St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-31

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preserve, and secure these principles + f q
these men died. Not to secure them
for themselves. The abject despotism Of
the Russian autocrat, established here and
now, would not disturb them. Is 1t not well
to cherish the
MEMORY OF THESE MARTYRS?
Can you not. ought you not to love ana
honor them in your hearts while you live?
And hereafter, whenever and wherever these
principles are assailed, their existence
threatened or denied, will .you not do all that
In you lies to transmit this rich inheritance
unimpaired to your children The struggle
is an old one-it is not ended yet The sol:
dierS enlisted in this war upon the side OF
human liberty are never discharged. Old
wrung Magma Charta from reluctant king
at Runnymede, was an enlisted soldier Oh
our side. Sir John Elliott died martyr to our
cause, aftera lingering death OF four years Ia
doned his many crimes by putting the habeay
corpus act upon the English statute book
and expiated his offense against tyranny by
an exile's death. Joseph Warren died for II:
For it, the long agony of the prison ships Of
New York harbor; the horrors OF Libby
prison; the fendish cruelties of Anderson
vile, the suffering and death from pestllence
in hospitals, the fortunes Of wounds and
often the happier fate Of sudden death on
the battlefield. Oh comrades. the roll Of
heroes and martyrs is a long one. Even
the 100000 whom we mourn to-day are
but small fraction OF the awful whole.
Col. Howe called the attention of his
auditors to the condition of the inhab-
itants of this country as compared with
that of the people of France, Of Russia
and of Ireland. He spoke Of the i'm
lie, autocratic rule in Russia and the
misgovernment in Ireland. He con-
tinued:
AS have said, our fight for human rights
is not over. No man can vet foresee when or
where the next fierce struggle shall come,
more than the watchful dweller on the prai-
RE can locate the next whirlwind. We. only
shall come the grey-haired veterans Of the
Rebellion will not be there. Younger men
than we must hereafter keep step to the mar
tial music of the Union. Is there nothing.
very truth be mustered out before the final
roll calls Much to do. comrades! We must
watch for the coming dangers. We
must put ourselves a,,.s On the line
where we can see all that threatens our free
institutions before the rush of attack comes.
We must be where we can scent danger from
afar. We must watch il others sleep. Put
ting ourselves, then, for moment on this
picket line and peering anxiously into the
which warning should be given to the eager,
pressing army behind us? Yes; many things
This for one: There is a little cloud on the
distant horizon scarcely larger than ba5y's
some parts Of the South to reopen
the question of the right Of state
to secede. 1t seems that the coming gen.
Grafton is not to be permitted to attain man.
hood free from that peStllent and murderouS
heresy. We are to be a confederation and
not a nation. The surrender at Appomattox
settled nothing. This, for another. In an
other part Of the horizon a cloud, large
enough to cast a somber shadow, may be
seen Of all men, who care to look. It is the
organization Of anarchists. denouncing all
government and all law. They will have no
law for protection or guidance, even if made
by the people themselves, of which they are
part. The rule of the strongest man is to
is to give up all that the best and bravest Of
all time nave won In the fierce struggles for
human rights. II is to go back to chaos and
primeval night This, for third: Forcible
or fraudulent interference with the right Of
suffrage. In this government of the people,
for the people, they make and unmake their
rulers; they enact OF repeal their laws; they
create and change their institutions at their
sovereign will and pleasure: these vast pow
erS are exercised by them only by the simple
MACHINERY OF THE BALLOT.
Your will and mine inds effective expression
only as our ballots fall silently into the
boxes. We are dumb and powerless else.
Now this is not republic and we are not q
self governing people II every man who has
the right to vote is not permitted to vote.
If by force or by fraud, by uiseounting or by
not counting, the ballot boxes do not render
true account of the will Of the people, we
are living under an oligarchy and Il under
a republic. 1t is our sacred duty, men and
brethren to see to it by every means in our
power that the ballotboxes shall truly express
the will of tho people. There is yet another: If
I was to ask this vast audience, what, next to
the right of personal freedom, was the most
our free institutions, the answer would be,
the right of man to himself; the right OF
every man to labor and to enjoy the fruits Of
his labor. 1900, 900 Of slaves were made
No immediate r result Of the war was was so grand
as that No simple achievement Of the
first century Of the republic is SO sublime as
that. Now. this sacred right must be pre-
served to every son and daughter of the re-
public at all and every hazard. Our institu-
tons are solemn farce without that. The
men whose dust lies under y0nder little
mounds died in vain without that. No man
and no body OF men, no matter VINO or
where. must be permitted to in any manner
where and for whom he pleases. Politicians
may truekle, and demagogues may waver,
under the pressure OF organizations or
threats of mobs, but the soldiers OF the
every power and influence given them. that
not one of the rights Of man, guaranteed by
the constitution, bought by the priceless
blood. of heroes and martyrs, is taken
away from the humblest son Of toll in the
land.
Reiterated applause greeted the ora
tor as he closed his polished address,
and, although not recognized on the
programme. he was followed by ]. IL.
Drake. in long address. Sc much
time was thus occupied that the closing
exercises were hurriedly closed. Gen.
Flower making some sort of semblance
in the direction of presenting wreaths
to the memory of Lincoln, Grant and
Logan. Two verses of America" were
sung by the people, and the order to re-
form column was given. The parade
passed in review at the junction of
Sixth and Robert streets. and there the
men were dismissed.
MINNESOTA TO TIE FRONT.
The Greatest and Bloodiest Battle
of the War.
Any reference to Memorial day, and
the heroes of the war cannot fail to