Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-05-31

bestow homage upon the distinguished anC
the great, and how much more reasonable anC
BETTING is the ceremony of bestowing just
tribute to the brave and loyal dead The
genius and handiwork of the soul ptor, the
creation of the god-ike artist upon canvass
the faithful, unfading pen of the historian
the epic of the poet, have all been called into
action, to perpetuate their forms, features,
deeds of daring and loyalty, for other genera
items. Why then should we not turn aside
from the worldly acts of life, from the cares
and duties of the hour, and set apart this day
why should we not assemble on this hal
lowed ground, as to a patriotic Mecca, to
crown the memory, to honor the services, to
bedeck the graves of our loyal dead with flow
ers; and why should we not she'd tears OF sOr-
row over the graves of those who died, that
the Republic might live And to-day nation
mourns its loss, and bows in grief with be-
reavement From the pine-clad hills of
Maine to the golden shore, where g The broad
Pacific chafes her strand" the Republic Is
shrouded in grief, and its mighty heart ceases
for moment its pulsatlons, while loyalty and
gratitude place upon the last resting place of
the patriotic soldier, who risked his life III the
fire of battle, that the country for which
Washington fought, Lafayette became an ex-
lie, and Montgomery fell, might be maintained
a unit. AS time rolls away, their fame and
their self sacrifice will grow brighter and rise
higher in the armament of history, until they
shine parpetually, fixed galaxy of stars. 1t
is needless to recapitulate the origin, the
scenes, the sutferings or the madness of those
who precipltated the rebellion upon our be-
loved country, or to repeat the story of the
bravery of our patriotic Union sOldlers-they
have passed into history, and there they Will
remain until time shall be no more Who
does not remember with sadness the day the
flag of our country was fired upon by dlsun-
ionists from Fort Morris, and that the insult
was unrevenged and unnoticed Southern
Senators advised their constituents to seize
the NationalfOrts, and they were not arrested.
The National treasury was bankrupt. The
recreants in power during that administration
had distributed the little army in remote parts
of the country. The part i'll Texas was turned
over with all its stores to the enemies OF the
Republic. One Southern State after another
seeded. The avowed enemies of the Union
as if carrying out the designs of Luclfer him
self, formed a provisional government at
Montgomery. The great Republic seemed
but wreck of its former magnifcence, sug
sestive of the sad ruins of Egyptian Thebes
or Athens A few days later these misguided
States formed a constitution upon the bar
barrie principle that the negro race was slave
race The issue then was this: Should our
glorious Republic be blotted from the list of
nations, and a government based on hu
man slavery be resurrected in its stead,
and barbarism born from the cOrse os Lib
erty go forth to represent 1t before she
congress of the nations of the world
Their intention became apparent and not until
the last yestage of the hope for the salvation
of that priceless Inheritance, bought by the
blood stained footsteps of freedoms half-clad
hosts, during that memorable winter IN Valley
Forge, not until it became evident that all the
privations of their own Marion aud the men
in the swamps of South Carolina, when pur-
sued by the malignant Tarleton, were all in
vain, did the genius of freedom come forward
to avert the threatened doom; then, then,
50 Columbia, country, springs from the ocean.
The wild maddened sprays meath the hurricanes blast,
Did thy hearted children sDring forth from Your
And swear the foul heresy never should last
That the flag, thus deisd, insuted and BUNDLED,
Should again in the sunlight respendenty shine;
While the recreants there to debase and degrade it
Should perish in shame at their infamous shrine"
Twas done; and we meet here to-day to
pay the tribute of the patriotic living to the
patriotic dead. When from the the conviction
that the responsibility of the fate of liberty and
the permanence of Republican installations de-
North, from every avocation of life, came
forward to the defense of the principles con-
tended for and established by the patriots of
the whole country in the war neutrality-suspicious.,
and formed the ranks of combat in defense of |
principle, their homes, their honor, and |
what is more, the integrity of Republican in
and a national unity. By their |
and the examples of their fathers;
~ the history and archives of the Nation,
hey could not have done less, they sought to
10 no more. Twas not too soon. Since the
irst gun fired at Sumter the taunt had come
'ver the ocean, from the mouths of the
ninions and parasites of Kings, "The
American experiment is failure, and where
the great Republic now" And the Premier
f England said, "The American Ideal has
erished. A headstone for its grave.
1t had been said some thirty years before,
What is the North p 1t has been answered
y the magician of the North, "The people of
ne North is the North. y And now the words
{ Time, who suits all his feeling, knew the
idden impulses that govern men-that the
eople of the North is the North in contradis-
motion of the fact that the civilization of the
outh was but type of the old Roman civiliza-
on and OF the Republics that persisted, which
of patricians, plebians and slaves I
ne power, the invincIbility and the absolute
lperlorlty, to any monarchical form of gov
was there apparent. From the
ork shop of the citizen, from the academies
II the cultivation of fine arts and sciences,
ON the laboratories for the cultivation of the e
arts, from the peaceful home of r
le tiller of the soil, and from that popular ,
ement IN the strength in every nation, the :,