The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-21

causes of alienation are imaginary. iactItlous,
and transient. The heart of the People North
and South is 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 IA
tai charm at length is broken. AtRalelgh and
Little Rock the lips Of honest and brave men
are unsealed, and an independent press IN I'M
llmberlng Its artillery. The weary masses OF
the people are yearnlng to see the dear old flag
floating again upon the captols, and they sigh
for the return of the peace, prosperity, and hap
piness, which they enjoyed under a government
whose power was felt only in its blessings.
And now, friends, fellow citizens of Gettys-
burg and Pennsylvania, and you from remo'er
States, let me again invoke your benediction, as
we part, on these honored graves. You feel,
though the occasion Is m0urnful, that it is good
to be here. You feel that it was greatly aus
picous for the cause Of the country, that the
men of the East and the W est, the men of nine
teen sister States, stood side by side on the per-
ilous ridges of the battle. You now feel it new
pond of union, that they shall lie side by side till
q CLARION louder than that which marshalled
them to the combat shall awake their slumbers.
God bless the Unon-it is dearer to us for the
blood of those brave men shed in its defense.
The spots on which they stood and fell these
pleasant nights 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, assured by his forethought and
self-sacrifce the triumph of the two succeeding
days; the little streams which wind through the
hills, on whose banks, IN after times, the won'
dering plowman will turn up, with the rude
weapons OF savage warfare, the fearful missiles
of modern artillery the Seminary ridge, the
peach orch rd, Cemetery, Culp and Wolf Hill,
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 remains OF his f,llow-citzens who had
fallen in the first year OF the Peloponessian war,
" the whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious
men" All time, he might have added, is the
millennium of their glory. Surely would do
no Injustice to tie other noble achievements of
the war, which have reflected such honor on
both arms of the service, and have entitled the
armies and the navy of the United States-thelr
officers and men--to the warmest thanks and
the richest rewards which a grateful people can
pay. But they, am sure, viii join US in say
ing, as we bid farewell to the dust of these mar
tyr heroes, that wheresoever throughout the civ
lized world the accounts OF this great warfare
are read, and down to the latest period of Tecor-
ded time, in the glorious annals Of our common
country, there will be no brighter page than
that which relates to The BATTLES OF GBTrYs-
BURG.
President Lincoln then delivered the follow
ing dedicatory speech.
" Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continental new nation
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the prop
ositon that all men are created equal. Gap
plause.) Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or any nation
50 conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on great battle6 ed of that war /;
we are met to dedicate portion of it as a final
resting place of those who have given their lives
that that nation may live.
1t is altogether fitting aud proper that we
should do this, but Ill larger sense we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hal
low this ground. The brave men living and
dead who struggled here have consecrated it lar
above our power to aid or detract, applause
The world will not note or long remember what
We say here, but it can never forbid what they
did here. (Applause.)
1t is for us, the living, rather, to he dedicated
here TO the unfinished work that they have thus
far so molly carried on. (Applause.)
1t is rather for US to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they here gave the last full
measure Of devotion that we here highly re-
solve that the dead shall not have died in vain
(applause); that the nation shall, under God
havs q new birth o: freedom, and that govern
ment of people by the people and for the people
shall not perish from the earth" (Long contin.
ued spplause.)