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The birds are singing all around,
From every hill and tree,
'Till all this bright and sunny world
Seems full of melody,
And hearts and voices vibrato with
The summer tones of glee.
The streamlet dances in the sun.
With sparkles on its tide,
As bright as beams from beauty's eye
When flashing in its pride,
(Jr dew-drops glistening in the grass,
The forest lake beside.
The willow with its drooping form
Is hanging o'er the stream ;
Each pensic bough upon the wave
Is seen with imaged beam,
As memory paints each joy and grief
Upon the sleeper's dream.
The children on the springing turf
Are sporting 'mid the flowers,
With swigs that fall upon the heart
Like spring•time's early showers,
Or music heard fur o'er the sea
llu eveniug's moonlit hours.
The nights, so full of poetry,
And soft and dreamy now,
And thousand bright and gem-like stars
Fall on the watcher's brow,
Ur light the lovers as they breathe
The oft repeated vow.
The mountain top is dimly seen
In morning's purple light,
As one by one the shadiiws flit
Like spectres of the night,
And day, unbound by misty robes
la beautiful and bright.
The valleys with their cottage homes
Sleep the a dream of love,
And many a happy heart is there,
Pure as the trusting dove;
Fur woman's smile is tinting all,
Like sunlight from above.
The will-vine clings around the oak
With many a graceful fold,
And fleecy blossoms scent the air
With wealth of sweets untold,
While sunbeams aloker through the leaves
Like Hakes of falling gold.
'Tis June, brigh Juno; and every heart
Ben s with a wilder thrill,
As from each bud of loveliness
Our spirit, think their fill,
And days and hours go singing on
Like to a summer rill.
DEDICATION
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BATTLE MONUMENT
\VLST POINT
011ficriox OP (EN. AIf..CIAP.I.T.A.N
AB nations have days sacred to the re
membrance of joy and of grief. They
have thanksgivings for success ; footings
and prayers in the hour of humiliation
and defeat ; triumphs and paeons to greet
the living, laurel-crowned victor. They
have obsequies and eulogies for the war
rior slain on the field of battle. Such is
the duty we are to perform to-day. The
poetry, the histories, the orations of an
tiquity, all resound with the clang of arms;
they dwell rather upon rough deeds of war
than the gentle arts of peace. They have
preserved to us the names of heroes, and
the memory of their deeds even to this dis
tant day. Our own Old Testament teems
with the narrations of the brave actions
and heroic deaths of Jewish patriots
while the New Testament of our meek and
suffering Savior often selects the soldier
and his weapons to typify and illustrate
religious heroism and duty. These stories
of the actions of the dead have frequently
survived, in the lapse of ages, the names
of those whose fall was thus commemorated
centuries ago. But, although we know
not now the names of all the brave men
who fought and fell upon the plains of
Marathon, i in the pass of Thermopylin, and
on the hill S-of Palestine, we have not lost
the memory of their examples. As long
as the warm blood courses in the-veins of
man ; as long as the human heart beats
high and quick at the recital of bravo
deeds and patriotic sacrifices, so long will
the lesson still invite generous men to
emulate the heroism of the past. Among
the Greeks it was the custom that the
fathers of the most valiant of the slain
should pronounce the eulogies of the dead.
Sometimes it devolved upon their great
statesmen and orators to perform this
mournful duty. Would that a Demosthe
nes, or a second Pericles could rise and
take my place to-day, for 'be would find a
theme worthy of his most brilliant powers,
of his most touching eloquence.
I stand here now, not as an orator, but
as the whilom commander, and in the place
of the fathers of the most valiant dead ;
a their comrade, too, on many a hard
fought field against domestic and foreign
foes—in early youth and mature manhood
—moved by all the love that David felt
when he poured forch his lamentation for
the mighty father and son who fell on
Gilboa. God knows that David's love for
Jonathan was no more deep than mine for
the tried friends of many long and event
ful years, whose names are to be recorded
upon the structure that is to rise upon
this spot. Would that his more than
mortal eloquence could grace my lips, and
do justice to the theme !
We have met to-day, my comrades, to
do honor to our 'own dead—brothers united
to us by the closest and dearest ties—who
have freely given their lives for their
country in this war—so just and righteous
so long as its purpose is to crush rebellion
and to save our nation from the infinite
evils of dismemberment. Stich an occa
sion as this should call forth the deepest
-and noblest emotions of our nature—pride,
sorrow, and prayer. Pride, that our coun
try has possessed such sons; sorrow, that
she has lost them ; prayer, that she may
have others like them ; that we and our
successors may adorn her annals as they
have done ; and that when our parting
hour arrives, whenever and however it may
be, our souls may be prepared for the
great change.
THE VOLUNTEERS
We have assembled to commemorate a
oenol aph which shall remind our children's
children in the distant future of their
fathers' struggles in the days of the great
rebellion. This monument is to perpetuate
the memory of a portion only of those
who have fallen for the nation in this un
happy war ; it is dedicated to the officers
and soldiers of the regular army. Yet this
is done in no class or exclusive spirit, and
in the aet we remember with reverence
and love our comrades of the volunteers
who have so gloriously fought and fallen
by our sides.
Each State will, no doubt, commemorate
in some . fitting way the services of its sons
who aoandoned the avooations of peace
and shed their blood in the ranks—will
receive some memento of a nation's love,
a nation's gratitude. With what heroism
they have confronted death, have wrested
victory from a stubborn foe, and have il
lustrated defeat, it well becomes me to
say, for it has been my lot to command
them on many a sanguinary field. I know
that I but echo the feelings of the regulars
when 1 award the high credit they deserve
to their brave brothers of the volunteers.
But we of the regular army have no
States to look to for the honors due our
dead. We belong to the whole country.
We neither expect nor desire the General
Government to make, perhaps, an invidi
ous distinction in our favor. We are few
in numbers, a small baud of comrades,
united by peculiar and very binding ties.
For, with many of us, our friendships were
commenced in boyhood, when we rested
beneath the shadow of the granite hills
which look down upon us where we stand ;
with others the ties of brotherhood were
formed in more mature years—while fight
ing amid the rugged mountains and fertile
valleys of Mexico—within hearing of the
eternal waves of the Pacific—or in the
lonely grandeur of the great plains of the
far %Vest. With all, our love and confi
dence has been cemented by common
dangers and sufferings—on the toilsome
march, in the bivouac, and amid the clash
of arms and the presence of death on
i-eores of battle-fields. West Point, with
her large heart, adopted us all—graduates,
and those appointed from civil life—officers
and privates. In her eyes we are all chil
dren, jealous of her fame, eager to sustain
her world-wide reputation. Generals and
private soldiers, men who have cheerfully
offered their all for our dear country, we
stand here before this shrine, ever here
after sacred to our dead, equals and
brothers in the presence of the common
death which awaits us all—perhaps in the
same field and at the same hour. Such
are the ties which unite us—the most en
dearing that exist among men ; such the
relations which bind us togetler—the
closest of the sacred brotherhood of arms.
It has therefore seemed, and it is fitting,
that we should erect upon this spot, sacred
to us all, an enduring monument to our
dear brothers who have preceded us on
the path of peril and of honor which it is
the destiny of many of us some day to
tread.
What is this regular army to which we
belong ?
Who wore the men whose death merits
such honors from the living
What is the cause for which they have
laid down their lives?
Our regular or permanent army is the
nucleus which in time of peace preserves
the military traditions of the nation, as
well as the organization, science, and in
struction indispensable to modern armies.
It may be regarded as coeval with the na
tion. It derives its origin from the old
Continental and state lines of the Revolu
tion, whence with some interruptions and
many changes, it has attained its present
condition. In fact, we may with propriety
go even beyond the Revolution to seek the
roots of our genealogical tree in the old
French wars ; for the cis-Atlantic cam
paigns of the seven years war were not
confined to the " red men scalping each
other by the great lakes of North Ameri
ca," and it was in them that our ancestors
first participated as Americans in large
operations of civilized armies. American
regiments then fought on the banks of the
St. Lawrence and the Ohio, on the shores
of Ontario and Lake George, in the islands
of the Caribbean, and in South America,
Louisburg, Quebec, Duquesne, the Moro
and Porto Bello attest the valor of the
proviikcial troops and in that school were
educated such soldiers as Washington,
PLltElial, Lee, Montgomery and Gates.
These and men like Green, Knox, Wayne
and Stenben were the fathers of our per
manent army, and under them our troops
acquired that discipline and steadiness
which enabled them to meet upon equal
terms and often to defeat the tried veterans
of England. The study of the history .of
the Revolution and a perusal of the des
patches of Washington, will convince the
most skeptical of the value of the perma
nent army in achieving our independence,
and establishing the civil edifice which we
are now fighting to preserve. The war of
1812 found the army on a footing far from
adequate to the emergency, but it was
rapidly increased, and of the new genera
thin of soldiers, many were found equal to
the requirements of the occasion. Lundy's
Lane,
Chil pewa, Queenstown, Plattsburg,
New Orleans, all bear witness to the gal
lantry of the regulars. Then came an in
terval of more than thirty years of external
peace, marked by many changes in the or
ganization and strength of the regular ar
my, and broken at times by tedious and
bloody Indian wars. Of these the most
remarkable were the Black Hawk war, in
which our troops met unflinchingly a foe
as relentless and far more destructive than
the Indians—that terrible scourge, the
cholera—and the tedious Florida war,
where, for so many years, the Seminoles
eluded in their pestilential swamps our ut
most efforts, and in which were displayed
such traits of heroism as that commemor
ated by yonder monument to Dade and his
command, when " all fell save two, with
out an attempt to retreat." At last came
the Mexican war to replace Indian con
tests and the monotony of frontier service,
and for the first time in mary years the
mass of the regular army was concentrated,
and took the principal 'girt in the battles
of that remarkable and romantic war.
"TIIAT 00UNTRY 18 THA MOST PHOEIPABOUS %MAAS LABOR MOUNDS THE GIAATIET SAWAHD.d'--BUOHANAN.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1864.
Palo Alto, Bence, and Fort Brown were
the aohievements of the regulars unaided;
and as to the battles of Monterey, Buena
Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerra Gordo and the
final triumphs in the valley, none can
truly say that they could have been won
without the regulars. When peace crown
ed our victories in the capital of the Mon
tezumas, the army was at once dispersed
over the long frontier, and engaged in
harassing and dangerous wars with the
Indians of the plains. 'Thus thirteen long
years were spent, until the present war
broke out, and the mass of the army was
drawn in to be employed against a domes
tic foe.
I cannot proceed to the events of the re
cent past and the present without advert
ing to the gallant men who were so long of
our number, but have now gone to their
last home ; for no small portion of the
glory of which we boast was expected from
such men as Taylor, Worth, Brady,
Brooks, Totten and Duncan.
rhere is a sad story of Venetian history
that has mo wed many a heart, and often
employed the poet's pen and painter's
pencil. It is of an old man whose long
life was gloriously spent in the service of
the state as a warrior and a statesman,
and who, when his hair was white and his
feeble limbs could scarce carry his bent
form toward the grave, attained the high
est honor that a Venetian citizen could
reach.
He was Doge of Venice. Convicted of
treason against the State, he not only lost
his life but suffered besides a penalty
which will endure as long as the name of
Venice is remembered. The spot where
his portrait should have hung in the great
ball of the Doge's palace was veiled with
black and there still the frame remains
with its black mass of canvas ; and this
vacant frame is the most conspicuous in
the long line of effigies of illustrious
Doges ! Oh, that such a pall as that
which replaces the portrait of Maurino
Faliero could conceal from history the
names of those, once our comrades, who
are now in arms against the flag under
which we fought side by side in years gone
by. But no veil, however thick, eon cover
the anguish that fills our hearts when we
look back upon the sad memory of the past,
and recall the affection and respect we en
tertained toward men against whom it is
now our duty to act in mortal combat.
ould that the courage, ability, and
steadfastness they display had been em
ployed in the defense of the Stars and
Stripes against a foreign foe, rather than
in this latuitous and unjustifiable rebellion,
which could not have been so long main
tained but for the skill and energy of these,
our former comrades.
GENERAL SCOTT
Bat we have reason to rejoice that upon
this day, so sacred and eventful for us;
one grand old mortal monument of the
past still lifts high his head among us,
and should have graced by his presence
the consecration of this tomb by his
children. We may well be pond that we
are here commanded by the hero who pur
chased victory with his blood near the
great wi tors of Niagara ; who repeated
and eclipsed the achievements of Cortes ;
who, although a consummate and confident
commander, ever preferred, when duty
and honor would permit, the olive branch
of peace to the blood-stained laurels of
war ; and who stands at the close of a
long, glorious and eventful life, a living
column of granite, against which have
beaten alike the blandishments and storms
of treason. His name will ever be one of
our proudest boasts and most moving in
spirations.
In long distant ages, when this incipient
monument has become venerable, moss
clad, and perhaps ruinous; when the
names inscribed upon it shall seem to
those who pause to read them indistin it
mementoes of an almost mythical past, the
name of Winfield Scott will still be clear
out upon the memory of all, like the still
fresh carving upon the monuments of
long-for-gotten Pharoah's.
THE REGI7LAR ARMY IN THE PRESENT WAR
• But. it is time to approach the present.
In the war which now shakes the land to
its foundation the regular army has borne
a most honorable part. Too few in num
bers to sot by themselves, regular regi
ments have participated in every great
battle in the East, and most of those west
of the Alleghenies. Their terrible losses
and diminished numbers prove that they
have been in the thickest of the fight, and
the testimony of their comrades and com
manders show with what undaunted hero
ism they have upheld their ancient re
nown. Their vigorous oharges have often
won the day, and in defeat they have more
than once saved the army from destruction
or terrible losses by the obstinacy with
which they resisted overpowering numbers.
They can refer with pride to the part they
played upon the glorious fields of Mexico,
and exult at the recollection of what they
did at Manassis, Gaines' Mills, Malvern,
Antietam, Shiloh, Stone River, Gettys
burg, and the great battles just fought
from the Rapidan to the Chiokahommy.
hey can point also to the officers who I
have risen from among the•ii, and achieved
great deeds for their country in this war,
to the living .warriors whase names are
upon the nation's tongue and heart, tco
numerous to be repeated here, yet not one
of whom I would willingly omit. Bat
perhaps the proudest episode in the history
of the regular army is that touching in
, stance of fidelity on the part of the non
commissioned officers. and privates, who,
traitorously made prisoners in Texas, re
sisted every temptation to violate their
oath-and desert their flag. Offered com
missions in the rebel service, money and
position freely tendered them, they all
scorned the inducements held out to them,
submitted to their hardships, and, when at
last exchanged, avenged themselves on
the field of battle for the unavailing insult
offered their integrity. History F ffords no
brighter example of honor than that of
these brave men, tempted, as I blush to
say they were, by some of their former
officers, who, having themselves proved
false to their flag, endeavored to seduce
the men who followed them in combat, and
who had regarded them with respect and
love.
Such is the regular army ; such its his
tory and antecedents; such its office' a. and
its men. It needs no herald to trumpet
forth its praises. It can proudly appeal
to the numerous fields-from the tropics to
the frozen banks of St. Lawrence ;
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, fertilized
by the blood, and whitened by the bones, '
of its idoeibers.- tut" I will lititt:pausi , to
eulogize , it ; , let • its - deeds " -Speak for it,
they are more eloquent than tongue of
mine.
THE DEAD OF THE REGULAR' ARMY
Why are we here to-day i This is not
the funeral of one brave warrior, nor even
of the harvest of death on a single battle
field; but these are the obsequies of the
best and bravest children of the land, who
have fallen in actions almost numberless,
many of them the most sanguinary of
which history bears record. The men
whose names and deeds we now seek to
perpetuate, to render tl em the highest
honor in our power, have fallen wherever
armed rebellion showed its front, in the
far distant New Mexico, the broad Valley
of the Mississippi, on the bloody hunting
grounds of Kentucky, in the mountains of
Tennessee, amid the swamps of Carolina,
and on the fertile fields of Maryland, and
in the blood-stained thickets of Virginia.
They were of all grades, from the general
to the private; of all ages from the gray
haired veteran of fifty years' servioo to
the beardless youth ; and of all degrees
of cultivation, from the man of science to
the uneducated boy. It is not necessary,
n,)r is it possible, to repeat the mournful
yet illustrious roll of the dead heroes we
have met to honor, nor must 1 name all
those who most merit praise ; simply a
few who will exemplify the classes to
whi3h they belong.
Among the last of the slain, and among
the first in honor and reputation, was that
hero of twenty battles, John Sedgwiok.
Gentle and kind as a woman ; brave as a
brave man can be; honest, sincere and
able; a model that all may strive to imi
tate, but whom few can equal. In the
terrible battle which just preceded his
death he had occasion to display the high- -
est qualities of the soldier and. commander.
After escaping the stroke ofdeath when men
fell around him by thousands, he at last
met his fate at a moment of comparative
quiet by the ball of a single rifleman.—
He died as a soldier would choose to die,
with truth at kis heart, and a sweet, tran
quil smile upon his lips. Alas ! our groat
nation possesses few .sons like true John
Sedgwiok.
Like him fell, too, at the very head of
their corps, the white-haired Mansfield,
after a career of usefulness, illustrated by
his skill and 000 l courage at Fort Brown,
Monterey and Buena Vista ;. John F. Rey
nolds and Reno, both in the full vigbr of
manhood and intellect, . men who have
proved their ability and chivalry in many
a field in Mexico and in this civil war,
gallant gentlemen, of whom their country
had much to hope, had it pleased God to
spare their lives. Lyon fell in the prime
of life, leading his little army against su
perior numbers, his brief career affording
a brilliant example of patriotism and abil
ity. The impetuous Kearney, and such
brave Generals as Richardson, Williams,
Terrill, Stevens, Weed, Saunders and
Hayes lost their lives while in the midst
of a career of usefulness. Young Bayard,
so like the most renowned of his name,
that " knight above fear and reproach,"
was out off too early for his country. Sro
regiments can spare such gallant, devoted
and able commanders as Rossell, Davis,
Gore, Simmons, Bailey, Putnam, and
Kingsbury, all of whom fell in the thick
est of the contest, some of them veterans,
others young in the service—all good men
and well beloved. Onr batteries have
partially paid their terrible debt to fate in
the loss of snoh commanders as Grable
(the that to fall in the war,) Benson, Hag
gard, Swead, Dr. Hart, Hazlett, and those'
gallant boys, Kirby, Woodruff, Dimiok,
and Cushing ; while the engineers lament
the promising and gallant Wagner and
Cross. Beneath remote battle-fields rest
the corpses of the heroic Moßae, Bascom,
Stone, Sweet, and many other company
officers. Besides these there are hosts of
veteran sergeants, corporals and privates
who had fought under Scott in Mexico, or
contested with the savages of the far
West and Florida ; and mingled with
them young soldiers who courageous,
steady and true, met death unflinchingly
withoUt the hope of personal glory.—
These men, in their more humble sphoi es,
served their country with as much faith
and honor as the most illustrious Generals,
and all of them with perfect singleness of
heart. Although their names may not
live in the page of history, their aotions,
loyalty, and courage will. Their memo
ries will long be preserved in their regi
ments, for there were many of them who
merited as proud a distinction as that ao
corded to " the first grenadier of France,"
or to that other Russian soldier who gave
his life for his comrades. But there is
another class of men who have gone from
us since this war commenced, whose fate
it was not to die in battle ; but ‘vho are
none the less entitled to be mentioned
here. There was Sumner, a brave, honest,
chivalrous veteran, of more than half a
century's service, who had confronted
death unflinchingly on scores of battle
fields, had shown his gray head, serene
and cheerful, where death most revelled,
who more than once told me that he be
lieved and hoped that his long career
would end amid the din of battle. He
died at home from effects of the hardships
of the leadership of his campaigns.--
That most excellent soldier, the elegant
C. F. Smith, whom many of ns remember
to have been so often on this very plain,
with his superb bearing, escaped the bul
let to fall a victim to the disease which
has deprived the army of so many of its
best soldiers. John Buford, cool and in
trepid ; Mitchell, eminent in science, Pal
mer and many other officers have lost their
lives by sickness contracted in the field.
But I cannot ()lose this long list of gloxi
one martyrs without paying a sacred debt
of official duty and personal friendship.—
There is one dead soldier who possessed
peculiar claims upon my love and grati
tude ; he was an indent patriot, an unsel-
fish man, a true soldier, the beau-ideal of
a staff officer—he was my ai 1-de-camps
Colonel Colburn, There is a lesson to be
drawn from the death and services of these
glorious men, which we should read for
the present and future benefit of the na
tion.
War in these modern days is a science,
and it should now appear to the most pre
judiced that the organisation and arming
of armies, and the high combination of
strategy, perfect familiarity with the
theoretical science of war, is requisite.—
To count upon success when the plans or
execution of, campaigns are intrusted to
men who have no knowledge of war, is as
idle as to expect the legal wisdom of a
Story or a Kent from a skilful physician.
THE OAUSE FOE WHICH WE FIGHT.
But what is the honorable and holy
;wise for.which these men have laid down
their lives, and , for which the nation still
demands the sacrifice of the precious
blood of so many of her children!
Soon after the close of the Revolution
ary war,
it was found that the Confederacy
which h ad grown up during that memora
ble contest, was falling to pieces from its
own weight. The central power was too
weak. It mini 1 recommend to the differ-
ant States such measures as seemed best,
but it possessed no real power to legislate,
because it - lacked executive power to eota-
pal obedience to its laws. The national
credit and self-respect had disappeared,
and it was feared by the friends of liberty
throughout the world that ours was bat
another added to the long list of fruitless
attempts at self-government. The nation
was evidently on. the brink of rain and
dissolution, - when some eighty years ago
many of the wisest and most patriotic of
the land met to seek a remedy for the
great evils whioh threatened to destroy
the great work of the revolution. Their
sessions were long and often stormy '
• for
a time the most sanguine, doubted the
possibility of a successful termination of
their labors. Bat from amidst the conflict
of sectional interests, of party prejudiae
and of personal selfishness, the spirit of
wisdom and of conciliation at length
evoked the Constitution under which we
have lived so long. It was not formed in
a day ; but was the result of practical
labor, of lofty wisdom, and of the purest
patriotism. It was at last adopted by the
people of the States—although by some
reluctantly—not as being exactly what all
desired, but the best possible under the
circumstances.
It was accepted as giving us a form of
government under which the nation might
live happily and prosper, so long as the
people should continue to be influenced by
the same sentiments which actuated those
who formed it ; and which would not be
liable to destruction from internal causes,
so long as the people preserved the recol
lection of the miseries and calamities
whiob led to its adoption. Under this
beneficial Constitution the progress of the
nation was unsurpassed in history. The
rights and liberties of its citizens were se
cured at home and abroad ; vast territor
ies were rescued from the control of the
savage and the wild beasts, and added to
the domain of the Union and civilization..
The arts, the sciences, and commerce grew
apace ; our flag floated upon every sea,
and we took our place among the great
nations of the earth. But under this
smooth surface of prosperity upon which
we glided swiftly, with all the sails set be
fore the common breeze, dangerous reefs
were hidden which now and then caused
ripples upon the surface, ana made anxious
the more careful pilots. Elated by success
the ship swept on—the crew, not heeding
the warnings they received, forgetful of
the dangers escaped at the beginning of
the voyage, and blind to the hideous
maelstrom which gaped to receive them.
The same elements of discord, sec
tional prejudices, interests and institutions
which had rendered the formation of the
Constitution so difficult, threatened more
than once to destroy it. But for a long
time the nation was so fortunate as to
possess a series of political leaders, who to
the highest abilities, united the same spirit
of conciliation which animated the found
ers of this republic, and thus for many
years the threatened evils were averted.
Time, and , the long continuance of good
fortune, obliterated the- recollection of the
calamities of years preceding the adoption
of the Constitution. They forgot that
conciliation, common interests, and mutual
charity had been the foundation, and mast
be the support of our Government, and all
the relations of life. At length men ap
peared with abuse, sectional and personal
prejudices and interests, outweighing all
considerations of the general good. Ex-
tremists of one section furnished the occa
sion, eagerly seized as a pretext by
equally extreme men in the other, for
abandoning the pacifi3 remedies afforded
by the Constitution. Stripped of all
sophistry and side issues, the direct cause
of the war as it presented itself to the
honest and patriotic citizens of the North
was simply this :
Certain States, or la ther a portion of the
inhabitants of certain States,feared, or pro
fessed to fear, that injury would result to
their rights and property from theelevation
of a particular party to power. Although
the Constitution and the actual condition
of the Government provided them with a
peaceable and sure protection against the
apprehended evil, they prepared to seek
security in the destruction of the Govern
ment which could protect them, and in the
use of force against national troops holding
a national fortress. To efface the insult
offered to our flag, to save ourselves from
the fate of the divided republics of Italy
and South America, to preserve our Gov
ernment from destruction, to enforce its just
power and laws, to maintain our very exis
tence as a nation—these were the causes
which impelled us to draw the sword.
Rebellion against a Government like oars,
which contains within itself the means of
self-adjustment and a pacific remedy for
evils, should never be confounded with a
revolution against despotic power, whioh
refuses redress of wrongs. Such a rebel
lion cannot be justified upon ethical
ground:4, and the only alternatives for our
choice ere its suppression or the destruc
tion of our .rationality.
CONCLUSION
At such a time as this, and in such' a
struggle, political partisanship should be
merged in a true and brave patriotism,
which thinks only of the good of the whole
country. It was in this cause and with
these motives that so many of our comrades
have given thei! lives, and to this we are all
personally pledged in all honor and fidelity.
Shall sueh devotion as that of our dead
comrades be of no avail? Shall it be said
in after-ages that we lacked the vigor to
complete the work thus begun That after
all these noble lives freely given, we hesi
tated and failed to keep straight on until
our land was saved Forbid it Heaven,
and give us firmer, truer hearts than
that.
Oh spirits of the valiant dead, 'souls of
our slain heroes, lend as your own indomi
table will, and if it be pemitted you to
commune with those still chained by the
trammels of mortality, hover around us in
the midst of danger and tribulation—cheer
the firm, strengthen the weak, that none
may doubt the salvation of the Republic
and the triumph of our'grand old flag.
In the midst of the storms which toss
our ship of state, there is'one great beacon
light to which we can ever turn with con-
fidenoo and hope. It cannot be that this.
great natioi . has played it ' s
-part in history ;
it cannot be that our sus, which. arose with
such bright promise-for the future has
already set forever. ' It must be.the inten
tion of the overruling Deity that this land,
so long the asylum of the oppressed, the
refuge of civil and religious liberty, shall,
again stand forth in bright relief, united,
purified, and chastened by our trials, as an ,
example and encouragement for those who
desire the progEqs Ituuthn race: It
is not given - to our weakTuteneots to un
derstand the ateps of 'Providence as they
occur ' • we comprehend thenx- only at; we
look back upon them in the far distant
past ;so .it is now. We cannot unravel the
seemingly tangled skein of the purposes of
the Creator theyare too high and far
reaching for our limited minds. But all
history and His own revealed word teach
us that His ways, although inscrutable, are
ever righteous. Let us, then, honestly and
manfully play our parts, seek to under
stand and perform our whole duty, and
trust unwaveringly in the beneficent God
who led our ancestors across the sea, and
sustained them afterward amid danger more
appalling even than those encountered by
His own ohosen people in _their great
exodus.
He did not bring us here in vain, nor
has He suppported us thus far for naught.
If we do our duty and trust in Him, He
will not desert us in our need. Firm in
our faith that God will save our country,
we now dedicate this site to the memory of
brave men, to loyalty, patriotism, and
honor. [Loud applause.]
The band then performed the 4‘ Star
Spangled Banner" and 4 , Yankee Doodle,"
after which the benediction was pronoun
oed by Rev. Dr. Sprole.
The Wise Man Taught Wisdom.
One day in early spring the youth Solo
mon sat beneath the palms in his father's
garden, and bending his eyes on the ground
seemed deep in thought. Nathan, his
teaoher, stepped up to him and inquired,
Why sittest thou here so thoughtful-
Solomon raised his head, and replied,
Nathan, I should like to behold a mir
The prophet smiled, and.answered,
That is a wish I also indulged in, in my
youthful days.'
And was it fulfilled?' hastily inquired
the royal prince.
A man of God,' thus Nathan continued,
approached me once, holding the seed of
a pomegranate in his hand. Behold,' said
he, what will become of this seed.'
Thereupon he made a small hole in the
earth with his finger, laid the seed in it,
and covered it up again. When he had
withdrawn his hand, the earth divided, and
I saw two tiny les:Ves appear. Bat scarce
ly had I seen them before they closed
together and became a smooth, round stem,
enveloped in a rind ; and the stem became
visibly higher and thinker.
The man of God spake to me, saying,
Pay attention.' And whilst I was watch
ing, there sprang seven branches from the
trunk, like unto the seven arms of the
candlestick on the altar. I wondered ; but
the man of God made a sign, and bid me
be silent and attentive. Behold,' said
he, new creations will soon take
place.'
' Thereupon he took water in the hollow
of his hand from a brook that was flowing
past, and sprinkled therewith the branches
three different times ; and the branches now
hung fall of verdant leaves, spreading re
freshing shade around us, mingled with
sweet smelling odors.
Whence,' I exclaimed, 'arises this per
fumerin addition to the 000 ling shade of
the leaves ?'
Dost thou not see,' answered the man
of God, those purple flowers, hanging in
clusters, and peeping between the leaves 3
Before I could yet reply, a soft breeze
arose, and, rustling through the leaves,oast
the flowers to the (mirth, like to flakes of
snow floating down from the clouds.—
Scarcely had the blossoms fallen, when the
beautiful red pomegranates appeared be
tween the leaves, like the almonds on
Aaron's staff. The man of God then left
me, sank in silent wonder.'
Nathan ended. Hastily Solomon ex
claimed
Where is he? What is the name of
the holy man Is he still alive 1'
Nathan answered,
' Son of David, I have related a dream.'
When Solomon heard these words, he
became sorry at heart, and sad.
How 'must thou thus deceive me he
said.
Bat Nathan continued :
I have not deceived thee, son of David.
Behold! in thy father's garden thou oan'st
see all that I have related in reality. Is
not the same the ease with the pomegranate
and with other trees V
Yes,' answered Solomon, but gradu
ally, within a wide space of time.'
Then answered Nathan,
6 Is, then, the miracle the less wonderful
or divine because it takes place in quiet
and without show 2 I should think it the
more wonderful.
Study the works of Nature,' he con
tinued, then you will learn to believe in
the Most High, and not pine and wish for
miracles by human hands.'
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