Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31


. heart TO The glory-shimmered noun
tain peaks OF the reign Of truth
and, as q necessary result, reign Of uni
yersal peace. All this indicates, unmls
takably, that the time can never com
when this world will lack the men 4
push the battle to the gate, until grea
victory shall crown the heads OF the scar
worn veterans as they return from th'
connict.
Tho leaders alone, however, are not e
be regarded as the only agency involved II
this struggle The idea Of leader con
vevs the associative idea OF those who are
lead. A general, though mighty and Q
necessary agent In the battle, would have
no success ifhe had no men 10 I'LL up the
ranks aud TO obey his commands. | am
not disposed 10 snatch any need of praise
from him who was "generalissimop In
this great movement, | would place
branches in their hands, but,
let me as well lay an olive
branch and dladem In the hand Of every
man In the ranks. For II he, though q
subaltern, does that which is laid upon
him, and does II well, and thus fills up
the niche for which he is qualified, and
that work that he can do, / say, "crown
him" Give him honor who stood still,
and with his eagle eye saw IL all, and
with his vast thought ordered the battle,
crown him with the garlands Of praise
and glory, but call hun, too, who kept the
''stuf In the tent while Jacob fought, y
and crown MIN with equal glory.
3. The value Of these agencies.
The value Of any man in society de-
Ponds not on what he Is worth In dollars
and cents, nor yet on how much infiu-
ence does he WELD in society, nor,
yet, upon how much OF fol-
lowing does he have, or he
can have, but 1t depends upon how
much man loves, and how hard are the
knocks he gives for the truth. tell you,
my friends, there is but one thing on
earth after all that is worthy your love
and conservation There is but one
trinity In unity. IL Is at once divine, for
II Ia God; at once human, for it affects
humanity; at once material, for nature
does not contradict IL.
Il fohlies mysoul to know
Thai, though perish. truth Ia so;
ihat, hOweoeyer stray and range,
] stea1ier step when recall
That II ! slip, ruth does not fall Arthur II
Clough.
Tell me whether q man be true, and
III tell you Of his worth. A man who
lays down mis- all on the altar of
the truth and the right is he
oven whose breast You should build
your monuments, not the man OF
selfish greed aud power. The man who
lays down his life for his fellow in
combat against oppression and wrong is
the man whose name merits memorial
when decoration day" comes. Many
soldiers bones lie white and CHASTITY in
grave dug, perchance, by stranger hands,
and over his sleeping dust but Il single |
word to mark his grave, and who or what
he was. stranger passing by may read
upon slab OF wood the word Gun. |
But could that stranger draw
aside the veil that hides the spirit realm !
he would see
"a spirit dressed In deepest black,
Weep DER that tomb,
FOR he VINO slumbera there
was devoted SON."
Oh my friends do not think that He
who dies for truth ana humanity, dies
lnwept and unhonored; though no
pageant follows his mortal part 10 the
,omb, for the angels of God are the
nourners, though no funeral march is
)iped, and tramp of comrade with mea.
iurod tread follow, while silyer-tonpued
)rators declalm Of many manly virtues.
let, truth plants II sentinel at that grave
% watch 1t, until peace, universal peace,
'hall dawn, My friends, you went forth
when the bugle blast re-echoed over the
mountains and valleys OF this vast repub.
!ci TO do battle for what you thought was
he right and the truth God, In His mer.
,lful providence, gave you the country,
he whole country, a country in which no
nan Is bound, except for crime, In any
save voluntary bondage.
You fought, and you fought hard, amid
many, very many sacrifices of personal
ase and comfort. Many poor boy
bit the dust" Many home was made,
nd Is still, vacant and desolate. War,
Ike Bosom of hell, swept DER land ,
lorious and inviting, leaving its hoof-
marx smeared with blood. Men, with
'ltter hearts and frenzled thought, rushed (
MO each others arms of death. Finally, I
rom over the battlefield great while /
wing was spread, and peace was whis-
ered from lip to lip, and was waved from {
lde TO side, and boys in blue clasped
ne outstretched hand OF boys in gray, {
ma each, with face buried in each others
reast, wept tears Of greatest 10Y, be- {
S"eo tho ieurIul war was done, and on
ach others breast each vowed
o never fight again SO TODAY
while you commence the services Of ,
decoration day, as you drop your wreath
pom the breast of the one you knew and
owed, and by whose side you fought.
ememoer that there is another grave
the man who fired the cruel
not that killed your comrade. Drop a I
ear, l beg OF you, over his grave. Bear {
o lli'wiil or grudge against him, but
'ith brave heart conquer yourself, now {
lat you have conquered him. The con
neror can always afford to be magnan- I
nous and forgiving Remember that |
lese conflicts must come. That this {
position called you TO the front and !
'Vealed your unseltish spirit and loyal
eviction 20 your country. That after ali
circumstances develop and reveal great. t
ess. You, therefore, who wear the e
onquerors crown, can treat merclfully \
nd tenderly the men who awarded Won (
re yictor's reward,
And now see; there is no North. no n
outh II Is our grand old country. No Pm
oys In blue nor boys in gray, but hon p
req citizens of a great republic. Our
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