The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-06-02

on the poor? We see many family scnntily
fed and overworked, paying an eAolDltant
irice for the right to camp Tor the HlgHt On
lttIe section of Gods free earth; while III the
neiehborhood are acres which no one can
touch because indifferent ana hohfesluent
owners are waiting for their lands 10 double
whom they drive away. we neeu SOME
martyrs in this cause. All honor 10 "A fathcf
McGiynn who, whether right or wrong, II
willing to suffer in what lie holds II worthy
cause | know not What is the best method OF
dealing with the great owls that exist heith-
eP do YOU; neither did those brave boys know
inst he method by which slavery would De
slain but they spit their blood, and let time
work ouI the lsSIe- But 4 know there 10 4
treason, woise If anything than the treason Of
armed rebellion; il is the treason of lnaction
one Thing | know will not bring ON the
remedy aud that is the wicked tretcheiy OF
indifference. one thing will bring the issue
10 IA head-that is agitation, IN the Illdft3 L
spirit, and If need be with martyr blood
We commemorate today, not the victory
over a foe, but The triumph OF "A principle.
The martyr takes no JOY III The 1oalh OF his
enemy, he only joys III the progress OF ms
cause True mariyrtlon Is like the martyr
dom of Christ, While dying IN the cause he
t3Istys for those no Stay him. Father for
give Them, FOR they know not what they do"
Such WAS the spiriI oI many OF those biaFe
men who died, and such should be our aiti-
ltde. The passage oil more Than Nv envy years
ought 10 have healed every feeling OF
personal luminosity. Even In the heal OF coii
fiict II WAS mol ile rebels We were Staying, but
the wrong, and IL IL possible IN every slfug
gle al Tie SAME time To love The enemy and
light the wrong. SO today we would not L.tr-
Dor any i'll VIII against the Zoe. We would
remember we are brothers. ION recall the
familiar incident when tie boys III blue and
the boys in gray were encanped on The opp"s
tie banks ut lie Raplntaanock, 50 near each
other that they could hear each others voices
its they We're waited by the evening air across
the stream. ON the Union side one OF our
patriotic songs was started, which Was an
severed JDllnnlCS Their
songs across the river. And 50 the ElOodicss
artillery of music Shot back aud forth acruss
the current till on one side WAS started thai
STRAIN OF "iiome, Sweet iIome,' when inmedI-
atciy IN harmony from across the river came
the voices mellow in the silent air, BE II
ever 50 lowly. there's no place like home"
The two ~ posing armies had touched the
cord that proved them brothers 50 may ii
ever be. 50, side by side may decorate
the graves oil those " no fell in that great
flict, the one for Independence, though IL were
in scitshncss, and The one for liberty and
union.
When Grant was investing Vicksburg there
was friendly spai11nS between the soldiers of
the Two armies here the picket lines came
close together As Grant relates: the john
MES would cry, Nv ell Iank, wien are you
coming into toWn?' And t!i,. rcnlv would be;
I'VE propose 10 celebrate the fourth of JpiY
there. W are holding you as prisoners OF war
White you are feeding yourselves Bat when
at length the we'll fed soldiers Of the Union
entered Y lcksbuIS the lWo armies begun 10
iIaterniZe and many II Mon boy took down
his haveissick and shared his bread with his
less fortunate brother And when the boys in
gray marched solemniy ont and stacked their
arms, there WAS II hush along the Union lines,
us almost with SORROW they saw The brave lads
submit 10 their fate. Said Gen. Grant TO his
men, The war Is over; the rebels our
cOuntrymen again. The best liz! of rejoicing
after the victory viii be 10 abstain from all
demonstration in lie field" And Inc adds:
Nv hen they pas ed out OF the works they had
50 long and calamity defended, not cheer
Went up, not remark W;ts made that would
give pain. Really believe there was 81 feel
ing OF sadness Just then in the breasts of most
OF the mon soldiers AZ seeing the detection OF
their late antagonists" SO my friends i'll any
struggle we should lake no iicnilish comfort
in the defeat ot the foe but only re JOice IN the
victory over wrong. Christ hated mol the sin
mel but the sin. 50 the Christian MARTYR
seeks not 10 rcek his yengence ON he foe, but
only to annlIIlate the wrong. And if those
men in rle heat OF conflict, with the blood OF
kindred fresh upon the sod, possessed the sub
lime charity and maSuan1nltJ 10 forgive; how
much more should we, after mole than twenty
years OF peace be willing 10 forget the dead
issues of the past, and unite our hands and
hearts III Christian unity 10 fight the foes that
sllu remain.