The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-31

York, at the Decoration Of the Soldiers
graves at Arlington Cemetery, near WASH
ington, May 80, 1875.
These heroic dead, in whose memory we
meet, have justly earned the largest praise
that living men may give. But or beet
homage must be With deeds and rot alone
with werds and flowers We shall pay
them fitting honor only as we ourselves
take up and carry forward the work, which
living they lid so WELL which dying they
bequeathed 10 their survivors Wa can
justify the sacrifice, which they a. freely
offered, only as we ourselves render faith
full and uuseifi.h service to the state for
which they died, IF we weakly fail TO use
their great gift well, then for US aud ours
have they sadly Gied III vain
We need not here and now repeat the
story Of their achievements. What they
so grandly did is not buried with their dust.
1t can never be forgotten, so long as lib
eriy is loved, 30 long as courage 10 the
right and for the right is honored among
men.
While yonder Potomsc flows, its min
strel waves shall sing, in verse more grand
than lips may breathe, the epic of that
army, so many of whose dead sleep here.
While yonder Capitol shall sand, the
statue of freedom, which fifty crown it's
rising dome shall tell that when our c. vii
strife had ended, there was no slave before
the law in all the land.
Nor ia there any need that we recount
the causes of the war In which our CON-
rades fell 1t our fathers erred, as err thy
did in their oppression OF the weak aud
lowly il they erred, as err they did, in
compromises of the right for sake of z ain
or ease, or power, this land has suffered
long and sorely. Justice weighed the Ma
tons crime. Justice heaped and yet may
heap the scale with tears and blood and
agony, for no sin of man Or people ever yet
escaped, none ever can escape full penalty.
Still it is no part of manhood idly TO mourn
above buried past ''Let the dead pufy
their dead Our duty Is in to-day and
with the living. M
Nor yet among these graves would We
recall even one memory of bitterness an
anger. With Equal love for what Was go d
In their common humanity, with equal for
giveness for what was evil, nature I, Ids
alike the ashes IF 10y and rebel in her
resurrection robes of the spriDg-time l,w-
ers. To Judge the living was and sill re-
mains our duty. To enforce that judgment
even in the last appealo Of battle aud against
our brothers, was our hard necessity. But
at the grave our feet must pause, for the
sentence of the dead is with God alone.
There speaks no voice of anger from these
cold ashes Solet there be no wrathful
memory In any heart this day through all
our borders.
Courage and honor alike require that we
who by Gods providence were victors In
the strife, should be freely aud absolutely
generous in peace. Courage and honor
equally require that they who were braten
should yield manly submission to the de
cisIon of that hnal tribunal of the sword
TO which they appealed. These are plsin
words plainly spoken among our dead
Peace, complete peace, peace that sball en-
dure, peace from the bone that shall leave
no scar upon the skin, Can come in no other
way. Let us heartily remember, let US fully
own that those whom we fought were ana
are our brothers still--brothers not alone
in name, but in blood and in love. We
fought them to save our union. We freed
lheir slaves as opportunity was given, and
we're devOutly glad that thus the way was
opened to put from them and us alike the
sin and shame and hurt OF slavery. And
yet while we remember this, let us as di.
rectly say that we would keep with reso
Lutte will and unyielding baud all the re-
suits of justice, Of liberty, of equal and
fair play for labor and manhood, that have
been bought at such terrible cost to North
and South alike.
Does any seek this day for any cause, to
revive the old prejudice of class and caste
and race? He is no friend of the union.
Does any seek this dsy, for self or partisan
success, to set white against black or black
against white He is no friend of the IN
ion. The man, who this day draws the
color liue 10 politics, Is either traitor, kna'e
or simpleton. His place is amoug The shsd-
ows and bats of the pasl and not in the
sunlight OF the present Does any seek to
deny to loyal comers in any part If The
south full cijE nshlp, complete protection
and hearty welcome because such comers
wore the federal blue in other day.? de il
no FREUD of the union. Dies sny seef TO
launt loyal subjects Of the law and keepers
If the peace because such wore the gray in
days Of battle! Hs is no friend Of the
Union. r0
The land is one and should be at rest.
We owe too much and earn and save 100
little, TO waste in past strife hours hat are
needed for present labor and present duty.
1t should not be hard for us to dwell TO-
gether IN full accord On many fields the
| ashes Of our common dead are mingled,
Ga many fields the living proved
and learned TO respect each the
manhood of the other All that should he
/ ssked, all that need be yielded by any, each
aud all should be swift TO offer-simply
obedience to the law in spirit AS In liter,
with the honest performances by every citi-
zen of his personal duty 10 the state.
Where sO-called conservatism has tri-
umphed at The south there have been too
ofIen practical intolerance, practical denial
Of personal liberty, practical denial of pop
ulsr education, al d persistent effort to re-
vive old Systems under new forms. Where
s-called radicslism has succee ded there
| have been too often official corruption and
much veualfy One turns In sadness from
euch psrlisAnship on either side and asks
for a patriotism of conscience, courage and
common sense, thai will neither coerce the
ballot OF the citizen nor steal the revenue OF
the state that viii deal with white and
black alike in the great tut rare Weldon OF
simple Justice; that will seek to perform
each pshlic trust with brave fidelity and
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