The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-16

uated purely by love of country and
the right, he accomplished his purpose,
then laid down his arms,-glad to 60
home to his work of peace.
Who was the Union soldier Second:
He was the common soldier. While off
GERS of the United States army, educated
] at the expense Of the government, were
fastening to the support of the rebellion,
while Robert E. Lee, disloyal to his
country was walking in his halls at Ar
| lington Heights-in those halls wherein
hung the sword Of Washlngton-that
sword given with the solemn injunction
that it never be used except in defense of
| his Countrywide common soldier in the
| far southwest through swamps and des-
erts and rebel prisons, was Fastening to
join the Union volunteers. Such was the
| soldier Of the Union.
What did he do? What died he for
that we hold his memory dear First,
that this Union might be preserved lone
and inseparable.' 2 Secondly, that no.
where IN this land should man be held by
man a chattel. Many of our soldiers may
not have had an adherence for slavery,
but all by their death made its abolition
possible That was the grandest eman-
cipation the world has ever seen. Then
the gates we're opened to hope and aspira-
ton for one-eighth Of our population.
Then the example was set which Cuba
and Brazil have followed, and which soon
will be followed throughout the wide
earth
What did he do? Third: He added a
vital idea to the nation which it had new
er before knoWn-the idea and sentiment
of nationaIism. The Union is more
closely cemented to-day than ever before,
and even war literature Written by men
on both sides of the conflict is instinct
with the sympathy which reioices in a
common history and common country.
To-day this feeling Of nationalism is TAX
ing strong hold upon those who once felt
persuaded they had no attachment for
the Union. Let us breathe no word that
may endanger this amity.
The confederate soldiers were brave
but misguided and erring men. They
did not know that they were sowing seed
whose harvest even they would shrink
from reaping They could not see that
success would be their certain ruin.
They were misled by leaders who could
not see the nations destiny, by the sense
of imaginary wrongs, by INSCRIPTIONS
men who did not fairly represent the
thought and purpose of the loyal North.
They are not entitled to be honored, for
they fought in an unhonorable cause.
They fought for disruption and inhuman
ity. Yet, patriotism and liberality go
hand in hand, and
"The nations magnanimity
Is greater than her wrong
The bravest are the most generous, and
so it is to-day, both north and south, the
soldiers graves on both sides will be
decked with fiowers-the Blue and the
Gray by the Gray and the Blue.
What did he do Fourth: He broad
ened and refined the sentiment Of patriot
ISM The love Of country which suffered
at Valley Forge and Morristown was pure
and intense, yet it reached only from the
Atlantic to the crest Of the Alleghanies.
Florida and Louisiana were an enemy
country Before the civil war the state
line marked the limit of the southerner S
patriotism. His allegiance was to the
material acres which made up his state.
For SO many square miles Of territory and
no more, was he bound to take up arms
and, if need be- die. A broader patriot
ism now includes all of our Countrywide
entire forty-four states-from the Florida
keys to the Canadian line. Hereafter,
patriotism shall tend to be still more
broadly interpreted, more broadly than
the Germans ''Where'er is heard the
German tongue" more widely than to
English speaking nations, "-even as
widely as to the Fatherhood Of God and
the Brotherhood of Man. Not to mate
rial acres and square miles, not to noun
tain and valley, not to lake and river
shall allegiance be due, but to humanity.
Patriotism shall recognize less and less
the walls of mountains. frontiers of ma
tions and degrees of latitude and longi-
tude. It's loyalty shall be to principle
and not to place: and this, in very true
sense, qcdS the patriotism which inspired
our Union dead. For the u72irersal prin
ciples of right and humanity they died,
and to die for humanity is not only hero
like 1t is more. 1t is Christ-liSe. This
patriotism, then, this patriotism whose
chief ingredient is philanthropy and chief
end the good of the ce.-this patriotism
which stands for humanity, this patriot
ism unclaimed the negro, and it would al
so close the doors Of Janus and bury the
monster War forever
Fifth; This war, in its justice, sane
toned by the approval of all nations, was
in still wider sense conflict devoted to
the uplifting of mankind. This war,
whatever It's apparent results ana lnnu-
ences, has done more than any other like
conflict to seal that devoutly to be wished
for consummatlon-the Universal Peace,
when The sword shall be beaten into
plough-share and the spear into a prun-
ing hook, till nation shall not rise up
against nation. neither shall they learn
war any more. This war has contrib
uted more than any other to bring in the
time-no Elysian dream, no Utopian fan
cy, but reality in the evolution Of man
the era Of arbitration, when
The war drum throbs no longer and the battle
flags are furled
In the parliament Of man. the federation of the
world"
When
'The common sense of most shall hold fretful
realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, left in univer
sal law
The war was to the south and to the
north alike stern schoolmaster, and it
taught both many valuable lessons.
! There is little doubt but that the civil
war might have been spared this nation
| had the questions which engendered it