Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-13
THE FOURTH AT GETTYSBURG.
SPEECH OF GEN. HOWARD.

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SPEECH OF GEN. HOWARD
AsI stand here TO day before a peaceful
audience, composed as il is of beautiful
ladies'. ioyous children, and'happy citizens
and tbink of NV last visit to this place tw,
wears ago. and of the terrible scenes i,
which IL wss my lot TO bear part, | canno
helm exclaiminp. "Hew changed boy
changed /"
Ii is the same rich Landscape, broad anc
| beautiful covered with every variety o
natural objects to please the eye.
The same wooded ridges and cultivated
fields the same neat little town clipginq /,
the hillside the same broad avenues O
approacb the same rsvines and creeks
but. thank God the awful magpi6cence O
host arroyed against each other in deadl,
strife is wanting.
Yonder heights are ne longer crowned
with hostile cannon the valleys do not re
vertebrate with their fearful roar; the
groves and the houses do not give back thu
Undesirable neal of the musketry fro
And oh how like dream today seem.
that sad spectacle of broken tom6stopos
PROSTATE fences. and the ground strewr
with our wounded and dead companions
Then follows. after battle. the minplinp
Of friends and enemies with suffering de-
picted in all possible modes of portraiture
The surgeons. with resolute hearts and
bloody hands !: the male faces of relatives
searching for dear ones. the busy Sanitary
and Christian workers--all pass before my
mind in group after group.
NV friends. nv companions. nv country
men. suffer me to congratulate Won anew to.
dav. this 4th dav of ,Julv. 1863. that this
sad werk is comnletelv done. and that sveet
peace has really dawned upon us.
On the 10th of November. 1863, this Ma.
tienal Cemetery. a pious tribute to manli.
ness and virtue. was consscrated.
The Hon. Edward Everett delivered an
address in his own rich, clear, elegant style,
which, having been published, has long ago
become historical. and affords us a com plete
and graphic account of the campaign and
battlo of Gettv,burg. am deenly crate
full to this noble patriot for his indetatiea.
BILE Industry in securing facts. and for the
clear narrative he has left us of this battle.
in which every Iivi6S loval soldier who
fought here is now nroud 70 have horne a
part.
He. Joining the patriotic brnd of those
that are bouored by his elonuence. has gone
to his reward and lei his memory ever be
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