Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-11-26

There Yet them stay The humblsst Dad soldier that lies
cold and stiff in has grave before usis object OF envy
beneath the clods that him. in c0mparson with the
living who willing to groye at the foot OF foreign
throne for assistance in comprising the ruin OF his country
But the hour coming, and is, when the power OF
the leaders of the rebellion to delude and Dhaue must
There bitterness the part OF the masses
The Poo 10 of the South not going wage eternal
for tho wrotched preexts by which this rebellion is
sought to be justified The bends that unite
People, substantial community of origin language, belief
and law he four great ties that hold the societies of
together y national and political interests com
mon history; common pride in glorious ancestry;
common in this great heritage OF blessings the
very geographical features Of the country; the mighty
rivers the lines of climate and thus facilitate the
interchange of natural and industrial products while the
woodworking arm OF the engineer mas ieyelied the
noun walls which separate the East and West COM
pelng your own Aleghanes, my Maryland and Pennsyl'
vana friends to open wide their everlasting doors to the
char0twheels of traffic and travethese bonds OF union
Of perennial force and energy, while the causes OF
alienation imaginary, Fictitious, and transient The
heart of the people, North and South, for the Union
Indications too plain to be mistaken announce the fact
both in the and the west OF the States in rebellion In
North Carolina and Arkansas the fatal charm at length is
broken. AT Raleigh and Little Rock the lips Of honest
aud brave unsealed and independent press
unlimberng it's artillery The weary masses of the peo
pie yearnng to the dear old flag floating again
upon the capO and they sigh for the return of the peace
prosperity and happiness which they enjoyed under Go
vernment whose power felt only in its blessings
Aud now, friends fellow citizens of Gettysburg and
Pennsylvania and you from remoter States let me again
invoke your benediction part these honored
graves You feel, though the occasion mournfu that
it good to be here You feel that it greatly ausp
cious for the Of the country that the Of the
East and the of the West the Of nineteen sister
States stood side by side the perous ridges of the bat
tie. You feel it bond of union that they shall
lie side by sde till clarion louder than that which
shalled them to the combat shall awake their sumbers
God bless the Union it is dearer to for the blood o!
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
lately rang with the strange din Of the fields beyond
the ridge, where the noble Reynolds held the advancing
foe at bay and while he gave up his own life assured by
his orethouRht and sesacrce the triumph of the two
succeeding days; the little streams which wind through
the hills whose banks in after times the wondering
poughman will turn up with the rude weapons of
warfare the fearful missiles of modern artillery the Sem
mary ridge the Peach-orchard Cemetery Cup and Wolf
Hill, Round Top, Little Round Top humble names hence
forward dear and famous lapse Of time distance OF
space shall you to be forgotten 1.-The whole EARTH
said Perces he stood the remains Of his fellow
citizens who had fallen n the first year of the Pelopones
sian war; the whole earth is The sepuchre Of ustrous
men, Ali 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 such
honor both of the service and have entitled the
armies and the navy OF the United States their officers
and men, to the warmes thanks and the richest rewards
which grateful people can pay. But they am sure,
will join in saying bid farewell to the dust OF
these martyrheroes, that wheresoever throughout the
civilized world the accounts of this great warfare
read down to the latest period Of recorded time the
glorious annals of country, there will be
brighter page than that which relates THE BATTLES OF
GETTYSBURG.