New-York tribune., 1870-05-31

Prnssian army, the hotels occupied by the Prissian
officers the barracks filled with Prussian soldiers the
parks and places with Prussian reviews the streets with
Pruss ian military airs the gates ana bridges gnaied ny
Prussan sentines1the King OF SaNony IN tna ene anu nus
the great church. by the Saxon peape areqnem service
for their and brothers who had fallen in the van
qushed cause. That service was not only concededb by
the conqucror, hut many Prussan soldier looked on
in war paid the homage OF affection to their dead. And
when saw those same Prlssans in their own eaplto,
felt deeper respect for their power in arms Tor nav
arms had rendered widowed and chdless.
One touch ofNature makes the whole world kin"
And So any would chide the South for her acctonate
remembrance Of those who fell in her dshonored cause,
for the bravery that Is most unyiedng III the conflict Is
most magnanlmous IN victory; ana we 90 put respec
ourselves when respect the feeling that respects the
But that sentiment Of rcspect for the dead which ia
common To our natures could not long command for
them any special and public remembrance If the cause
for which they died were neither successful nor Just; Tor
sympathy unsupported by the heroic either in virtue or
in achievement will by and by subsde into pity While,
them respect in Others that common sentiment of hui
manity which chershes the memory OF the dead, aud
guards their resting place, let Us the more rejoice that
dead respect the dead themselves TO rcmem-
ber not them only but nat they dld ana 70 GehI %in
10 that in their lives and work and death whch cannot
die because they Tired; which cannot die, because they
died As respect for the dead measures the selespect
for the living upon higher plane does NJ appreca-
tiOn of the yalOr the herOim the self sacrifice OF the
dead in noble cause attest the devotion OF the living 10
that which is heroic and just and noble, and worthy tobc
II.
that died In the war for the Unon we appreca
ton of the subms fact i'll the history Of the Nation
the gigantic proportions OF the war III area
in material, in armies and navics IN men ana treasure
it was not the total enlistment Of 50OO OF men IN our
war, the exposures of the march, the diseases OF the
camp it not the material results OF the war TO com
mence nor its political effects upon citizenship, s
social and economical results in atters OF race and con
dtiOn that made this 80 grand an National his
tory marked event in the history of mankind; the
itself OF ideas conflict Of principles, the
product years and generations of thought and train
ing the evolution OF latent power long waiting the divine
order of higher and more efficient combinations in the
moral world and that the Nation c3nprelended these
ideas rasped these principles, these powers
and priced and held them at great cost OF treasure or
moral above the material this saerelng ihe temporal TO
Jdct than any appearances that attended it, even
than any results that came me out OF it. 1t was nut e
piercing grandoquen eoncet had caused Us to feel
to quick how we had mistaken the big for the
"grea' Let me quote again words that we can now af
ford to hear without annoyance or resentment-What
bist Of humbugs, "Wha new elements Of prohity or
tonood, what noble new phases Of human arrangemen
social device worthy OF Pronetneus or OF Epethes
hc gods of forehOught and afteIthouGht, OF invention
and lecction yet comes to light IN American Cotton
cr,ps and Indian corn and dollars to light
and half a world of untitled land; but the title
hitherto TO be commonwealth or nation at all
among the ettnOi of the world, is strictly consid
cred still a thing they are hut STRIVING for, ana
10 brag to America and its model institutions and
constitutions To men in their sleep there Is nothing
granted in this world nothing, or as good as nothing To
men that sit idly caucusing and balotboxing ON the
graves of their heroic ancestors saying 1t Is we'll 1t Is
| we'll!
Hitherto she but plows and hammers in very success
u manner; hitherto in spite Of her roast goose with
apple for the poorest workingman, she u not muc
}rIg not yet Of American cousins industry and re-
sources. believe them to be almost unspeakahe but
uman soul, what great thought what great noble thng
nat one c1nid % " cosn s aye yet
lone of these things. What hare they dOnef They
have besotten with a rapidity beyond recorded exan-
pie OF the greatest bOres seen in the world
that hitherto s their feat IN history Not cOuplmel-
tary ovcmucb yet than half true, on the outward
carthward side, and more than half prophetic on the
Inward, spiritual side. To the outward eye ana ear we
nation Of braggarts we swore Dy the census aud
measured our growt by the snryey9rs rod ana patent
cs TO that which promised the readiest or the largest
| euIn Of money. Yet We were not boarding people,
md were thoroughly from the petty megnneses that
ike dwarf and giant in the show, attend the monster
eral for material lay before with oppressive
astness TO be subdued and possessed We made money
Everybody must do, and we could hardly help doing.
But fast subdued the material yastncss OF Ma
around Us, took the money that industry had
,Oned from the field and the forests, from the mine
md the streams, and with it built upon the farther out
of the Wilderness the school and the church. tes
yng that gave ourselves 10 the conquest Of the ma
md the weekly broth OF the European aborer, gave
roast goose with apple sauce to the workingman we
ent his boy to school, taught him TO read Sart0 Resarts
nd to think what he read. So great student aud
dmrcr Of the moral in history Thomas Carlyle the
ected that the spiritual heroes Of the Pilgrim band and
he patriot heroes OF the Revolution must have left their
orces TO which he himself assigns the dominion OF the
century and have suceumbed 10 the material Had lie
closely to the inner life of the natun Lc
goud have found those forces conserved and potent III
hc common school where ideas planted before cot
lon or corn, in that earnestness of religious conviction
That mistakes for cant, aud above ALL In the Christian
ONE that the foundation OF American society has
cen chief mOlding influence, tine nursery or those
wing defenders OF the hRuoh It's PATRIOTISM ana It's
icty. =, -. ,,--
ould strain her energies in another fashion tlan the
nauer Nature her real battle was yet to night, ana
was because of those sesaIne powers and aims the
eming of which he deprecated, ana which the
wing forth OF such fiery OF industry had reduced
il because these moral forces were
lp I'm the life blood Of the nation that she had her own
IgOny and has her victory; and by reason OF
ese moral elements in the contest, and the apprecia
rated the fact that they fought and died. is the sub
NEST event In history. When men trained 10 war
trade whose life ia iii the camp, whose Whole occu
laon, conversation hope and reward are Ia the thea
r of arms led forth by the caprice OF king or the
ItiOn Of IL general fight desperately ana ule DrdNcy,
his il but manifestation Of brute Instinct dsclpned
Nv science. When such AN army marches 10 ths colust
foreign country, there Is before IL an Oi9cctNe IN
Frrltory In booty in glory, TO stimulate The martial
mIrt When a standing army marched To the lionler
the militia IL rallied 10 arms 10 resist an son iheIe
btrr into the struggle feelings OF patriotism ana OF
ride the love OF country the love OF race the oYe OF
lama and the stimulus OF applause ana WHfd tht uo
Iatinn TO Its defenders. when, again, peoIM
l"nressed by despOtism held down by CUSTOM tradi-
Rms governments armies that weigh upon thelr very
Ife rise liberty, civil and religious, hnd put ttlr
Ives against their WRONGS there coies lnto tio Ip,
moral element that gives 10 their struggle a dglty
lnd value above the mOmontafy issue OF iOfee, hnu
lakes il an issue for mankind. Though lhey iai tno
Esfmony that they have sealed with tneir olood Wiz
lind rather about such struggle, ana every uecu Vi
erosn tells the ages Yet even here there IL an OD-
Ecye that appeals 10 the the feeling 0i wrongs
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