The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-11

ice on the altar.
The struggle, the agony and the tor
lures Of the prison pens Of Anderson
vile and Libby Prison are still fresh
in the memory of us all.
The groans and wailings that came
surging up from the dismal swamps
where our noblest sons and brothers
were compelled to linger for months
and years ON the verge Of famine and
madness we shall never forget
And as Hannibal took his little SON
to the altar, and, placing his little hand
Oh the altar, babe him swear Eternal
hate to Rome, SO shall not we, fellow
citizens, takeour children to the graves
Of those whom to-day we all delight to
honor, and. bid them place their little
hands on the sacred spot, and swear
eternal hate to Treason
Our vows Of loyalty-theirs and OURS
shall be recorded ANEW in the .>celebra-
tion Of this hour
Our attachment to the cause of Con-
stitutional freedom shall be increased
to-day. .u
Our faith in the patriotism of our
citizen soldiers shall be strengthened
to-day. - IL r
Our obligations to those who laid
down their lives for the Republicshall
here be frankly and gratefully &c
knoWled ged to-day.
This, my friends, is no meaningless
service. s.
Its significance, We believe, is, to be
more and more realized as the years Of
the Republic roll ON.
Let it be the annual family gather
ing to rehearse tile stalwaut w&lor of
our patriot brothers, and keep alive in
our minds and hearts those lofty prin
'ciples for which they cheerfully laid
down their lives
It is not time, even yet, to under
stand, and fully appreciate the mag
nitude of the struggle, or rise to Z
complete estimate Of the vastness ,01
the results which were born of tine
struggle.
Our children's children will know
better than we; and after we shall
have been gathered to our fathers
they will look back to the bloody
scenes Of Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing
and the Wilderness, and trace, as we
cannot to-day, the glorious result
rising to its climax in the closing years
Of the next century.
We shall eve1 delight to recall the
scenes Of the past-the marches ane
counter marche, the battles and the
victories: but chiefly as they give sig
nificance to the present, and open the
gateways to more glorious future.
1t is a principle in philosophy thai
in nature nothing is lost-It may
change it's form, but it is only change
This principle is no less true ia
morals.
In the moral grandeur of the SOULS
devotion to the principles Of liberty
and human rights, nothing is squan-
dered. The blood shed, the lives sac
rificed in the cause of humanity are
ever the fore-runners of victories and
triumphs, which only begin to be cele-
DRAFTED by one generation, but are left
in their splendid magnifcence to be
fully appreciated by the millions who
are to follow after.
War which, at best, is a most terri
BILE scourge, rides rough shod over the
fairest portions of creation, leaving
woe and desolation in it's train.
But war is the school Of nations:
it is the fire in which the metal is tenn
pered: it is the furnace in which ami
mosities and hoary-headed feuds are
melted: it is the arena in which ven
cradle systems of iniquity and wrong,
though founded in centuries and vast
in power, are brought face to face in
mortal conflict with the sublime prin-
ciples of enlightened intelligence and
regenerated virtue" Much then as
war is to be deprecated on general
principles: in specific cases we hail it
as the messenger of God crying: Pre-
pare We the way Of the Lord; Make
ready for the dawn of new era in the
history Of nations. Every man to
arnci Srika for i,1ctico o,d bo,oo,,;