The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-26

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ratrcdai war would be Of the most accursed that
time could look upon. The wounds which the oreinaI
rupture produced are healed the amosity Of the
OF 1917 died with the echo Of the the deep
and sank to the bottom Of the sea- Since then kinder
counsels have prevailed The parent becoming proud
They callour Washng theirs Their Cromwell and vsns
and fym, and Hampden Ours, too, ia every
honor Of Their hstory-ths Mas ma Charta the Enosh
Reformation-the election tyranny and the Suartsohe
establishment Of constitutional liberty in the Hanoveran
succession Ours their names of genus-our Chaucer
ns cur pencer; our Shakespeare Bacon Newton
our Milton We will DO by their libraries unreprovsd what
they did by our ships-we viii board them; will ques
them, and send them forth to our youth And If
the printers Of great Britain fierce make rsprsas
and Prescott, and Bancroft and Hllard our Emerson
and Bryant and Dana and Willis; Tyng and Bsthuns
and Mwaras1xhy We will not 60 to war for that but
who love good reading, and know to LOOK for It,
Nay neveI-uever let our flags be interocked again in
the e' ce fray of BATTLE it, in Gods mysterious over
ruling Of human affairs, the Englis and American aags
shall again stream out the battlefield their battle
be side that great field of the woras Thar
y where yrats finally taught that men shall be free
and nations protected IN their rget of self government
In such conflict as that-if it must come-if God has
again so hardened the heart of Pharoah that he will no
let the people and lie DEGREES that the people shal
come forth from the land of bondage by the gateway Of
war-then let Great Britain be Moses; France and
America as Aaron and Hur and while they hold up tbs
venerable hands, let it be again when it written
nrsaasd 10 pass when aGss h nsd up his
dy until the going down of the sun" Until the
sun go Gown on the earth for the last time, let
England and America stand for the liberty OF the world
But SO long have detained with these general
sderationa that you like to forget principal
erand thai brought you here 1t s that New Yorn
sxcept upon her northcra ronte but little subjsct
to the Of Fleets hovered off her port and
men ready to put the torch to yonder city It was
ready to meet and repel INVASION th~t not
nishet And here before you are some of the who
must theirs be- as they walk these streets. In 1912
where B,oobyn Not of these streets was here
country road leading to Fulton ferry all that ex
listed. Corn nestled all these then fields But along
these heights entertainments drawn and not far
from the foundations which this church stands the
earth WAS thrown for ortfcatons and
sone of these very vi sit before you night deved
with ma.tock and spade the very spot where
inhrmer age rests. How great the change! Tms that
has huded these then empy ds into streets compact
with joyous homes for ten thousand happy hearts, has
been tab strength of these brave men and il
preparing drive them forth from tie tabernacle Of
NOR alty Shall they spend the last hours o. their stay
arong Us as paupersS shall they who willingly gave
their breasts to the enemy and to whose
owed that New York not bu' ned find 10 rise up
and call them blessed none who shall account not
charity TO eonfer comfort the declining Of those
among them who are poor, but honor and privilege?
Shall war be more Dercifu than peace? Having offered
their lives upon the altar OF their country and been
shown the shape Of shall they find peace cruel
thar bsttle Shall poverty bite sharper than the sword
and want drive them whom fo,eign armies could not
drive? No. Venerable men, in age you PARENTS
but in of your honorable wants you are cur chill
dren You shall not taste bounty bat love. 1t
is no dole that extend to you We haste to offer
respect They that have ended their country them
that country adopts for it's special They that peril
their lives for their countrymen are therefore most
sacred deposit in the careful regards Of every patriot
And where should you End friends If in this building
whose feet stand almost upon the very spot which you
have guardedy In these places shall again hear
the 70 Of the drum, the ehril call of the ffe
Softer sounds forever to abide here But more
stirring than the oudest trumpet is the appeal which
your want makes fouor softer than the
music is the response which love and duty shall
to necessities Take it. We feel it to be blessed
to give than to receive May your age be bonorably
lens thened out. Every year may find Your appeal
more welcome. And when the time Of your departure
from these thly places shall come may Cod give to
you each crown OF righteousness, through Christ
Saviour Amen.
At the conclusion Of this address, which was fire.
queDtly appaudei during its delivery, q collection
was taken up; after which the Veteran Corps returned
to New York.