Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-07-05

notes into market; or his eye water, It
cents bottle, ''sellers option" The Amer
lean by virtue of ancestry and experience
is acquainted with grief.. He does not fly
into passion; he does not break all to
| pieces. He can talk with his hands tied
But do not think you can argue from his
| GOODNESS that he is cool. There is snow on
| AouptsH celia, but it is not an ice house.
Under this outward GOODNESS and reserve,
you Will lind sentiment. | know you will
find it because we have found it, / re-
| member the day in 81 when / came back
! home to Watertown and found the wor1en
sewing in Coles Hall. There was a
man ready for every garment. Boys that
went to school to me falling into line as in
the old days they had fallen out on TIE
floor to spell. The young man my friend
and um-tclegraphed to Madison that
day, an offer of Fifty dollars for permission
to go as private in the LIT regiment and
! received as an answer that there was no
room. There was room afterwards, and at
Shiloh in the hail of bullets be dressed his
Company across the path Of a brigade Of
rebels as cody as he used to saunter into
dinner at Vans. Two days latter and he
10Y S'o'ASo Al VIC OlRulLy VI utdLu
What wonderful time that was--those
years from 1861 to l865--to reveal to
skeptical eyes, what was in the American.
Prudent men, tlmid men, men who uad
never sat in draft; men who had always
had their apples cored for them, were
| caughtup on great wave of feeling, on
June rise OF sentiment, and borne on TO the
slippery edge OF battle. Men who had set
around on dry goods boxes and Whitfield
led companies, regiments ana army corps.
For sentiment the curled darling of the
city, broug BIT up under glass, slept sweetly
in the Mayweed, lived without butter, or
stamps on diet composed chiefly Of flesh
cursed in the law and drowned in the gospel.
remember the old dreary sermons over
the degeneracy of the times; that the north
had become all peddlers; that the love OF
gain had slrangled sentiment. We{used 10
hear 1T 20 years ago as we hear it to-day.
1t did seem SO, but it was not 50. The de-
generacy OF the race! / did not notice it.
You can't ride in the south now without
putting your head out There are graves
worth visiting, and worthy to receive
boquet. They need not be your grand
fathers graves either. The boys you knew
fast asleep within morning walk, heard
music the Continentals never heard The
voice of Lexington, the explosion of an old
Queen arms were but the voice of a
sparrow to this later awful voice that warn
ed our heroes back. Bunker Hill was very
steep IN its time, doubtless, but all the great
grandfathers had TO do was to stay on the
top OF it.
am rs hopeful to-day as ever for this
country. Never mind appearances and the
daily papers. For every bus load of thieves
there are ten acres of honest men aud wo-
men whose love of country is tender and
true. 1t does not express itself in declara-
ton and GESTURE, in monument building
and worship of relics, but it is on hand at
call judge of the volcano, not by the
snow on its sides, but by the old lava it
casts up. | believe in the peoy lie. h 70
The state of Iowa sends to the Centennial
glass cylinders filed with the soil of the
state. There it rises in crystal tubes to the
height OF three feet, four feet, even six feet
not what they have raised but what they
have to raise from is their exhibition. So
with Nation. We exhibit not one mag
nticent crop and then an exhausted soil
40 bushels 10 the acre and then Waupacca-
but we have 10 show Washington in one
century and Abraham Lincoln in the next.
These all exhibit as first fruits and then
we show our soil, une Exhausted, inexhaus-
tible. In that is the promise and nope of
the future--God has gwen US the land, He
will give US sunshine and rain. He that is
uncertain is the will of man, and that is,
not uncertain, for we inherit from our
grandfathers the will to greatly believe, and
strongly do. Let me close with the
words of another 49,.
'sWhoe'er to Liberty shall
Fer prove disloyal,
May his Son be hangman -
/. And he the href frial u.