The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31


graves marked marked only with the word
Unknown! That Unknown numerous fam
lily. No danger of their being gazetted with their
name mispelled Happy the country that can boast
among her children such precious jewels. They flung
their lives and their away with careless aban-
don as incense to their tatherand but The fragrance
of the offering has filed the earth Their lives seem
to have passed into the country, cenenting hearts
that torn asunder by envy, jealousy
their names have been oblterated, but the good
they wrought. lives on forevermore. Many of those
whose forms have turned to dust used to play in their
boyhood by the river that flows beyond that hl-the
river that still flows and will flow long ages
TO look earthly Yet the dead are not dead
From this spot bursts forth fountain of gracious
influences, eyerhowing stream of spiritual beauty,
surprising all earthly streamlets branch OF the
crystal river of life. What can be spoken to those
whose hopes buried with the fallen. Their
staff lies broken and they go trembling drown the
rugged road into the shadows of evening. Grief lives
on long after sympathy of friends has ceased pogn-
ant as the day when the iron entered the soul We
are helpless. We have words of comfort, and can
only bow in reyerential awe This earth IS holy
ground haowed by the precious dust it contains and
5y the footsteps Of the aged pilgrims who continue
but one for solemn, elevated joy. Our coming shall
have been in vain unless hear these silent orators
THE LESSONS OF THE CONFLICT.
Henceforth patriotism and loyalty and respect for
law should have a deeper significance. The govern
ment for which these died is looked upon ymany
an institution from which TO wiring support as
whose
ger is to climb and rest. Such regard home spot
where three times day, their mouths may be filled;
as kennel into which they creep for slumber. Is
that not hideous burlesoue patriotism that leads
men greedily to beg and bargain and plot through
years for office; that stimulates the youth to SCENE
10 become delegates to nominating conventions, in
hope that contract appointment may sometime fall
to them! When old men sulk at home because their
hopes for office have been disappointed and business
refuse TO leave their stores and factories utter
Indifference to the management of the primaries
nothing OF patriotism is left.
They died for the brotherhood OF man; but there
be no such brotherhood long the poor look upon
the rich with envy and hatred and the wealthy glance
with contempt upon the lowly Holy religion comes
through her representatives to-day and claims these
died for me. ., religion command the followers of
the Carpenter of Nazareth to go among the poorthe
outcast-he neglected-and bring them their homes
and their churches. There may time when
the gulf-daily widenng-between poverty and wealth
will be filled with blood Let beware for the cti
zenship we enjoy was purchased for us by these men
at great price. In thanklessly approprating this
costly inheritance treadng pearls under foot
Were we to examine infinitely might discover that
the warp and the wool upon which we walk received
its beautiful crimson dyes from patriots blood. The
stream OF progress seems, just now, to have become
circlng eddy.
fun than for law. The spindle-shanked crop
haired young man. he smokes his Sunday
afternoon cigarette and gazes at the base ball
players, comforts himself with the query, DO not
even the hypocrites the same2" To-day he softly
signs his regret at not having been with Sherman
Hancock twenty years ago. Mourn not, my dear
young friend, rail at destiny. With your disloy
atty to the laws of your native land and your dsre
gard for the religious feelings of the mother who bore
you, If you had lived then, You would either have
been found hid away among the stuff at home, or
fighting alongside of that hypocrte and viper Jefer
son Davis
These peaceful sleepers ask for no snowy recogn
ton of their services their parting wish that long
after they were forgotten the good they had done
might continue to live. But to receive their bounte
GUS munitcence without appropriate response is dis
astrous to ourselves and to posterity On every
hand 'lthv men have erected monuments to mark
nj Init tyVn mill
look in vain, from the OHIO liver to Lake Michigan,
for monumental recognition of our sleeping heroes
THE PERoRATIoN
From year to year we have built airy mausoleums.
idle whispers cast upon the wind, but granite
foundation has been laid capstone has been lifted
with shouting to its pinnacle. Amazing. that human
hearts can be so parehed and paved by cares and
anXieties, and worldiness, to manifest respon-
sive throb of gratitude The mellow sunlight, the
soft showers, the gently descending dews, meet
pies, with lofty pillars and wide arching roof.
where the thrice dead desert takes all and gives moth
ing. Can wonder there is 50 little loyalty to right
when the youth no memorial shaft and receive no
instructions in regard to the principles for which
these men died! Verify, my comrades, do re-
member our faults this day" Let not the sun go
down till have gathered orr ngnegeeted children
about and told them of the wondrous sacrifices of
these silent heroes and of the eternal principles UNI
derlyng the struggle. The command of the gIeat
law giver, emancipation, foe to tyrants and
leader of the hosts of liberty, though three
them diligently unto thy children aud shalt talk of
them when thou sittest down in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way. and when thou lest
down and when thou rsest up lest the anger of the
Lord thy God be knded against thee and destroy thee
from off the face of the earth"
The struggle the crucial test that value to
the past that showed the ring of true gold in the
Declaration of Independence. which before had been
called barren Ideally. sounding brass and a tinkng
cymbal. Blot those four years out. make the result
otherwise and twould have been better that this child
of the western world had never been born. Give the
IL
untary retirement from power, the very act that
him prince OF warriors statesmen and PATRIOTS
write of Florence Nightingale and omit her Crimean
labors ted the story Of Arnold of Winkeed without
word of his gathering the spears into his bosom,
of his thrilling cry Make way for liberty, but
do not teach the history of country with
out the story of two million men, who, know
ing at the end of the war than
Grant and Sherman knew at the beginning sank with
out ripple into the str of civil life
heroic in their retirement to farm shop, they
had been in the hungry weary march, in the desper
ate defeat and glorious victory. The proved that
a government for the people and by the people
could stand and made this country the city upon
a HILL the Jerusalem toward which the eyes of the
tribes OF all the earth turn IN hope Let others for
get thee let Others look only at section of thy
territory, but for and mine, not one foot Of
thy soil, not line of thy fair record shall be
forgotten. IF forget thee 0 Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her cunning. If / do not re-
member thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of
Silence will follow the boom of the cannon, the
mournful music will die away, the nementoes that
cover THESE green mostlas Will taue All such Otter
ings fleeing. Alas alas, what flower immor-
telle can find worthy to garland these graves!
There is but one Departed brothers in this sacred
presence we make the high resolve, that as the
circng years return this holy day, each surviving
eomrade will bring, as token of his neverdying re-
menlbrence the white flower of a bameess life"
Colonel Closer announced at the conclusion
of Colonel Merrill's grafton, that there was an
unexpected pleasure in having Senator Harrison
present, and called upon him for an address.
Senator Harrison's Remarks.
In responding Senator Harrison said that he
had listened with pleasure and profit to the elo-