The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-06-04

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shadow It was generated right out of The
hearts OF raen by the system which our
fathers established. IN that system preemi-
nent stands tie citizen, inGividualized. the
source of power. Before,tb source OF power
had been the government or the king. now
the source Of power was the people. The
people with all It's greatness and all it's Inn.
pertectiols has perpetual succession. It's
waves of thought following eternal laws
were never STILL flowing now with gentle
vibrations now in sweep ng food, aud
upon that mighty water the fortunes of the
state were cast.
/ And the people upheld and loved the state
because it represen ted their best conceptions
their united strength. their common honor.
The system of our fathers had torn the
crown from the kings head and placed It up.
ON that Of the citizen. Each man was
fraction, whose unit was the whole people,
the source of power.
That, then, was no uprising to maintain
the military glory Of personal monarch
those ranks we're not the servile followers
Of the king, objectless in their purpose,
thoughtless in their action. Those men were
thinkers who had, each for himself, worked
out scheme of national unity, had consiGs
cred ard reconsidered the points of difference
between the contending sections, had men-
TALLY passed Judgment upon the issue in
controversy, and with the knowledge of the
anarchy, despotism and despair which had
cast their gloom over the past for thou.
sand years, apprehensive that the long dark
shadows might return, :hey determined to
fgh., if need be to die, that the old regime
might not he re-established. To them dis
union was O. type of the past. 1t meant
bellgerent and antagonistic considerations,
possibly nonarchies, without peace at home
or respect abroad. 1t meant standing ar
mics, excessive taxation, nen-tnterceurse
1t meant q paralyzing OF commerce, destruc-
ton of continental highways, death to con
tiLental enterprises. It meant custom house
officers in every state, passports, andsa bor-
der police. It meant military law, abolition
of trial by july, suspension OF the writ for
personal liberty end overthrow o: the rights
of the individual.
On the other hand the union rose before
/ them, magnificent conception power with
out despotism, order without standing ar
my, liberty without license, unity without
centralization-its freedom admired la eyery
CLINE, its influence felt in every heart, its
flag So luted on every sea. This nerved every
heart and stimulated every arm.
Beneath the chapel of the Hotel des lnval~
ids rest the remains OF the great Napoleon.
IT, IN
make an annual pilgrimage. 1t is their
Mecca Here they throw their flowers, here
they shed their tears. Right here seems to
be concentrated the remains of the vast ar
mics of the First Empire. Napoleon monope
olized In his life the achievements Of his SOL
. diers, and he monopolized in his death their
memory. Where are graves of the men who
: fought at Austeriitz or Waterloo Where
j, are the monuments erected to their memory,
where the tears that fall upon their tombs ?
Their names are absorbed by one name, their
= deeds represented by one man, SO that the
f achievements OF q hundred Campaigns and
the glory of hundred victories are Summed
up in the word NAPOLEON.
And no wonder, for the tendency of Napo-
Icons government was TO eliminate the
Individual apd to magnify the monarc b
, He was the source OF power, the focus / os
wards which every thing tended, the centre
around which every thing revoved. His was
e.
or politics, or war. Every man who wrote a
book discovered principle, suggeo ted poll
icy or carried gun, did 1t for him. lie ag-
grandized all Ike honor, monopolzed all the
: glory.
Not so here. We make no pilgrimage to
rarls, we surround no single sarcophagus.
The dead OF the civil war lie In every burial
RI ground, the Republic has adopted them, and
like Rachael, weeps for her children.
, In France it was Napoleon, here
, IL 's eacn man who govern society. In
France it is for Napoleon, here it is TO: each
: man that society keeps.
The tendency ofNapoleon's government was
to develop soldiers, ours to develop men.
The French soldiers fought for the approbas
tlon OF the Emperor and the cross of the
Legion of Honor, the American for country
liberty, and humanity. The stimulus of the
French soldier was the smile of the Emperor,
ana MS Own promotion the motto of the
American, "Love myself last: Let ell the
end IS thou aimest at be thy country's. thy
: Gods. and Truth's"
J Such fellow citizens Is the government an
der which they lived, such are the men VINO
died Tor it's salvation. Say not. they fought
lis vain. Weep not because they were the
flower of the American youth. Lament not
because they were cut down in the bloom OF
opening manhood. The hoary head Is not
the Oldest, the man OF three score years and
ten has not lived the most. 1--WE live In
DEEDS, not years, In thoughts not breaths.
In feelings. not In figures on q dial. We
should count time by heart-throbs. He most
lives who thinks most, feels the noblest acts
the best"
Such men dead They are not dead, they
never die, they live live In their works. and
, their works are immortal.
Green grow the grass abovo you, soldiers
OF the Republic Yours Is not poetic i'm
mortality like thatof neurological horoes.
You are not the creatures OF the immagina.
ton. Your deeds are not the fancifui out
bursts Of pocsie or superstition. The great
: national Alma Mater caims you as her
children. You die. to give her immortality and.
as II by,a great law OF reciprocity established
by the system Of our fathers, In imm ort lizin0
her. you have immortaliEed yourselvesl
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