The Portland daily press., 1884-05-31

tette from the Weber Club sang selection
with great delicacy and feeling.
Hon. Enoch Knight was next introduced
and spoke as follows:
JUDGE KNIGHTS ADDRESS.
Once more loving hands have brought gar
lands and placed them upon all the known
graves OF the heroes OF the war. And Ma
ture, that never forgets any of her children.
has again woven and spread her matchless
mantle upon the unmarked and unknown
mounds meath which sleep any of the patriot
dead who gave up life in the great sacrifice,
and
"All, under the sod and the dew,
Are waiting the judgment day"
IL is indeed sweet day of rest to this mighty
sleeping hest. 1t is indeed a season of grace
and holy zeal to the living, who have watched
and waited and worshipped at this shrine of
comh.on grief and Common pride; and who
try in the hush of this holy hour to picture the
glorifi-d faces of these loved ones who went
out from the glare of earth's conflict into that
re I'm where is eternity of peace; and to bear
to them some loving message. And who shall
say it was only poets dream that such
pray ers and such praise should be changed to
flowers by angel hands,
= y "into garlands of purple and red
And meath the great arch of the portal,
Through the streets of the City Immortal,
Is waited the fragrance they she'd"
came back to the capital of his realm, the great
city OF the plain, with his train OF heroes and
their trophies, that the great gates were opened,
as never on other days, and waiting pilgrims,
lying prone upon the sands, were enabled to
catch CLEAN of the wealth and beauty and
the promise Githin. Surely, heaven opens
very vide al such coming; and If it ever be
permitted to mortal to gain CLEAN of its
promise, it must be when we strain our eager
eyes to follow such conquest and such tro-
PIXIES as We celebrate tc-Dight.
And happy will it be for us who have had
the tender Christening of this days memories,
and the vision of its glory and it's PROMISE If
we can go out from this presence with becom-
ing sense of our own duty to the land we love,
and the government which is left 10 us safe
and strong. through the matchless sacrifices
we have been trying to measure and comment
crate. The benefceDt plan of Gods provi-
dence has been interpreted to the world through
the great souls Of prayerfnl prophets from age
to age, to whom, standing above the common
place OF petty conflicts He could reveal Him.
self And so the problems of human govern
ment are illuminated with occasional manifee.
tations OF unusual power that light up whole
age, revealing tendencies and pointing out
dangers, on scale SO grand that nothing less
and nothing else. could have saved from them
or even foreshadowed their meaning.
Through one of those mighty upheavals
whose causes lay deeper than the stratum
reached by mans poor plan, and whose vast
results were equally beyond his power to pre-
dict, we have triumphantly passed, and are
reaping the rirened fruits of an era OF mag
nifcent prosperity. But there is no en-
during kingdom of God upon the earth
except that which is builded in mems hearts
and illuminated by their just lives. To-
day there is no trumpet call to dazzling
deeds of valor and sacrifice; but the still, small
voice of reason and Of conscience is telling us
the same old story, and bidding us heed the
same old lesson of faithfllDess to the duty that
lies nearest to US. 1t calls upon us to measure
life by its needs, and it's just hopes; and by no
narrower nor meaner standard. 1t admonishes
us to enlarge our vision by that broad view of
life that takes into account all our limitations,
and vet demands of us the highest reach of
purpose and bids us to build upon the sure
foundations of Justice and the worlds expert
ences. Recognizing individual power and re-
sponsibility as the highest type OF the hero of
great conflicts, let us learn to bring these into
all the affairs of civil life. There is no other
token by which we can deserve to win the
things best worth having in the world TO-DAY.
Says Emerson, "IH the most private life diff
cult duty is never far off. Therefore we must
think with courage" No mere formulating of
intellectual belief into creed or platform ever
saved nations life or honor, any more than
mere order ever placed an army upon the pla-
teau where the battle is to DO fought. But as
every soldier must bear himself and his burden
thther, with his feet every inch of the way
upon the solid ground of a safe path, aud with
steady courage and hope in his heart, so men
in all the years of duty in the world must lift
themselves onto the high levels of patriotic
deavor- The vigor of the church, and the pu-
rity of the party, will be forever determined by
the character aud the purpose OF the ind. vi1u-
ais who make them up; for in public as in pri-
vate relations, there is no higher plane on
which to build than ingenious and heroic
manhood.
Out of faithful adherence to duty, out Of
courage of opinion, out of unfaltering ALI
snce to all that is lovable and tolersble in hu-
man government there has come down to rs
the highest type of American citizenship IN
the citizen soldier, whose character is tc might
TRANSPORTED before us in the light of his mag
nifcent deeds, and who, living or dying, is en-
titled to secure immortal praise and honor,
Let this spirit and this shape stand forever
as the type and the substance of the daty of us
all; for it is true to-aay as ever that
"If tits noble thus to save a state,
Ills grander still to keep it pure"
Tonight there comes sacred call, not only
to honor the dead and to praise the living he
roes of the war, but to trust, and to adopt and
to assimilate into our own lives and purposes
and policy their blessed aims and attributes.
They have been our wisest advisers as well as
our bravest defenders. With all the sincerity
and reverence of my soul, l declare my belief,
that in every portion of this land, they who
were brevest and truest in the days Of the great
STRIFE in all the stress of duty forever since
have been the BEST exponents of the new
hopes aud the new life of the Republic. They
have been the tenderest to heal the swiftest to
forgive, the surest to do justice. They have
been the safest counsellors, and they have been
and are today the pioneers in the noble work
of establishing full and final peace in the land.
With broad and catholic faith let Us follow
this lead. With the true instinct of manhood
let us meet and hallow their spirit that bids
Defeat unite with victory
To win for each a rander aim,
One fath-rland redeemed from blame,
One past, of sadder, prouder fame,
One future just and free.''
After the address by Judge knight, which