Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-26
JUDGE HAnnIsos,s ADDnEss

JUDGE HARRIsON's ADDREss It she Dedication of the Twensy-sev-
 ensh 0. v. Memorial at Oettysburg.
 Following is the able address delivered by Judge Lynde Harrison at the dedication at this week of the memorial pro- pided by the State of Connecticut, commem- orasive of the gallantry of the Twenty-seventh Q. V. in that great historic battle:
 "It was the battle summer after Seven Pines and Malvern Hill. The prophecies of | fulfilled. The armies of Halleck in the | West and Mcclellan in the East were resting | after a series of battles full of negative re- | suits. Neither Sherman nor . Grant had yet come to the front. The promises of hope were as illusory as the shifting colors of the rainbow.
 "Ths fiery cross of war had passed for the third time over the hills of New England, and the summons had been answered with all the patriotism and with more of the de- termination than when Sumter fell.
 ''Frem no portion of the North was the re- sponse more ready than among the patriots who dwslt within the ancient boundaries of the little republic founded by Eaton and Davenport. Under tho elms of the Univer- sity city of Connecticut there rapidly gath cred the clerk from his desk, the merchant from the counter, the workman from his bench, the farmer from the hillside, and the undergraduate from the halls of recitation, to organize and to march shoulder to shoul- der under the stars of the Union and the vines of tho colony.
 "Nearly generation has passed since that October day of which this is the anniversary when brilliant autumn sun looked down mn ryol1ar foranko that frfnOad m coasts and kissed the cheeks of the brave lads of the Twenty Seventh Connecticut as they marched forth with free step to take their places with the great host that kept watch and ward below the Potomac.
 "In the ranks of that regiment the grand- Hill to Yorktown touched elbows with the sons of blonde warriors who had paced the heights where Ehrenbreitstein guards the swiftly flowing Rhine.
 "The major portion of year had passed and this regiment which had been deoimat- ed upon the bloody slopes of Maryes Hill and had been sacrificed in the wilderness ct Charlottesville to cover the retreat of Hooksr's army, sent its torn flags and rem. nant only of it's brave eight hundred to guard from the mighty invasion of Lee your glorious commonwealth founded by Penn. "'This State, upon whose soil we stand, has been more than the sister of Connecticut ever since the settlements upon the Susque- hanna, founded by our kinsman, sent their representatives to and took their laws from, the assemblies which gathered at Hartford and New Haven under the charter of King Charles.
 "It was full of fateful irony for the Con- federate cause that the pivotal battle of the war for the Union should have been fought on the soil of the State whose poetic name in the old Union told the story of an unbroken arch.
 GAS Saratoga was the forerunner of York town, Gettysburg was the promise of Appo- mattox. The triumph of Burgoyne would have made the surrender of Cornwallis an l impossibility. The overthrow of Meade at Gettysburg would have transferred the seat of war permanently to point north of the | line of Mason and Dixon.
 "As we follow the waywsrd fortunes of l the great contest from the hour the gallant and unfortunate Reynolds led his corps | against the advance of Hill down to that glo- | rious moment when Pickett's Virginians were | thrown back from the batteries of Cemetery | Hill in disorder as wild as the waves of the 1 Atlantic when dashed from the granite coasts | of New England, no hour was so pivotal for disaster Or triumph as that which followed | the desperate attempt of Longstreet to flank | Sickles and capture Little Round Top.
 "With Little Round Top held by Lee when | the sun of July 9 set, the hands of the dial of | time would have been turned backward for | the western continent as surely as the history | of human events would have been changed if Butcher had failed to reach Waterloo. | "Ths clear perception of Warren, the des- | perate bravery of Sickles, the grand courage
 oc the brigades that rushed to the protection of Siokles corps saved Little Round Top for the Stars and Stripes. Far, far to the front, | and beyond all others on that fateful day, charged the regiments of Brooks brigade, | and foremost among them was the Twenty \ seventh Connecticut.
 | "ThrOugh the famous wheat field, led by | the whole souled Merwin and the faithful | Chapman, they charged up the ridge, per- forming deeds of valor which might furnish | . canto for another Homer to write another Iliad. Upon this hallowsd spot the men of Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware and Pennsylvania performed with steady courage
 the acts that "held tho fort" and Gettys-
 burg was won.
 "The State of Connecticut to commemo.
 rate what her sons did, places this memorial
 here. It is composed of granite from the
 hills of New England, which the glaciers
 barely scratched and the storms of centuries will beat upon it in vain.
 The student of history and of military sci ence thousand years from now will read
 upon the myriad stones that mark this bat
 tlefisld the story of nations triumph Sol
 ferino was the initial point of Italian unity,
 and Sadowa marks the beginning of the great
 struggles that made Germany . nation; but
 Solferine is not, and Sadowa cannot be,
 marked by these symbols of a nations grat.
 itude. The historian of future generations
 will tell them that the war for the Union
 stands out in the history of mankind among
 all those of modern times, because 1t stood
 for the emancipation of a race, as well as the
 qualification of . nation, and demonstrated
 in its results the capacity of men for self.
 government. In the same degree becaust
 Gettysburg broke forever the ambition
 hopes of those who sought to destroy tn,
 Union, in that war, 1t is prs-eminently tn,
 famous battlefield of tho world.
 This great loyal commonwealth has th, thanks of all It's sister States for creating : your association and putting in your hand
 the custody of these historic fields. In you hands Connecticut and the friends and sur
 vivors of the Twenty seventh regiment leav, { this memorial stone.
 "Here the blood of Psnnsylvanis and Con
 necticut oemented forever the arch of an in
 destructible union whose foundations are to- ] day as firmly resting on the shores of tn. gulf as by the waters of tho great lakes. Whil
 the memories of what was accomplished her in the three burning days of 1888 are fondl,
 cherished in the hearts of all the sens aat !, daughters of this Union Pennsylvania enjoy ] the sacred trust of guarding all these out !. ward symbols, and in her hands we gladl,,