Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-06-01

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of living orators, and that a marked
ability to talk may sometimes preclude
the possibility of forming sound
judgement. Northern victims of the
war, the bones of many of your loved
ones, lie scattered in the fields of the
sunny south. To each of you to-day
should come the thought that perhaps
at this moment the unknown grave of
your loved one is being decorated by
the tender hands of proud southern
woman who yet prays that some
body may to-day decorate her sons
unknown grave. If you cannot be.
come an instrumentality in bringing
about an answer to that prayer, at
least meet the spirit that prompts IL
with that all-controlling sympathy
that should characterize every truly
noble soul. Soldiers OF the North, as
you read the call that is made for the
third annual reunion of the northern
and southern soldiers at Caldwell,
Ohio, on the 5th OF September next,
let not your pulses thri with the pale
blossomed enthusiasm that never
bears fruit, but resolve if possible TO
be there in person, and if prevented
10 send down your whole hearts and
souls. Tell the people of the South,
when they meet you with flowers to
strew upon the graves of American
soldiers, to cherish all the memories
IF tbo x-or. 70 prosarvo H. or,,,. Ill,
catered battle flags and shattered
stats, and to draw all the inspiration
they may from the examples of such
soldiers as Stonewall Jackson. Thus
the better may you cherish the local
memories OF the war, suggested as
you stand on spots like this, where
soldiers were accustomed to drill be-
fore they went forth to fields of &C.
ton Thus with stranger heart thrills
may you ever recall the greater.
scenes of that war in which our sol
diers played part.
For the year that must pass before
another decoration day, take with you
these pictures as sketched by Thomas
Fitch, of California, when he told the
janitor of tho Nations glory to fling
wide the gates of memory's gallery
and let the sun of ultimate noonday
light the scene.
"Look ship sinking to her doom
in Hampton Roads.
Each torn flag waving challenge as ID wont.
And each dumb gun brave mans monument"
An old man, his white hair splendid
with the halo of battle, dashed to the
man.top and sailing into the flames.
A horseman laundering down from
Winchester to whirl the retreating
bayonets into resistless column OF
advancing steel.
A soldier, writing history with his
sword point upon American soil and
punctuating his sentences with victo-
ries all the way "from Atlanta to the
sea"
A silent general hurting armies in
tidal waves of bloody spray against
the heart of the rebellion, until the
last citadel OF treason fell.
\ firm, wise statesman, taking adj
vantage OF the hour and writing the
death sentence of human slavery.
A people gathered around their affairs,
swearing by the name and in tho pres
ence of an ever living God that they
would not be deprived OF their heritage,
and that they would not be despoiled
of the fruits of their fathers contest;
that neither the might of armies nor
the treachery of the trusted, nor tho
craft of the vanquished, nor time, nor
toll, nor chance, nor change should
prevail against those principles of a
free Republic to which they had
pledged themselves amid the sulIen
echoes of Sumpter's guns, aud to
which through war and peace, through
victory and defeat, through good and
evil report, they had remained faithful
and would remain faithful forever"