Tombstone epitaph., 1890-07-12

and perfect type of manhood. By the
 law of heredity the child is not the
 precise counterpart of either father or
 mother, but a third personality,
 blending the qualities of both, and,
 under favoring conditions, being an
 improvement upon both.
 In Europe inter-marriages among
 the people of different nationalities
 are comparatively infrequent; but in
 America all nationalities more freely
 mingle together and inter-marry, and
 the heterogeneous becomes homogen-
 eOus; so that the American-from
 whatever parent stock derived-comes
 to possess characteristics peculiarly
 his own, which distinguish him in
 whatever part of the world he may
 travel or sojourn.
 From this fusing of different na-
 tionalities, we have types of the heroic
 and the religious which command our
 admiration and love. Our people have
 fashioned the institutions which in
 turn fashion us. Our churches and
 our schools illustrate the spi1it of freedom which constitutes cur great. ness and our glory. Every man may worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, with none to make him afraid. Our schools are free, and invite to. their scholastic halls all the children of the land. Even our colleges and universities are so accessible that no ambitious youth who desires a liberal education need be shut out. These two institutions the free school and the free church. have given to our Western civilization dignity and an upward trend which can be found, we believe, in no other nation on the globe.
 The heroic element of our nation was illustrated in the great war for the union, when more than a million citizen soldiers threw themselves into the breach to save the nations life. | And now that we are reunited na tion, we may concede to our mistaken | brethern of the South the same valor | and heroism which the legions of the | nation showed on the field of conflict. | And we may further admit that it was 1 a mistaken application of the senti- ment of patriotism that made them such formidable enemies to the Union | forces. Had they not been misled by the suicidal political heresy that mans highest duty was to the state in which he lived, instead of to the na- tion, there would have been no war. But l cannot fOrbear expressing my profound regret-now that the wounds | of the war were being so happily | healed-that the spirit of fraternity | which General Grant showed at the | final surrender of Lee, and which the ] victorious nation has always shown to | the vanquished, should have been so | conspicuOusly disregarded at the un- yelling of the monument to General | Lee, at Richmond, where the rebel | flag was Haunted and the rebel songs sung. These exhibitions were doubt less the expressions chiefly of the more thoughtless and passionate ele- ments of the South, which the wiser and more thoughtful elements did not approve, but it was in wretched taste, and had disloyal look.
 Very different from the Richmond demonstration was the tone of the Fourth of July speech of Governor Gordon of Georgia, at Chattanooga, who said; The South was loyal country, but we were wrong on the slavery question, and there is not son or daughter of the South to-day who would have slavery restored. While for four years the North and the South were deadly enemies, we are forevermore brothers and fellow citizens, and Southerners would to- day fight as Loyalty for the flag of our country, as any man who fought with Grant and Sherman
 Long may it be, my friends, before any portion of our beloved country shall again attempt to unloose the bonds which bind our whole nation in one; but may the uni versal sentiment of the people be that which was expressed by the immortal Webster: Union and liberty-one and and fOreverp The great battle for the absolute unity and indissolubility of the nation has been fought and won, and we shall not, trust, be called again to prove our patriotism by fighting our seeding brothers. But there are other enemies which menace our beloved country. Atheistic anarchy, and intemperance both put the nation in peril; and as