Daily Republican., 1883-10-27
THE LONG ROLL.

THE LONG ROLL.
Uncle Ell CrOniers's Cell to the
Freut-Ths Tocsin Of War sound'
ID.
We will call tho long roll next week.
There are 5000 of militia along the river
front, from Cherry Island to Poor Port,
and AZ vet have never fred but seven
guns, but they are now coming TO the
front.
You call this empty sentiment, do
you? The price was q fearful one IN
tears, and treasure and blood.
1t WAS for this, not only the dead VINO
rest here, bnt all who lie in village
cemeteries, and on the hillsides OF the
Republic, gave up all that men bold
most dear, home, wife and child, the
hearts fondest affections. and life's
best ambitious, and accepted hardships,
captivity and death, that their country
might live. We may forget the long
march, the dreary night, the weary seige,
all the horror and hell of the battle
field; we may forget those who, torn in
limb or mangled in body, found death
by bush, bog, or along the lonely way
side, but Just God will never forget
them.
These things are as clear to the I'M
dimmsd vision to-day, as when the
wild fires of war lighted up the South.
ern sky in terror. Call you this empty
sentiment, or idle eulogy? Then ask
the next surviving soldier you meet
hobbling on canes or crutches, anu
dragging diseased and mutilated
body on to the grave, If he calls II
empty sentiment. Ask him, az ne sees
those who sacrificed nothing, and those
who struck the fiercest aud deadliest
blows against the cause for when he
fought, remembered and rewarded
while he feels himself deserted and
forgotten ask him # these memories
have any meaning for him.
Empty sentiment indeed Walk
through all the cemeteries throughout
the land, where the unknown dead
sleep. and remember that each one OF
these was some mothers boy, sent to
the field with a mothers blessing,
struggling between a mothers PRIDE
and q mothers love-. but from
whom, when the clash OF arms
was silent, and the roar of conflict was
dead. there came back no word, for.
ever, Ask her at the annual return OF
this day, when others strew flowers
upon the graves of their loved ones, II
these ceremonies have no meaning 1or
her.
o, God shall this country, whose
morning and whose evening song Is,
that It's institutions are based.onJustice,
ever forget the sacrifices of these dead
or the claims Of those living? Look at
these orphan boys before you. Perhaps
the father of each one of them once
snatched 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 no.
bility of his life and the heroism of his
death, and then you meanly withhold
some pttance or pay or pension, ana IN
doing this yon do not mock the dead
and taunt the living. Soldiers OF the
Republic, sleep on.
On Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouac Of the dead.
Now let us look into good, old, patri-
otic Pennsylvania. The soldiers or
phans and wards of that State have
| been supported and educated at a cost
of S7,252, ,695.47! While Delaware,
patriotic delaware, has not devoted 20
! cents to like commendable purpose.
t NV friends, the contrast is too great. AT
! the German Volksfest they received
twelve hundred dollars for the young
. Germans to spell our Wilhelm, Bis
s marck and General Molaski in German.
: When | had the adopted boy of the 4th
Delaware Regiment, to learn to spell
| &. Washington, Mad Anthony wayne
e or Colonel Hazlett, received two hall
p dollars, and one of them from Con-
a federate officer.
1 Gentlemen, there Is more money spenV
4 for Saturday night lunch than woHlo
y buy a lot and put the memorial house
i on. There are over twelve thousant
:; men who never gave dollar towards
l. paving for the Soldiers Monument o
u toward banquets gotten up for TN
Il soldiers widows and orphans, or TO
e tree excursions down the bay. Lool
l. at the dude, and the nice young maj
d who parts his hair in the middle, AM
re the young gentlemen in tight panta
n looms do you ever expect them to hav
% a quarter dollar for the widows an
i orphans? 1t takes all their money TO
t. sunhowers, and to go and see Jumb
|, and the flying horses.
VI DELAWARE's BRAVE MEN
Who went down to death at Petersbur
er and the Wilderness, Antietam, an
o, Gett ysburg they loved home and it
III surroundings as well as you or l. bl
n loved their country more than life
Now, gentlemen, cant you goa half
dollar to have their names engraved
marble, to 90 down to all time to COM
1t, when widow offers to sell you tick'
d for the memorial French Chamber Sn
III and the handsome ParlOr Suit? an
b, whoever gets it will be worth 500 tim'
n. your half dollar. TO my friends wi
IS, contributed to the monument and wi
8, are friends of the Widows andOrphan
Dis do you take no pride in this? for yc
y, |are all enlisted from the time TO
at Sumpter was fired.
lis There are inside of 800 of you wi
ge have been doing this thing for TWEEN,
years wear One word for those good O
men who are dead and gone; Jo
Bringhurst, Morris Weldie, and IL
by late VIM. McCaulley, whose ham
o. were always o,eu to the poor. "
,e- enjoyed an uninterrupted acqnaintan
"a of fifty years with the late VIM. MI
ta- Canlley, from the first banquet given
by the soldiers wives and children, (befo
on there were any war-maae widows);
". the day of his death, he was the stea
il fast friend of the stricken ones. But
lr- have three more Williams yet.
I'll. Yours, with Respect,