The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

no right save his own to do as he pIeases
Away With such doctrine. Tho red flag of
the Socialist is not the flag Of this country.
Let us all of every class and condition
listen to the voices of these noble warriors
who were the true champions Of liberty.
No one owns us but God. He alone is our
Master: To maintain this principle; our
soil has twice been dyed with the blood of
Americas loyal sons. American liberty
means free liberty in tHs church; the state,
the workshop, the factory and the rnine.
Ny honored friends, if the Grand Army
of the Republi, with it's 30O 600 men would
march shoulder to shoulder against all evil,
all impurity, all wrong, it alone could win
this country for perfect liberty and right
| eousness. A post of this Grand Army sits
before me. greet you in the name of the
eternal God and the undying interests of a
redeemed republic. welcome you with no
empty words of fulsome praise. count
your roster less and less with each returning
year. Few, the numbers left, tenting on
the camp-ground of time. Many are the
| comrades gone to join the regiments OF
Heaven. But enough still remain to strive
and battle against the forces of sin which
threaten to destroy home and native land
| Shall bid you comrades look upon our
glorious flag Oh, No. need not do this.
You have l5oked upon it in days of dark
ness and distress as well as in days of bright.
ness and victory. You have followed it in
the carnage of battle, the quick step of
triumph, and the slow march of the burial
No, need not in such an hour as this, when
your hearts are all astir with the memories
of the past, and filed with inspirations of
the futdte, bid you look upon that dear old
flag.
Those scarlet stripes do hot represent the
stripes of the slain but The Blood of our
heroes who redeemed them. To-day they
speak to US, saying ''Keep the freedom
which we won you long ago, preserve in
violate the christian institutions for which
we gave our lives. Yes. Oh, yes. Keep
that banner unsullied. Let no anarchist
tfample it's true freedom under foot Suffer
not the unnaturalized Socialist to spit on it.
Forbid that any foul libertine claim it's pro.
lection. Rather shelter beneath its starry
brightness your wives and sisters and
daughters and homes.
When Napoleon drew tp his troops be.
fore the Mamelukes, under the shadow of
the Pyrariids, pointing to them, he said to
his soldiers Remember that from yonder
heights, forty centuries look down on you. "
Men of this generation to-day, from the
pyramid top of opportunity on which God
has set us, we look down on forty centuries.
We stretch our hand into the future with
power to mould the destinies of unborn
millions. We of this generation and nation
ocupy the Gibralta of the ages. There is a
mighty future emerging upon us. The
voices of the departed call US to arms
Sound the battle-cry. Our country's future
and much of the worlds future depend on
the way in which Christian soldiers meet
, the crisis. ''Do you say trust in God and
: have no fear. If God intends to save this
country he will do it." But, dear friends
there is false as well as true faith; the one
h Inspires action: the other paralyses it. God
saved the nation during the war of the
. Rebellion, but it was not by false faith
which, with folded arms reAersed its con
which inspired sacrifice. 1t is always SAFE
to ''trust IN God and keep your powde
. dry. When the drum beat the nations t.
3 battle no sacrifice was too great. Chris
= tian mother had sent. seven sons Tito tn
J. army. Near the close Of the war; tn
q eighth and only remaining son said to hi
" mother, "What would you do if one of tn
l. boys should fall in the struggle!' Turnini
y her deep eyes upon him she said, ''f5od ha
e given me nine noble sons; one he has takel
y to Himself; seven are in the army and
want you to understand my son, that T hol
d you ss q reservs for our csuntry's defense
y If one of the boys fall, go quickly and fl
q his place." Women of the Relief Corps
III Such were some of the sacrifices your sis
"a ters bore in that sorrowful struggle: We
ar do remember the partlngs and the Meet
II ings of those war days. Never shall for
get the tender love and heoric hearts
er wives, mothers, sisters, sweet-hearts An
he daughters of those homes If there wer
le times that tried mems souls, more trul
were there times that tried womens hearts
to Such sacrifices have not yet been writer
Je The women that went down to tie frer
Ut and bound up CHASTITY wounds and bathe
fevered Brows and whispered pleadin
nj prayers in the ears Of the fainting and dy
to ing, are among the imtmortafs. May ii
W benelictions of heaven ever rest upon tt
ur Relief Corps and their unselfsh Christ
n. work.