Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-01

men whose valor and patriotism crushed
the greatest rebellion..tbe world has ever
witnessed. The pictures are incomplete, /
know. regret that . hand more skilful
than mine has not drawn them; that .
tongue more eloquent than mine could not
have told the inspiring story of their daunt-
less courage and their sublime selfsacridce.
But as knew them have tried 10 present
them to you, not Is soldiers ofrare or excep-
tional qualities and services, but - repre-
sentatives and types of thousands of their
comrades, living and cead. In every city,
town and neighborhood of Kansas may be
found soldiers Of these types, for our won
derful population includes hundred thou
sand men who haye marched TO the music
Of drum
"Men who were brave to act,
And rich enough their actions to forget
Who. having filed their day with chiva.ry,
Withdraw, and keep their simpIeness intact,
And, all unconscious. add more lustre yet
Unto their victory.
"Lo. farmer ploughing busily.
Who lifts q swart face, looks upon the
plain.
see in his frank eyes
The hero's soul appear.
Thus in the common fields and streets they
stand;
The light that on the past and distant
CLEANS
They cast upon the present and the near,
With antique virtues from some mystic
Of knightly deeds and Dreams"
might have talked to you of campaigns
and battles. or discussed the causes and re-
suits of the war. or spoken Of army life in
nxN tkp, ho~ HaA 4 10
which did not care TO CLEAN after the reap
ers who had gone before. So it seemed to
me that might interest you, for few brief
moments, by telling this simple story of q
few of the martyred dead whose lives and
services, although not written in any his
tory, are worthy of record on the brightest
pages of fame'R deathless memoirs. The
Union army contained vast host of men
such a. these l have described. Never in
any other land beneath the sun, nor in any
other age since the morning stars first sang
together, did such an array of brilliant
youth and splendid manhood rally around
any standard to do battle for any cause.
From schools and workshops, from fair
country fields and busy marts of commerce,
the brayest, brightest, best of all the land
came thronging to the fields lit by the bale
full fires Of civil war, to fight, to suffer, and
to die for the republic and for freedom. The
comforts of home, the ch lrms of society, the
joys of love, the profits Of commerce, the ac-
QUESTIONS of industry, the allurements of
ambition, the delights of ease-all these
were abandoned for the privations, the hard
chips, the dangers Of q soldiers life. The
world was fair and beautiful to them, the
future hopeful and happy. But they gave
all they had-the boundless resources of
their youth, the potent energies of their
manhood, the devotion of their hearts, even
life itself-for Union and Liberty. Saint
nor martyr never gave more
"Old Greece hath her Thermoyle,
Brave Switzland her Tell,
The Scott his Wallace heart, and We
Heroic souls as we'll.
The Graves of glorious Marathon
Are green above the dead;
And we have royal fields whereon
The trampled grass is red.
"Oh, not alone the hoary past
Spilled precious princely blood;
Oh, not alone its sons were cast
In knightly form and mood;
Perennial smells of sacrifice
Make sweet our sickening air;
And troth, As lesl as Sidney's, lies
Around us everywhere.
nOugn tears De SAT- ana wOrinWoOu Sill,
Is bitter to the taste,
Gods heart is tender, and He will
Let no life fail or waste.
O, mothers of our Grscchi, when
You gave your jewels up.
A continent of hopeless men
Grew rich in boundless hope.
"Renown stands mute beside the graves
With which the land is scared;
Unheralded, our splendid braves
Went forth unto the Lord;
No poet boards their humble names
In his immortal scrolls.
But none the less the darkness flames
With their clear-shining souls.
"Beneath the outward havoc. they
The inward mercy saw;
High intuitions of Duty lay
Upon them, strong Ms law;
Athwart the bloody horizon
They marked Gods blazing sword,
And heard His dreadful thpnder's run
When but the cannon roared.
"Shield- bearers of the Sovran Truth!
We count your costly deeds
Devoutly as q maiden doth
Her consecrated beads.
You thrill us with the Gains which flow
In Eucharistic wine;
And by your straight tall lives We know
That life is still divine"