The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-20

O, God! shall this country whose NOR
ming and whose evening song is that
its institutions are based ON justice, eY-.
er forget the sacrifices OF these dead or
the claims of these living? Look at
these orphan boys before You. Per-
haps the father of each one of them
once snatched q kiss from his darling
child and with swelling heart marched
out to death Now you lead the boy
to his fathers grave and tell him of
the nobility of his life and the heroism
Of his death, and then you meanly
Withhold some pittance of pay or pen
sion! And in doing this you do but
mock the dead and taunt the living.
Speaking by the graves of these he
roes, we have another act Of generOsi-
ty to perform to-day. We must not
forget that the true soldier never cher
ishes any marrow feelings of hate to-
ward q fallen foe. Nor must we for
get that the South, as well as the
North, has its manned and dead sol
diers; that its homes were made desc
late, and its fields laid waste by the
ravageS Of remorseless war. We must
rather remember that it was touched
by the keenest disappointment and
wounded in it's most sensitive pride.
Far be it from us to utter aught here
which could be construed into taunt
or an eXultation. We can respect the
1ilial feeling which streWs flowers up
on the graves Of it's dead, or Tears
Monuments to their memories. But
we can never Justify any attempt, Ell
ther by word or act, to revive or per
petuate the cause that went down in
the conflict Of arms. Nor can we ever
concede that he who attempts to de-
stroy his country, engages i'll q cause
as high and holy as he who fights to
preserve it. We're we to say aught
else here to-day, our late opponents
would know that we uttered what we
did not mean, and would justly credit
us with pretenti0uS assumption OF hol-
loW-hearted hypocrisy. The two sec
tions Of the country have already suf-
fered too much not to deal with each
other hencefortA with the utmost
frankness and good faith. Like the
Southern bride welded to the Northern
husband, we have no right to expect
these questions of section, Of ancestry,
or Of interest, will not come up be-
tween us day by day. But we should
rather remember that the possibilities
Of peace and union do not depend up
on suppressing these differences, but
upon the question whether we can so
school and educate ourselves that all
shall result lii mutual frankness, mu-
| tuaI liberation, and mutual respect
and these again depend upon the fact
whether all things shall proceed be-
tween us upon the principle Of con8id-
crate fairness and unquesti0ned sin
cerity,
LIZ this spirit and to this end, would
to God that this shower Of blossoms,
falling like the dew of heaven upon
our country to-day, could bury beneath
it the last vestige of sectional hatred
OF ill-Will; and that the nation under
this new order of things might leap
forward in a career Of prosperity and
growth which should fulfill the hopes
Of its founders and prove an unmiXed
| blessing to mankind.
But whether good or evil cOunsels
shall prevail; whether peace shall re-
main, or whether tumult and violence
shall drive it away, those who sleep
here have done their part and done it
well.
Here let them rest, near the Capital
they defended, and let this be the pa
triot's Mecca, to which our children
and our children's children may come
to do homage.
Here let the dead sleep amid the
glories of the day and in the solemn
Stiffness Of the star-lit night. Sleep!
so long as yonder dome shall betoken
freedom. Yea! so long as this bright
Potomac sky shall bend above them,
or these blue waters flow outward to
the sea. Soldiers Of the Republic,
sleep on! The inspired Lytel before he,
too, was numbered with the slain,
most fittingly described thy last rest
ing place.
''On Fames eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards With solemn round
The blVOuac OF the dead