Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-06-15


Special Dispatch TO Globe-Dem1crat
NEW YORK, May 30.-There was an
immense gathering in the Academy of
Music this evening to hear Col. Robert
G. Ingersoll deliver the memorial
address. The academy was decorated
profusely with flags, bunting and
towers and the scene was most bril-
liant. Gen. James McQuade presided
On the stage were President Arthur,
Gen. Grant, Gen. Hancock, Secretary
Folger, Attorney General Brewster,
ex-senator Conkling, Rev. John p.
Newman, Mayor Grace and many
other prominent personages. Lieuten.
ant Danenhower occupied box.
When Ingersoll appeared he was
loudly cheered. Upon being intro
duced by the chairman he began
abruptly, saying:
This day is sacred to our heroes
dead. Upon their tombs we. have
lovingly laid the wealth of spring.
This is day for memory and tears
A mighty nation bends above its
honored graves and pays to noble dust
the tribute of its love. Gratitude is
the fairest flower that sheds its per-
fume in the heart. To-day we tell the
history of our country's life; recount
the lofty deeds Of vanished years, the
toll and suffering, the defeats and
victories of heroic men, of men who
made our nation great and free.
IApplause.] We see the first ship
whose prows were gilded by the
western sun. We feel the thrill of
discovery when the new world was
found. We see the oppressed, the
serf, the peasant and the slave; men
whose flesh had known the chill of
chains, the adventurous, the proud, the
brave, sailing
AN UNKNOWN SEA,
seeking homes in unknown lands. We
see the settlements, the little clearings,
the block house and the fort, the rude
and lonely huts, brave men, true
women, builders Of homes, fellers of
forests, founders of states. Applause. I
Separated from the old world, away
from the heartless distinction of caste.
away from scepters and titles and
crowns, they governed themselves;
they defended their homes, they
earned their bread. Each citizen had
a voice, and the little villages became
almost republics. Slowly the savage
was driven foot by foot back into the
dim forest. The days and nights were
filled with fear, and the slow years
with massacre and war, and cabins
earthen floors were wet with the blood
Of mothers and their babes. But the
savages of the new world were kinder
than the kings and nobels of the old
and. so the human tide kept coming
and the places of the dead were filled
Amid common dangers and common
hopes the prejudices and feuds of Eu-
rope slowly faded from their hearts.
From every land, of every speech.
driven by want and lured by hope. ex-
lies and emigrants sought the myste-
rious continent of the West. Year
after year the coloniSts fought and
toiled and suffered and increased.
They began to talk about liberty. to
reason of the rights of man. They
asked no help from distant kings. and
they began to doubt the use of having
tribute to the useless. They lost re
spect for dukes and lords. and held in
high esteem all honest men. There
was thes dawn of a new day. TAD
plause.l They began to dream of in
dependence. They found that thew
could make and execute the laws. They
had tried the experiment of self-gov
eminent. They had succeeded. The
old world wished to dominate the new
In the care and keeping of the colonists
was the
HISTORY OF THIS CONTINENT
OF half the world. On this day the
story OF the great struggle between the
colonists and kings should be told. We
should tell our children of the contest
hrst for justice, then for freedom. We
should tell them the history of the
Declaration OF independence, the chart
and compass of all human rights. that
all men are equal and have the right
to life, liberty and joy This declara-
ton uncrowned kings, and wreste1
from the hands of titled tyranny the
sceptre of usurped and arbitrary DOW.
, | 49, ONPSA0ONOu AOgdl kIdIllS, ami
repealed the cruel statutes of a thou.
sand years. 1t gave the peasant a Ca
reer, it knighted all the sons of toll. il
opened all the paths to fame and put
the star of hope above the cradle of
the poor mans babes. England was
then the mightiest nation, mistress of
every sea, and yet our fathers. Door
and few, defed her power. IApplause. I
To-day we remember the defeats. vic.
tories and disasters, the weary march.
es, the poverty, the hunger, the suffer.
ings. the agonies, and, above all, the
glories OF the revolution. We remem.
her all. from Lexington to Valley
Forge, and from that midnight of de.
SPAR to Yorktown's cloudless day,
Applause
Weremember the soldiers and think.
ers. the heroes of the sword and pen.
They had the brain and heart. the
wisdom and the courane, to utter and