Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-04

Seminary hill, far round to VOLTS hill
and Culp's hill, then sweeping back with
desperate fury, striking the peach orchard
and dashing with flash and roar upon
Little Round Top and Round Top, raging
in DEVILS Den, the earth trembling, the
air quivering, the sky obscured with
shouting charge and rafting volley, and
with mangled and bleeding Blue and
Gray, the old and the young, but always
and everywhere.
THE DEVOTED AND THE BRAVE.
Toubtful the battle hung and poised
then formidable bolt Of war was forged
on yonder wooded height and launched
with whitening blasts and roar of fire
against the foe. It was living bolt and
sped as II RESTLESS. 1t reached and
touched lie floating line of embattled
blue. 1t 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 the war. But the
fiery force was spent. In one last, wild,
tumuli iuous struggle brave men dashed
headlong against men as brave, and the
next moment that awful bolt of daring
courage was melted in the fervent heat
of an equal valor, and the battle of Get
tysburg was fought.
Patriotism feeds upon local tradition,
historic events, and the memories of ia
nous men but miscellaneous multitude
sprung of many nations, without COM
mon heart to vibrate instinctively to
common memories and associations,
would lack that supreme patriotism
which is
THE MORAL DEFENCE OF THE NATION.
Let us beware then how we recklessly
water our life blood. Webster said at
Bunker Hill, just as the vast immigra-
ton was beginning, "We are placed at
the head of representative and popular
government. We should be recreant to
the duty of that headship ii we permit
the fundamental principles Of ma.
tional repose, or the security o
personal rights, of good laws and Of just
administration, to be imperilled by the
ignorant, lawless, idle and dangerous
overflow of all other countries. We are
the occupants and guardians of this
country, and with kindly heart and ar
hospitable hand towards all the world
we must prescribe the conditions upon
which the world shall come here. Ifths
American is to remain the head of free
government and the hope Of liberty ii
the world, our first duty is to remember
that constitutional liberty has its OWL
laws and conditions, and that only by
respecting and enforcing them can lib
erty for ourselves and for all men be pre-
served"
THE PROBLEM OF SUFFRAGE.
| Akin to this is the problem of suffrage
subject to the constitutional guarantee O
a Republican form OF government and O
no discrimination against race or color
The regulation of suffrage is wisely lef
to the States, but the action of every
State upon subjects of common interest
necessarily affects the Union. The
suffrage is the main spring, the heart O.
our common life, and whatever affects il
injuriously touches the national sensor
ium, and the whole country is thrilled
1t is not enough that national election
be fair, it must be the national convic
ton that it is fair. No honest mar
should delude himself with the theory
that this is local question. The prac-
tical remedy for its coercion OF
| its repressing, indeed is local
not national. The citizens o.
this magnificent Commonwealth cannot
reach across the Potomac and impose
their will respecting the suffrage upor
the Mother of the States, nor can the
States of New England dictate legislation
to the States of the Northwest, but as
Washington, Jefferson and Madison and
Martin Van Buren, took counsel with AL.
exander Hamilton and Doctor Franklin
and Rufus King and Roger Sherman
bent upon common purpose, but with
regard to every local condition, so will
their sons confer fraternally, forbearine
until the great problem of suffrage and
all other problems are solved. This is
the auspicuous result which would appear
every where in the country, adjusting the
bitterest differences, if the spirit of this
day and of this field should become the
spirit of our politics, and then by the
grace of God, as the essential reason oil
sectionalism disappeared with the war
its disappearance in fact, in feeling and
inspolitics would be the crowning glory
of Gettysburg.
Tonight banquet was served at the
Springs Hotel. No exercises are sche
duled for tomorrow and the day will
probably be quiet as far as the Army oi
the Potomac is concerned. At business
meeting of the department held in the
cemetery. to-day it was decided to hold
the next summer encampment at this
place, the time to be determined at the
winter session