NUMBER os.
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DE D I 0 AT 10 N
OF THE BITE FOR THE
BATTJ-E M0?aUM$jT
AT
West Point.
SPEECH OP GEN. RTCLELLAN.
. The dedication, of the sits of "Battle
Monument" to be erected at Wast Point,
in memory of the slain of the regular ar
my of the Uoited States, was dedicated on
' Wednesday last. There were over three
thousand civil military and present. "There
were a number of distinguished citizens,
including; Gov. Seymour and others.
Maj. Gen George B. McClellan delivered
the address, as follows :
All nations hare days sacred to the re
membrance of joy and of grief ; Tbey
have thanksgiviDga for success ;-fastings
and prayers in the hour ot humiliation and
defeat ; triumphs and pae&ns to greet the
living, laurel -crowned y fetor. They have
obsequies and eulogies, for , the warrior
slain on the field of battle.. Such is the
duty we are to peforrn to-day- - The poe
try, the histories, the orations of antiquity;
all resound with the clang of arms ; they
dwell rather. upon the .rough Jeeds 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
distant day. Our. own Old Testament
teems with" the narrations of the brave ac
tions and heroic deaths of. Jewish patri
ots; while the New Testament of - our
meek and. suffering Savior often selects the
soldier and his weapons to typify nd il
lustrate religious heroism and duty. These
stories of the action? of the dead have fre
quently survived, in the lapse of agea the
names of those whose fall was thus com
memorated centuries ago. But, although
we know not now tha names of all the
brave taen who" foughl and fell upon the
plains of Marathon, in the pass of Ther
mopylae, and on hills of Palestine, we
have not,le?s the memory of their exam
ples. V As long as the warm blood courese
in the veins of man ; as Ion? as the ho
man heart beats high and quick at the re
cital of brave deeds and patriotic sacrifi
ces, so lone will the lesson still invite gen
erous men to emulate the heroism of the
past. Among the Greeks it was the cus
ton that the fathers of the most valiant of
slain should pronounce the eulogies of the
dead. So'metimes it devolved upon their
great statesmen and orators to perform
this mournful duly Would that a De
mosthenes, or a second Pericles could rise
and take my place . to-day, for ha would
find a theme worthy of .his . most brilliant
powers, of his mo? touching eloquence.
I stand here now, not as an orator ,but
as the whilom commander, and in the
fathers of the most valiant dead ; as their
comrade, too, on many a hard fought field
against domestio and foreign foes in ear
ly youth and mature manhood moved by
all the love that David felt wh-n he pour
ed forth his" lamentation for the mighty
father and son who fell on Gilboa. God
knows that David's love for JooathaB was
no more deep than mine for the tried
friends of many long and eventful years,
whoser names are to be recorded upon the
structure that is to rise upon this spot.
Would that his more than mortal elo
quence could grace my If ps, and do jus
tice to the same ! " .
We have met to-day, my ! comrades, to
do honor to our own dead brothers uni
ted to us by the closest and dearest ties
who have freely given their lives for their
country in this war so just and righteous
bo long as its purpose is to crush rebellion
and to save our nation from the infinite
evils of dismemberment. Such an occa
sion as this should call forth the deepest
and noblest emotions of our nature pride,
sorrow, and prayer. Pride,- that our
country 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 however it may be,
our souls may be prepared for the great
change. -
THE VOLUNTEERS.
We have assembled to commemorate a
cenotaph which shall remind our children'
children in the distant future ot their fath
ers' struggles in the days of the great re
bellion. This monument is to perpetuate
the memory of a portion only of those who
have fallen for the nation in this unhappy
war; it is dedicated to the officer and
soldiers of ihe regular army. Yet this is
done in no class or exclusive spirit, and in
the act We remember with reverence and
love our comrades -of the volunteers who
fought and fell by our sides.
Each State will, no doubt, commemo
rate in some fitting way the services of its
sons who abandoned the avocations ofpeace
and shed their blood in the ranks will
receive some momenta of nations ' love, a
nation's gratitude.. With what heroism
they have confronted death, have wreted
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.kcow that I
but echo the feelings of the regulars when
I award the high credit tbey 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 tho whole country.
We can neither expect or debire the Gen
eral Government to make, perhaps, an in
vidious distinction in our favor. We are
few in number, a small band 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 ma'ure years - while fight
ing am;d the rugged mountains and fertile
valleys of Mexico witbiu hearing cf the
eternal waves of the Pacific or in the
lonely grandure of the great plains of
the far West. With all, our love and
confidence 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
scores of battle-fields. West Point, with
her large heart, adopted us all gradu
ate, and those appointed from civil life
ofSeers and privates.' In her eyes we are
all her children, 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 hereafter sacred to our dead,
equa's and brothers in the presence of theat
common death which awaits us all per
haps in the same field and at the same
hour.:' Such ate the ties which unite us-
the most endearing that exist among men :
each the relations which bind us together
the closest of the sacred brotherhood of
arms.- It has therefore seemed, and it is
fitting, that we should erect upoutbis 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 oi many of us some day to
tread. -
. What is this regular army to which we
belong? '
, .Who are the men whose death merits
such honors from the living T '
-Our regular or permanent army is the
nucleus which in time of peace preserves
the military traditions of. the nations, 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 i(s 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 proprie
ty 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 yeats, war were not
confined to the 'redmen scalping each
other by the great lakes of North Ameri
ca," and it was in them that our ances
tors first participated t3 Americans in the
large " operations of -civilized armies.
American regiments then fought on the,
banks of the Sr. Lawrence and the Ohio,
on the shores tf Ontario and Lake George,
in the islands of the Caribbean, and in
South America, Louisburg, Quebec, the
Moro and Porto, Bel lo attest the valor of
the provincial troops and . in that school
were educated such soldiers as Washing
ton. Putraan,liee, Montgomery and Gates.
These and men like Greene, Knox, Wayne
and Steubon were the fathers of our per
manent army, and under them our troops
acquired that dicipltue ' and steadiness
whieh enabled them to meet upon equal
terms and often to defeat the tried vete
rans of England. The study of the history
of the Revolution and a perusal of the
despatches of Washington, will convince
the most skeptical of the value of the per
manent army in acbeving our independ
ence, and establishing the civil, edifice
which we are now fighting to preserve.
The war of 1612 found the. army on a
footing far from adequate to the emergen
cy, but it was rapidly increased, and of
the new generation of soldiers, many were
found equal to the requirements of the
occasion. Landy's Lane, Chippewa,
Queenstown, PJattsburg, New Orleans, ail
bear witness to the gallantry of the regu
lars. Then came an interval of more than
thirty years of external peace, marked by
many cIiaDges in the organization and
strength of the regular army, aod broken
at times by tedious and bloody indian
wars. Of these the most remarkable were
the Black Hawk war, in which our troops
met unrJinchingly a toe as relentless and
far more destructive than the Indians-
met unfhnchinirly a foe as relentless and
that terrible scourge,' the cholera and the
tedious Florida war, where, for so many
years, the Seminoles eluded in their pesti
lential swamps our utmost efforts, and in
which were displayed such traits of hero
ism as that commemorated by yonder
monument to Dade and his command,
when ''all fell save two, without an at
tempt to retreat.'-' - At last came the Mex
ican war to replace Indian contests and
the monotony of frontier service, and for f
the first time in many years the mass of 1
the regular army was concentrated, and !
took the principal - part in the battles of
that remarkable and romantic war. Palo
Alto, Resaca, and Fort Brown were the
achievements of the regulars unaided ; and
as to the battles of Monterey, Ueuna Vista t!
Vera Cruz, Cerra Gordo and the finai
r;,,mr,h. ; h olu r. ..r, t1 c
that they could have been won without
th6 regulars. When peace crowned our ;
victories in the capital of tho Montezuma3, j
the army was at once dispersed over the
loDg frontier, md 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 tfrtny was drawn in to be i
employed against a dot estio foe.
I cannot proceed to the events of the re
cent past and the present without advert
ing tf thft rrnllant tnpn wlin npr r lrnr
fc --"bi
ot our number, but have 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.
There is a sad story of Venetian histo
ry that has moved maoy a heart, and of
ten employed the poet's pen and painter's
pencil. It is of an old man whoie long
life was gloriously spent in the service of
the state as a warrior anJ a statesman,!
and who, when bis hair was white and bis
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 Vrenice
is remembered. ; lhe spot where his por
trait should have hung in the great hall of
the Doge's palace was veiled with black
and there the frame remains with its black
mass of canvass ; and this vacant frame is
the most conspicous in the long line of ef
figies of illustrious Doges 1 Oh, that such
a pall as that which replaces the portrait
of Maurino Faliero ; could conceal from
history the names of those, cuce our com
rades, who are now in arms against the
flag under which we fought side by sido ia
years gone by. But no veil, however thick,
can coyer tho anguish that fills our hearts
when we look back upon the spd memory
of the past, and recall the affeetion and
respect we entertained toward men against
whom it is now our duty to act in mortal
combat. Would that the courage, ability,
and steadfastness they -display had been
employed in the defense of the Stars and
Stripes against a foreign foe, rather than
in this fatuitous and unjustifiable rebellion,
which could not have been eo long main
tained but for the skill and energy of these
our former comrades. .
GENERAL SCOTT.
But we have reason to rejoice that upon
this day, so Bacred and eventful for us, one
grand old mortal monument of the past
still lifts 'hi&h . h'3 "head among i, and
should have graced by his presence the
consecration of this tomb by his children.
We rqay well be prond that we were here
commanded by the hero who purchased
victory with hia .blood near the great wa
ters of Niagara ; who? repeated and eclip
ed the achievements of Cortes ; who al
though a consummate and coflfident com
mander, ever preferred when duty and
honor would permit, the olive ! branch cf
peace to tho blood stained Jaurels of war ,
and who standi at the close of a long, gio-
rious and eventful life, a living column of
granite, against winch have beaten alike
the blandishments and storms of reason.
His name will ever be 'one of our proud
est boasts and most moving inspirations.
; In long distant ages, when this incipi
ent monument has become venerable, moss
clad, and perhaps ruinous; when the names
inscribed upon it bhall seem to those who
pause to read them indistinct mementos of
an almost mythical past, the name of Win
field Scott will still be clear, cut upon the
memory . of all, like the still fresh catving
upon the monuments of long-for-gotten
Pbaroah's. !
THE BEG U LA P. ARMY III TUB PRESENT
WAR.
But it is time to approach the present in
the war which now shakes tho land to its
foundation the regular army has born a
most honorable part. Too few in numbers
to act by themselves regular regimenfs
have participated in every great battle 10
the East, and moBt. of those wes't of the
Alleghanics. Their terrible losses and
diminished numbers prove that they have
been in the thickest of the fight, and the
testimony of their comrades and comman
ders ehow with what undaunted heroism
they have upheld their ancient renown.
Their vigorous charges 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 overpowertDg numbers. They
can refer with pride to the part they play
ed upon the glorious fields of Mexico, and
exult at the recollection of what they did
at Manassasi, Gaines' Mill, Malvern, An
tietana, Shiloh. Stone River, Gettysburg-,
and the great battles just fought from the
Rapidan to the Chickahominy. They can
point also to the officers who have risen
among them, and achieved great deeds for
their country in this war.to the living war
riors whose names are upon tho nation's
tongue and heart, too numerous to be re-
.v.
peated here, yet not one of whom I would
winingiy omit. xut pcrnaps ine prouaest
episode in the history of the regular army
is that touching instance of fidelity 00 the
part of the non-commissioned officers and
privates, who traitorously made prisoners
in Texas, resisted every temptation to
violate their oath and desert their flag.
Offered commissions in the rebel service,
money and laud freely tendered them,they
all scorned the inducements held out to
them, submitted to their hardships, and
when at last exchanged, avenged them
selves on the field of battle for the una
vailing insult offered their integrity. His
tory affordes no brighter example of bon,-
! or lJat of thcf brave raetn tempted I
! aLa b,,ush to "7 they -f5"' hJ som of !
",r,r "T wawrs.wiiu.uaving uemiv .
proved false to their flag, endeavored to
' seauce uie men wno ionowea iccm in com-
bat, and Avho had regarded them with re
spect and love.
Such is the rezular army ; snch it; his
tory and antecedents ; such its officers and
its men. It need no herald to trumpet
forth its praises It can proudly appeal 10
the numerous field fr'jm the tropics lo the
frozen banks of :he St. Lawrence ; from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, fertilized by the
blood, and whitened by the bones of it
members. But I will not pause to entoiza
it ; let its deed speak for it ; they are more
eloquent than tongue of mine.
THE CEAO PF THE REGULAR ARM V.
Why are we here today? This is not
the funeral of one brave warrior, nor even
of the harvest ot death on a single battle
field ; but ihee are the obeqnies of the
best and bravest children of the land, who
have fallen in 'actions almost nuarcberles,
many ol the ra the most sanguinary of which
bi?tory bears record. The men whoe
names and deeds we now tek to perpetu
ate, to render them the hishest honor in
our power, have fallen wherever armed re
belliori showed its f'ont, in the diftant iNr
Mexico, the broad Valley of the Mississppi,
on the bloody hunting-zrounds of Kentucky,
in the Mountains of Tennessee, amid the
swamps of Carolina, and on the fertile field
of Maryland, and in the blood-stained
thickets ol Virginia. They were of all Gra
des, from the eueral to the priva e ; of all
ages from the gray haired veteran of flftj
yeas' service to the beardles youth ; and of
all degrees of cultivation, from the man of
science to the uneducated boy. ft is not
necessary, nor is. it possible, to repeat the
'mournful yet illustrious nil of the dead
heroes we have met to honor, nor mnst I
name all those who most mt-rit praice ;
simply a few who will exemplify the clash
es to which they belong.
Among the last of the slain, and among
the first in honor and rcprwation, was that
hero of twenty battles, ' John Sedgwick.
Gentle and kind as a woman ; brave as a
brave man cun be;honet, sincere and able;
a modle that all may strive to imitate, but
whom few can equal. In the terrible battle
which just preceded his death he had occa
sion to display the hi;jbe8t qualities of the
soldier and commander. Alter escaping
the stroke of death when men fell around
him by thousands, he at l?st met his fate at
a moment of comparative quiet by the ball
of a tingle rifleman. He died as a soldier
would choose to die, with truth at his heart,
and a sweet, tranquil smile upon his lips.
Alas ! our great nation possesses few sons
like true Joho SeJgwick.
Like him fell, too, at the very head of
their corps, the white-haired Mansfield,
after a career of usefulness, illustrated by
his kill and cool courage at Fort Brown,
.Monterey and Buena Vista ; John F. Rey
nolds and Reno, bAtf, ;n the full vigor of
manhood and intellect, men who have
proved their ability and chivalry in many a
field in Mexico and in this civil war, gal
lant gentlemen of whom their country hatl
much to hope", had it pleased God to spare
their lives. Lyon fell in the prime of life,
leading his little army against superior
numbers, his brief career affording a bril
liant example of patriotism and ability. The
impetuous Kearney, and uch brave gen
erals as Richardson, Williams, Terrill,
Stevens, Weed, Saunders and Hajes 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 lear and above reproach," wa& cut
on too early lor his country. Io regiments
I can spare sach gallant, devoted ' and ' able
j .commanders as Rossell, Davis, Gore, Sim-
, ijavis, itore, Mm
and Kingsbury, all
1 mons, Bailey, I'utnam a
of whom fell in the thickest of the contest,
some of'them . veterans, others young in
serviceall good men and well beloved
Our batteries have partially paid their ter
rible debt to fate in the Iomb of such 'com
manders is Greble (the first to fall in the
war), Benson, Haggard, Seward, Dr Heart
Hazlett, and thot-e pallant bo,s, Kirby,
Woodruff, Dimick, and Cuhir,g; while the
engineers lament the promising and gallant
Wagner and Cross. Beneath remote battle
fields rest the corpses of the heroic McRae,
Baacom, Stone, Sweet, and many other
company officer". Besides these there are
hots of veteran sergeants, corporals and
privates who had fought under Sco t in
Mexico, or contested with the savages of
the tar West and Florida ; and mingled
with them young otdiers who courageous,
steady and tfoe, mt death unflinchingly
without the hope of peronaI glory. The-e
me-i in their more humble spheres, served
their rotintry with as much faith and honor
as the most illustrioas generals, and all ot
them wi'.h perfect singleness of heart.
Although their names may not live ii the
page ol hitory, their actions, loyalty, and
courage will. Their memories will long be
preserved in their regiments, for there were
many of them who merited rb proud a dis
tinction as that accorded to ' the first grena
dier of France," or to lhat other Russian
soldier who gave his life lor his comrades
But there is another class of teen who have
gone from us sinca this war commenced,
whoce fate it was not to die in battle ; but
who are none the less entitled to be men
tioned here. Thre was Sumner a brave,
honest, chivalrous veteran, of more ihan
half a century's service, wno bad confront
ed death unflinchingly on scores of battle
fields, had shown his gry head sorene and
cheerful, where death moat revealed, who
more than once told me that he Ocleved
and hoped lhat bis long career would end
amid the din of battle. He died at home
from effects of hardships of the leadership
of his campaigns, lhat most excellent
soldier, the elegant C. F. Smith, whom
many of us remember to have been so often
on this very plain, with his superb bearing,
escaped the bullet to fall a victim to he
disease which has deprived the army of so
many of its best soldiers. John Buford,
cool and intrepid Mitchell, eminent in
scitnce. Palmer and 'many other officers
have lost their lives by sickness contracted
in the field. But I cannot close, this long
list of glorious martyrs without paying a
sacred debt of otficiil duty and personal
friendship. There is one dead soldier who
possessed peculiar claims upon my love
and gratitude ; he was an ardent patriot, an
unselfish man, a true soldier, the beau-ideal
of a staff officer he was my aid-de camp.
Colonel Colburc. There is a lesson to be
drawn from the death and services of these
plorions men, which we should read for
the present and future benefit of the
na'ion.
War in these modern days is a sciencel
and it should now appear to the most pre
judiced lhat the organization and arming of
armies, and the high combination of strat
egy, perfect fimiliarity wi;h 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 ex
pect tha legal windo.m of a Story or a Kent,
from a skillful physician.
THE CUE FOR WHICH Wt FIOUT.
But what is the honorable and holy cane
for which these men have laid down their
lives and for which the nation still de
mands the sacrifice of the precious blood
of so many of her children ?
Soon after the close of the Revolutionary
war,, it was found that the Confederacy
which had grown up durii that memora
ble contest, was falling to pieces trom i:s
own weight. The central power was too
weak. It could recommend to the differ
ent States such measure as seemed best,
and it possessed no real power to legis
late, because it it lacked executive power
to compel obedience to its laws. The na
tional credit and self-respect had disap
peared, and it was feared by the friends of
liberty throughout the world that ours was
but another added to the long list of fruit
less attempts at self government The na
lion was evidently on lhe brink of ruin and
dissolution wheu some eight years ago
many of the wisest and most patriotic of
the land met lo seek a remedy far the great
evils which threatened to destroy the great
work of (he revolution. Their sessions
were long and often stormy; for a time the
most sanguine, doubted the possibility of a
succesful termination of their labor. Bat
from amidst the conflict of sectional inter
ests, of party prejudice and of personal el
fishuees, the spirit of wisdom and of concili
ation at length evoked the Constitution
under which we have lived so long. It
was not formed in a dav : but was the re
sult ol practical labor, of lof y wisdom, and
of the purest patriotism. It was a: lat
adopted by the people of the States al
though by soma reluctantly not as being
exactly what all desired, but the best possi
ble under the circumstances.
It was accepted as giving us a form of
covernrcent under which the nation might
lie happily and prosper, so long so long as
the people should continue to be influenced
by the same sentiments which actua.ed
those who formed it: and which would no:
be liable to destruction from internal caus
e, so long as the people preserved the rec
ollection of the miseries and calamities
which led to its adoption. Under this ben
eficial constitution the progress of the nation
was unsnrpassed in history The rights and
liberties ot its c'nizens were secured at
home and abroad ; vast territories 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 ; oar
flag floated upon every sea, and we took
cur place among the great nations of the
earth. But ut.der . this smooth surface oi
prosperity upon which we glided swiftly,
with all the sails set before the common
breeze, dangerous reefs were hidden which
now and. then caused ripples upon ihe
surface, and made anxious the more care
,ful pTlots. Klated by success the ship
swept on the crew, not heeding the war
nings they received, forgetful of the dangers
escaped at the beginning ot the voyage!
and blind to the hideous maelstrom which
gaped to receive them The same ele
ments of discord, sectional prejudices, in
terests and institutions which, bad rendered
the formation of the Constitution so difficult,
threatened more than once to destroy it.
But for a long time the nation was so fortu
nate as to possess a series of political lead
ers, who to the highest abilities, oni:d the
same spirit of conciliation which, animated
the founders of this republic, aod .thus for
many years the threatened evils were avert
ed. Time, and the long continuance of
good fortune, obliterated the recollection of
the calamities of years preceding th adop
lion of the Constitution. They fergot that
conciliation, common interests, and mutual
charity had been the foundation., and most
'je ihe support of our Government, aod all
the relations of life. ' At length, men ap
peared with abuse, sectional and personal
prejudices and interests, outweighing all
conaiderations of the general good Ex-
tremists of onesecion furnished the occa
sion, eagerly seized as a pretext by equally
extreme men in the o;her, for abandoning
ihe pacific remedies afforded bylbe Consti
tution. Stripped of all sophistry and side
issues, the direct cause of the war as it pre
sented itself to the honest and patriotic cit-
izensofihe North was i-nplythia :.
Certain State", or raiher a portion of the
inhabitants of certain States, feared, or pro
fessed to fear, that injury would result to
tieir rights and property from the elevation
ot a particular .pan? to power. .Although
the Constitution and the actual condition of
the Government provided them with a pea
ceable and sure protection against the ap
prehended evil, they prepared to seek se
curity in the destruction of the Government
which could protect them, and in - the ; use
of lorce against national troops holding a
national fortress. To efface the insult ofler
ed 10 our flag to save ourselves from, the
fate of the divided republics of Italy and
South America, to preserve our Govern-
ment from destruction ; to iolorce its just
power and laws, lo maintain oor very exis
tence as a natio n .'hee Were the caues
w.iich impelled us to draw tie sword. ; Re
bellion auainst a Government like ours,
which contains within itself the means of
self-adjusimunt and a pacific retiedy for
evi's, should never be ronfounded with a
revolution against despotic power, which
refuses redress ot wrongs.- Such a rebellion
c mnot be justified upon ethical grounds,
and the only alternatives or our choice are
its suppression or the destruction oi our
nationality.
CONCLUSION'. '
At snch 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 inr this cause and wita
these motives that so many of our comrades
have given their lives, and lo this we ar
all personally pledged in all honor ami fidel
ity. Shall such devotion as that of nr
dead comrades be of no avail ? Shall it b
said in after-ages tbat we lacked the - vigor
to complete the work thus begun 1 That
alter all these noble lives freely given, ws
hesitated and failed to keep straight on un
til our land was saved? Forbid it it Heaven,
and give us firmer, truer hearts than
that. . - . ' ;-
. Oh spirits of the valiant dead, souls of
our slain heroes, lend us your own iodo
mitable will, and if it be permitted you to
commune with those still chained by tha
tramme's of mortali y, hover around us in
the midst of danger and - tribulation cheer
the firm, strengthen true weak, that none
may doubt the salvation of the Republic
and the triumph ot our grand old flag.
In the midst ot the storms which toss our
ship ol state, there m one'greit beacon light
to which we can ever turn with confidence
and bope. It cannot be lhat this great na
tion has played its part in history ; it can
not be that our sun, which arose with such
bright promise for the future, has already
set forever. It must be the intention of tha
overruling Deity that this land, so long the
asylum of the oppressed, the refuge of civil
and religious liberly,'sbaP again stand forth
in bright relief, united, purified, and chast
ened by our trials, as an example end en.
couragemetit for those who desire the pro
gres of the human race. It is not given to
our weak intellects to understand the steps
of Providence as-they occur ; we compre
hend them only as 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
they are too high and far reaching for our
limited minds. But alt history and His own
revealed word te ich us that His ways, al
though inscrutable, are ever righteous. Let
us, then, honestly and manfully play our
parts, seek to understand and perform oar
whole duty, and trnt unwaveringly in the
beneficent God who led oor ancestors
across the sea, and sustained them after
ward amid dangers more appalling even
than those encountered by His own chosen
people in their great exodus.
He did not bring us here in vain, nor has
He supported us thuj far for naught
If we do our duty and trust ia Him, He
will not desert us in our need. Firm in
our faith that God a ill save our country,
we now dedicate this site to the memory of
brave men, to loyalty, patriotism, and
honor Loud applause.
The bmi I then performed the "Star
Spangled Banner ' and "Yankee Dondle,"
aster which the benediction-was pronounc
ed by Rev. Dr. Sprole. a follows :
BE EDICIION.
May the God ot jur 1 diners and our 'God
succeed with his divine benediction lhe
solemn and investing services of this oc
casion , may He conduct by his gracious
providence the work commenced to day
to a successful completion; may the mpna
men: here to be raised iti honor of the illus
trious dead inspire with all the ardor or a
sound Christiau patriotism the soldiers of
our common country, here trained for its
defense ; may it prive to them a constant
remembrance of their mortality, and keep
alive upon the alter of their hearts the
flame oi devotion to God, to country, to the
Union, the Constitution, and the immutable
principles of truth and justice: and may
the blessing of the trione God, the Father,
Son, and the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
Amen.
The audienc then commenced to , dis
perse, the band playing a dirge.
A young convert got up in church, and
was making his confession somewhat after
thi sort : 4 l have been wicked, indaed I
have ; I have cheated many persons, very
many but I will restore tour fold," when
he was snappishly interrupted by aa old
lady, who said, u Well I should think be
fore you co iless much you'd better marry
Nancy Spriggins, as yoa agreed to."
When your wife begins to scold, let her
have it out. Put your feet uy closily over
the fireplace, loll back in your chair light
one of your best cicars, and let ihe storm
rage. Say nothing, do nothing, know
nothing.
Bishop Morris, of the MevhoJtt Kpisco
pal Church, thus sums up his ministerial
labors for the last fifty jears: Sermons
preached, 7.500 ; miles traveled, 000;
annual Conferences presided at ?ot. prea
chers ordained. 5,000; preachers jJiotad
to their work, 20,000.