The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31
MEMORIAL ADDRESS.
Continued from Page Four.


The raInparts of the enemy over battle
field stlsewn with the dead and dying sol
diers, v our comrades discussing in thei
own minds the fearful costs of the victory
won, as you have They never shared
with you the same blanket and bed. They
never div ided with you the last hard tack
They never drank with you from the same
canteen: they never shivered with yoU
around tn same camp fire; they never
starved with you in Anderson and Belle
Isle@they never buried their dead com
rades by the thousands; they never succor
ed the sick and wounded as you have
they never suffered with you in any OF the
sorrows and hardships of q soldiers life:
they never left wife and children to serve
the country q che hour of its need; they
can never knowrof the love that binds the
old soldiers TO each other: they do not
know what the Grand Army was organ
lied for, they cannot comprehend why its
name is sacred to all loyal people. These
men who thus talk and act
are the cold cruel, calous. units
ofsociety, that some inscrutable providence
for its own purpose has temporarily
raised from thetdregs OF life to the surface
of politics. We can forget the insults of
nen who had the courage TO fight for their
convictions, wrong though we believe
them to have been, they were reared un-
der different influences and social sur
Ionndings, that were calculated and wh ich
did give the bend of their minds the very
opposite tendency of yours. | often Won
der if uudeP the same circumstances and
influences, it Is not possible that we would
lave done what they did. But what shall
lie saidfof them, who, forgetful of their
birthplace, the sacrifices made by their
ueigbbors' and friends, your fathers, sons.
brothers, comrades, thsst this nation might
We, who will insult you now that the
Gsnger is past, care not bow exalted
heir station in life may be, what position
Ihey now hold, to what political party
they may have allied themselves, such
men are traitors to you and to yours, they
are infamous, they ought to be driven by
the Indignant lash of public opinion from
lace and power forever. They are IN
" orthy of the age in which they live, of
tie blessings which they enjoy through
Your sacrifices. They never miss an op-
D lrtunity to c0vertly stab your comrades
in the back If 1t is not a pension bill it
will be something else With a govern
ment, the magnitude of whose undertake
IL gs exceed more than a Thousand millions
annually, the aggregate wealth of whose
ii !Zens is beyond the computations of
N IN, these human tarantulaS in the con-
,ress of the United Stabes, men who grow
el IN the very dust OF the earth, when they
Want your votes, Shametully re-
IL ed an insignificant apprOpri-
alton with which 10 build the
superstructure in one of the parks AT
Washington City, upon which his com
rates proposed TO place statute of Gen
erli Sherman. These scorpions in politics
In their very hearts hate you, as they
hated him This Is not the first time these
grave yhrd decorators have soSght to be-
little his great services to our country, but
be needs no marble or bronze TO com
me nCrate his great name, with his sword
hc wrote for himself "A name and fame that
wiz last forever, and all Che waters of hate
itnd hell cannot wash il out, as was said in
his behalf at another time so still 1t must
be eaid:
"Back to your kennels it's no time,
70 snarl upon him now,
1e cannot tear the blood-earned bays,
hrom OFF his regal brow.
Along old Mississippi's stream,
We saw his banner fly;
We followed where from Georgia's peaks,
1t Tapped against the sky.
And forward vain her trackless swamps. |
Her wilderness of pines,
he saw the sun rise from the sea,
flash on his serried lines.
Back to your kennels! tits TO late,
10 Sully Sherman's name;
To Us il Is the synonym,
OF vaIor, worth and fame.
A hundred fights, a thousand miles,
OF glory, blood and pain,
From our dear valley Of the west,
To CarOlln2'S plain,
Are his and ours; and peace Of war,
Let his old pennon reel,
And ten times ten thousand men,
VIII thunder at his heel"
Now for these sentiments somebody will /
charge me with attempting Il political |
speech on this occasion. Nothing could be |
furt her from my aim. If the statement of |
n fact cannot be tortured into such that is |
not my fault. / am mindful of the Fact |
|, ~.
great political parties of this county, Dem |
ocrats and Republicans. l remember that |
members of both parties engaged m that |
War. Who can ever FORGET the services of !
Hancock, Slocum, Black, Blair, Corse and |
thousands of other equally patriotic men,
all Democrats, OF Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
dan, Logan, Meade, Burnside, Howard |
aud Others no less patriotic, all Republ-
cans? Who can forget Joseph +. Johnson,
| haS great Confederate leader, who hurled
Mcclellan from Richmond's front in that
terrible seven days fight? lie was Dem
ocrIr. Or that other soldier of Virginia,
" Ham Malone, who with his Confed-
era veterans drove Burnside from
Nuryes Height at Frederick sburg? Or
that other great chieftian, James Long
street of Georgia, who hurled Is 000 con-
ieGorates upon our forces upon Cemetery
Hjl at Gettysburg, only to be driven back
ina agled, torn and almost anuihilated? /
Booh Republicans. But their voices and
those of the veterans commanded by them
are not the ones head in denuuciaUion of
pei sion appropriations. They net you
lace TO face IN deadly conflict. they respect
your courage, honor your patriotism, they
are satisfied 10 accept the terms of surren-
der accorded to them, they do not wish to !
reopen the issues settled by the war.
know that you have no such desire The
", undS made in that terrible conflict have /
I lad m f.,
or mine. 1t Is your right aud your privi-
Ies,e and you ought TO keep green the !
memories of the dead heroes who were
yo lr compatriots. They were actuated by
tie same noble impulses which actuated |
y u, they died for the same cause for
!" aich you bled. You would be
Infamous indeed, II you copld
10 get them, or their great ser
Y ces to their country They stood with
J ~ shoulder to shoulder, in your warfare |
the right, marched to death by your
side; they died IN the conflict which You
survived. You owe it TO them and their
" ives and childreu, TO see TO it that the
principles for which YOU fought and bled,
ald Ter which they died, shall be MAIN
aimed. The fact that the men they fought
telong TO our great political parties cannot
c1ange our duties IN this regard If
scheming politicians in the north, ambi-
tlous for national Teuown, desire leveiing
'p OF the forces which fought the war. in
order that the men who fought Tor liberty
may stand on the same plane with those
who fought against them, let them elevate
! the plane of patriotism which you oc-
cupy, the veterans You fought and whom
you overthrow. Never let the standard OF
loyalty be lowered 10 the plane once occu-
pied by them. Ii was for their GOOD as
much as II was Tor yours that you fought
them. Ii WAS for the preservation, the
protection of their liberties, a. much as 1t
was Tor yours that you defeated them II
was for the good of their children that Won