Daily Republican., 1883-10-31
THE LONG ROLL,
UNCLE ELI & 4OzIERs's CALL N,
THE FRONT-TNE TOC6IN OF
WAR SOUNDED.

We are now calling the long roll
There are 5000 of militia al0nI
the river front, from Cherry Island +
Poor Port, and az yet have never fire,
hut seven guns, but they are now com
ing to the front.
You call this empty sentiment, d.
you? The price was fearful ons in
tears, and treasure and blood.
1t was for this, not only the dead who
rest here, but all who lie in village
cemeteries, and on the hillsides of tht
Republic, gave up all that men hold
most dear, home, wife and child, the
hearts fondest affections, and life's
best ambitions, and accepted hardships,
captivity and death, that their country
might live. We may forget the long
marcb, the dreary light, the weary siege,
all the horror and hell OF the battl-
field We may forget those who, orn in
limb or mangled in BODY, found death
by bush, bog, or along the Ioucly way
side. but a just God will never forget
them.
These things are as clear 10 the uu-
dimmed vision to-day, Us 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 10 set
hobbling on canes or crutches, ,anddrag-
ging diseased and mutilated body on
to the grave, if he calls it empty senti-
ment. Ask him, as he sees those who.
sacrificed nothing, and those who struck
the fiercest and deadliest blows against
the cause for which he fought, remem-
bered and rewarded, while he feels
himself deserted and forgotten ask
him If these memories have any mean
ing for him.
Empty sentiment indeed ! Walk
through all the cemeteries throughout
the Ian y, where the unknown dead
sleep, remember that each one of these
was some mothers boy, s.nt to the field
with . mothers blessing, struggling
between mothers pride and mothers
love, but from whom, when the clash
OF arms was silent, and the roar of con-
fiict was dead, there came back no,
word, forever. Ask her at the usual re-
turn Of this day, when others strew
flowers upon the graves of their loved
ones, if these ceremonies have no mean
ing for her.
o, God shall this country, whose
morning and whose evening song Is,
that its institutions are based on JUS
tiCe, ever forget the sacrifices of these
dead or the claims of those liv ng?
Look at these orphan boys before you.
Perhaps the father of each one of them
once snatched u kiss from his darling
child, and, with swelling heart, march
ed out to death. Now you lead The
boy to his fathers grave, and tell him
of The nobility of his life and the hero
SIN of his death, and then you meanly
some pittance, or pay or pen
sion, and in doing this you do not
mock The dead and taunt the living.
soldiers of the Republic, sleep on.
IN Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round.
The blvOuaC OF the dead.
Now, let US look into good, old patri-
'tic Pennsylvania. The soldiers Or
)hans and wards of that State have
'een supported and educated at cost
# S7,2 SO, ,695.47 While Delaware.
'atr. .oticDelawar has not devoted 25
ents to like commendable purpose.
Ny friends, the contrast is too great. At
he German Volksfest they received
welve hundred dollars for the young
iermans to spell our Wilhelm, Bis
narck and General Molaski in German.
v hen | had the adopted boy of the 4th
Delaware Regiment % learn TO spell
!. Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne
r Colorel Hazlett, received two half
ollars, and one of them from Con-
ederate officer.
Gentlemen, there is more money
pent for Saturday night lunch than
you'd buy lot and put the memorial
ouse on. There are over twelve thou
Ind men who never gave a dollar
,wards paying for the Soldiers MOnu-
lent or toward banquets gotten up for
ie soldiers widows and orphans, or
'r free excursions down the bay. Look
the dude, and the nice young man
no parts his hair in the middle; and
le young gentlemen in tight panta-
ons do you ever expect them TO have
quarter dollar for the widows and
phans? 1t takes all their money for
nftowers, and to 90 and see Jumbo
I'd the flying horses.
DELAwARE'S BRAVE MEN
no went down to death at Peters burg
ID the Wilderness, Antietam, and
ettysburg they loved home and its
rroundings as well as you or 1, but
we'd their country more than life.
ow, gentlemen, can't you go half a
liar TO have their names engraved in
arble, to 60 down to all time to come,
nen a widow offers TO sell you a ticket
r the memorial French Cham ber Suit
d the handsome Parlor Suit? and
loever gets it will be worth 800 times
ur half dollar. To my friends who
attributed to the monument and who
3 friends of the Widows and Orpl ans,
you take no pride in this? tor you
} all enlisted from the me Fort
mpter was fired.
There are inside of 500 IF YOU who
We been doing this thing for 90 years.
e word for those good old men who
dead and gone Joseph Bring
rst, Morris Weldie, and tue late Will
m McCaulley, whose hands were al
ys open to the poor. We enjoyed an
acquaintance of fifty
hrs with the late William McCaulley,
IN the first banquet given to the SOL
rs wives and children. before their
re any war-made widows] to the
= of his death, he was the steadfast
snd of the stricken ones. But we
We three more Williams yet.
lours, with Respect
WE, THE PEOPLE.
I. R.-Tickets can be procured at the
v Hall in the eveninps