Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-06-10

!, and say to all the world:
. dare do all that may become a man.
We had developed on the America
: continent two distinct civilizations, til
representatives of each being as differ
ent in character as the difference betweeI
the characters of the Cavaliers and tn
Roundheads of England. The on
had its origin in the landing of the Pill
J gTims on Plymouth Rock. the other il
the establishment of the colony at lanes
town. The one extending over tn,
Southern States from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande, the other ovel
the Northern from the Atlantic to the
Pacific coast. The tendency ofthe civ.
/ Ilization of the South, on account of the
ease and luxury resulting from their sys.
TEN of slave labor, was to the development
of sentiment and chivalry They cult
waited sort of system of knight errantrv,
and devoted much of their time to the
chase and tournament. While the cav
alters of the South were given to pleasure
and amusement, and spent their time in
hunting, in sporting and in gaming, and
prided themselves on their high notions
of honor, the Puritans of the North were
pushing commercial enterprises, erect
ing school houses and building churches,
and prided themselves upon the fact that
the sails of their ships whitened the seas;
| that their free schools were almost as
numberless as the stars of the hrna-
ment, and the spires of their religion all
over the north were pointing heaven
ward as thickly as the masts in a ship S
/ harbor. Pride of birth, rich descent, and
/ the scorn of labor were the Characters
tics of the one, while a high regard for
/ honest toll, and a contempt for the in
heritance of either property or blood,
| distinguished the other The South be-
ieved that society, organized on the ba-
| sis of free labor, was inconsistent with
the higher developments of true man
hood. This notion was almost univer-
sally prevalent among southern people,
and had much to do in bringing about
conflict, The contempt of southern gem
tlemen, who pri6ied themselves upon
their chiyalry. for the courage of north
ern mudsills'' and greasy mechanics, -
as they were pleased to term our peo-
pie, was one of the causes that led
them into their fatal error. They be-
lleved that we were a people so absorbed
IN gain that we were coWardly; that we
had not the courage to defend the Gov
ernment; that we would tamely yield to
their demands without a resort to arms,
and thus Understanding the character
and spirit of our people they made the
assault that brought into conflict these
two civilizations, the result of which has
been the triumphant vindication of the
superiority of our system, and constitutes
one of the greatest epochs in the world s
history. The conduct and death of our
heroes who fell in this struggle, illustrates
the fact that the development of the pur-
est chiValry, the highest honor and the
noblest courage is not inconsistent with
our civilization, but is the result of our
system of free labor, of which they were
the representatives. Their silent graves
are lasting monuments of northern PROV
ess, and of the devotion and courage
with which a free people rushed to the
defense of their Government. The pages
of history are searched in vain for more
illustrious examples of individual cour-
age or chivalrous daring. In every Gem
etery of our land the turf grows green-I
G er the bodies of brave men who fell in
campaigns more brilliant than that Of
Sadowa in sieges equal to that of Sc
bastopol and in conflicts more terrific
than the battles of Waterloo and of
Hastings Graves of men who leaped
to the assault with the courage of Win
l1elried; who defended garrisons with the |
bravery of Leonidas who, in the ranks, |
were as firm as the body guard of Ma |
poleon who stood by their guns with |
more persistency than the veterans of
Wellington and who rode in the charge |
dauntless as the Immortal six hundred. " |
Men who at the call of duty moved on,
right on, regardless of opposing ranks of
glittering steel, and needless Of kissing
shot and screaming shell.
Some of these men died OF disease |
1 r,4
the hospital, and some in the loathsome
prison pens of the south. Some fell on
the long and weary march through the |
wide morass, and were laid down by |
their comrades beneath the shade of the /
lone cypress; some fell bleeding and |
wounded by the wayside on the disas- |
trous retreat, and died in the lone silence
of the deep forest, with no requiem but |
the moaning of the winds in the tops of
the tall pines above them some lost
their lives while in obedience to the COM |
mand of recklessness with lm-
petuous Valor they swept up, /
close up, to the enemy's fortifications.
and were consumed by the withering fire
from the impregnable fortress and from
overwhelming numbers while others
fell in the moment of triumph, when the
last sound that expired upon their dying /
lips was the shout of victory. Their re-
mains, in many instances, have been
gathered together and deposited in Gov
eminent cemeteries, handsomely laid |
out and tastefully ornamented; others
have been brought to their homes and /
placed by the side of their kindred; 9TH |
ers are in unknown graves, and some
were never buried. But no matter where
their bodies sleep, or what monuments
mark their resting places, having sacri- |
feed their lives in good cause and Tor
a public end, in the memory of good
men they will live forever.
.They never die who perish in a great cause: !
The block may soak their gore; their heads
May sodden in the sun tFeir limos De
To city gates or castle walls, but stjll their
Spirits s ak abroad; though years elapse
And others share as dark a dooma
They but augment the deep and sweeping
which o'erspread all others, and conduct
The world at last to Freedomi
That is a wrong view of death that re-
CARDS it as the greatest of evils to be
Stunned. That which should concern
us most is not as to when or where, but as
to how we shall die. 1t has been said'when
a great opportunity presents itself Tor
death, the best thing to be done IS to
die" A noble death is in its influence
the most powerful part OF Booo man ,
history.
aCan that man be dead
Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind !?
II e lives IN glory, and his speaking dust
Has more OF life than half Its breathing
mouids."
Who can estimate the undying inft."
ence, in ali coming time, of even the
humblest hero whose grave we decorate,
who bravely met his death while bear
ing aloft, on sea or land, the banner of
his country
sWho dies in vain
Upun his country's war-feldS, and within
The shadow of her altars Feeble heart,
I tell tuee that the v0lce of patriut blood
Thus poured for faith and freedom has a
Which from the night ofages, from the gulf
or death, shall burst and make It's high ap-
sound unto earth and heaven"
Addison tells us that Antiphanes, an
ancient poet, who lived a hundred years
before Socrates was born, in writing on
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