just God's as- » wringing bread from the sweat of ot ces: but that we be not judged. t her has been answered the Almighty Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe unto that man by whom the offense cometh 3 With ce toward none, with charity for all, with ness in the right, s us to see the right, let us strive the nation’s wou to care for him who & and orphane; to do all which m e lasting peace among ourselves McKINLEY--Glorious Old Flag. Oration Delivered at Dedication of a Soldiers’ Monument at Cleveland July 4, 1894. Is 1t any wonder that the old soldier loves the fleg under whose folds he fought and for which his comrades shed so much blood? He loves it for what it is and for what it represents. It em- yodies the purposes and history of the Govern- ment itself. It records the achlevements of its de- fenders upon land and sea. It heralds the herolsm and sacrifices of our revolutionary fathers, who planted free government on this continent and dedicated it to liberty forever. It attests the strug- gles of our army and the valor of our citizens in all the wars of the republic. It has been sanct!- fied by the blood of our best and our bravest. It records the achlevements of Washington and the martyrdom of Lincoln. It has been bathed In the tears of a sorrowing people. It has been glorified in the hearts of a freedom-loving people, not only at home, but In every part of the world. Our flag expresses more than any other flag; it means more 3 than afy other national emblem. It expresses the will of a free people, and proclalms that they are supreme and that they ac- knowledge no earthly sovereign but themselves. It never was assaulted that thousands did not rise up to smite the assallant. Glorious old banner! What does this soldiers’ and saflors’ monument mean? It means the immortal principle of patriotism. It means love of country. It means sacrifices for the country we love. It means, not only love of coun- try, but love of liberty! This alone could have inspired over 2,800,000 Union soldiers to leave home and f; y and to offer to dle if need be for our im- periled institutions. Love of country alone could have inspired 200,000 men to die for the Union. Nothing less sacred than this love of country could have sustained 175,000 brave men, who suffered and starved and died in rebel prisons. Nor could anything else have given comfort to the 500,000 maimed and diseased who escaped fmme- ~diate death in siege and battle to end In torment the remainder of their patriot lives. It is a noble patriotism. all heve borne the bat- hieve and cher tions. ; Notable Quotations From Patriotc and Memorial Adz/ras.;es | of Abraham Lincoln, Heary Ward Bescher, John A. Logan, ] Wiltiam McKinley, Benjamin Harrison and J. A. Garfield | GARFIELD--Crowns for the Dead. Oration Delivered at Arlin ton, Va., May 80, 1868. 1 am oprressed with'a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occaslon. 1f silence Is ever golden it must be here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant thau speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung. plight faith, With words we make promises, praise virtue. Promises may not be kept; plighted faith may be broken: and vaurtsd .virtue be only the cunning.mnask of We do not know one. vice, promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of mecn and citizens. For love of country, they accepted death, and thus re- solved all doybts and made fmmertal their patriot- fsm and thelr virtue. For ihe noblest man that lives, there still remains a confilet. He must still withstand the assaults of time and fortune—must still be assatled with temptations, before which lotty natures have fallen; but with these. the conflict ended, the victory was won when death stamped on them the grcat seal of heroic character, and closed a record which years can never blot. : Consider this silent assembly of the dead. What does it represent? It is an epitome of the war. Here are sheaves reaped in the harvest of death from every battlefleld of Virginia. If each grave had a volce to teil us what its silent tenant last saw and heard on earth, we might stand, with uncovered heads, and hear the whole story of the war. We should hear that one perished when the first great drops of the crimson shower began to fall, when the dark- ness of that first disaster at Manassas fell like an eclipse on the nation: that another dled of disease while wearlly waiting for winter to end: that this one fell on the fleld in sight of the eplres of Richmond, little dreaming that the flag must be carried through threz more years of blood before it should be planted in that citadel of treason; and that one fell when the tide of war had swept us back till the roar of the rebel guns shook the dome of yonder capitol and re-echoed in the chambers of the executive maneion. We should hear mingled voices from the Rappahannock, the Rapidan. the Chickahominy and the James, solemn voices from the Wilderness and triumphant shouts from the Shenan- doah, from Petersburg and the Five Forks, mingled with the wild. aeclaim of victory and the sweet chorus of returning peace. The voices of these dead will forever fill the land like holy benedictions. LOGAN--Stand by Your Country. Great Union Oration Delivered at Chicago August 10, 1868. 1 appeal to and entrea t you all, my country+ men, by all that you hold sacred, by the glorius memories of the pas’, the once bright hopes of the future, by the memory of the gallant ones who have fallen on the gory fields of the South, by the wounded and suffering who' still lnnw n our midst, by the sorrow and mourning that this wick- ed rebelllon has brought upon our o favored land—to be faithful, vigilant, u swerving, determined. 8 Come what may, dare to be men and do what is right. Stend by your couniry in all her trials, at every hazard or at any cost. Let it not be said that those glorious boys who now sleep beneath the red elay of the Bouth, or n-mi green sod of our own loved State, have died In vain. P S With rénewed zeal and fervor give such. ald’ and assistance to the Government and army of = the United States, in the prosecution of*this war, that panner again to float In triumph upon every hfll and moun- tain top and in every vale, from the north to the south, from the east to the west. May its untarnished escutcheon kiss every breeze that is wafted from the balmy waters of the South to the frozen regions of the North, or that trated, and stand side by side with the banners of the pro of ti earth. . HARRISON--May God Forbid. from the golden plains of the far West to mingle with those of the East. fl; it be unfurled in honor and pride Upon every ocean where civi mm 5 HABITATION OF HIS THRONE. GOD REIGNETH' AND THE GODERNMENT AT WJJHfNGTON STILL LIDES” in Wall Street When the Assassination of President Iincoln Was Announced There in 1868, Address to the Grand Army at Indianapolis, September 4, 1893. I see befcre me men who stood with Thomas in the last shock at Chickamauga, who hurled back that advancing and, for a time, irresistible wave f rebel bayonets that threatened to sweep our army into the Tennesses. I look into the faces of men to-night who stood In the bloody angle at Gettysburg and threw bacle the desperate charge that, had It won, woud have opened Washington to the rebel army. I look into the faces of men to-night who, In their individual service in the army, have per- forméd deeds of heroism and courage; who, riding with flashing saber over rebel guns, have carried the Stars and Stripes to victory. 1 look into the faces of men who, at the bayo- net's point, have pushed back their”country’s enemies and have planted its flag on rebel ram- o x ? parts. T 100K 1nto the faces of men who have shed their blood and dropped their limts upen the battlefleid, and who walk among us to-night, maimed, dismem- bered, that the honor of the Bag might be untarnished and the Union unbroken. Our hearts and our homes are open to you. If we bowed the knee to any, it would be to you. Can it be possible that, while the survivors of this great struggle are still with us, while they walk our streets, a generation has come on forgetful of their great achlevements? Has the moth 'of “avarice, the canker of greed, so eaten into the hearts of this generation that they are unmindful of these men? God forbid! The American soldier of the civil war has not been commercially greedy. He was not tempted to service by his monthly stipend. If there had been no other impulse than eleven or thirteen dollars a month we should have had no army. The men who went to the front were not im- pelled by sordid purpeses or hope of gain. And when the war was over their thought was net of dependence upon the Government, but upon their own right arms. 1 saw that great parade, with the gallafit and lamented General Sherman at its head, sweep by the treasury of the United States, and there was not a greedy eye turned toward it. Every eye was toward home, and the hurrying footsteps were bent thither. Every boy who had been spared in the great struggle was anxious to be again at the plow or in*the shop or in the office to take up agalm the work he had laid down that his country might live. Their hearts went faster than the quickstep of the march, on to the humble homes from which they had gone out, to the loved ones they had left there. The Grand Army of the Republic has rightly claimed that the man who by the way in the battle of life, from disease, or casualty, or advancing ye: and lost the capacity to maintain himself, should be cared for by the nation he helped to save, and not be dependent upon the township poor fund. BEECHER--The Earth Reeled. Delivered April 14, 18685, at the Raising of the Flag Over Fort Sumter. Since the flag went down on that dark day who shall tell the mighty woes that have made this land a spectacle to angels and men? The soll has drunk blood and is giutted. Millions mourn for myriads slain, or, envying the dead, pray for obliv- fon. Towns and villages have been razed. Fruitful flelds have been turned back to wilderness. It came to pass, as the prophet sald: “The sun was turned to darkness and the moon to blood.” The course of law was ended. The sword sat chief magistrate in half the natlon; Industry ‘was paralyzed: morals corrupted; the public weal invaded by rapine and anarchy; whole States rav- 8ged by avenging armies. The world was amazed. The earth reeled. ‘When the flag sank here it was as if political night had come, and all the beasts of prey had ¥ > come forth to devour. That .ong night ls ended. . 7 And .or this returning day we have come from afar to rejoice and give thanks. No more war. No more accursed secession. No more slavery, that spawned them both. Let no man misread the meaning of this unfolding flag. ““Government has returned hither.” ‘We invoke peace upon the North! the South! In the name of God we lift up our banner and dedicate it to peace, union and AMberty now and forevermore! tAmen. It says: Peace be to the West! Peace be upon