The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-04

valor of our citizen soldiery as this: Let
all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
thy Gods, and truths; then II thou fallest
thou fallest blessed martyr"
We linger with yearning regret upon
the words of our martyred President, he
who led us by way that we know not,
speaking for us and for all. "The mystic
chords Of memory stretching froma every
battle field and patriot grave to every liv-
ing heart and hearthstone all over this
broad land will yet swell the chorus of the
Union when again touched as they surely
will be by the better angels of our natures.
Listen also to his words of prophecy and Of
of warning, when, on Nov. 10, 1868, at
Gettysburg, overlooking that vast city Of
the dead, he said: "The world will little
note or long remember what we say here
but it can never forget what they did there
1t is for us that we here resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain, that the
Union under God shall have new birth
of freedom, and that the government of
the people, by the people, and for the peo-
pie, shall not perish from the earth"
Evoking as he did upon the great act of
his life "the considerable judgement of man.
kind and the gracious favor of Almighty
God, he strove to accomplish the work
laid up for him with a loving, tender re-
gard for all humanity. How his loving
heart again spoke; listen. On March A,
| 1865, one month and ten days before his
death, he wrote as follows: with malice
towards none, with charity to all; with
firmness in the right. let us strive to finish
the work we are in, to bind up the Nations
wounds, to care for for his widow and his
orphans; to do all, to achieve and cherish
a just and lasting peace among ourselves
and among all nations"
"In the worlds broad held of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle,
Be a hero in the strife.
Trust no future, howeer pleasant
Let the dead past bury its dead,
| ACT, act III the living present.!
Heart within and God o'erhead.
Lives of great men alremind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And departing leave behind u.
Footprints on the sands of time.
!, Footprints that perhaps another,
Sailing DER lifes solemn main
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing shall take heart again."
Il have SEEM" said his orderly to me
II have seen General Garfield when at the
head of his regiment, upon weary march
dismount and put a wounded soldier in hi
place upon his horse, and walk by his sid,
until the close of the long days march
supporting him as tenderly as he would
his own boy. Ali sir, said the old sol
dicr, as his form lifted him with the en-
thusiasm Of his love, "Ah! sir, the old Acc
would have followed him through hell
after that" At the battlefield of Chicka
manga, as chief of staff to Gen. Rosen
Grams, his courage and skill were SO dis
tinguished that he was honored with pro
motion to the rank of Major Genera
Through all the turmoil of that conflict,
he once said, when thought of my prob
able death on the battlefield, / remem
bered the words of my old mother who
when she babe me adieu, said to me, 'G(
my SON, your:life belongs to your coun
try"
AS statesman, Gen. Garfields career i,
a living example to our American youth
He entered upon that career with :loya
love for liberty. He believed as he spoke
"The:war for the Union was right, everlast
ingy right. The war against the Unior
was wrong, forever wrong He was /,
brave man; he possessed the courage o.
intelligence and conscience which enabled
him to appreciate:danger, and at the cal
of duty manfllly to disregard it.
Pardon me, for I shall not trench in thi
place upon the domain of politics;
that is passed with him and us-with hin
forever. During the late civil war, Bowle
and Milbgan of Indians were tried ant
convicted by military tribunal a
knights of the Golden Circle" of treas
onsble practices against the Government
Their sentence to death was commuted by
President Lincoln to imprisonment fo
life. A writ of ha5aes corpus for Their
discharge ON the ground that their tria
and conviction was illegal, because as citi
zens they were not subject to the jurisdic
ton of military tribunal, came up fo
re-argument before the United States Su
preme Court. General Garfield was called
upon to present their CAGE to that angus
body, and demand their discharge, III,
hated the treason, and despised the traitors
but he believed that the Law in all its sane
tity should he maintained. That 'if hang
ed as they ought to be, they should b.
hung according to law" and so held in his
great argument He prevailed, and by
this heroism of the advocate, "glorified tho
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