The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-05-23

might, or the rights OF men are seeAlbS ioI
g Just recognition from reluctant Govern
meDts.
-Ex-Gov. Albert G. Porter, Indiana.
Memorials shall attest our grateful apprecis-
ton OF their noble selEsacSidces.
They cannot be spread too widely, although
they rise TO meet the sun IN his coming"
Gen. Charles Deyens.
To feel the full force Of what the American
soldier bias done and suffered you should have
TODD upon The battlefeds daringsand ~fter
the struggle; and you should have completed
our observation in the army hospitals and
upoH the countless grounds peopled with the
Sead. Sen. Oliver o. Howard.
Scatter The flowers we bear around
The white tents cf the dad;
The uight comes down, the day IS DONE
The Old Flag overhead
Hangs silently and Ueariy,
Tie rain falls on ilie sod;
Our loved ones sleep. how well they died
For Freedom end for God.
-Isx-GOv. Charles C. AanZaudt, Rhode Island.
] feel grateful that our ow-countFymen
have been moved 10 such respect and honor as
we arc now paying 10 the memory OF those
men who. in the discharge Of their duty, laid
down their lives, proving, by the highest sac
ri6ce man can render their devotion TO the
cause they were defending.
Gen Geo G. Meade at the unvailing Of
6ettyshnrg monument, July ], 1863.
ARNY OF THE PoroMAc.-NoWhere derelict,
Whether We'll or ill-drccted, 1t did its best,
and the Ticg5t5cs il won were not results OF
strategy ans 81 grand tactics; but the prize Of
its own uncomfortable hcr0ism, and the price Of
is own most preeioas blood.
s..es.....ss @ @es5.i, alike IN triumph and dis
lster; worthy always to be crowned, where rest
with the victGv's then with the martyrs PAIN
Gen Joshua l. Chamberlain.
They bore the Nations emblems bravely
through the Ere and smoke OF the battlefield.
Eav. their own bodies are Scared with bullet
wounds and striped with sabcr cuts, as If to
mark them as belonging TO their country until
their dust becomes portion of the soil which
shey defended. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
We may a3orn with loving tributes the rest
ing places Of cur beloved dead, the flowers which
sre strsWn may symbolic the living Fragrance
Of their memory; bus we shall honor them the
most by having their example teach us 70 love
sur country more, TO value its dearly purchased
institutions more, to prize its manifold bless
'ngs more, and TO advance its greatness and
true glory more. Schuyler COlfax.
We sill here in the Promised Land
That fows with Freedoms honey and milk,
But twas they won it sword ia hand
Making tie uettle danger soft Tor lss as silk.
We welcome back our b.ayest and our best
All. Inel not all! some came not wita tne rest
Who went forth brave and bright any Eerei
strive 10 mix some Siadness with my strain,
Bun the sad strings compiain,
And VIII not please the ear.
sweep theD for a llaTan, but they wane
Again sld yet again
Into q dFge, aud die away IN pain.
In these brave ranks only see the gaps,
Thinking Of The dear ones whom The dumb turf
wraps,
Dark 10 lie triumph which they died TO gain;
FIiiier may Others greet the living,
For me the past j. unforgiviug.
with uHcoger11 a shead
Salute the saerea dead
AFho went. aud who return not.-say not sol
IT'S nct the grapes OF Canaan that repay,
But the high tailh thst failed not by the way.
Virtue trends paths that end not IN the grave
No ban OF endless aght exiles the brave;
And 10 tine saner mind
We rather ssefn the dead that stayed behind.
james Russell Lowell,
From CommemOTation Ode. Harvard University,
July q. lSG5.
Beyond the simple friendship which belongs
e she individual there Is always something
more that must make the value Of our Memo
rial Day. There are the special principles for
which they dice, there is the acknowledgment
o. the special value Of the things which they
won and 50 long rs those things are precious
h Us the memories OF our soldiers never can
PASS away. Phillips Brooks.
The dead speak too. From their crowded
graves come voices Of thrilling and persistent
P4thos, whispering: Finish the work that has
fallen from orr nerYeiess hands. Let no weight
wrong cunber tue soil or darken the land we
died 10 save" Anna Z. Dickinson.
The great martyr ofthe conflict was Abraham
Lincoln. lie by his immortal words spoken
here indiss5ndly linked his name fare and
memory with the battle Of Gettysburg. Lincoln
gave his life, and the brave men who responded
70 bis call gave their lives, for the Union, for
liberty and for a stable, constitutional Govern
meut. -Ex-President T. B. Hayes
When through the springsime Of our land Rebel
The blooming Rose Of Liberty set all the North
ahame;
It's red and white and blue combined to weave fair
Freedoms name,
As Peace went marching on
Our brothers held the aow'r alOft as side by side
they irod
Tie soil that welcomed hero-lives to graves be-
meath lis sod; On
AnG souls Of sweetest fragrance there exhaled 70
Freedom ; God,
As Peace went marching on!
From Dedication Hymn. Army aud Navy 9Ioau-
ment, Boston sept. II, lS77.
Stronger than logic, sweeter than poetry. the
orators Of this occasion lie IN their graves
around you; no living lips can reach your
hearts as does The mute e!ogucnee which comes
up IRON the gra es OF the heroic dead
Gov. s. 9. Curtin at Gettysburg.
Ahi ye blessed herocsi Whose voices ought
~ nave SNEu power 10 lQSLFncE Us as yours.
We OWE your right 10 command our hearts and
20 guide cur lives, ye who have died for us and
1liea up what remained Of the sufferings o.
our Revolutionary patriots, Of our pilgrim
fathers, and tie great army Of martyrs and
apostles wbo in successive ages uook pp tht
eEsr-bloody way Of sacrifice even with deatl
itself Henry w. Bellows. d. D.
There is the consolation that such a death a
theirs Is only the sunset ulgeace Of the per
iected day-the rest that c0meth after worl
We o0ne-the ripe maturity Of lives nobl'
crowned with the laurel OF faithful service
They died in that most glorious of all causes
s17g by poet and eavied By the scholar ant
admired by woman, the cause of native land.
John D. Long.
Such q life was not vain. Such death wa
not vain. They have lighted the way Q
patriotic resolve and noble self-sacrifce in
thousand young hearts
Robert C. Winthrop.
Flowers Of the magnolia
The South brngeih forth,
And tIInes them to-day
Altk the rose OF ahe North:
For over the fallen
We plighted our troth,
And the dead Of the Union
Belong 10 us bOLh.
II we have forgotten
Some mound on the hills
Some miniature grave
That drCmmer-boy fills
God above j. viii hang
fWLen tie evening lowcns)
A starspaHgled banner
6ublner than ours.