St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31

ocean that beats angry waves against it, so
here we have these chains OF graves stretch
ing all over the land to guard us from our
| selves. They are the moral Himalayas that
guard the birth and growth of the new
Union, the new liberty: that defy the
shocks of strife and discord; catch the first
SHOWS and first summer heat; cool the hot
head of the radical as he hurries over them;
warm the cold tory as he goes creeping by,
and this is the respect wherein war, that at
the first wounds and brushes and destroys,
whose handmade is cruelty and whose track
is marked by blood and desolation. at the
| last cures, builds up, saves. And to the
end that its best fruits be realized for us
and the generation of men engermed in the
big future and even now quickening in the
womb of time it should not only be our
pleasure, but our most solemn care to OBJ
serve the 30th of May, in lighting fresh
beacOns along the track that civil war has
left across our country'S bosom. And thus
1t will happen to our eyes to see that that
same reptile, war, that came with fOrked
tongue and flaming eyes and kissing mouth
and Shiny trail and coils of terror to our
doors was but the chrysalis of broad-winged
liberty.
| K
Men in all ages have gone to battle of
their own free will, sometimes for spoil,
/ sometimes for vengeance, adventure or
defense of king or home or lady love or
holy sepulcher, but when did men willingly
1 DEVOTE THEMSELVES TO DEATH
to help and save the enemy; that's what
the soldiers in your graveyard did; that's
what you did. On the 10Th day of April
was the attack on Fort Sumpter. On the
14th its gallant garrison marched out of the
burning walls with colors flying, drums
beating, first saluting the flag with salute
of fifty guns. On the 18th was the call for
Is, 600 volunteers; on the 10th the Pennsyl-
vania troops began to arrive at W ashington;
OH the 18th the Sixth Massachusetts left
Boston, leaving the Fourth ready to follow,
and before the fire was burned out at Fort
| Sumpter the IS, 600 were at the gates OF the
capital and million more were ready, go
ing to eXpel, Subjugate, punish, avenge?
| No; going to save the South. Going not
more to compel allegiance than to offer it;
| going not more to claim the South as our
| own heritage than to give back the North as
theirs to Southern men-going to conquer a
united and honorable peace upon the old,
| good covenant of the Union. By that
token the war was carried on, and by the
justice of that high design and in the result
So ldlll1ully kopI Ill view duu 81 SIdiis1y
realized both sides came off victorious.
Look at Appomatox; you know the history.
Hear the commander of the Union army
pronounce the terms of surrender: All the
arms, artillery and public property to be
stacked and turned over to the government.
All officers and men to give their word not
to fight against the Union. Let
THE MEN RETURN TO THEIR HOMES,
the South needs them. Let the officers and
men retain their horses, they will need
them at home. Then read the address of
the same commander taking leave of the
army. Soldiers Of the armies of the United
States: by your patriotic devotion to
your country in the hour of danger and
alarm, your magnificent fighting, bravery
and endurance you have maintained the
supremacy of the Union and constitution,
overthrown all armed opposition TO the en-
| forcement of the laws and the proclamation
forever abolishing slavery, and opened the
way to the rightful authorities to restore
order and inaugurate peace on permanent
and enduring basis on every foot OF Ameri-
can SOIL"