New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-06-04
Memorial Day Celebrated
Throughout the Country
With Unusual Feryor.
At New York, Gettysburg,
Cleveland, and by the
G. A. R. Everywhere.

various places, room can be found for only
few.
THE GETTYSBURG BATTLE FIELD
was visited by the members of both houses
of Congress, and after looking over the field
under the guidance Of Col. Batchelder, the
government historian, an address was listen
ed to from Senator Ingalls,, who said in sub
stance: -.E.s'. -..
The high tide OF the rebellion broke on this
field and along those rocky hills in a food of
blood and flame that ebbed away at Appomat-
tOX Three summer days changed this hamlet
to an epoch and gave to this locality an immor-
taty equal to Marathon, Marston Moor and
Waterloo. 1t is thus that we have assembled
twenty-five years after to again pay
the tribute OF homage, respect and
reverence to the dead that sleep here It is just
twenty-five years since the last shot was fired.
Twenty-Five Years since the hosts were mar
shaded for the last review They assembled
within the shadow Of the dome of the capitol
they had saved. The splendor Of the vernaI sun
illuminated the scene aud shimmered on the flag
as it glmmeTs in its glory above them-the size
OF the rej9venated republic. 1t was host
acclaim. The hosts Of Grant, Sherman,
Logan and Hancock, and above them flashed
and cleaned the redeemed glory OF the flag. 1t
was their flag. Habit not been for their sacri-
fees and those OF their sleeping comrades, this
flag would have been a Cshonored rag. I have
sometimes thought what would have been our
emotions had the rebellion been successful. Sup
pose the dome of the capitol stopped to it's base.
Suppose Robert Toombs fulfilled his insolent
menace to count his slaves within the shadow of
Bunker Hill monument. Suppose the stars and
stripes had gone down in defeat before the stars
and bars, what would have been our emotions?
Iconfess for myself to have never ceased to i'm
plOre that all men might be free; to hope that
some time by some desperate battle the Union
might have been restored. l should have kept
in some secret repository some emblem of the
starsand stripes which 1 would have taught nv
children to love and cherish. Now in view of
the occurrences OF the last two days, in
the extinct capital OF the extinct Confeder
acy wish to say a few words. l have no de-
sire on this sacred occasion to revert to any
subject that is inconsistent with the selemnity
OF the hour, but unless the ideas for which our
dead died were right they have died i'll vain.
But the only regret that seems to be felt by our
adversaries is that i'll the Rebellion they failed
one OF the greatest soldiers OF the age,
lofty Of character, pure OF life, with
patriotism in this hemisphere. He with
out fear and without reproach." Had Lee ad.
hered to the sentiments expressed shortly be-
fore the Rebellion he would to-day have been
the foremost citizen OF this republic. He
offered the command Of our armies. For TWEEN
ty-tive years his sword had been under the flag
OF the republic. He had been educated at her
expense. and had taken the oath to support her
constitution and her laws, but
HE VIOLATED HIS OATH,
put aside his sword and took the leadership of
the most causeless rebellion since the devil re-
beed against heaven, and yet in perjury and in
violation OF faith and honor. On the day for
TESS to have accepted the results of the war in
good faith, selecting this occasion in all the
other anniversaries OF the 800 days. OF the
year, with every augmentation OF inso-
lence point, to the South that this is an
example after which they should copy
a Confederate flag is placed in the hand OF Wash
lngtOn. What wonder if the dead should cry
out against the sacrllege. We told 'God
alone knows which side was right" To make
the constitution OF the United States the su,
preme law of freemen, millions enlisted and
thousands gave up their lives; wives were wild
owed, children orphaned, and yet one,half OF the
alone knows which was right" Carnage ragged
on hundreds of battlefelds. Now the sun rises
on no master and sets on no slave. The
shame OF the republic is washed out Liberty is
the law of the land, and yet God alone knows
which right" If were not right, if ma
tonality is not better than secession, then these
ceremonies are without significance The war
for the Union was the greatest crime Of the
century and our soldiers rank with the success
full puglists who fight in the ring for the cham
right, national morality is a fiction, i
loyalty name and patriotism fatal malady
must be resented This is day Of instruction,
a duty the future that our relations to
that great conflict be understood and that our
dead did not die in vain. 1t is not necessary to
disparage the bravery of adversaries. Let them
rear monuments to their dead and cherish their
deeds; let them eulogze the lost cause; let them
and bars. These are matters OF taste,
which they must decide for themselves.
There is other country. under
the sun that would permit such transactions.
They cOuntrymen, united to us by a
common heritage, they say, but when they
assert that Lincoln and DAVIS, Grant and Lee,
Logan and Jackson were equal, and that "God
alone knows which was right it is sacrilege of
the vilest type and needs rebuke.
The senator was listened to with the great
est attention and frequently applauded.
ME MORTAL TO GARFIELD. -s
AT CLEVELAND, Ohio.-In the presence
of a vast multitude and with all the
pomp and ceremony, but albeit solemnity
BETTING the occasion, the memorial erected
by the contributions of a grateful country
to the honor OF James Abram Garfield, ca
nal.boat boy, school teacher, soldier, states
man and president was formally dedicated
to-day. Of the tens Of thousands thatwere
gathered upon the greensward of Lakeview
cemetery, there were many who had jour
neyed from lar distant points to pay their
last tribute of respect to the second Of Amer
cas- presidents to meet his end by the bullet
of the assassin. Two-thiris of the states
and territories were represented in that
throng. Upon the platform by the nation
itself, in the person OF its chief magistrate
and three Of his constitutional advisers, lent
recognition and countenance to the
event, while over all and as
a pathetic side to the picture
the widow and children of him whom all
men had met to honor, looked down upon
the scene with mingled feelings OF pride and
sadness.
After a grand proc ession and review, a
mastery GRAFTON was Delivers! by Ex-Gover-
nor Cox saying mong other things.
His elevation to the presidency was rather the
evidence OF his countymen's admiration of him
as a popular legislative leader, than a signiti-
cant part OF his own career. Cut off prema-
turely, his administration hadno opportunity to
carry out any large policy. The large grasp and
ability he had shown in every other part of his
life is sufficient warrant for our faith that it
would have been marked by broad statesman
ship and manifest power, but it was Gods viii
that his work legislator should remain the
thing which will ever be distinctively his. Men
of all parties have united to build this memorial
and to place this statue upon its pedestal to
commemorate these virtues and these services.
Antagonisms are here forgotten. Cynical carp
ping has no place here The good, the great the
strong, the Wise and the patriotic were all SO
abundant in him that out of them the young of
the coming generations may construct an
ideal on which to mould themselves.
The weakness, the limitations, the
imperfections incident to human ma
ture, and which every man must humbly ac-
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