Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-06-07
THE NORTH
DISCOUNTENANCEs.
The DISPLAY.
THE FEELING IN DIXIE.

cred the Grafton at Gettysburg on
the Both ult. 1t was an impressive
occasion. he said:
''Mr. President: The battlefield
of Gettsyburgl what thronging tu-
multi of emotion, of Joy and grief, of
triumph, of sadness, of defeat, and fl
nal victory rises in the heart at the
repetition of that name, the battle
field of Gettysburg.
1.-THE hightide of the Rebellion
broke upon the placid and fertile
fields and along these reverberating
and rocky slopes in tumultuous
surf of blood and flame that ebbed
away to Appomatox. Three Sum-
mer days changed the annals of this
peaceful hamlet To an epoch never to
be forgotten in the history of the hui
man race, and gave to this locality,
hitherto unknown, an Immortality
equal to that of Marathon, of Mars
ton Moor, and of Waterloo. The
orator who speaks and who shall
speak upon every recurrence of this
anniversary, SO long as it shall en-
dure, no matter how great his fame
or his name, will be dwaried by the
stupendous tragedy that was enact
ed here, and will stand in the pres
ence of the mighty and colossal shad-
ow, that greatest victim of the war,
who almost within sound of my voice
from the spot where we now stand,
dedicated this field almost twenty
seven years ago, as n final resting
place for those who here died that
the nation might live.
''it is in obedience TO that impulse
and that instinct that the American
people here assembled to day, under
the hottest impulse of the human
heart, 60 contemplate and consider
the profoundest and most unsolva-
BILE mystery of human destiny-the
problem of death And yet, why
should we assemble to scatter flow
ers above
THE DUST OF THE DEAD
if they are gone from us forever
We ale under the sentence of a tribu-
nal from which there is no appeal, no
executive clemency. 1t is appointed
to all men TO die. Have we assem-
bled here to honor these heroes be-
cause they are dead? They have en-
tered the democracy of the dead, are
at peace in the republic of the grave;
for them the injustice of life has been
eXpiated.
" How sleep the brave that sink tC
rest,
BY all their country's wishes blesIi
When Spring with dewy finger.
Returns to deck their hallowed
mould
She there shall deck sweeter soc
Than Fancy's feet had ever trod'
lit is Just twenty-five years since
the last shot was fired; Twenty-fv,
years since the hosts were marshalleC
for the last review. They assembled
within the shadow of the dome of tn,
capitol they had saved. The splen
dor of the vernal sun Illuminated tn,
scene and glimmered in it's glory
above them. 1t was the birthday O
a redeemed and regenerated republic
A host that no man could number
like the sands of the sea or the star
of the sky for multi ude, welcome,
from window and easement from bal
cOny and platform and cOrnice witt
tumultuous acclaim, the victoriou
legions of Sherman, of Grant, of Lo
gan and of Hancock, while on all
above the hearts of men, over tn
breasts OF women, and in the hand
OF children, and from the dome an,
tower and pinnacle and roof an,
spire, fiOated and flashed and flames
the glory of the flag.
''And then between the living wall
from morn till night and from NOR
till night again, above the chief mag
istrate and his staff, with martia
tread and the roll of vanishing drum
marched this soldiers of the Repuh
lie. A peaceful army TO guard til
homes, enforce the laws and defen
the honor of people determined t
be free. Above those resOlute squat
rOns
WITH GLITTERING BAYONET
and cleaning sword, and above I'll
faded and eloquent ensigns that wei
inscribed with the names of the ba
ties in which they had been borne
victory flashed and famed the r
deemed and regenerated glory of I'll
flag.
Fellow citizens, it was their fla
Had more than two millions of sc
diers of the Republic not offered the
lives, their health, their strengt
their sacrifice, for the protection
the flag, we should to-day be Gel
brating the twenty-ninth annivers
ry of the founding of the Southel
Confederacy, founded by secessiC
and disunion. The Declaration
independence would have been an a
tiquarian relic. The Fourth of Ju
would have been the jubilee of do
pots. The United States would ha
been like the laws of the Modes al