New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-06-01

and despair were daily driving rebel sol
diers by thousands within the Union
lines and they could no longer hold their
armies together. Save for personal cour-
age, no praise is due to rebels or their
cause. A more causeless war was never
waged since Satan led his cohorts against
| the throne of Godas described by Milton.
The pretented cause was tbs election, in
a legal and constitutional manner, OF the
noblest man who ever occupied the pres
idential chair for president, a man who
gave them the most solemn assurance
that every one of their legal and consti-
tutional rights should be protected.
The real cause was their love for per-
sonal aggrandizment, and the perpetua-
ton and extension of the most damnable
institution that ever had it's origin OUT
side of the boundaries of the internal
regions. The war was commenced, not
merely by robbing the treasury and seiz-
ing the mint of the United States, but
by bombarding an isolated fort guarded
by little band of almost unarmed and
unprovisioned men in the performance
of their sworn duty. Throughout the
war it was conducted by the Rebels with
savagery almost unknown in modern
warfare; colored soldiers were slaugh-
tered in their trenches after they had
surrendered, and their fallen officers
were buried with them and when their
bodies were asked for under a flag of
truce in accordance with military custom
the answer was returned: We have buried
them with them .sniggers"; Union men
were not permitted to clothe or feed
their companions who had been taken as
prisoners of war, but they were allowed
to die by thousands from hunger and di-
sease in their filthy prisons and their dust
today rests in unknown graves in the
Southern land.
The result of the war was total fail
ure Of every object that the South fought
for. They submitted Internationally to
obedience to every law against which
they had rebelled; the personal agrandiz-
ment to which the leaders aspired was
never realized and few who participated
in the Rebellion have since held public
positions under the general government;
and when the smoke of battle had rolled
away not a slave was to be found in all
the land, but the hateful institution that
had cost so much blood and treasure
and had been a national disgrace from
our earliest history, was banished from
the land forever.
We can strew flowers upon the graves
of the dead who wore the gray and say
ssrest in peace;'' we can welcome the liv-
ing to equal protection and equal free
dom under our laws, but no gratitude or
fond recollections are due to either.
No greater laurels were ever won by
mortal man in war than were won by
the Union Soldier in thatterrible conflict.
He entered the conflict, not for personal
agrandizment nor to perpetuate any in
stitution for personal gain, but at the
command of his country and for his
country's salvation, The story of his
bravery is written in the history Of every
battle from Fort Sumter to Appamatox.
He achieved everything for which the
war was waged, and more, for the extinc-
ton of slavery was not one of the objects
of the war in its inception. He asked
no sacrifice of blood to seal his victory,
but said to the yanquished foe ego to
your home and obey the law" The
monument of his victory isnot the sculp-
tured marble standing upon battlefield
or cemetery, but our glorious, undivided
country of universal freedom, extending
from ocean to ocean and from the lakes
to the Gulf, shall perpetuate his memory
forever. We strew flowers and she'd tears
of gratitude upon the graves Of the dead
With every circling year we renew our
gratitude and veneration to the living
and we hope the day is not far distant
when every gray haired veteran who car
ried a musket, blew a fife or beata drum
beneath the stars and stripes in that ter
rible conflict and was honorably dis
charged shall be the recipient of the ma
tons bounty to cheer his declining years.
When he had finished the. children
again sang taking the starspangled Ban
ner for their strain,an Mr.. Scherer then
stepped forwarded and spoke in German
in substance as follows: Is
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