The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-04

simple pageant" Probably the mos
effective passage in his address was the
speakers magnificent description OF the
battle. Said he. 1.-The Sun of Gettys-
burg on the 1st of July, saw the
line of battle. The army of the blue
still Fastening forward and conyerging
to this point. The glory of midsummer
filed this landscape as if nature had ar
rayed herself for transcendent event.
Once more the unquailing line so
long arrayed against each other
stood face to face once more the
emotion mingled of yearning memory
Of the the fond affection of a decade of
foreboding of the high hope of patriotic
enthusiasm and stern resolve swept
| for moment over thousands of brave
hearts, and the next instant the over
whelming storm of battle burst. For
three long, proud, immortal days it
ragged and swayed, drifting from Semi
nary Hill far around to VOLTS Hill and
OuIp's Hill, then sweeping back with
desperate fury, striking the Peach Or.
chard and dashlng with flash and
soar upon Little Roundtop, and raging
in the DEVILS den the eartn trembling,
the air quivering, the sky obscured by
the shouting charge and rafting voiley
and laundering cannonede piling the
ground with a mangled and bleeding,
blus and gray, the old, the young, but
always and everywhere the devoted
and the brave. DCu tful the battle
hung and paused, then a formidable
bolt of war was forged on yonder
height and tounced with whitening
blasts and roar of fire against the foe.
1t was living bolt and sped as
if resistless; it reached and touched the
flaming line of the embattled blue; it
pierced the line for one brief moment in
the sharp agony of mortal strife; it held
its own. 1t was the supreme moment
of the peril of the Union. 1t was the
heroic crisis of war, but the fiery force
was spent in one wild, last, fierce
struggle. Brave men dashed along and
in the next moment that awful bolt of
daring courage was melted in the fervent
heat OF an equal valor. and the battle of
Gettysburg was fought. Patriotism"
continued the orator, feeds upon To-
Cal traditions, historic events and the
memories OF famous men, but miscel
ianeous multitude, sprung of many ma
tons, without common heart to
vibrate instinctively, common mem
mories and associations, would lack
that supreme patriotism which is the
moral defense of a nation. Let US be-
ware then how We recklessly water our
life blood. Webster said at Bunker
Hill just as the vast immigration was
beginning, We are placed at the head
of representative and popular govern
ments. We shall be recreant to the |
duty of that head ship, if We permit |
the fundame ntal conditions of national |
repose, of the security of personal |
rights, of good law, Of just administra-
ton, to be impariled by the ignorant |
and lawless, idle and dangerous over
flow of ali other countries We ere |
occupants and guardians of this coun- |
try and with kindly heart and hos
pitable hand towards all the world,
we must prescribe the conditions !
upon which the world shall come
here. If America is to remain the
head of free government and the hope |
of liberty in the world, our first duty |
is to remember that Constitutional |
liberty has its own laws, and that By
and enforcing them, can lib
erty for ourselves and for all men
be preserved.
Akin to this is the prob
lem OF the suffrage subject |
to the Constitutions guarantee of
a Republican form Of government, and
Of no discrimination against race or
color. The regulation of the suffrage is
wisely left to the states. but the action
Of every State upon subjects of a COM
mon interest necessarily affects the
Union. The suffrage is the handspring
Of the heart of our common life, and
whatever affects it iDjuriCusly touches
Inc n tinno on1 r N ,hn1 |
thrills. 1t is not enough that a
election be fair. it must be tie
national conviction that it is fair.
No honest man should delude himself
With the theory that this is local
question. The practical remedy for its
coercion or its repression, indeed is
ocal, not national The citizens Of this
commonwealth cannot
each across the Potomac and impose
heir will respecting the suffrage upon
he mother of States, nor can the
states of New England dictate legisla-
ion to the States of the northwest.
But as Washington. Jefferson and
Madison and Martin took counsel with
Alexander Hamilton and Dr..
franklin and Rufus King and
Roger Sherman, bent upon
common purpose, but with regard to
very local condition, so will their sons
onfer, fraternally forbearing until the
,reat problem of the suffrage and all
'ther problems are solved. This is the
result which would appear
verywhere in the country, adjusting
he bitterest differences, if the spirit of
his day and of this field should be-
ONE the spirit of our polite and then, y
hen by the grace of God, as T
be essential reason of section
lism disappeared with the war, is :
in fact, in feeling, and in
olitical action, would be the browning :
lory of Gettysburg"
Tonight a banquet was served at
pring's hotel. No exercises are sched-
led for; tomorrow and the day :
ill probably be quiet, as far
s the army of the Potomac !
concerned. At business NEE ing of
he department held in the Cemetery !
o-day it was decided to hold
ext summers encampment at this !
he time to be determined upon at the