The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-02
,elf sacrifice of those who left all that was

dear to them to go to the field of battle All
was to make America free, as no other coun-
try is free. The living were called on to teach
their boys and girls why it was that on the
30th of May the graves were strewn with
flowers and memorial services for the dead
were observed throughout the land. The
young must be taught that these men died for
love of country and freedom, He could not
understand howIsome men were heard to give
| expression to grudges that the pensions In
certain cases were too large, The value of
the services of every soldier OF the civil war
could not be measured in dollars and cents.
How much would any one there take to go
outside this building and let man fire away
at him with a Winchester rifle for half an
hour? Money could not produce such vol
unteer. yet that is what our soldiers did, and
| did it for $l3 month. For the old soldier
there was nothing too good as long as he
lived, and nothing too good could be said
about him after he was dead.
| 1t was q grand act to go and lay flowers on
! the graves of the dead, but it was Il rrandCF
! act +, take 10y the hHi,d those Still left, HnI
! show thrIl that 4 warm heart beats for all
) ~. >nr>irc. \ higher debt 5 due 70 ihcn
/ tina" the ,i,bt nnu can pay them after they
are dead. The Younger generation cannot
grasp fully what it cost those boys to go away
| to face the enemy 80 years ago. Nor can 1t
grasp what it cost those from whom they
were severed. He knew of one instadce where
from a certain village there was two 1un-
| teers. The wives, the sisters and the sweet.
hearts watched their departure. minister
was seen emerging from the crowd and in a
| few hurried words under the shade of a tree
he tied the marriage knot betwee n a nand-
| some young man, the son of ia rmer, and a
healthy village maiden. He kissed her and
| fellin. In his first battle the young soldier
was shot and soon after the bereaved wife
| died of a broken heart. Over many such
| graves as this could be written the epitaph,
Here hes one who died of a broken heart by
| giving her best beloved to serve her country
And scarcely one man came back but had
| got into his system the seeds of disease that
wrecked his after life. Carefully gathered
statistics showed that the majority of those
| who came out of the war seemingly strong,
but were since dead, had died of heart dis
| ease. The nervous strains of those days
| broke the golden cord. 1t was not the noise
and rush Of battle that did it, but when all
was quiet and the order came. "Close the right,
| forward, steady and this was followed by
the tramp of marching men. nearer and ever
nearer to the rampant of death. That was
the time when the nerves were strained and
the seeds of death were sown. Though a man
should have a ruddy cheek, do not say the
| man came out as well as he went in. No man
did that.
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a man who is victim of intemperance?
| Speak charitably about him Only those who
were engaged in that war know what missions
there were to be rendered to cause men to
contract that habit. Many time companies
of men were doomed to live for days'o on the
| most pitiable kind of food and some time for
| days on no food at all. If habits which were
| then formed still appear, consider the cir
cumstances that led to the formation of them
and speak kindly about the victim, for it is a
| privilege to be kind to an old soldier whatever
| his failings may be.
| This much has been said of the past, but
what of the future? These men died and
these women suffered, but they have not died
| and suffered in vain. This blood has not been
| shed for nothing. The objects for which they
| died were worth all the cost. Liberty has at
| tanned a new meaning since that war, and as
| the years revOlve, its meaning is being writ
ten more indelibly in the nations history
| Catching up the spirit of freedom from the
| bravery of those who gave their lives for it
the young men and young women of to-day, if
| the nations flag were in danger would rise as
soon and as rapidly as those who rose in 1861.
| Thus the deeds of the past generation are
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now is The road out of barbarsm and ig-
norancc is ever onward and upward. We are
frecr to day, more patriotic, and more en-
lghtened than we were 80 years ago, and that
has been brought about in great measure by
| the events of the war which are being held in
memory to-day. These men laid down their
lives TO make us free; let us be true to every
principle for which they suffered and died.
Miss Dixie Smith, daughter of the speaker
then rccited The Charge of the First Mime
sofa ut Gettysburg" Miss Smith is Il cultured
and artistic reciter, and invited the prolonged
applause which followed the recitation. She
gave after, "Phil Kearney at Seven Pines,
which on the whole, told better than the first
recitation. 1t had the meritof being shorter
which enabled the lady to do it better justice
The choir once more sang. the band followed
and the blessing pronounced by Rev. J. Sin
clair, ended Il most Interesting, enthusiastic
and profitable meeting. AS the audience re
tired the band was fouLd playing within tn,
court house railing. large number of PEG
pie waited until they were done and list once
appreciatively to the music.
The new building on Bird st. nov
, being put up by King Bros. for offic'
and implement warehouse will beth,
most complete of its kind in the Co
Who is going to get that large
l handsome crayon portrait free TIL
month at Reynolds & Keene's?
, Come and see us in our new quar-
t ters on 3rd st. KING Bros.
, Take your bicycle and have you
photos made at Reynolds ant
Keene's. 1w'k.
Tomato plants, 8 cents per dozel
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