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Kind
1 would not hurt a living thing.
However weak or small,
The beasts that graze, the birds that sing
Our Father made thein all.
Wjtll0Ut whose noticej we have read,
A sparrow cannot fall.
'Twas but the other day
I met a thoughtless boy,
bearing a pretty nest away ;
It seemed to give him joy ;
But oh ' I told him it was wrong
To rob the little feathered throng.
I passed another by.
It seemed a saddening thing
To see him seize a butterfly.
And tear away its wing.
As if devoid of feeling quite ;
I'm sure that this could not be right.
The patient horse and dog.
So faithful. fnd and true.
And e'en the little leaping frog
Are often abused, too
By thoughtless men and boys who seem
Of othcra cuinf .rt not to dream.
Yet surely in ur breast
A kinder soul should dwell,
For 'twas our blessed Lord's request
To use hi.s creatures well ;
And in ids holy book we find
A lie. sing given to the kind.
O K A T I O N
O K
G 2 1 J E R A L
Irl CLELLAN, '
TO THIS GRADUATES
POIXT.
OF WKST !
All notions have day
nve days snored to the r
joy and of grief. They
m in!
a 1 1 co
oi
n:vc t hank-iru iiilt tor snee r s : lasting ai
prayers in the hour ot humiliation and
defeat
triumphs and pa'ans to greet the
living, laurel crowned victor.
1 hey ha e
the warrior
obsequies and eulogies for
slain on the iieid of battle.
it'.ieu is iii
duty we are to perform to-day. The
pot try, the histories, the oration of an
tiquity ail resound with the clang of arms.
They dwell upon the rough deds of war
rather than the gentle acts of peace. They
have preserved to us the names of heroes
and tlie memory 01 tneir teeuseven to tins 1
distant day. Our own Old Testament i
teems with the narration of brave actions ;
a-
1 heroic deaths ot .Jewish patriots, ,
while the New Testament of our me k
and suffering Saviour often selects the
soldier and his weapons to typify and il
lustrate religious heroism ami duty. The
stories of the actions of the dead have
frequently survived, in the lapse of ages,
the names of those whose fall was com
memorated centuries ago. Hut, although
J we have not now the names of all the
i brave men who fought and fell upon the
I plain of Marathon, in the pass of Thcr
j monyhn and on the hills of Palestine, we
; have not lost the memory of their exam
! pies. As long as the warm blood courses
the veins of man, as long as the human
heart beats high and quick at the recital
of brave deeds and patriotic sacrifices, so
lon will the lesson still incite generous
j men to emulate the heroism of the past.
! Among the Greeks it was the custom that
the father 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 new IXj
mosthenese or a second Pericles could
arise antl take my place to-day ; for he
would find a theme worth' of bis most
brilliant powers, of his most touching
eloquence. I stand here not ns an orator,
but as the whilom commander, and in the I
place of the father of the most valiant of j
the dead. As their comrade, too, on
many a hard fought field against domestic
and foreign foes in early youth and ma
ture manhood moved by all tlc love
that David felt when lie poured forth his
lamentation for the mighty father and son
who fell at Mount Gilboa. God knows
that David's love for Jonathan was no
more deep than mine for the tried friends
I of many long and eventful years, whose
i names are to be recorded upon the struc
j ture that is to rise upon this spot. Would
that tins more than mortal eloquence
m, 1;, o.i .1.,. f.
theme
We have met to-day, my comraeles, 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,
so long as its purpose is to crush rebellion,
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 18G4.
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 coun
try Las possessed such sons. Sorrow, that
she lias 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. We have assembled
to consecrate a cenotaph which shall re
mind our children's children in the dis
tant future of their father's stru"de in
the days of the great rebellion. This
monument is to perpetuate the memory of
a portion only of those who have fallen
lor the nation in this unhappy war. It
is dedicated to the olhccrs and soldiers ot
the 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 have so
gloriously fought and fallen by our side.
Each State, will no doubt, commemorate
in some fitting way the services of its sons,
who abandoned the avocations of rn:ice,
and shed their blood in the ranks of the
I volunteers. How richly they have earned
a nation's love, a nation's gratitude ; with
i what heroism they have confronted death,
j have wrested victory from a stubborn foe,
j and have illustrated defeat, it veil be
! comes me to say, 1'or it has been my lot
i to commend them in many a sanguinary
j field. I know that I but echo the feeling
1 of the regular army when I award the
; bigh credit they il -serve to their brave
1 brethren of the volunteers. Hut we of
the regular army have no States to look
to for the honors due our dead. We be
long to the whole country, and van neither
expect nor desire the General (i jvernment
to make a perhaps invidious distinction in
our favor. We arc f-iv in number, a
small band of comrades, united by lacu
i
nar and very binding ties: tor wit!i many
I of s oar fuend.-hips were c-mmpneed i'
: ivyfl(Mn when we rented beneatli th
in
10
snuaow or toe rinrgeu granite iin: wineii
look down upon u? where we stand. With
others the ties of bovhood were eTmed in
f 1 1 i . 1 ll !
! m,,rc mature years while limiting amid
thp ni,,v,(.,i utu,,, tains and f.iti'e allevs
of Mexico, within hearing of the eternal
i waves of the Pacific, or in the lovely
I grandeur of the great plains of the far
1 West. With all, our love and confidence
has beeii cemented by common dangers
- - , 1 1 "
uw sutrenn'jr, 111 tn khini-ii? niardi, m
the bivouac, and amid th
!a.-h
ot arms,
and the presence of death on scores of
battle fields West Point, wi h hrr large
heart, adopts us all, graduates, and those
appointed from civil life, ollieers ami pri
vates. In her eyes we are all her chil
dren, jealous of her fa!nr, eager to ex
tend her world-wide reputation. Gene
rals and private soldiers, men who have
cheerfully offered our all lor our dear coun
try, we stand here before t!ii-. shrine, ever
hereafter sacred to our de;id, equals and
brothers in the presence of the common
death which awaits us a!!, perhaps at the
same hour and on the same field. Such
are the ties which unite us, the most en
dearing that exist among men ; such the
relations which bind us together, the clo
sest of the sacred brotherhood of arms.
It has therefore seemed. :uui i ;s fitting
that we should erect on this ? put so sacred
to us all, an endearing 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 were 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
nation. It derives its origin from the old
continental and State lines of the Involu
tion, wlience, with some interruption and
many changes, it lias attained its present
condition. In fact we may with proprie
ty go even beyond the devolution to seek
the roots of our genealogical tree in the 1
old Trench wars; for the cis-Atlantic
campaign of the seven years' war here
was not confined to ' red men scalping
each other by the crreat lakes of North
1 America, and it was in them our ances
; tor" first participated as Americans 111 the
Urc operations of civ ilized armies,
American regiments then fought on the
i banks of the St. Lawrence and the Ohio,
! on the shores of Ontario and Lake George,
I on the islands of the Caribbean and South
1 America, Louisburg, Quebec, Duqucsn,
the Moro and Portobello attest the value of
thy provincial troops ; and in ihat school
were educated such soldiers as Washing
ton. Putman, Lee, Montgomery and
Gates. These, and men like Green, Knox,
Wayne and Steuben were the fathers of
our permanent army, and under them our
troops acquired that discipline and steadi
ness which enabled them to meet on equal
terms, and often to defeat, the tried vete
rans of England. The study of the his
tory of the Revolution, and a perusal of
the dispatches of Washington, will con
vince the most sceptical of the value of
the provincial army in achieving our inde
Kwlence, and establishing the civil edifice
which we are now lighting to preserve.
The war of 1812 found the army on a
footing far from adequate to the emer
gency, but it was rapidly increased, and
of the new generation of soldiers many
proved equal to the requirements of the
occasion. Lundy's Lance, Chinnewav.
Quecnstown, Plattsburg, New Orleans,
all !ear witness to the gallantry of the
regulars. Then came an interval of more
than thirty years of external jeace marked
by many changes in the organization and
strength of the regular army, and broken
at times by the tedious and bloody Indian
wars. Of these the most remarkable
were the lllack 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 ninnv
years the Seminol s eluded in their pesti
lential swamps our utmost crT.rts, and in
which were displayed such traits of hero
ism 'is that commemorated by yonder
monument to Da h? and his command,
when ' all fell save two, without an at
tempt to retreat." At last came the Mexi
can war to replace Indian combats, and
the nionifonv of the frontier service, and
for the first time in many years, the mass
of the regillar army was concentrated,
ar.d tok the principal part of that re
markable and romantic war. Palo Alto,
liesiea and I'ort Hi own were the achieve
ments of the regulars unaided ; and n to
the battles of Monterey, linena Yishi,
Vera Cniz, (Alio Gordo, and the. final
triumphs in the valley, none can truly say
that they could 1-avo b vn won without
the regulars. lien peace crowned our
victories in the capital of the Montezumas,
the army was ai once dispersed over the
long frontier, and engaged in harrassing
and dangerous wars with the Indians ot
the plains. Thus thirteen long years
were spent until the present war broke
out, ami the mass of th-? arm- was drawn
in to be employed against a domestic foe.
I cannot proceed to the events of the re
cent past and the present without adver
ting to the gallant men who were so long
of our number, but who have now gone
to their last home ; for no small portion
of the glory of which we boast was ex
pected from such men as Taylor, Worth,
Brady, Brooks, Tot ten and Duncan.
There is a sad story of Venetian history
that has moved many a heart, and often
employed, the poet's pen and painters jie ti
ters pencil. it is of an old man whose
long lite was gloriously spent in the ser
vice of the State as a warrior and a states
man, and who, when his hair was white,
and his feeble limbs could scarce bear his
bent form towards the grave, attained the
highest honors that a citizen could reach
He was Dodge of Venice. Convicted of
treason atrainst 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
hall of the Dodge's palace was veiled
with black, and there still remains the
frame with its black mass of canvass
and this vacant frame is the most con
spicuous in the long line of effigies of il
lustrious Dodges! Oh! that such a hall
as that which replaces the portrait of
Maurio Falicco could conceal from history
the names of thoe, once our comrades,
who arc now in arms against the flag
...t. fmi"ht side bv side in
years gone bv. But no veil, however
thick, can cover the anguish that fill our
hearts when we look back upon the sad
rrnnrv of the past, and recall the affec
tion and respect we entertained towards
men against whom it is now our duty to
meet in mortal combat. Would that the
courage.
nbilitv and steadfastness tney
display had been employed in defense of
the " Stars and Stripes " against a foreign
foe, rather than in this gratuitous and un
justifiable rebelion, which could not have
been so long maintained but for the skill
nnil nnor.rv of these our former comrades.
But we have reason to rejoice that upon
this day, so sabred and so eventful tor us,
one trrand old mortal monument of past
still Tifts high his head amongst u?, ami
should have graced by bis presence the
con"Hcration of this tomb by his children-
We may well be proud that we are here
commanded by the hero who purchased
victory with his blood near the great wa
ters of the Niagara, who repeated and
eclipsed the achievements of Cortes, who,
although a consumate and confident com
mander, 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
in vain alike the blandishments and storms
of treason. His name will ever be one of
our proudest boasts and most moving inspi
rations. In long-distant ages, when this
insipient monument has become venerable,
moss-clad, and perhaps ruinous, when
the names inscribed upon it shall seem to
those who pause to read them, indistinct
mementoes of an almost mythical past,
the name of Winfield Scott will still be
j clearly cut upon the memory of all, like
the still fresh carving upon the monuments
of long forgotten Pharoahs. 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 act by themselves, regular regi
ments have participated in every great
battle in the east, and in most of those
vvost of the Alleghanies. Their terrible
losses and diminished numbers prove that
they have been in the thickest of the
fight, and the testimony of their comrades
and commanders show with undaunted
heroism they have upheld their ancient
renown. Their ' vigorous charges have
olten won the day, and in tUteat they
have more than once saved the army from
destruction or terrible losses by the obsti
nacy with which they resisted overpower
ing numbers. They can refer with pride
to the part they played upon the glorious
fields of Mexico, and exult at the recol
lection of what they did at Manasses,
Gaines' Mills, Malvern Hill, Antietam,
Shiloh, Stone River, Gettysburg, and the
great battles just fought from the Rapi
dan to the Chiekahominy. They can
point also to the officers that have risen
from among thc-in, and achieved great
deeds for their country in this war to
the living warriors whose names are on
the nation's tongue and heart too
o;ts to be repeated here yet not
numcr
one of
ut per-
liisiorv
whom I would willingly 0111
B
Iia;s the proudest episode 111 tin
1 1
J' the regular arinv
is toe toiicl.iUir in
1
stance of fidelity of the nun-commis.-ioiu d
officers and privates wl.o, troaehvrou.-lv
maoe pi isoneis 111 iexas, resisio
1 - . r 1 . .
d evciy
temptation to vioiate
their oath
and de
sert their flag. Oll'-red commissions m
the re'iK-l service, money was iieeiy ten
dered them, but they all scorned the in
ducements hold out to them, submitted to
every hardship, and when at last ex
changed, ranged themselves on the field
of battle for the insults otfrrcJ their in
tegritv. History atibrJs no brighter ex
ample of honor than that of these men,
tempted, as I blush to say they were, by
some of their former ofiieer?, who have
themselves proved false to their flag, en
deavored to seduce the men who had
often followed them in combat, and wiio
had naturally regarded thenl with respect
and love. Such is the Regular Army
such its history and antecedents, such its
officers and nu n. It needs no herald to
trumpet forth its praises. It can proudly
appeal to the numerous fields from the
tronies to the frozen banks of the St.
Lawrence, from the Atlantic to the l a-
1
cific fertalized by the blood and whitened
'. . 1 . 1 1, r -ii
bv the bones ot its nicmoers. jui 1 win
not. nause to culonizc it. I.iet its deeds
speak for it. lhey are more eloquent
than tongue of mine. Why are we here
te day ? This is not the funeral ef one
brave warrior, nor even the lament of
death in a single battle field, but these
lro t lii obRe:nies of the best and the
bravest 01 ine cnuuieu 01 me inn ,
t .1 1 ' 1 . ... 1 .1... !...
have fallen in action almost numberless,
many of them nmeng the most sangui
nary and desperate of which history has
recorded. The men whose names and
deeds wc now seek to perpetuate, render
ing ihem the highest honor in person,
have fallen wherever armed rebellion shows j ccutivc power to compel obedience to it3
its front, in far distant New Mexico, in ; laws. The nation's credit and self-respect
the broad valley of the Mississippi, in the : nHti disappeared, and it was feared by the
bioody hunting grounds of Kentucky, in ; friends of human liberty throughout the
the mountains of Tennessee, amid the world that ours was another added to the
swamps of Carolina, in the fertile fields lv)rrr p,ct of fruitless attempts at pelf-goof
Maryland, and in the blood-stained ! vemment. The nation was evidently on
thickets of Virginia. They were all the brink of ruin and dissolution, when,
grades, from the general to the private,
of all ages, from the gray haired veteran
of fiftv years service to the bennlle;-s
lyouth, of all degrees eif cultivation, ho
the man of science to the uneducated boy-
It is not necessary, nor is it po-si'o! t,
repeat the mournful yet illustrious roll of
dead heroes whom we have met lei honor,
Nor shall I attempt, to name fill of iho-c
VOL. 11 NO. 26.
who most merit praise simply a few who
will exemplify the classes to which they
belong among the lost slain. Among the
first in honor and reputation was that
hero of twenty battles, John Sedgwick,
gentle and kind as a woman, brave as a
brave man, ever honest, sincere and able.
He was a model that all may strive to
imitate, but whom few can equal. In the
terrible battles which just preceded his
death he had occasion to display the high
est qualities of a commander and a sol
dier, yet after escaping the stroke of death
where 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 in his heart and
a quiet, tranquil smile upon his face.
Alas, our great nation possesses few sons
like true John Sedgwick! 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 cool
courage at Fort Brown, Monterey and
Buena Vista. John F. Reynolds and
Reno, both in the full vigor of manhood
and intellect ; men who had proved their
ability and chivalry on 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 superior
numbers, his brief career affording a bril
liant example of patriotism and ability.
The impetuous Kearney, and such Gene
rals as Richardson, Williams, Terrill,
j Stevens, Weed, Lander and Hayes, lost
their lives while in the midst ot a career
of usefulness. Young Bayard, so like
the most mourned of his name, that
" knight, above fear and above reproach."
was cut off too early for his country. No
regiments can spare such gallant, devoted
and able commanders as Russel, Davis,
Gore, Simmo;.?, liailey, Putnam and
Kingsbury, all of whom fell in the thick
est of the contest, some of them veterans,
others young in service, all good men and
well beloved. Our batteries have par
tially paid tlair terrible debt of fate in the
loss of .--ueh commanders as Gibbs, the
first to fi;!l in the war : Bensoii, Haggard,
Smend, Ice, Hart, Hazlctt, and those
gallant boys Kirhy, WoodiTitfe, Dimick
and dishing, white the engineers lament
the gallant llagnor and Cross. Beneath
ivm
battle tields rests the corpses of
the h roic Beseorn,
m:mv other company
Stone, Sweet, and
illicers.
The Genera! having referred to some
other illustrious Generals, and descanted
at 1 ngih upon their worth, said there was
Sunnier, a brave, chivalrous, honest vete
ran, of more than half a century's serv ice
who had confronted death unllinchingly
on scon s of battle fields. That most ex
cellent soldier, the eloquent C. F. Smith,
who many of us remember to have scon
so often in this very place, escaped the.
bullet to fall a v ictim to the disease which
has deprived the army of so many of its
best soldiers. There is a lesson to be
drawn from the deaths of those glorious
ni'-n which wo shouiJ read for the present
;u.d future benefit of the nation. War
in these modern days is a science, and it
should now be clear to the most prejudiced
thai the organization and command of
armies, and the high combination of stra
tcgy. perfect familiarity with the theoreti
cal science of war is requisite. To count
upon success where the plans and execu
tion of campaigns are intrusted to men
who have no knowledge 01 war, is as idle
j as to expect the legal wisdom of a Story
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or a Kent from a skillful phvsician. But
what is the honorable and holy cause 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 ?
S Kin after the e-.lose of ihe Revolution
ary War, it was found that the Confedc-
; racv
whieh had grown up during this re
markable period was falling to pieces from
its own weight. The central power was
too weak It could only recommend to
the different Suites such measures a
seemed best, and it possessed no real
power legislate, because it lacked the ex-
some eighty y-urs ago, many of the
wisest and most patriotic, of the land seek
a remedy for the great evils which threat
ened to d. stroy the great work of the
Ke volution.
Their sessions were I rg and often
stormy ; fer a tira" the most sanguinft
doubted the possibility of n pucerssful tei
conci.CHF.d on rot;mtt rAGi .l
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