Daily Republican., 1886-06-11
DELAwARE's BRAVE DEAD.

DelaWare's dead heroes. on the hnstIa
field OF Gettysburg, was unveiled yes.
terday by q number of Delaware veter
ans aud citizens, and committee Of
the Legislature with Colonel EDoch
Moore as cbairnsn. Captain William
IL. Brady OF the Second Delaware ReRi.
ment read an Interesting narrative he
had prepared Of the part his regiment
took In the battle, and Captain John M !.
Dunn read similar paper of the doings
OF the First Delaware Regiments. Geo
v. Massey, Esq, of Dover, then de
livered the following grafton, which
appeared In the Morning News:"
Almost quarter of q century has
elapsed, and with its feeiing years
another generation of American oiti-
zens has been invested with the pre-
negatives and assumed the duties incl
cent 10 that personal sovereignty
whlcn, according to the genius OF re-
puoican institutions, attaches to indi-
vidual citizenship, and which had
been so highly valued and faithfuIIy
exercised by their fathers since the
occurrence Of the opportune and por-
tentious event which has made this
place and its surroundings memorable
and has assigned to the field OF Get
tysburg page at once 10 bright and
conspicuous In a nations history,
Standing upon this consecrated
ground and gazing over these pictur
esque hillsides and this beautiful VAL
ley whiA bounteous nature has SO
richly 'othed witi Its mantle OF green.
or by the aid of the untiring husband
man has luxuriantly dressed in waving
crops, giving promise of a golden har-
vest, that there may be seed to the
sower and bread to the eater, we can
scarcely realize that these fields were
the mute witnesses of deadly strife and
carnage, or that these hillsides rever-
oerated with the booming of hostile
cannon and the measured tread
or armed hosts fastening to the
conflict and eager for the fray, nor
can we adequately estimate the fruits
and consequences of that sanguinary
struggle In their effect upon the perpe.
tuity Of the Republic, 'one and indiyisa.
ble,' and the continuance OF those pe.
culiar blessings of free government
which Its perpetuity guarantees with
out discrimination to all classes and
conditions of its citizenship. We NAV
well congratulate ourselves that the
battle of Gettysburg was fought and
that its issues were of q character 40
positive and decided. AS this field lies
within the territorial confines of that
great commonwealth which is aptly
characterized as the keystone of our
governmental arch, SO was it the scene
OF triumph of the Union army, so
signal and significant as to demon
strate the inherent power and capacity
OF free people rising In the majesty
ana dignity OF their strength to main
rain the integrity of the Union as well
as against foes within as enemies with.
out, and thus to indicate the wisdom of
the fathers in establishing o govern
mental structure which has for its cor.
ner. stone the consent of the governed, >
and for the keystone of its mighty arch
the enduring democratic doctrine that
the Will OF the majority is supreme.
We are people yet,
Enough all men else their noDler dreams for
get
Confused by brainless mobs or Iawless
powers
The orator thought it well to remember
these things, because 1t impressed the
idea that we were one people and that II
would hasten the day of political mil
lennium when there would be "no
North, no South" He reverted to the
occasion OF to-day as "a duty at once
pleasant and solemn" and a grateful
on the part of the State of
the heroism of her sons. Those SONS had
never failed her, the orator said, from
the revolutionary down to the present
time. He continued: 'I recall with
pride an incident of another battle field
where, at critical moment In the en-
gaRement. aud where the enemy was
making most terrific charge at an i'm
portant strategic point upon our line,
that gallant commander, (the immortal
whose corps made its tri
fold badge illustrious, in answer to
his staff officers apprehension lest the
line should be broken, confidently said: !:
There Is no trouble in that quarter, for
the Delaware troops are stationed there
and they never abandoned line of baO-
tie without orders 1t is, however.
fitting that there should be
recognition Of Delaware's representa-
tives in that historic army in the form
OF these silent witnesses of stone whose
very silence Of / may be permitted TO
indulge In such paradox will speak to
future generations with force and
power far exceeding that of the most
historian or gifted orator"
The speaker then touched feelingly
upon the sacrifices made by the sold iers
who fell in the field. and the heroic
mothers. sisters and wives who waited,
wept and suffered at home. Thousands
Of green mounds" he said, Gin the pub
lie and private cemeteries, North and
South, covering the moulderiug dust of
brave men, who will
mo more in sold ier fashion greet,
With lifted hand the gazer in the
street,"
which are often watered by the
ears of affection, and annually, in the
blooming spring time, garnished by the
willing hands of surviving comrades or
owing friends, with beautiful flowers,
ire voiceless but potential monitors of
hat mighty harvest of death
.arnered alike from the Blue and the
tray, by the swift sickle of remorseless
var, rendered all the more sanguinary
md devastating In that 1t was waRed
~ the descendants of common ances-
ry. who had demonstrated their pluck
md fortitude, as we'll upon the heights
y Bunker Hill as, upon the plains at
Yorktown.
The orator then dwelt long and elo
Iuentiy upon the sacrifices made and
he injuries suffered by the nation be-
ause of the war. From this he drew
gain the lesson of patriotic devotion on
he part of the individual to tho best
nd noblest ends of the government.
he broadcast charity toward all men
Vas commended. In conclusion he
aid:
eff history be philosophy, teaching
y example, let us reflect that as up-I
Yards of two centuries ago the awful
re in London drove out the plague for
yer, and that from the ashes of the first
IamburR arose q more powerful AndI