Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-30

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WHAT THE BANNER sfMboLHEs'
Our theme, then, Is the banner and what IL
symbolizes. There ia n mystical symbolism in
the combination of the colors of which il ia
made. See from whose hands il has come. The
Rutleilges the pinknavs the Jaws the Frank
hns. the Hamiltons- the Jeffersons, the Adamses:
ali worked AT the loom. and our flag. with ali
its beauty of stripe and color is the work of the
giants 10 svmboIize the birth of liberty and the
everlastingness of the principle of freedom.
When they wanted a color that would show the
vitality of the nation. they took the symbol of
life and woye in red stripe, for 1t is the blood
that giveth life. When they wanted something
that would show forth the glory and virtue Of
our women. thew sought il not amid the low
plains of earth, but from the mountain tops,
crowned with perpetual snow, above the air
that tants and the dust that soils, they took the
white and wove it in by the side of the blood
stripe as the symbol of our women's purity and
glory. Then for the field. Our iagmakers
went not to the earth after the green of the
fields, for this withers and fades; not to the an
imal for lion and unicorn, for these die and
perish away; not to the clouds for these are for
a day. but they went above the clouds and
brought the deep blue of the sky and wove it
into the flag a symbol of the unchangeable-
ness Of our lives and institutions,
n,
and they searched the day and found no symbol
of their union: but when the darkness of night
came on and the everlasting stars that sang to-
gether in the morning of creation came out they
took the eternal stars and wove them into the field
OF blue and flung it to the breeze-"Gods flag
for there Is nothing of earth in its colors. The
ma making OF the nag was put the reutterance OF
49, oa' an IN ssnhooicai a.ns inou mast
be displayed because of the trutb "'
If you ask me the meaning of our flag say
1t means just what Concord and Lexington
meant-what Bunker Hill meant. 1t means the
whole glorious revolutionary war.
1t means all that the Declaration Of hide
pendence meant. 1t means all that our Con-
stltutlon OF our people, organizing for justice,
for liberty and for happiness. meant. 1t means
the establishment of the most momentous doc
trlne that the world has ever known-the right
of men to own themselves and their liberties.
Our nag carries American ideas, American
history and American feeling Beginning with
the colonies and coming down to our time. in
Its glorious folds 1t has gathered and stored the
heritage of the past. Among the richest of all
Its legacies is the supreme idea, ''the divine
right of liberty on man" Every color means
liberty; every thread means liberty; every form
of star or stripe of light means liberty-not
lawlessness, not license, but organized, constitu-
tional liberty; liberty through law and law
through liberty
flag was the safeguard of liberty. Not an atom
of crown was allowed to go into the insignia
Not symbol of authority in the ruler was per-
mitted to go into it. 1t was an ordinance Of
liberty, by the people. for the people That it
meant, that it means, and by the blessing of
God that it shall mean to the end Of time.
THE MEANING or THE r,a
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VIC n"S n1e"n' an 'ni' ~ ~. anu MUCH
more, ior its ioios nave oeen colored anew with
the blood Of our fathers and sons. 1t is fitting
that we should pause in the hurried march of
life in this sacred place for a moment ere we
cross the threshold of another memorial day
and consider what the banner means to us.
First of all il means the triumph of truth
over error; of liberty over despotism
Previous to 1861 there were two elements /, n
tagonistic to each other at work in this country
In one and the same wear. 1870 Enolisb aims
landed Puritans in New ENGLAND and NEGRO
slaves in Virginia. Thus two systems started to
grow up together-Puritan liberty and Roman
servitude. For be il remembered that Ameri
can slavery was not Hebrew slavery. but Roman
slavery. The same government nonrished both
elements Our Constitution nonrisbed tuins
il carried Africa on its left and Anplo-Saxon on
its right bosom and these two drsx;no Mill
from the same bosom waxad strono "a a.,
and bv like twins of old the vonnaer sonoht
10 sunnlant the Older Tho sirngele was e.
tween desnotism in the south and i;Ssrtv IN tho
north On a thousand battlet;elds thssa 90.
tending forces met Tba No., 90 H. 81 ~,