Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-31

eous strength. 1t is that these graves
and the graves of all our dead shall be
kept green that VIC meet to-day In
the good old day of Roman power aud
glory, Scipio Africanus went to the tenn
pies once year to thank God for victor
les won we meet to strew May flowers on
the graves of comrades whose death made
victory and reunited country possible.
No Sectionnlisln.
To-day VIC know no section. We have
put it aside. To the North, to the South,
TO the East, to the West we constitute one
people united under one flag, ''now ard
forever" Upon many bloody field from
Roanoke to Shiloh, through the thick
honors of civil strife, amid want, priva-
ton aud exposure, with a courage no
danger could appall, resolution no i'm
pediment could overcome, and gallantry
no opposition could resist, the boys in blue
proclaimed to startled world the power,
tho prowess and the perpetuity of these
United States and the boys in gray have
returned their allegiance to the old flag
and say, "NOt yet, not yet, shall the Re
public die" So now we strew laurel on
the graves of the blue and willow on the
graves of the gray. AS the poet says
These in the robings OF glory;
Those in the gloom OF defeat
All with tie battle-b!Ood CORY,
In the dusk OF eternity meet.
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding river DO red;
They Danish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves or our dead.
Under the sod ana the dow,
Waiting the judgment-day-
tOve anu tears tor the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
Doing Their own Thinking.
The American people do their own
political thinking, and then rs now those
who attempted to establish government
on a falsehood were silenced by popular
will. Southern men said: "Give US
government of the few, a government of
the privileged class we are the aristoc.
cracy, you in the North are the labor
states, 50 and the poison thus thrown into
our political system by the CalhOuns and
Pickenses and Davises will require two
hundred years more to thoroughly expell.
But the people thought for themselves.
The moro these men built their toy house
ON tie back Of the black, and the more
CHEF Justice Taney decided that black
man had no rights which white man
was bound ID respect" the more the un-
table foundation shook beneath the
weight Of the tlimsy structure and finally
CARRIE! it tn the ground. Illustrative Of
hos swif, Nemesis sometimes is in deal
ius ou. ,etiibutive justice. Colonel ScOyille
said that when sent to England ty Lin
coin in 1864, he found the soldiers of
Queen Victoria singing "John Browns
Iiody' OH the banks of the Thames.
What Blsde Our Heroes Possible.
The two greatest efforts of modern
times to enslave the human race culmln-
ated in disaster at MarstOn Moor and
Gettysburg. And while this latter victory
was fought and won Oh Pennsylvania soil,
and is Therefore great honor and a
famous victory for the old Keystone state,
il must be remembered that the valor, the
prryatiOns and the patriotism Of tho rug
-.d Continentals OF one hundred years ago
made possible victory ut Gettysburg. Nir.
yinia and Massachusetts jefferson and
Adams the one with his dying breath
admonishing "Be on Guard" the other
sinking to his long rest with I" Independ-
ance forever" From such rs these sprung
that "st:ll strong man in blatant land, i"
General George II. Thumas. Even Phil
Kearney. whose mein"ry We will keep Tor
ever and aye might not have been possible
without the patriotism Of our fOrefathers.
The Cradle OF Liberty.
Tho family and the homo make the
cradle of liberty. It, was here III the
bosom of home, III the midst of the family
circle where our dead comrades youth
was cherished that the fires of freedom
and patriotism were first set ablaze. 1t
was here that the stars and bars of our
country's f1aS whose glorious beauty
sprang from the tracery Of woman's gentle
hand. first excited the admiration and
wonder Of infancy's eye. And it was to
<,r III II 10 m \
hood that many of our comrades, wrapped
in tho embrace OF this cherished banner,
returned to fight no more. To-day many
q mother, the last of that home circle
whose hating limbs forbid q journey te
the cemetery, is thinking of tho little
mound we decorated in memory of her sol
who died that this nation might live.
Noble Women.
God gave the country to men who Cal
defend it and to women whose virtues, q:
Richard Golden puts it, give rise to oul
forces. There never was anything goot
or great that did not come from woman
eff woman lost us Paradise" said Johl
Randolph, Of Roanoke, she gained u
Heaven" The man who gave up hi
business, who tdUe himself from his younl
wife and his little babe and who faced
death at his country's call is a greater her
than Grant or Sherman or Sheridan bu
the gentle woman who said to her hus
band, "Go, it is your duty and VIII
through long and dreary years sufferet
untold cares, fears aud sorrows, what Q
her? 1t has been said that " the fines
fruit earth holds up to Heaven is man; !;
let it rather Ee, "the finest fruit cart
holds up to heaven is woman"
Did hoy Die In Vain?
Oh no, our soldiers did not die in vail
When bayOnets begin to think despotisr
begins to die. Four hundred thousan
mon and Abraham Lincoln died for 10
and for you, and the shedding of thei
blood gave US a country redeemed, n
generated, disenthralled." While th
Grand Army lives let it teach fraternity
charity, patriotism, and then our princi
pies and government shall live the incal
nation Of freedom they shall live the en-
bodiment of power and the majesty of tt
the people
It'll the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves OF the judgment book unfold
Att MountvIllo.
At Mountville, VIM. A. Wilson vi
orator of the day. At o'clock a proce
sion was formed by the citizens and 9
soldiers and with the MOuntville band
the head of the column marched
Mountville cemetery, carrying with the