The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-17

ed at Charlottesville. when that great
compound of saint and soldier. Stone
wall jackson, fell. Out in the valley
of the Mississippi was being developed
that mighty triumvirate, Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan. all of them still
living, who were to lead the federal
armies to victory. There had been
determined upon that of great
political wisdom, the proclamation by
which the power of four million peo-
Pile had been turned from one side to
the other. and which rendered the Ia
tional struggle wholly and absolutely
logical. From the hour of its publica-
ton when the men on both sides of the
battle-line looked up and saw the folds
of ''Old Glory" they knew that it was
not a Haunting lie, but that it was the
blazon of Independence and the SYM
Dol of liberty. From hat day the roll
Of events was irresistihly down with
the sweep of the avalanche from Get
tysburg ana Vicksburg to Appomat-
toX and the end. From thence on
ward the confederate soldier fought
with valor, with personal devotion to
comrade and cause, with discipline
that insured all possible results, but
he fought without hope! To such
struggle there could be but one end.
Thank God it was reached so long ago.
Thank God the dead are all buried,
and that on this height, made immor-
tai by their valor, we gaze on such n
matchless scene. And that with broad
encd comprehensions we all accept the
great facts established here; that two
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that after n can only be empire. For
a fraction of the people cannot solve
the problems wherein all may fail, and
if in some dreadful future virtue and
patriotism are lacking, force and des-
potism alone can arise and claim do
minion. Here was established and
firmly rooted the individualism that
owns only law for master, and the
nationalism that can only be abrogat-
ed by the decay of the people.
OF the prosperity that has followed
the wide desolation of war, and which
shall yet be multiplied, let poets and
prophets tell; our children will laugh
at their colorless dreams. l will not
dwell thereon.
Welcome, then, veterans of the re-
public, welcome to this SpOt WhereOn
the enduring story of your achieve
ments gain new luster from friend and
former foe. Welcome all citizens!
From the piled brands of the abandon
ed camp we light the beacons of peace,
and pour oblations to concord, trater-
nifty, and union.
Chief of the great republic, they
who are about to live salute you; you
impersonate the new and noble order
of events. AS we turf away from this
place they who here fell that liberty
might endure, that freedom might be-
come universal, that the nation might
grow in material splendor and the af-
tections of mankind, speaking by their
surviving comrades feeble lips, cry
hail to the power of the spread
ing, triumphant, and eternal re-
public.
Comrades, /, a humble participant
in that other great struggle, which on
the self-same days at Vicksburg set up
the western pillar of the republic as
you set here IFS eastern, bring to you
the greetings of that vast array of war
riors, who have in person melted back
into the masses of the people, but who,
with you will live in history while
Gettysburgand Vicksburg endure.