National Republican., 1883-05-17

the evening whose rhythmical pauses fre.
quently elected applause;
Civil soldiers, reossembled by the river OF your
famel
Ye who saved the virgin city bathed in washing.
Which Of all your past commanders doth this day
your memory haunt
Scott Mcdowell, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, Nc.
Clellan, Halleck, Grant2
There is one too little mentioned whom your proud
And the thSusStf1i love OF country dies upon the
Let me call him in your musterI Let me wake him
Cap tain by the constitution, Abraham Lincoln
was your chieil
Ever nearest to his person, 20 were his defense
aud shield;
lie alouc Of your commanders died upon the
battle field;
All yQut general, were his children, leaning on
And they all were flial moumer round the
mighty tomb he filled.
Tender as the harp Of David his soft answoBnow
When amid the cares of kingdoms rose and fell
And his hamor giids his memory like a light
Or the sunken sun that fingers on the lofty monu.
ment.
Like tho slaye that saw the sunrise with his face
As it dashed, while yet twas hidden, on slender
stoeples crest
SO while Victory turned her from him, ere the
On his pen Emancipation giittered like an altar
hame.@
Feeling for the doomed deserter, feeling for the
drafted sire,
For the empty northern hearthstone and the
Mercy kept him grim as Molock, all the future
babes to free,
And eternal peace to garner for tho millions yet
to DO.
Not soldier of tho classics. he could SEQ through
Master Of the greatest science, military common
sense;
As he watched your marches, comrades hither,
thither, wayward years
On his map the roads you followed you can trace
them by his tears
In the rear the people clamored, in the front tho
generals missed;
In his inner councils hsrbored critic and nntag.
onist:
But he ruled them by an instinct like the queens
among the bees,
With a health OF soul that honeyed publicans and
pharlsees.
Faint Of fnith, we looked behind us for chief of
While the voice that drowned tho trumpets was
the echo OF our own.
Ever thus, my old companionsl genius has us by
Walking on the tempest with us, every crisis to
command.
Like the buGle blown at evening by some home
Lincoln's words unearthly quiver in the uni
Not an echo len OF malice scarce OF triumph in
| the strain,
| showers OF rain.
Years forever consecrated, here he lived where
| duties be,
Never crying on the climate or the tolls mo-
| notony;
Here his darling boy he buried, and the night in
Like his Lord within the garden, when the tired
| disciples slept
How his call for men went ringing round tho
| world, mighty bell
Aud the races of creation came the proud revolt
Standing in tho last reaction on the rock of hu-
Worn aud mournful grew his features in the fash
| Of battle lights.
once, like Moses from the mountain, looked he on
When the slaves In burning Richmond knelt and
thought him Washington
Then an envious bravo snatched him from the
To become a saint Of nature in the Pantheon Of
Kings.
| Faded are the golden chevrons. vanished In tho
Mild In In heaven his moral glory fingers like the
And the ireemans zone of cotton his white spirit
| seems TO be,
And the Insects in the harvest beat his armys
boo eysleae. fJr
All around him spoiled or greedy, women vain
sun his f faith % in human nature lived without dis.
4 y coirRgement;
For his country which could raise him, barefoot
| TO the monarch's height,
Could he mock her or his mother, though hei
| name she could not writer
| Deep the wells of humble childhood, cool the
| spring beside the hut;
Millions more as poor as Lincoln see the door he
Not till wealth has made Its canker every pool
| whites cabin through,
Shall the great republic wither or the infdel sub
| due
Stand around your great commander Lay nsidC
Every Lincoln carries freedoms car along hun
And when next the call for soldiers rolls along tn,
Look 10 see a mightier column rise and march
prevail and melt!
&NorE-The people Of a city were commanded
by the oracle to assemble ON plain outside OF til,
city, and he who first saw the sunrise should bt
aud looked up the shaft off high temple where tn,
suns earliest rays famed, and he cried, ' see II !
He had been told to DO SO by wise citizen, wh,
| slave, they made king, and he was the wisest tina
ever reigned there.
Tho Grafton.
Hon. Marion Maginnis was then intro
duced, and said;
After beautiful opening on the theme
with graceful illusions to the memories Of tn
presence in which he stood, Gen. Maginni
proceeded to discuss the
GOOD FELLOWSHIP.
There grows up in every army body o
men who, meeting on tho field in all tn
emulation of good soldiership and in cam
in all the glow of good fellowship, who, shar
ing together dangers and pleasures, sorrow
and joy, become bound forever by the ties O
comradeship. They are inspired by one pur
, pose their regiment is their home; thei
army Is their sanctuary their country tn
! world which they would die to save. Follow
: ing all the campaigns, surviving all its acci
DENTS they become the representatives af tn
: army and the witnesses who attest its history
! 1t is boasted that the best blood of th
south was in their ranks. Well, tho bes
, blood and brains Of the north were in ours
I Tho intelligence and courage of the countr
were in all our armies. The orators of ou
' pulpits, the lights of the bar, senators an
i representatives to-day were privates in tn
army of the Potomac. The day has -com
4 when these, in the due order of time and ma
ture, have taken their places in the contrC
I of private business and the direction of pull
. lie affairs. And the time has come when the
r will tell the story of that army as II was, an
not as il was misrepresented. 1t is a sad bu
, glorious story of bootless Efforts useless sacr
\ fees, and final success. Worn out In maTohe
5 without objects; wasted in battles that ha
no results; tainted with inactivity; battle
: by interference and delay, 1t struggled