Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-05-31

Al OUT NUMBERS grow lnluueT our IauhS
be closer and our hearts should be warmer
Since last we were here some Of our comrades
dropped out in lifes march and rest today in the
last biyouac Of the dead. Comrade Arnold
sleeps where his narrow tent is pitched on the
sloping prairie near Royalton. and no prairie
flower that blooms above his grave was purer
than his life; calm be thine eternal rest, oh gall
liant comrade and faithful Christian soldier:
Green be the sod above thee '."I
Friend OF other days,
None knew thee. but TO love thee, - i
More named thee but to praise.
Comrade Workman's ashes are with us here.
His place IN ranks is vacant, He answers
the roll no more OH earth; but he holds his place
in our hearts.
His life was gentle, and the elements so
Mixed lii him that Nature might stand
Up aud say to sll the world, This was man.
The story Of that mighty struggle can never
grow wholly old. Measured by the vastness Of
the interests involved, by the numbers engaged,
by the difficulties overcome and the results
achieved where can we find contest Of greater
magnitude or Of more importance?
First the great struggle broke the peace and
jeopardized the prosperity Of great and happy
nation. For confessedly our progress, peace and
prosperity were dependent on orr national
union, and on the supremacy and authority Of
the law. Contessedly and notoriously the great
object of the rebellion was The dismemberment
of the national union; and the result Of q free
and fair election was made the pretext for an en-.
tire disregard of the nations legally expressed
decision. The peace and progress of this great
free nation the prospects and the hopes of lovers
of liberty the world over: the question Of the
success or failure OF Republican government, of
mans capacity for self government without des-
potism or kingcraft, the rehabilitation or
eradication Of human slavery, the achievements
| Of the lovers of liberty in the past and their
hopes in the future, were all involved in the
mighty contest. They talked, and still talk, OF
liberty, liberty to perpetuate human slavery and
| brazenly confront the free spirit Of humanity.
They talked Of right, right to destroy the fair
est fabric Of free government that ever the
hands Of man had huilded; and made pre- ensc
Of the legal right of States to rise paramount &c
federal Jurisdiction. First: Common sense says
that if this union were simply'a league Of sove
reign states, 1t would be no more than the tenn.
porary union ol3so many petty republics. united
and peaceful Until some one. or some few o
them, on any question Of real or supposed inter
est or passion or prejudice should choose to deny
the authority of this nnion. and throw allintt
confusion aud discord. X
Although these questions are In one seEse set
tied, IN another they are not. In the nationa
capital the aspect of affairs Of late years wa
sometimes such, that stranger could hardl!
tell how matters had been settled, IN favor of TIL
Blue or the Gray: and when southerner VIII
had once violated his solemn oath TO maintain
the Constitution and With pesjured soul ant
blood stained hand had struggled for Its over
throw, is now on the Supreme Bench 10 inter
pref thxt Constitution there is some occasion 70
grave reelection. Read the speech Of Senate
Daniels of Virginia Ut the late New York Cen
tennial, using the Z. s. Senate at his text. b
Ieloousntly expands on the dignity. power IN
place Of sovereign states, as II the war had neve
been fought to settle Iistionai supremacy Cal
states be sovereign aud subordinaie2 The MOTTO
or sovereign states in national affairs 10 IN al
surdiiy yet the notion Of sovereign states is sri
: the favored theory Of sonie would be nntion,
aatesmea. and ssaudinS today by the blood
graves Of soo, 900 comrades who laid down the
/ lives for NATIONAL suPxEnAcY, NE may. as
+ practical question consider The sense and u
hvofsuch an idea The great purposes OF 81
Constitution Of the United Bates are thus .,
forth In the preamble We THE PEoPLE Of II
!. United States in order 10 form more perfe.
union, 70 establish justice, to insure dQmest
tranquility, 70 promote the general welfare m
secure the blessings Of liberty 70 oprselyes ~
q onr posserity do ordAin aud establish this col
i. stitution for the e. 8. Of AmericG. And 10 Il
second section Of the 9Th artirle II expressly 4
clares that this Constitution aud the laws d
=. treaties made under Il shall 20 the supssn
}. law OF the lard, snd courts in The seyenI stal
3 are bound thereby auything in any ssase 90
Il isuiution % IL contrary notwil faesndias.
!. TAis ConssItusion ~ sdopsed ~ ! esnsentle
III which the Tebellions states were well repi
ssn,eti, and ~ Nas then sent forth and afses u
de5ibcntson and simple consideration y