Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-06-05

fatherly guidance, what struggle life
has been to the most of usl But what of
the children, two and five and ten years
of age, who stood at their mothers lap
with great, round, wondering eyes, hear
ing her read of those who persisted in the
Battle of the Wilderness, their fathers gone
down among the dead hostp Come, young
men and women, who by such disaster
have had to make your own way In life,
and will put the garland on your young
and unwrnklcd brow. Yes; you have
had your own Malvern Hill, and your own
South Mountain, and your own Gettys-
burg all along these twenty years Comel
And, If | cannot spare whole garland
for your brow, | will twist in your locks
at least two flowers, one crimson and one
white, the crimson for the struggle of your
life, which has almost amounted to car
mage, and the white for the victory you
have gained.
FOR LIVING SOLDIERS.
Before put the two garlands ! am twist
ing upon the northern and southern tombs,
] detain the garlands little while that
may put them upon the brow of the living
soldiers and sailors of the north and south,
who, though ut variance for a long while,
are now at peace and in hearty loyalty to
the United States government, and ready,
against any foreign foe The twcnty-six
winters that have passed since the war
think, have sufficiently cooled the hatreds
that once burned nOrthward and south
ward to allow the remark that they who
fought il that conflict were honest on both
sides. The Chaplains on both armies were
honest in their prayers. The faces that
went into battle, whether they marched
coward the Gulf of Mexico or marched tow
ard the north STAR were honest faces.
1t is too much to ask either side to be
lcve that those who came out from their
bones, forsalling father and mother and
wife and child, many Of them never to re-
luIn, We're not in earnest when they put
their life into awful exgency. Witness
the last scene ut family prayers up among
the Green mountains or down by the fields
Of cotton and sugar cane Men do not sac
riGce their all for fun. Men do not eat
mo.dy bread or go without bread at all for
fun Men do not sleep unsheltered in equi-
noctlal storms for fun. There were some,
no doubt, on both sides who enlisted for
soldiers pay, or expecting opportunity for
violence and pillaEc, or burning with re-
VtnEe and thirst for human blood. but
such cases We're so rare many of you who
were in the war four years never confront
ed such an instance of dapravity
As chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment,
and as a representative OF the United States
Christian commission, was for a while at
uhe front, and IN those hospitals at HagerS
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northern man 1yiu, fgr from home would
send TO hi. wife and mother and child
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field of Aut.e,.lnl tbe fri .lluel,t of a letter
which have somewhere vet for the name
and The address, were torn of. saw it q-as
fine word, of a wife 10 her husband telling
him how the little cnild pruyed for their
father every ui.,ht that he might not Get
burt i'm the battIe and might come home
sound and come home well. but that if
, ANYTHING baupened to them they might
nil meet araiu In the world where there
are no partjpr.. it read lust as a northern
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homo and I'm neru conveying the mes
sares of little children. Oh, yes, they
wore honest ON borh sides And those who
; Hved tn get home and are living vet were
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