The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-06
PATRIOTIC DISPLAY.
Memorial Day Celebrated
Throughout the Country
With Unusual FerVOr.
At New York, Gettysburg,
Cleveland, and by the
G. A. r. Everywhere.

Cleveland, and by the
A. B. Everywhere.
Memorial Day in this goodfy year seemed
to surpass all it's predecessor in the almost
universal demonstration Of patriotic enthu-
siam throughout the whole country. Out Of
the abundant descriptions Of celebrations at
various places. room can be,fouud for only a
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 ron Senator Ingalls,. who saidin sub
stance:
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-
Waterloo. 1t is thus that we have assembled
the tribute Of homage, respect and
reverence to the dead that sleep here. 1t is Just
twenty-five years since the last shot was-fred.
Twenty-Five years since the hosts were mar
shaled for the last review: They assembled
W1Jnln the SDaOOW OIL C0c dome OF the CAPITOL
they had saved. The splendor OF the vernai sun
Illuminated the scene and shimmered on the flag
as it glimmers in it's glory above them-the. size
of the rejuvenated republic. 1t was host
without number welcomed with. tumultuous
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. Had it not been for their sacri-
fees and those of their sleeping comrades. this
flag would have been a dishonored rag. l have
sometimes thought what would. have been our
NJ hn hN oil hnovN vvnnnCCfn Gun
pose the dome of the capitol stopped to its 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?
l confess 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 l would have taught my
the occurrences OF the last two days, in
the extinct capital OF the extinct Confeder-
acy, l wish to say a few words. l have no de-
sire on this sacred. occasion, to. revert to any
subject that is inconsistent witt the selemnity
of the hour, but unless the ideas for which our
dead died were right they have died in vain.
But the only regret that seems to be felt by our
adversaries is that i'll the Rebellion they failed
to succeed. Robert E. Lee was undoubtedly
one of the greatest soldiers OF the age,
lineage dating back to the morning Of
patriotism in this hemisphere. He was "With-
out fear and without reproach." Had Lee ad
fore the Rebellion he would to-day have been
the foremost citizen of this republic. He was
offered the command of our armies. For TWEEN
ty-five 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-
belled against heaven, and yet in perjury and in
violation OF faith and honor. On the day for
twenty-five years made sacred, those who pro-
TESS to have accepted the results OF the war i'll
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
ington. What wonder if the dead should cry
out against the sacrilege. We are told "God
alone knows which side was right" To make
the constitution of the United States the SUI
preme law of freemen, millions. enlisted and
thousands gave up their lives: wives were wild
owed, children orphaned, and yet one-half of the
rising generation, is being taught that GOD
OH hundreds of battlefelds. Now the sun rises
on no master and sets OH no slave. The
shame OF the republic is washed out. Liberty is
which was tight" If we were not right, if ma
tionality is not better than secession, then these
ceremonies are without significance. The war
LOT the Union WAS UE0 SredueSU CTl1lc OF UQ0
century and our soldiers rank with the success
full pugilists who fight in the ring for the cham
pionship belt OF the world. II they were not
r1lghti national n nana and m MOI a IS q 60. a ., m ne1lon,
OF the body polite. This tendency of the South
must be resented. This is a day Of instruction,
a duty we owe 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
IooJc. 1t than, o1,lnrizo fha Loot al1S 1ef fhaO,
worship their leaders; let them carry their stars
and bars. These are matters OF taste,
which they must decide for themselves.
There is no other country under
the sun that would permit such transactions.
They are our countrymen, united to us by a
common heritage, SO they say, but when they
Logan and Jackson were equal, aud 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 MORAL TO GARFIELD.
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
uld1l dllo PiCoiuCAlt, was oSoASdtO0
to-day. Of the tens of thousands that were
gathered upon the greensward of Lakeview
cemetery, there were many who had jour
neyed from far 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-thirds 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, leni
recognition and co%untenance 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, g
mastery Grafton al delivered by Ex- Cover
nor Cox, saying among othar things.
His elevation to the presidency was rather the