Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-14

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lighted than I was to see these fresh,
manly young men marching through the
city 90 take their position whore they
might b. called ON to assault or be as
saHIt-d. Within an hour after the news
came that there was some one in the city
to command them there was Il complete
change. \ feeling Of security supplant-
ed the feeling of dread. The people felt
like taking these young men by the hand
and thanking them. That was why the
speaker admired the national guard.
He said no man could justly accuse him
Of being a Know Nothing, in the politi-
cal sense of the term, but he had Wig
orous belief that this great country of
ours needs TO perform some very import
ant duties, and among them, to send
word across the ocean in emphatic tones
toall classes who have any idea of COM
ing to this country to conspire for the
overthrow of this government, to stay
there, We don't want them and won't
have them here. He was sorry that
in the Milwaukee troubles mems lives
must be taken; but if any mans life
must be taken, we thank God it was the
lives of those who like the red flag bet
ter than the stars and stripes. That vol
ley in Milwaukee was heard in Central
Europe. 1t said to the anarchists there
1--WE don't want YOU here. The coun-
try has passed through great danger
1t was met and averted here in Wiscon-
sin, when it ought to have been met in
Illinois, Missouri, Texas and Kansas.
The citizens of other countries are well
come, if they come here to become law
abiding citizens; but we don't want
those who come here from the slums of
Europe with the red flag. But there is
another great danger which was hidden
for; premium was offered to anarchy
and treason in this free country of ours.
1t is said that the penalty of treason is
death; but where has it been so? Our
civil authorities committed a crime when
they refused to kill few of the promin-
ent leaders in the confederacy He
didn't mean Lee and Joe Johnston-not
the generals, but the civil leaders, and
especially that arch-traitor jeff Davis.
There was time when we could have
done it; but we let that time pass unim-
proved and thus offered a premium on
treason. Again fatal blunder was
made in reconstruction times. There
was no safety nor justice in not disfran-
chising thousands of rebels. Every
member of the rebel congress and every
foreign minister sent out by the con-
federacy and every commanding officer
in the army ought to have been disfran-
chised for life. Those men who spent
four years in trying to destroy this gov
eminent do not deserve to have the
same privileges and rights as those who
spent those years in defending the gov
eminent Is this making war on the
the Southern soldier? No. He was a
brave man, but he was wrong. He was
a criminal when he fought in the con
federate army. The speaker said he
didn't like the idea of mingling the blue
and the gray; it was a maudlin senti-
ment. The one was in the right and the
other was in the wrong He didn't
want to join in decorating the graves of
the confederate dead. 1t was for no
personal reason, but because they are
the graves of our country's worst
enemies. He believed in decorating
the graves of the Northern soldiers, not
because they We're our friends and broth
ers, but because they were our country's
preservers. He wanted the time to come
when the stars and stripes would be dis
played in every church and in every
school. This would have a mighty eff
feet in teaching patriotism and loyalty.
This work cannot be begun too soon.
1t ought to have been begun years ago.
We can do this work in our posts and
reunions. We ought to do it. We owe
it to the future generations. We ought
to do it because the work was not done
up in good shape twenty-five years ago.
1t IS true the army washed the dishes
clean, but the civil government didn't
wipe them clean.
The army then adjourned to dinner,