Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-11-27

could not resist the impulse of putting them in the fol-
lowing: b. b. FRENcH.1
November 10, 1873
As Holy Ground,
This spot where in their graves
We place country's braves,
Who fell in Freedoms holy cause,
Fighting for liberties and laws.
Let tears abound.
IIere let them rest,
And summers heat and Winters cold
Shall and above their mould;
Athousand years shall pass away,
nation still shall mourn this clay
The soil is blcst.
Here where they fell,
OFT .ball the widows tear be shed,
OF shall fond parents mourn their dead,
The orphan here shall kneel and weep,
Aud maidens where their lovers sleep,
Their shall tell.
Great God Of Heaven!
Shall all this sacred blood be shcdi
Shall we thus mourn glorious dead?
Oh shall the end be ruth aud woc,-
The knell of FREEDOMS overthrow,
A country riveni
1t will not bo.
wetrust, Oh God, thy gracious power
To aid us in this darkest hour;
This be our prayer: Oh Father
peoples Freedom from the Grave
Allprase to Thee.
The Marshal then introduced President Lin
coin, who spoke as follows, after the immense
applause:
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
-Four score and seven years ago, our fathers
established upon this content Government
subscribed in liberty and dedicated 10 the fund
amental principle that all mankind are created
equal by good God, and Cappausel now we
are engaged in great contest. We are contest
ing the question whether this nation, or any ma
tion conceived, so dedicated can longer re-
main. We are met on a great battlefield Of
the war. We are met here TO dedicate a portion
of that field as the final resting pl ce of those
who have given their lives that the nation might
1--we. 1t is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this. But in large sense we cannot
dedicate we cannot consecrate, we cannot hall
! low the ground The brave men lying dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it far
above our poor power To add or detract Great
applause. The world will little heed, nor long
remember, what we may say here; but it will
not forget what they did here. Immense ap-
plause.
at is for us rather, the living, to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work that they have thus
far so nobly carried forward. 1t is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before MS; for to renew our devotion TO that
cause for which they gave the full measure of
their devotion. Here let us resolve that what
they have done shall not be done in vain. That
the nation shall, under God have new birth
That the Government the people founded, by the
people shall not perish"
The conclusion of the Presidents remarks
were followed by immense applause, and three
cheers given for him. as also three cheers for the
Governors of the States.
The number assembled was between $4,000
and 60,000
The National Cemetery adioins the Gettys-
burg Cemetery, sloping northwards towards the
long line of hills from which the foe made their
attack. The old cemetery has been beautifully
improved though not all the monuments and
iron fence demolished by shot aud shell have
been restored. 1t is an elevated and command
ing site, sloping down handsomely all around,
except to the eastward, where slight ascent
brings up to the Baltimore road, and immedi-
ately across the hill, where the earth defences
of two batteries are as they were constructed.
Lieutenant Governor Anderson, elect, of Ohio,
delivered an eloquent OratiOn at the Presbyte-
rian Church this morning at six o'clock, which
was roundly applauded, the cheers several times
being prolonged. This effort is considered by
many the great production of the day.
| Afterthe prayer by Reverend Mr. Stockton,
the band played Old Hundred.
Last evening at late hour, the President and
others were serenaded, in response to which Mr..
| Lincoln excused himself, and speeches we're
made by Judge Shannon, of Pittsburg; Nc
Veagh OF Philadelphia; J. W. Forney and Mont
gomery Blair. Mr.. Forney gloriied the Presi.
dent, and Blair announced vigorous prosecu'
iion Of the war as the determination of the Ad
ministration.
The number of bodies exhumed and renter
1 red, up the present date, is about fifteen hun
dred. The number still remaining where they
were at first buried, is estimated at some two
thousand. This would show greater numbe
Of killed than is set down in General Meade
report of the battle. The discrepancy is ex
planned by the fact that some some twelve hun
dred Of our men died in the hospitals here, VIII,
are returned as wounded.
: Some four hundred of the rebel wounded al
so died in the hospitals. These We're bure,
with as much care and attention as our owl
men. Probably as many as a thousand of ou
dead were removed by their friends The un
recognized bodies will probably number on
thusand. This is accounted for by the fact tha
many of our men who were killed in the frs
days fight were buried in the trenches by tn
rebels and the work was finished on the follow
ing Sunday by our own troops. Nevertheless
many names aud initials and souvenirs that MAJ
10 identified by friends have been obtained bl
Blr. Wells, and will be made public as soon a
possible.
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