The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-07-11
A Good Speech.

Al the dcdlcatlOh OF the Grant 20.
Soldiers Monument, there were some
excellent speeches made, we give below
the words of our noble Governor. II
that man has no soul then it is entirely
unnecessary to have one:
GOV. iFAIRcHILD's DEDICATION SPEECH.
My FRIENDs,-We are here to-day
| sacred to the memory of our national
birth, dearer than ever before, charged
with solemn duty. We are here 70 ded-
lcate this monument te the memory of
| friends and comrades, who gave their
lives for the nation life. Dying for the
nation, those departed heroes died for
each of US that the priceless legacy which
| our fathers handed down to us might be
transmitted undiminished to coming gen
eratlons. Hundreds of you within the
sound OF my voice, were the Immediate
comrades upon the tented field of those
to whose memory this tablet is erected !;
they were your brothers in arms during
the long weary years of bloody war
| through which you passed with you
they stoodin the glory of triumph, with you
they stood in the bitterness of defeat
Many of you dampened with your own
blood the same fields where they went
down to odeath-thus cementing the broth
erly love which had bound you one to
another. What we say and do here to-
day will, when few short years shall
have passed, be scarcely remembered. but
the deeds which this memorial is to COM
memorate will last until history is dead,
and the works OF man have been forgot
ten. Your children will recount those
deeds to their childrens' children, and
thus they will be perpetuated forever,
serving to stir those who shall come after
US and inherit the legacy of freedom now
perfect, to valorous love of country.
70 lose friends by death is the greatest
of all human Affections, and we mourn
for them, refusing to be comforted until
time has healed somewhat the wounds
and softened our SORROWS. Those soldiers
were happy, while on earth, in the pos
session of friends almost without number.
There were father, mother, brother and
sister, and perchance wife and children.
Father. mother, would you call back your
son to life, the one you loved so dearly :?
Sister, brother, would you summon again
to your side the companion of your child
hood Wife, children, would you bring
him you loved SO fondly from his glorious
grave, if that bringing back from death
would undo all that he has done for his
country? Would you again see our Re-
public standing upon volcano whose
fires burned brig and dangerous beneath?
Could you stop the life blood swiftly flow
ing from husband. son, father, brother,
would you do so, if to stop that current
would seal our nation doom2 | see the
answer in your faces. No, you would
not you now know that he lived not in
vain, that he died not in vain He left
his impress upon the page of history, a
bloody page it was, but one which will
affect the world for good to the latest
generation.
To those who have passed through the
fiery ordeal, shoulder to SHOULDER with
their dead comrades, and though maim-
ed and stricken, were by kind Provi-
oence, permitted to return to their homes
ask the same question Would you,
cripples, whom | see before me, recall
the lost leg or arm Would you suffer
with no hope of cure in this world, recall
your lost breath, if such recalling would
imperil your beloved country? Would
you not rather sacrifice that other good
leg or arm ?-Would you not rather again
brave the dangers of war with shattered
health? Would you not rather let your
blood flow like water-fow even to death?
The flash of each veterans eye gives
the answer. Let the trump and drum
sound that cali to arms for the defense Of
freedom and the men of this vast assem-
bly, would fall in without murmur,
and again march forth to battle
The drum and the trumnet viii not
sound that bloody call, my friends. The
victory has been won, and well won. The
fruits Of that victory are now being gar
nered up in freedom storehouse, and,
thank God, the people have willed that
none shall be lost.
Many of the names [ read upon this
monument were those of my Immediate
comrades in the field. Many Of them
| knew intimately, and loved dearly. |
have called those names often from the
muster-roll of their regiment They
have been honorably mustered out of this
earthly service. Their work is done !;
their memory and the resnlt of their val
or only remain to us. They have been
mustered into that other service whose
term runs throughout eternity. Let us
hope that their names are borne upon
the muSter-rolls in heaven.
Ie dead heroes
Yen faithful herald's biazoned stone,
With 1nournful pride shall tell.
Whom many yani nee age hath flown
The story how We fell
Nor wreck nor change winters blight,
Nor Times remorseess doom,
Shall mar one ray of glory's light,
That gilds your deathess tomb.
In the name of the people of Grant
| County, who have erected this marble
| pile in honor of their services, and in
com,nemoration of their death in the
in the name of the State of Wisconsin,
whose sons they were in the name of
our country, for whose preservation they
fought and died. and whose gratitude is
ali their earthly reward, and in the name
of the Great Creator of the Universe, to
whom ali hearts, nations and peoples, of
! right, belong, and to whom only the
greatness of their sacrifices is fully known
we dedicate this monument to the mem
ory of thuse whole names are inscribed
upon it.
| Tho NIilwauEao Neof,,,o oI o;rar n nor