The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-01

COnfBuefat6 SOIU1eF were 6XtOIIed, from WHaL
said and done it did that the confederates
were again in the saddle His speeches were received
with wild shouts of applause wherever he spoke The
leading newspapers in the South Endorsed what he
said with long editorials and pungent paragraphs.
The Montgomery Advertiser said: 1T is time for
Of the South TO put on record and everywhere pro-
claim the stern fact that there no Rebellion
treason crime on the part of those who fought
and fell in the cause of the South" The Atlanta
Constitution in speaking of the memories of the days
when the South went into the Rebellion against the
Union, said: VERY precious they are to us.
precious will they be to children in whose hearts,
pray God. they may be ever kept alive. This lesson
must transmit to children and our chidren's
children that to them, in all respects of honor and
glory, Lee stands side by side with Washington, and
that their love and pride must invest alike the mon
who surrendered at Appomattox and those
who suffered at Valley Forge" 1t further
said This lesson is sinking deep into the hearts
of the Southern people, and will abide there forever,
the old gray coat will be heirloom in the Southern
cabin when the Continental buff is forgotten, and the
sword of the father who followed Stonewal will be
the great State Of Alabama, when he introduced JEFF
ferson Davis to make speech at the laying OF the
foundation of the confederate monument. said II
desire to introduce to you this grand old man. de-
sire to say to you why we love him. We love him be-
he has ever been true to constitutional govern
ment because he has been true to the people of
the South. Taking him by the hand desire to
present you to Alabama people, and you must
permit me to say, my felowcitizens that In all my
reading of ancient modern history never read of
single man that possessed the sterling qualities OF
Jefferson Davis"
Soldiers of the Republic. is Lee to be remembered
and Grant forgottens Is the history of this Republic
ferson Davis to be canonized and go down
in history the sterling of the agesi
Is the name of Lincoln not TO be mentioned and re-
memberedg Was the cause of the Confederacy right
and the cause of the Union an uprighteous
one? Fathers and mothers who gave your sons
living sacrifice for the Union cause, tfor naught
Was it for unholy cause2 Were the millions of the
Treasury spent in wagng an unrighteous war? Were
the four hundred thousand lives which offered
upon the altar of country for the old flag made
tree-wiH offering against constitutional govern
ment? We thought then that right; history
says right; the civilized world said
right Comrades. in that struggle we were right and
they were wrong. Those who wore the gray sought
to destroy the Union we struggled to maintain. The
distinction between the tories of the Revolution and
been eradicated. The soldiers under Lord Pack
enham are not honored by the American people, as
are those who battled under the leadership of the
brave and resolute jackson. Then why should the
memories of the deeds of the confederate soldiers
who engaged in the unholy for slavery and the
Rebellion be honored and held in as high esteem,
the brave who gave up their lives that the Union
might liveg We are not ready, win we be ready,
to extol with equal honors those who the gray
with those who wore the blue. Have forgotten
what Lincoln, the just, said at Gettysburg twenty
three years ago? -Four and years ago
fathers brought forth upon this continent a
tion conceived in liberty and dedicated to the propo
sition, that al men created equal. Now
gagged in great civil testing whether that Nation
any nation conceived and so dedicated long
endure. We are met on great battlefield of the war;
we are met to dedicate portion of it the final rest
place of those who gave their lives that the Nation
might i've It is altogether fitting and proper that
We should do this, but in larger sense we cannot
dedicate, cannot commemorate,
not halow this ground; the brave men,
living and dead. who struggled here. have
consecrated it far above power to add or de-
tract 1t is for u.s. the living rather to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work that they have thus far
noby carried on; that from these honored dead
take increased devotion to the for which they
gave the last full of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in
vain: that the Nation shall, under God, have new
birth of freedom" Immortal words; words that will
live throughout the coming ages. Under God we did
have new birth of freedom. the bondmen went Free
the Nation lived again. "A Nation conceived in lib
were created equal" The blue represents such
Nation, the gray stands for the Confederacy and
slavery-the 'lost cause" Is there. then, to be
Jefferson Davis and the men who followed the flag
under Abraham Lincoln9 The who the
gray may, have died like brave men; they may
of people the bravest of the brave Yet they died for
rebellion slavery and treason. The Union soldiers
died for liberties. for freedom and the flag The
memories of their bravery and patriotism shall
perish in the hearts of freemen AS long the
memories of the Union blue shall last just so long
sna, the LOST s can ns sleep may be that the
may be that the memories of the gray may ouve the
memories of the Continental buff. do not know how
long it may live; it may be that it will live long
the Union blue. However, if it is remembered as
long is the blue. it will stand in the relation
the blue and the Union does the name of the
assassin of Garfield with his name; the name of
Lincoln assassin with his name; the betrayer of
the lowlv Nazarene with his name, and the SER
pent will ~ remembered as long as is the Garden of
Eden. l would not have the teachers of our children
shade the truth. l would make distinction between
the blue and the gray long there is distinction
between Loyalty and rebellion; between union and
disunion; between patriotism and treason; between
right and wrong. Then permit me, nv comrades
and fellow citizens, here on this OCCASION the
graves of comrades to enter a most solemn pro-
test in behalf of the soldiers dead in behalf of the SOL
ders living in behalf of the patriotic men and women
of this Nation, against the wicked, REASONABLE and
sedtious uttorances of jefferson Davis and his wor
shippers and followers in the South-let us here, on
this sacred ground highly resolve and consecrate
selves anew; let us take increased devotion to the
for which the patriotic dead gave the last full
measure of devotion. that the dead shall not have
died in vain that the lost cause may sleep forever
that this Nation may long endure.