The Washington critic., 1888-02-18

| ~ n 10, 1865.
- have Just received q letter from Mr.
Everett, IN which he says that I had said
more in my little speech than he had said
in his whole oration.n
Having presented the above rather CON
tlicting testimony, ! believe | will submit
the case "to the iury'--my readers with
out either summing up" or "argument,n ~
promising however, that / am inclined
TO stand by the grand old War Governor.
Beside j want the room for further Illus
tratiOn of this little historical sketch.
PERSONS ON THE PLATFORM.
IL may be interesting to know that
among the distinguished persons on the
platform at the dedication were accord
ing to the Philadelphia Press, the follow
ing Governor Bradford of Maryland,
Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania,
Governor Morton Of Maryland, Gov
ernor Seymour of New York, Gov
ernor Parker of New Jersey, Governor
Todd Of Ohio, Ex-Governor Dennis of
Ohio, John Brough, Governor-elect of
Ohio, Maior-Generals Schenck, Stahl,
Doubleday and Couch, Brigadier.Gen
Gibbon and Provost Marshal-General
Fry. The reporter must have also seen
among them Secretary Seward and Mar
shal Lamon, if not others, equally distin-
guished, including the late Major Ben
iamin u. French, author of the dirge
which follows. The ceremonies were
opened with prayer by Rev. Thomas II.
Stockton, Chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatives. A correspondent, 3D." of
the Philadelphia Press, states that the
reverend gentleman concluded with the
Lords prayer, and during the delivery of
these eloquent words there was scarcely n
dry eye in all the vast assemblage." The
populace gathered within circle of
great extent around the stand were so
quiet and attentive (Mr. Young says)
that every word uttered by the orator of
the day Edward Evorett) must have been
heard by them ALL" Here is
Mr.. EvERETr's PERoRATIoN:
"The whole earth said pericles, as he
stood over the remains of his fellow citizens
who had fallen In the first year Of the Pelope-
nicslan war, "the whole earth is the sepulchre
Of illustrious mem" All time, he might have
added, Is the millennium of the other noble
achievements Of the war, which have re.
fiected such honors on both arms Of the SER
vice, and have entitled the armies and the
navy of the United States-their officers and
men--to the warmcst thanks and the richest
rewards which q grateful people can pay.
But they, am sure, will Join us in saying as
webid farewell 10 the dust Of the martyr
heroes, that wheresoever this great warfare
lead, and down TO the latest period OF re-
corded time, in the glorious annals of our
common country, there will he no brighter
page than that which relates
THE BATTLE or GETTYSBURG
THE DHGE.
'Tis holy ground
This spot, where, In their graves,
We place our country's braves
Who fell in Freedoms holy cause
Fighting for Liberties and Laws
Let tears abound.
Here let them rest
And summers heat and winters cold
Shall glow and freeze above this mould
a thousand years shall pass away
nation still shall mourn this day,
Which now is blest.
Here where they fell,
Oft shall the widows tear be shed.
Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead.
The orphan here shall kneel and weep,
And maidens, where their lovers sleep,
Their woes shall tell.
Great God in Heaven
Shall,all this sacred blood be she'd
Shall we thus mourn our glorious dead,
Or shall the end be wrath and woe,
The knell OF Freedoms overthrow
country rivenl
IL VIII not be,
We trust, oh, God Thy gracious power
To aid us in our darkest hour.
This be our prayer, "Oh, Father. save,
A peoples Freedom from the grave
All praise to Thee %
This dirge, as well as Mr.. Everett's
peroration and Mr. Lincoln's speech,
copied, verbatim, with the interiectioa!
of the speech from the Baltimore Americai
of November 90. 1868. The language o.
thn ctNnaph Il, fha Dhs1o la1 to -
same date differs in only three unimport
ant particulars, namely: "Otherh is
omitted III the phrase, ANY other nation,
general battle" instead of great bat
tle," are the words used; and "the" is in
serted before Governments of the peo
pie"
PRESIDENT LINcoIN's ADpREss.
Four score and seven years ago ourfatl
vt forth upon this continent a new,
eived in liberty and dedio"tsd u
sitiOn thot al .--sJ are CreateC
equal. lApplause.l Now we are engaged II
great civil war, testing whether that ma
tion, or any other nation so conceived and Sc
dedicated, can long endure. We are met OF
great battlefield of that war; we are met I,
dedicate portion Of IL as the final resting
place of those who here gave their lives tha
that nation might live. IL is altogether flttinl
and proper that we should do this. But in I
larger sense, we cannot dedicate. we canno
consecrate, we cannot hallow thi
ground. The brave men, living AM
| dead, who struggled here have consecrat cd (
far above our power to add or TO dstract
| [Applause.l The world will little note, no
long remember, what we may say here, but I
can never forget what they did here. lar
| plause.l II is for us, the living, rather TO b.
dedicated here TO the unfinished work tha
they have thus far so nobly carried on. Zap
plause.l II is rather for US here 20 be dedi
Gated to the great task remaining before us
that from these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to that cause for which the,
here gave the last full; pleasure of devotion
that we here highly resolve that these deat
shall not have died In vain. [Applause.l That
the nation shall, under God, have a new brit
Of Freedom; and that Governments of the
people, by the people, and for the people, shal
n0tinis not perish from tGs EARTH ILong continued
Washington, Feb. II, 1883.
SINGULAR PARALLELS.
Incidents IN the Lives of j. Ross Browne
and w. Ross Browne.
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