Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-20

facilitate the interchange of natural and indus
trial products while the woodworking arm
of the engineer has leveled the mountain walls
which separate the east and west, compelling
your own Alleghanies, my Maryland and
Pennsylvania friends, to open wide their ev-
erlasting doors to the chariot wheels of traffic
and travel; these bonds of union are of Pc
renna force and energy, while the causes of
alienation are imaginary, Fictitious, and tran
sient. The heart of the people north and
south are for the Union. Indications, too
plain to be mistaken, announce the fact, both
in the east and the west, of the states in rebel
lion. In North Carolina and Arkansas the
fatal charm at length is broken. At Raleigh
and Little Rock the lips of honest and brave
men are unsealed, and an Independent press
is Numbering its artillery. The weary masses
of the people are yearning to see the dear old
flag floating again upon the capitols, and they
sigh for the return of the peace, prosperity,
and happiness, which they enjoyed under a
government whose power was felt only in its
blessings.
PERoRATIoN
And now, friends, fellow citizens of Gettys-
burg and Pennsylvania, and you from re-
moter states, let me again invoke your bene-
dlction, as we part on these honored graves.
You feel, though the occasion is mournful,
that is good to be here. You feel that it was
greatly suspicious for the cause of the coun-
try that the men Of the east and the men of
the west, the men of nineteen sister states,
stood side by side on the perilous ridges of
the battle. You now feel it new bond of
union, that they shall lie side by side, till a
clarion louder than that which marshalled
them to the combat, shall awake their slum-
berS. God bless the union; it is dearer to us
for the blood Of those brave men shed in its
defence. The spots on which they stood and
fell; these pleasant heights; the fertile plain
beneath them; the thriving village whose
streets so lately rang with the strange din of
war; the fields beyond the ridge, where the
noble Reynolds held the advancing foe at
bay, and while he gave up his own life, as
sured by his forethought and sef-sacrifice,
the triumph of the two succeeding days; the
little streams which wind through the hills, on
whose banks in after times the wondering
ploughman will turn up, with the rude weap-
ons of savage warfare, the fearful missiles of
modern artillery; the Seminary ridge, the
peach orchard, Cemetery, Culp, and Wolf
Hill, Round Top, little Round Top, humble
names, henceforward dear and famous; no
lapse Of time, no distance of space shall
cause you to be forgotten. "The whole
earth, - said Pericles, as he stood over the re-
mains of his fellow citizens, who had fallen
in the first year OF the Peloponessian war,
''the whole earth is the sepulchre of illustri-
Gus men" All time he might have added, is
the millennium of their glory. Surely would
do injustice to the other noble achievements of
the war, which have reflected suchhp on both
arms OF the service, and have entitled the ar
mics and the navy of the United States, their
officers and men, the warmest thanks and
the richest rewards which a grateful people
can pay. But they, am sure, will join us
in saying, as we bid farewell to the dust of
these martyr heroes, that wheresoever thro'-
out the civilized world the accounts of this
great warfare are read, and down to the latest
period OF recorded time, in the glorious an
nails of our common country, there will be
no Brighter page than that which relates to
The BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.