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

that journey through eleven
weeks heroic fight with death, sped its
way of woe to the Coates Ajar, and to the
Victor's Crown" Oil death, where is thy
sting; Oh! grave, where is thy. victory"
MAN goeth to his long home, and the
60 about the streets" ''Or ever |
the silver cord be loosed, or the golden |
bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken |
at the fountain, or The wheel broken at the |
cistern. Then shall the dust return to the |
earth as 1t was, and the spirit shall return
unto God who gave it." w
From this lesson young men of our Ma
ton learn that the carrying and the use of
concealed weapons, and of cowardly as
sassination should be the crime without
name in our Republic. The bullet is not
reason, nor the stilleto argument. These
base methods belong alone to the Lat.
in races. If this most causeless death
will engender in the hearts of the Nation
detestation of the crimes out of which that
death grew, then this altar Of sacrifice will
open up holier and purer and Drawer Ma
tional life. Let us learn also from this
hour Of mourning to engraft on the Ma
TONS future more Catholic charity Of
Judgment of those who differ from us. AS
we demand for ourselves liberty Of thought
let us concede that liberty to others
and try to believe that all seek to
attain Ito the greatest good of the greatest
number" only by different ways. And as
without shedding of blood there is no re-
mission of SIM" so may this precious blood,
shed, heal the breaches of sectional and
party strife, and make this Nation (of one
blood annealed together by a community
of grief
Already has this death wrought its work
of promise. Over that broken, pulseless
form, the North and the South clasp hands
in the brotherhood of love.
Washington, Lincoln and Garfield;
Lovely and pleasant in their lives and in
their death they were not divided"
May quicken your loyal pulses by a
word-picture of the worlds grandest bat
tie and victory-Gettysburg, July 4th,
1868. For God never suffered our army
to be trailed in defeat on this day, old In
dependence day:
All is at last quiet with the Army of the
Potomac. The scenes of its combats now
smile with verdure, and all their scars are
healed flushed the discordant voice of
war. Benignant Nature has spread her
blusing carpet over the bloody fields. An
tietam and Fredericksburg, Mechanics
vile, are in repose. A stranger would not
know how the rebel ranks went down before
the cannon of Malvern Hill. The Chicka
hominy lags its turbid waters as of old,
but no longer diffuses its deadly miasm
amongst Boys in Blue. No longer does
the Army or the Potomac, after terrible
conflict day after day-then night after
night by the left flank march through the
stubborn wilderness against more stub
born foe, still farther into the enemy's
country, still farther towards the goal In
view-frm as the rock, memorable as Fate
An instance of aggressive warfare, of con-
fidence, of courage, of persistent determi
nation, which cannot be transcribed in the
records of War.
We wander over over the Heights OF
Gettysburg; but, rs if to hide all evidence
of this brother-strife, we find the trampled
hills are decked with green. We may see,
to be sure, rows of hallowed mounds
raised and guarded by nations watchful
care, and commemorated by the speech OF
the Martyr, already in part quoted this day
which for tenderness, beauty, sublimity
stands alone in the archives of human
thought. But, save these sad testimonies
there is little else in this field of renown to
tell us of the grand and awful scene /,
once was witness of. There, rises the
Seminary Ridge, once frowning with the
batteries, and crowned with the picked
battalions of the Confederacy. There, al
advantageous points, Lee and Longstreet
Ewell and Hill, Pickett and Pettigrew
stand by their guns. Behold, too the pa
rallel Cemetery Ridge, natural and
heightened bulwark of loyalty, selected by
Howard and confirmed by Hancock
chosen with the eye of military genius
lifting its defiant back above the plain
bearing the strength and hope of the
Union; while from Culp's Hill to Round
Top, proudly floated the old beloved Flag
| Now opens that most famous battle; fol-
Gettysburg and Vicksburg almost stimuli
taneous, were the Great Divide; from
which time-July the Fourth-a day now
lustred with many crowns-began the
swift descent of the Confederacy.
What a deadly range of fire flashes from
more than hundred cannon on Seminary
Ridgei The balls strike against the rocky
abutments of the hill, fly, rebound and
ricochet, doubling, in effect, the enemy's
equipme0t: as If cloud, black charged
with munitions of war, were emptying its
freight Of iron ball upon the ranks in blue.
But sect how mighty Hunt, our artillery