St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31
Hon. J. b. Brisbin,s speech.

This is at once a festival and funeral.
The people of these states ILLUSTRATED homely
truth, that the springs of joy and sorrow
lie near together in the human heart, and
the deepest emotion comes when they over
flow and cOmningle.
To commemorate the great and brave,
grief puts on her ponip and sorrow her
eloquence, and anthem and eulogy vie with
each other to glorify the pageant Our
SONS and brothers and neighbors whose
graves we have just covered with early
flowers are not dead. Sculpture crllnbIes,
painting fades, even the prineval forests
decay, but the sod of a battlefield conse-
Grated by sacrifices for a just cause, forever
renews its immortal green.
s1They never fail who die in a great cause.
Their bones may sodden in the s1n-their
limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls,
But still their spirit walks abroad
No crisis which human passions have de-
Feloped-no mystery of politics which war
has solved, presents to the thoughtful and
patriotic mind lessons more pathetic CT
auguries more cheerful than those which the
American people have taught and given by
the drama of war which has finally closed
Oh this continent.
Its seeds were bedded in the anti-revolu-
tionary soil of the republic. Those of you
who have read the debates in that awful
convention of solemn men, who pledged
''their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor to maintain the declaration of indie
pendence, the grandeSt arraignment of
tyranny which the literature OF politics has
yet produced will remember that Jefferson,
It's immortal author, ranked high among the
grievances OF which the colonies Justly
complained
THE IMPOSITION OF HUMAN SLAVERY,
and with almost supernatural preScience,
fofecaSted its evils and its destiny.
This count of the Indictment ESQ to
speak, was stricken out on motion of John
Adams. 1t was compromised to DEATH
When the objects of war had been accom-
plished, ard rebellion had become success
full revolution, and the states met in con-
vehtion to form "a more perfect union"
the same domineefing question lifted its
portentous head and was again cOmprOIn-
iSed by a provision for the ultimate suppress
sion of the slave trade. The settlement
was, however, made on commercial and not
humanitarian or sectional motives or
grounds.
When Hamilton promulgated his world
1dDIOuo uudHCldl pOHcy, dllu ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
with a wisdom which has since been uni
versally approved, the assumption of the
state debts by the general government, the
same disturbing topic interfered and was
compromised by the location of the national
capital on the banks of the Potomac
Although unacknowledged at the time,
it was the putative author of the Hartford
convention and the eognate acts of South
Carolina during the administration Of Gen.
jackson.
Missouri was admitted into the Union in
1920 by another compromise, which was
flagrantly absurd. The agitation of 1850,
which led the country to the very ''perilous
edge of war-only averted by the uniting
patriotism of Webster, Crittenden,. Douglas
and their compeers, both North and South
had The same pestilent origin. The Kansas
Nebraska act the Charleston convention,
the election of 1860. the flag of Sumpter
with its sacred scripture '.E pluribus
unun1," shot through and shot down-each
an Individual of series of events, each
and all graduating to the necessary but dread
full arbitrament of war. have taught NAH
kind that there is no middle ground upon