The New York herald., 1863-11-20
70 be driven from Che ocean. and millions Of
Americas property 70 DC sacrificed, before the
1Ytblne could DO brought TO admit the inoe-
pacity 20 pstont 70 the rest Of the world
Consccraltsa or the National sepusehro
at Gettysburg

Consecraltsa or the National sepusenro
az Gettysburg
Yesterday portion OF The battle field OF
Gettysburg wa8 oonsecgated az a national
cemetery for toe intermont OF tie gallant men
who feu in battle there, and who had been
huried es ia usual IN such cases nearly where
they fell, oyer the whOa extended scene of the
frht Disn.errcd and gathered into The con-
secratod pI ace their bones will. 10 themselves
be E monument Of the consideration in which
brave men are hold by free people, and will
IN future constitute orc OF Che grand pilgrim
shri.os OF our history.
Many distinguished men we're present at the
oonsecra.oa. Including tue President and
Secretary Seward and the cuiogy over the
fallen heroes was spoken by Edward Everett.
lqos Only IA tha !he Grs. time that euch an event
haa taI1 Place 10 OF history, but cefernonles o.
ibis character over The bones Of thefsflen nave
not, we believe. askcn p,isee s.nee they we're one
Of Che Institutions Of the republics Of Greece
FOR the monument Oh the battle 6eld Of WAFER
loo is in no sense analogous to the inonunents
taat were erected at Marathon ard Thermopy!@,
bondg Of our own heroes This revival, there
fore, is Tie United States Of one Of tho insti-
tutions Of {hat great race Ct me1 that origi-
mated free government was in Itself Sufficient 70
| give tic ooc salon remarkable interest.
M Evolelt5 Grafton was on Che classical
-rodei and was worthy one. It's recital Of
| hc events Of the campaign, and especially of
al 81 "A
| soYne exceptions One OF them Is aD important
maiier Of fact q" II was not j." 5ays the orator,
| urG' SedgFick's arrival that The Union army
| attained an equality Of numbers with That OF
! the rebels" And in snothec place be repeats
| that " tho two armies after The frst day, were
| numerically csual" He gives the numbers Of
! the rebel army atone hundred and five thousand
of all arms, OF. to exclude cavalry and artillery,
| ninety thousand Infantry. These numbers for
| the rebel force are the common estimate,
| and ere. perhaps very nearly correct But TO
| es.iInete tho Army Of the Potomac as equal to
| this in numbers Is great error. For two or
| three weeks after The battle was fought 1t was
not safe 30 tell tho real strength Of the Army
Of the Potomac and, had it been safe to pablicly
tell it, that victory. sufficiently great as it was
would have seemed doubly wonderful in the
| disparity of numbers between the hostile ar
mics, since the real strength of the Army Of
! the Potomac was at least thirty thousand less
| than M. Eyerett's estimate. Charlottesville
had reduced that army to considerably less
! than ninety thousand men. Not less, GER
| tain!y, than ten thousnnd-perhaps nearer ff-
| tesn--had gone home between Charlottesville
and Gettysburg, by tho expiration of their two
| years time and thousands fell out OF the line
| on the terrible marches undcr Hooker and
Meade But the numbers are settled more def
nitely than this. Returns from corps COM
manders on the night Of the second day 6xod
our force then at ffty-eight thousand men.
for killed and wSuRasd yS on the second y0S Say
.sT numbers of the Army Of the Po-
."mao 1as 'nI nnsae any one of the battles was
eo,cbt-se- ,enty thousand men. Oppose these
., une numbers given for the rebel army, and
tho two armies will be very far from "numeri-
cally equal"
Mr.. Everett dwclls upon the Previdential
ina ction of the rebel army in the early part Of
the second day Good authority has made the
| lery, and IL Mr.. Everett had been more familiar
| with the necessities OF battle he would have
| been better able to make IL, and would, more
| correctly, have attributed that inaction to the
hard blow that General Reynolds gave the
enemy on the first day
Bunker Hill Monument has until now stood
| alone as great national memento erected on
| the spot to commemorate struggle for Amcri-
| can freedom. But now there is another, diff
| ferent in character and with deeper interest
! for ne all Bunker IIill reminds US how hard
| IL is for people TO win their freedom, and Get
J tysburg how much harder il may DO to keep it..
| But the two monuments are sisters; and, while
! Bunker Hill tells the proud story OF New Eng
| lands struggle, Gettysburg speaks for the
| whole North-and for Maryland, Delaware, and
/ even Virginia--for all had sons there. Those,
with nearly every one OF the free States, have a
representation Of heroic mould in the grand
national tgmplus, and our own Empire State,
=. she gave more Of her sons on those days
than any other State did, has the mos, room
and the greatest honor.
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