Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-27

lsotes place II eae fsnks; o9t that vomer
we're less brave than men Ne deny
Tast woman iaved their country lees than
rnen 10 not true. Oar entire hiator,
proves the corisry. Abraham Lincoln
said: 81 an not accussoned 70 the Ian,
guase Of euioay have never studied IT,
Art Of paying compliments 70 women. bur l
must say that II everything that has been
written and spoken by orators AID poet
since the world began in favor OF women
| were spilled 70 the women Of the North
curing fhis var. it you'd not do item jas
rice AID have sometimes thought,
vhsn have read the history Of woman 3
Eobis devotion, and - sss IL personally,
thas II the ocean were Ink and every spear
| Of grass we're pea. aad every hair ef
every bad we're the hand o. q ready yfi:e
all these would be entirely iasdeqasts to
properly describe tie debt Which the
eouary owes 10 the women IN the
var. lAppiAgsel Iknov. fellow citiz ms,
that IL 10 . favGri.e theme Of asHtsfs ane
| posts to discuss about the rensId 3us
sacrifices and sun siings Of men Ia the var.
and tbs, it is sill proper And all right. for to
| properly describe the suffering Of cur bo,s
| Il the 'front.' haye sometimes thought il
would require for = pen the spear that
pierced the Redeemer's side. and for ink
iae poison ofserpents and scorpions But
this home suffering was intensely real. !
~agt to add one sentiment before close
There sre upon the pension rolls OF this
country the names Of more than three hun
dred thousand women, mothers aad wives
Of those Who laid down their lives
thas the best government ever
yet devised by mortal man might
survive. They Suffered; they gave
up all that their country might live. and
yet we are told that our pension system 10
system Of robbery. I know that Bryce.
in his American Commonwealth" says
hat the pension system Of this country 10
initiate waste, and know that the leading
psper Of one Of the leading parties pub
lished only little while sgo Al editorial to
the eject thu, the pension system vas
robbery. | say that j. c1mas with exceed
ing IL grace from 4 foreigner who has
come here sincs the war and has got i'm.
menselv rich in enjoying the institutions
for which the army fought, to De bowling
nov about the pension list. We ike 10
have foreigners come over here IL they will
behave themselves, because this is the land
Of the free and the home Of the brave, but
when they howl. IS they do. like . dog with
q sore head, about the pensions. then l
Cont van: any part Of them. Now you
will excuse me comrades. have not said
very much about the women in the war,
because time Ard words would utterly fail
to do that. Let me say in the language Of
the chief magistrate Of the United States
as he spoke at Bennington the
other day; at required lie. cour-
age with barred breasts to march
-. {, o.,
the woman alone at home to wait long for
the return Of him who would never come"
SO i. took more courage for you women,
mothers and wives TO wait tearfully and
prsyerfully, at home, while your husband
ard sons were at the front, than it did for
US to face the Rebel bullets. Applause.
Addrsss by Gen. Joshua L. Chamber
lsin.
MAINE in the War" Yes, most peace
loving Of the states, IL anywhere q gres'
cause 10 imperiled TO which her faith is
vsdded and to which her heart belongs; II
in any place or time . fight must be made
for right, for law, aud for freedom under
and through it, for living and life-giving
ideas put at he I .rd or treated with insult,
Maine is In the var! Understand that, ali
shallow and hss.y tempers, who fancy tina
only brsggarts and builies know how 10
Northumberland that it is prec ssly the
peace loving and slow 10 wrath, the tenn.
perate and self controlling, who when the,
rake up the gage Of battle DO not lay il
down ill the right has wOn-loath to 80 in,
but last to come out.
Maine had no quarrel with nybody. She
was tiling her fields, cuiling her forests,
training her waters, busyiDg her shores,
rsdisting her ships out upon every ocean,
weaving fabrics, working her material and
her skill and strength into goods for the
good OF men, making good laws and obey
ing them, building schoolhouses and
churches and using them raising men and
women to bless the world with their iniu-
ence and energy.
What was the provocation, or the high
behe.t that called from these things to
war?
What interests OF hers were touched,
what wroog had been wrought or threatened
against her. that she was instinetively i'm
PEELED and felt herself profo andy JUSTIFIED,
TO turn her strength suddenly into strange,
strenuous and unfsl'ering activity?
There were certain issues which lay deep
smong the motives and reasons for that
ActlODt Anu WnlCn uust mise peiote ZIG
thoughtful mind on an occasion like this,
where we meet to touch hands and hearts
after so years Of forgetting the old suffer
ings aud gratefully cherishing the never
dying glories--}O years Of theke ning sod
above the forms once gloritied by 10000
desthless spirits-30 years Of manly liviog
after msnhood's supreme test-30 years
since the gun fred on Sumpter, sighted by
ltta 10 laft nd il
sever the Union, was made in Gods over
ruling Providence the signal Of the demon
stration of its indissoluble unity, and
dvineiy appointed destiny.
What was the war about, and what was
Names concern in I2 Do not fear long
d,quisitions from me on this subject in
such presence as this.
You have before you your own chosen
representatives, to whom 1t more properly
falls to discuss matters Of government and
great public questions. But we can not too
often remind ourselves of the grounds
which justified US in taking up that issue,
or too deeply inculcste upon those who are
to come after US. the Importance Of those
principles held worthy Of so costly vindi-
cation.
We in this country constitute one people.
should say. perhaps. one people coust-
,ute our country. This truth now estab-
lished by Sour vslor and devotion. and
scquiesced in at last through the length ard
breadth Of the land. is distinctly recognized
in the constitution. II was emphAtieslly
announced in the Declaration Of Independ
enee.
Il can be clearly recognized in the guii
ing thought and goal of purpose, in the
providentisl orderiugs of history. Those
who could not see this truth have made
great mistake, Denying it they have com
mi,tsd grievous wrong. which it has c9st
uncounted toll and treasure and blood and
tears to atone for. At the same time this
union Of ours is made up Of states. 1t is
the people Of the states united which make
this union, as they made the constitution,
and the declaration Of national existence.
1t is 4 token of almost superhuman wis
dom on the part Of our fathers thst 10
framing our system Of government, they
should have recognized historic facts. and
respected local hsbitudes and interests. and
preserved to such s remar kable degree the
then existing self government Of the colo
nies-the principle 80 deeply aud widely in
wrought into the thought of their people
tina, Of local self government. Hence We
have the United States OF America. the
people Of the states united, forming the
government Of the United States. Without
the states there could be no union; but we
might say. with equal truth, without the
union there would be no states. III her
ana Thing ~ tho ofhay uust hannah then