The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1885-04-02
ST. JOHNS, A. T.. THURSDAY
LESSONS LOST.


ment persons who have fail
ed to profit by the teach
ings of the apostles of Republican
ism, the illustrious devotees of
union and liberty; Lincoln and
Sumner, who have gone into i'm
mortality leaving legacies of love
for the whole people; that there
are peseons who fail up to the pre-
sent time to see any patriotism or
human sympathy in the action of
General Grant, who lead the armies
massed for the preservation of the
union to victory, who in the hour
of the country's triumph, said to
conquered hosts, "Keep the impli-
ments of your warfare for use in
the pursuits of peace; let your
swords be turned into plowshares,
and your spears into pruning hooks,
your horses will aid you in the cul-
tivation of your lands, and you will
need them ALL" The great general
stands upon the threshold of eter-
nifty; the gates are opening and he
is almost in companionship with
Lincoln, Chase, Sumner, Garfield,
Stanton, Andrews, Brownlow and
the patriotic Host that have gone to
their reward. Ask him while yet
upon the earth, if he regrets his
love for his fellowman, whether now
there is anything dwelling within
his heart but fellowship for every
one above whose head floats the
stars and stripes.
Upon this subject we quote from
Harpers Magazine Of the 21st of
March, testimony from the living
and the dead, severally represent
ing the extremes of the North and
South. We commend the article to
those from whose lips the word
Rebel falls so constantly and con-
temptuously:
"Eleven years ago, when Charles
Sumner died, Secretary Lamar, a
"rebel brigadier," and then mem
Der of the House of Representa-
tives, said-and his words may well
be pondered by those who respect
the memory of Sumner, and who
believe with him as he said In the
bill which he introduced in Deem
Der, 1872, that the names Of battles
with fellow-citizens should not be
continued in the army register nor
placed on the regimental colors of
the United States-Mr. Lamar said
"Let us hope that future genera
tons, when they remember the
deeds of heroism and devotion done
on both sides, will speak not of
Northern prowess orSouthern cour-
age, but of the heroism, fortitude,
and courage of Americans in a war
of ideas-a war in which each sec
ton signalized its conservation to
the principles, as each understood
them, of American liberty, of the
Constitution received from their ia
theirs. Charles Sumner in life be-
lieved that all occasion for strife
and distrust between the North and
South had passed away. Are there
not many of US who believe the
same thing? Is not that the COM
mon sentiment, or, if it is not, ought
it not to be, Of the great mass of
our people north and south? Bound
to each other by a common Con-
stitution, destined to live together
under a common government, for
ming unitedly but single member
of a great family of nations, shall
we not now at last endeavor to
grow towards each other once more
in heart as we are already indissol-
ubly linked to each other in for
tunes? Shall we not over the hon
ored remains of this great champ
ion of human liberty, this feeling
sympathizer with human sorrow,
this earnest pleader for the exer-
else of human tenderness and char
ity,lay aside the concealment which
serve only to perpetuate nlisunder-