Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-31

express the judgment shall say that it is at least sedgswick contribute the greatest general of them all.
 have said that the war of the rebellion a heroic chapter in a heroic age. The statement may strike some of you with surprise, and you may say: around you the noise of trade and the tumult of commerce. Your ears are filled with th3 bickerA dust of brois. But come @ T up above the tumult and the dust till your vision sweeps the world, where you shall shortly be convinced that
 Thr'o the ages one increasing purpose
 And the thoughts of men are widened with the
 process of the suns.
 Proceeding, the speaker eloquently observed that the abolition of slavery and the preservation of the Union; the people laid their thousands of millions and wounded and million of Iavaged homes, on the altar of sacrifice for the attainment of an idea auent picture by the speaker regarding the great
 irrepressible conflict the conflict which despite shackles of theslave and left the sunshine of free dSm treang ca r from Mane to n fT6 6a listeners the play of Uncle Toms Cabin last now,' % of then when he witnessed slave marts and shackes in New Orleans and now when all was question confronts us The crown of nobility car res with it the of caring for the toling mil- press We shall perhaps destroy dy namite towards without the formality of the law. But we are in sion from the throne of God; and we shall find no rest until the idea of mutual brotherhood wins freedom I he Speaker eioquently spoke of the struggles for liberty among the millions of Russia s'seething from center to circumference with the into the y of ad s6y as least And the eseuRere H far dsae Yes, indeed; the war of the rebellion hero long % Centuries have been iculminating the forces which are now hurrying the race t0ward 4 better tremendous. No stop no rest awaits us in any future that the human eye can pierce. And the way is beset witu thorns, for $ Freedom, thou art not as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyyes. A bearded man, Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy Glorious in beauty though it be, is scared With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has His bolts, and with his lightnings smftten thee; They could not quench the light thou hast from
 heaven.''
 What few words have yet to say relate to our brethren of the South. They were foemen worthy of our steel Had they been less they had not Seen of the United States, after Hayne the eloquent haa of and of soldiers of the South, in the war or the ous thunder: ''Thsy were Americans all whose fame is no more to be hanmed in by State lines than courage and patf1OtISm are capaDlo or DolnS CiT cufnScribed within the same narrow limits. De ploring as we do the monStrouS mistake of our southern brothers we glory in their bravery as a part of the common heritage of the American peo pie.
 take occasion to say, and that distinctly, that the spectacle of the leaders of the rebellion repre- senting this nation saved against their will in for egn ports and foreign courts is one of bad exam pie for future generations devoid of necessity or excuse.
 Having said this much have to add that If read them aright the soldiers of the North have freely and fully forgiven the soldiers of the South Southern hearts torn by the war as were north ern hearts. Southern homes were ravaged as were northren homes; the heritage of glory and of grief descends upon us all alike And may the good Lord forgive our trespasses we forgive those who trespaSs against us! The oration closed with the quotation of the beautiful poem beginning: By the flew of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave grass quiver, Asleep on the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Under the one, the Blue
 Under the other, the Gray.
 The orator was frequently interrupted by applause, and on concluding there were earnest manifestations of approval.
 The exercises were closed about 9:30 p. m with a song by the Germans entitled ''Sonnenafgang" or 'Rising of the Sun."