The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-01

free and independent. loud applause. J
Unfortunately, the south had slavery,
and, as I say, we will not go back to
discuss how she got it; but it seems to
me proVidential that slavery was placed
here upon the soil of the greatest Re
publican government that the world has
ever seen or will ever see; and that the
issue must be MAIDS here upon freedom IS
soil, which has established to the world
the great truth that the previous
speaker referred to. that truth which is
EN- bodied and declared in the Declara-
ton of Independence: that all men are
born free and equal. Tremendous
cheering.) Ali have The right to the
protection of life, property and the
pursuit of happiness. Our side was the
sutft rer in part; our side suffered,
probably, more than the other side of
the country, and we can congratulate
ourselves that we have sacrificed for
freedom as well as the other side. (Ap-
plause Now the chief beauty. the
grand significance, as l understand it,
of that great war, that now is passed
more than twenty Years, is that it was
freedom's sons struggling upon free
dom's soil to emphas re, TO declare,
and to perpetuate freedom for the
world; and that is emphasized
now in the statement 1 made
at the beginning that we have $4,000 900
of people now under one flag, with the
same ideas, the same devotions, and
the same purposes and not single
manacled man within the great breadth
of orr grand country. (AppIauSe) l
would not detract from the glory of
the Union Army. On the contrary
l and those associated with me in the
late war, are the ones that give the
proudest testimonies to the successes
of those armies. There were many
fields fought: victory first starts upon
the Stars and Stripes; then upon the
Stars and Bars. Each day you who
were cognizant know the varying
fortunes OF that war, but now, more
than twenty years after that war, you,
your children, and the fathers and
mothers of the children and myself are
all united in bearing one testimony,
that while in battle the stars and
Stripes may go down, yet never has
that banner been borne to the front of
war and returned without victory
browning it. (Applause). No war it
has ever waged but has been successful
war, and as l believe now, look
ing DaCk anu reaJlZluS LHS re-
suits, no war has she ever
waged but rightful war and she is
entitled to victory. (Applause.) War
hath its victories, and we are now reap
ing the victories of the late war. More
than twenty years have softened the
bitterness, the pangs, the sufferiDgs of
that war. Indeed, to-day, as we go to
the cemetery and place the fragrant
flowers upon the graves of those heroes
who fought the war, their fragrance. as
it ascends to heaven, breathes nothing
but benedictions of love upon peace
full people. There is no sorrow now in
the land. Even the mother that lost her
boy can stand beside his grave to-day
without pang of sorrow, but with a
great halo of glory as she thinks of the
sacrifice that he has made, the glory
that he has won, and the service he has
done to his country and to humanity.
No voice in this land, 1t seems to me,
remem bering the past, can think ought
but good of the future of this country
ne cannot offer any prayer; he can say
no word except in honor and glory OF
this flag. prolonged applause.)