Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31

providentisl .pp-oval A king may b. the
peoples' only REQUIREMENT though given
tbem in Gods wrath. The wrath OF men
nav Be made to praise Jehovah. England
old mother Engisnd-as We read, could
Cypress the colonies VI our nation's incep;
tive life. She could exercise the might b.
longing to authority. arbitrary and tnto!-
lerspt along the pathway OF our Crown
subiugnti.n: but under God and hun who
was first in ear, first in pesce. hrst in the
hearts of his countrynen, ana
Others of kindred spirit for lead.
ership and defence, her desired euccess
was ruinous failure, and 70 say nothing OF
the tan thousands perishi0g on sea and
land. The sad immoiation upon the altar
of her military frenzy. and the correspond
ing robbesie, OF love and hoTe and hae-
side, surely there can be no especial cause
of rejoicing In the knowledge that Der
fsilure coet her more than
SIX HUNDRED NrLLIoS DOLLARS
in vain military shos. So OF our conn
try. In the hands Of designing men its
rupture could not be; nor is il uow desired.
In the day when We have, rs brothers,
buried the tomahawk Of war and smoked
the calumet, the pipe Of peace, can We not
truthfully say, after the smoke OF the
battle has cleared away: That . million OF
men slain on the field and dying in the
our loved country's enveloping) drawn up
under sad review and inspection in mem.
ory's recall to-day, with three thousand
millions of our financial enrching taken
away, while IL 10 Q sacrifice priceless and
imperishable upon the altar Of our cou n
try. At the same time il is one too great,
too much filed up with the spirit OF sor-
row and sadness to be made in gratifying
VERY largely the spirit and cunning, OF
deyising men, in rending our Republic
and scattering our Liberties, - to the four
winds of the heavens. And what q
trackway Of spoliation and destruc.
ton! What Q cup Of grief in its
gathered.bitter.element pressed to the
nations lip in its drinking to-day!
Is there q voice to repeat the destruction
and loss OF national property during our
last rebellion and conflict? What wasting
and consuming Of the bones and sinews
Of man. L. there any power to describe
country's defense and honor. He kisse,
his wife and child the last farewell. Can
any any one measure the height and depth,
the length and breadth Of the soldiers II.
lection, when for home and its dear ones,
for country and its liberties, he jeopardizes
his life amid shot and shell and leaden
hail on the high places OF the field? Is
there any test by which TO know the pa.
thence and tender endurance OF the sol.
diers spirit under fearful exposure to life
and limb, in long and forced marches in
the hot, burning sun or the midnight
storm and tempest? Can any one pass
upon the record and truthfully say what 10
the hospital life under its wounds and sui.
ferings and death, or the prison life In pen
and dungeon had, where poor humanity,
denied the most common neceSsaries OF
life, passes out at the fearful gateway OF
starvation, or is hurried into the eternal
world by the crashing bullet through the
already crazed brain, because forsooth the
hand OF feebleness may have passed little
and beyond the dead line Of privilege &C.
corded? Yea, rather have you ever listen
ed to the dying soldiers last prayer as your
speaker has, or seen him in the last strug'
gathering on the brow, and the death.stare
fixing itself upon the eye? Draw from
his worn and faded pocket the wife's, the
child's, the sisters, or mothers picture,
and kiss il the last, the long, farewell, In
the going out of his life. All this have We
seen and far more; or reversing the appli-
cation OF thought, what picture, with sad.
dest touches blending, can shadow forth
TIE SORROWS OF TIE SOLDIERS HOME,
where wife and children, in dependent
relations, are thrown out upon theiwaning
charities Of the hour? Who tell the anguish
of hearts, and the crushing Of spirits Is
these lights OF home and fireside and
country 20 out in the darkness and drear
Of wars dreadful night? Tell me not that
we unduly magnify the facts OF story. You
may add 70 all this the psralyzing, for the
time, at least, Of o nations industries, her
.,aes,p1 nd hal Sti I'm hAR
Gus and burdensome taxation and the
difficulty in keeping up the balance Of her
trade and power in the worlds busy mart,
and You have some OF the items In ''the
paying" as DR.. Talmage has put Il in .
recent sermon, "for the shot and shell, the
ambulances and cavalry horses, the batter
les and exploded fortresses, the broken
bones and the digging Of grave trenches,
and for four years OF national martyrdom."
And yet, comrades and friends, with oil
our military pride and national glorying,
these are some Of the sad pictures memory
would throw upon the canvass In the
memorial services OF the hour. In view Of
such mementoes from Hamlet and battle
field recalling, may We not write II with
Longfellow (oyer) The Arsenal ct Spring.
field"
Were half the power that fills the world with
Were half the wreath bestowed on camp
Given TO redeem the friend from error.
There were no need OF arsenals and forts.
The warriors name would be name
abhorred!
And every nation that should lift again
Its hand against brother, on its forehead
Would wear foreyermore the Curse of Cain.
This service as third point recognizes
the patriotism and bravery Of our soldiery
on the part Of the living.
Memory can and does hold converse with
the dead. Though IL be true, that the
silent sleepers in Gods acre" know not
Just here, that there il o sense In which
the battle fields OF the Republic speak the
heroism and bravery OF an American sol.
diery. II we GO back in record to 1875, the
smoldering askes OF fourteen towns
and the slaughtered remains Of more
than six hundred inhabitants tell the
spirit OF bravery and opposition 70
the war Of King Philip In New England
history, the capture OF Louisburgh, the
"Gibralter OF America" In the times OF the
'old French War" needs no monument 70
record the spirits Of its bfAvery-17A-
with its so 900 sleeping braves. Is its undy.
ing record. Fort DuQuesne and Brad.
docks fields, our near neighbors, will live
with the ages OF history, "The War OF
the Revolution" from l775 70 1888, marked
by such battle scenes Is Long Island,
Fort Washington, Trenton, Camden, York.
town and Others, has 10000 men sleeping
in hero graves, to attest the spirit Of lie
bravery and daring. Can the war OF 1872
die and its heroes be forgotten, o. long a.
Gen. Jackson slaughters Psckenham and
his forces from behind the cotton bales In
the Pelican State" at New Orleans? Will
parrv'a vicforv nm Taka Erie lnna 0f
writes his laconic report 10 Gen. Harrison:
I'VE have met the enemy and they are
ours" Shall the slee ping braves Of the
Mexican War" under such leaders 40 Tay-
lor, Scott, and Worth, need . monumental
shaft to mark the spirit OF their daring.
their devotion to dag and co1ntrye -