St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-31

| and with its rows of white headstones, will
soon resemble the tented field. Grandef and
the years roll by, it VIII become the spot
where future generations will pause with
| reverential interest.
Each year is adding to the roll of those who
have received their final discharge and above
whose silent forms their comrades pend to
lay the chaplets of affection
In 1880 the number of soldiers graves In
this city were as follows: In Oakland, 155;
|. Calvary. &c; New Lutheran, 4; Old Lutheran,
Z. Total. 232
In 1879, in Oakland, 173; Calvary, 80; New
III 1891, in Oakland, 1877; Calvary So; New
Lutheran, 13: Old Lutheran. z. Total, 292.
These suggestive figures furnish their own
commentary. | am indebted for these Stats
tics to your comrade, Maj. Charles j. Stees,
10 whose warm interest and constant effort
is largely due the progress which has been
made III marking with headstones the last
resting places of your fallen comrades. In
spite of delays and discouragements. he has
persisted in his good work, and ne deserves
the gratitude of his comrades and every
loyal citizen.
There is another circle to whom this day
Is also peculiarly Impressive Not all the
heroes lie in hallowed graves or march in
proud procession III your ranks. None but
the all seeing eye can number those, whose
names appear upon no master roll, and who
bear no outward token of their sacritice
The Spartan mother has lived in every age.
and woman's heroic for;itude has matched
the valor of the martial field. The mighty
Harvest CT Death,
whose garnered sheaves we Irvine with gar
lands, has brought to many darkened home
and blighted heart burden that will be laid
down only with life; and to all such these
ceremonies bring tender memories of the
past From the long vista of the
years there rise beloved, familiar
forms of those whose voices were sweet
music to the ears that long, in dreams, have
strained to catch their cadence once again:
whose footsteps came and went on gracious
errands, and whose strong arms were towers
of refuge in distress.
To every lover of his country this day and
the thoughts which il suggests are of supreme
importance.
1t was wise man who said: "Let me make
q nations ballads. and | care not who makes
its laws 1t is not less true that, if people
have high and inspiring traditions. they may
be trusted to make wise and benefcent laws,
and If this nation is TO progress to that high
destiny of which its past career gives promise,
its citizens must join in patriotic consecra-
ton to foster and perpetuate a spirit of
reverence for the institutions under which
its proud position mas been reached.
We are soon to celebrate the fourth centen-
NAL OF that suspicious day when, from the
painless waters there broke upon the wait
ing vision of the GenoSe mariner the shores
of new world. AS we contrast that day
with this, how all the crowdng centuries of
early colOnists, who braved the nardships of
pioneer life among savage foes to found a
community where civil and religious
liberty might flourish unGisturbed, and
whose short and simple compact of
mutual support and obedience to self
i'm posed laws framed in the cabin of
the Mayfower. was the fountain head of that
mighty stream, between whose widening
banks the bark of human freedom has safely
foated to this day. If, with prophetic sense,
tlev COnl0 have and heard n
see and hear, those dreary headlandS had
been rBdiaht with the dawn of new civil
lzation and vocal with the blessings of man
kind.
The century of our national life which has
recently closed testifies to the
Wisdom and Patriotism
of the founders of the republic. 1t is favor
lie conceit that, because the age in which we
live has witnessed such marvellous progress
in science and the material arts, we are as
far advanced in political wisdom beyond our
fathers; but, wonderful as has been our de-
velopment in wealth, prosperity and general
intelligence, The candid student of history
must admit that no age, prior or subsequent,
has produced such alaXy Of wise, patriotic
and incorruptible statesmen as those who
names of Washington, Franklin Hamilton,
Jefferson, Madison, Adams and Jay will for
ever shine in the annals of human liberty.
not alone because of the historic halo which
count of the surprising wisdom. integrity
and patriotism which they displayed.
They were not, indeed, the authors Iof
human liberty nor the inventors of social
and political science; but, with marvellous
prescience they read the pages of the future
and foresaw alike the triumphs and trials of
the years to come. Scarcely a problem has
confronted our social and political life which
they did not consider, and the fact remains
tnat notwithstanding its admitted defects
and despite the criticism of the iconoclasts
who declare that 1t was ''eXtorted from the
grinding necessities of reluctant people,
the constitution which they gave to the new
nation remains to-day, sanctioned ana
lllumed by the decisions of Chief Justice
Marshall, and modified as time and circum-
stance have required, the highest embodi-
ment of human wisdom and the chief bull
Wark of human liberty.
With due allowance for the advantages
which new country, rich in natural re-
sources, affords TO an enterprising people,
the unparalleled progress Of the nation, i'll
moral, social and intellectual prosperity and
its advance from population in 1870, of less
than 100000, and federal revenue of
Sl,500,000. to a population of 100000 and
revenue of S463, COO, 600 in 1899, prove that the
instrument by which its
Rights and Liberties
are secured is worthy of the admiration and
reverence of mankind.
That the expanding wants of civilization
and the economic chanse s which have fol-
lowed the industrial development of the age
may require further amendment of the fun
damental law is probable, but the hands that
essay that mighty task should be inspired by
patriotism and guided by wisdom and ex-
perience. In these days of unrest and pop-
ular agitation. when the tyro and the dema-
gogue, eager TO lead q crusade against the
conservative forces of society, approach with
unhallowed steps that sacred oracle of lib
erty, there should go forth from this presence
the warming cry of the ancient sibvl. 'Procul.
o procul este, prOfanin's
But there came time of peril to the con-
Stitution, the Union and the cause of human
liberty. The reluctant concession to human
slavery, which formed the one dark page of
that illustrlous instrument. was the germ of
dissolution. Not satisfied with the protec-
ton SO unjustly afforded them, its advocates
with brazen audacity. assumed to rule the
mind and conscience of the land Listen to
these words from one of the leading journals
or that day: ANY man who does not love
slavery tor Its own sake as a divine institu-
stone of civil liberty; who does not adore it
as the only possible social condition on
which a permanent republican government
can be erected: and who does not in his in
most SOUL desire it extended and perpetu-
ated over the whole earth as a means of
human reformation second in dignity, i'm
portance and SacrednesS alone to the Chris
tan religion; he who does not love African
slavery with this love is an Abolitionistn
This was the message of the civilization of
jamestown to that of Plymouth Rock.
1t had long been believed by those who
urged secession that the people. of the
North would make but feeble resistance to
the step. The
Supine Submission
OF many of her public men of both parties
to repeated aggressions of the slave power,
ho6 nd l., i