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

Ell gIOuuu, cOtuo Dcnodtu Cao leading
crumbling stone from which their
names have been effaced by times
IRREvERENT AND RELENTLESS HANDS
But the nation they founded remains
the United States are still free and in
dependent: the government derives its
Just power from the consent of the
governed" and 50,O00,OO0 of free peo-
pie remember with gratitude the heroes
of the revolution. Applause.l Let
us be truthful, let as be kind. When
peace came, when the independence of
The new nation was acknowledged, the
great truth for which our forefathers
fought were half denied, and the con-
stitution was inconsistent with the
war which was waged for liberty, and
yet the victors forged new letters for
their fellow men. The chains our faith
ers broke were put by them upon the
limbs of others. Freedom for all was
the cloud by day and the pillar of fire
by night through seven years of want
and war. Applause. In places the
cloud was forgotten and the pillar
blazed unseen. Let us be truthful. All
of our fathers were not true to them
selves. In the war they had been gen.
ercus, noble, and self sacrificing. With
peace came selfshness and greed. They
were not great enough to appreciate
the grandeur of the principles for
which they fought. They ceased to
regard the great truths as having uni
versal application. Liberty for ALL"
included only themselves. They quail
fed the declaration. They interpolat-
ed the word "white," and obliterated
the word 'all." Let us be kind. We
will remember the age in which they
lived. We will compare them with
the citizens of other nations. They
made merchandise of men; they legal
lied crime; they sowed the seeds of
war, but they founded this nation. Let
us gratefully remember; let US CRATE
fully forget. To-day we remember the
heroes of the second war with Eng
land, which our fathers fought for the
freedom of the seas, for the rights of
the American sailor. Applause We
remember with pride the splendid
victories of Erie and Champlain and
the
WONDROUS ACHIEVEMENTS
upon the sea-achievements that COW
cred our navy with glory that neither
the victories nor defeats of the future
can dim. We remember the heroic
services and sufferings of those who
fought the merciless savage of the
frontier; we see the midnight massacre
and hear the war cries of the allies of
England; we see flames climb round
the happy homes, and in the charred
and blackened ruins we see the multi
sted bodies of our wives and children.
Peace came at last, crowned with the
victory of New Orleans-a victory
that did relieve all scrrows and all de.
feats. The revolution gave our fathers
a free land, the war of 1912 free sea.
To-day we remember the gallant men
who bore our Gag in triumph from the
Rio Grande to the heights of Chapul-
tepec.
Leaving out of the question the jus.
tice of our cause, the necessity for war,
we are yet compelled to applaud the
marvellous courage of our troops. A
handful of men, brave, impetaous, de-
termined, irresistible, conquered a ma
ton. Our history has no record of
more daring deeds. [Applause] Again
peace came and the nation hoped and
thought that strife was at an end. We
had grown too powerful to be attacked.
Our resources were DOundless and the
future seemed secure. The hardy pi-
Oneers moved to the great West. Be.
meath their ringing strokes the forests
disappeared, and on the prairies waved
the beloved seas Of wheat and corn.
The great plains were crossed, the
mountains were conquered, and the
foot of the victorious adventurer press
ed the shore of the Pacific. In the
great North all the streams went
SINGING TO THE SEA,
turning wheels and spindles and cast
ing shuttles back and forth. Inventions
were springing like magic from thou
sand brains. From LabOr's holy affairs
rose and leaped the smoke and fame,
and from the countless FORCES rang the
chant of rhythmic stroke, but in the
South the negro tOiled unpaid and
mothers wept while babes were sold,
and at the auction block husbands and
wives speechlessly looked the last good.
) bye. Fugitives, lighted by the North
) star. sought liberty on English soil. and
were by Northern men thrust back to
whip and chain. The great statesmen
and successful politicians announced
that law had compromised with crime,
that justice had been bribed, and that
) time had barred appeal. A race was
left without right, without hope
The future had no dawn, no star
: nothing but ignorance and fear nothing
bat work and want. This was the
conclusion of the statemen, the philoso.
ply of the politicians, of constitutions
expounders. This was decided by the
) courts and ratified by the nation. We
had been successful in three wars: We
r had wrested thirteen colonies from
I Great Britain; we had conquered on,