The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-26

from the condition of chattels personal TO the
proud position of American citizens, and having
placed the nations mHsket and the nations ban
ner in their hands, we proved them to be
True as the dial to the sun,
Even when it was not shone upon
And having given to them the constitutional
prerogative to cast the ballot we are in honor
| bound to protect them in the exercise of that
right.
4. We have proven, despite the interested pre-
dietion of the crowned heads of Europe that our
republican government is as efficient amid
storms as in the calm of peace, and having chal-
lenged the admiration of the world by pa.
triotlsm resources and prowess, we have robbed
the croal1ers of hereditary despotisln of their
chief argument for the continuance in power of
those usarpers of the rights of man who fain
would make their subjects believe that their
highnesses were born booted and spurred to
ride the rest of mankind legitimately, by the
grace of Cod To-day the thrones of Europe
tremble beneath their proud occupants before
the tidal wave of our example and influence
j. We have proven the fidelity of the great
mass of our foreign born population to re-
publican institutions. Their blood has
profusely mingled on every battlefield
where glory was won, and we
honor their graves as do our native born
The terrible conflict has developed purer civil
hzation and the noblest national character the
compelled to make to this claim are growing
less every year, and the uneasy elements in the
South will gradually yield to nobler principles,
to the school-house, the church and the grave
yard, 50 that in a few decades the contamination
so devoutly wished will be realized, when the
spirit Of freedom shall be acknowledged as the
very soul Of the republic when ever heart
shall prompt the wish and query;
Forever float that standard sheet
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
With freedoms soil beneath oar feet
And freedoms banner streaming DER u.s."
In memory Of these stalwart men of sublime
achievements let US go forth to foster and
strengthen Intelligence, virtue, sobriety and
patriotism the Indispensable elements of our
national safety and perpetuity And let
us see to it without fail, most positively
and effectually that the national flag means safe
ty and freedom to all our citizens at home or
abroad. black or white, thereby bletting out amy
disgraceful menace that may come from preiu-
dice or partisan hatred. And in memory of
these departed heroes let us respond to the call
of their living comrades to the people of our 10y
al and patriotic State to build monument that
shall suitably express Indianas honor for her
dead soldiers. Flowers in all ages have been
source of inspiration to the thoughtful No one
can gaze on those beautiful alphabets of creation
unmoved.
The flowers in silence seem to breathe,
Such thoughts as language can not tell.
Were |, o God, in churehless lands remaining,
Far from the voice of teachers and diyines
My soul would find in flowers of thy ordainng,
Priests, sermons, shriaes.n
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was
the burden of the Hottest prophecy and the
theme of mysterious verse, was heralded as the
plant of renown," the rose Of Sharon and the
lilly of the valley the balm of Gilead' and
the 'true vine" The rose is redolent of his
love, the lily bespeaks his purity. The violet
tells of his humility the passion flower is the
remembrance of his suffering, while the myrtle
teaches us that his love never changes Then
in the name of the worlds adorable Redeemer
and in hope of the resurrection with these memo
rial flowers go strew the graves of those you love
and honor, to whom we owe theonly debt we can
never pay.
'Posthunnous glories, angel-lil;e collection
Upraised from seed and bulb inter'd in earth,
Ye are to me type Of resurrection
And second birth.
Each fading ealyx memento mort
Yet fount of hope"