Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-30

The next day, Wednesday, the 17th, then ,n the bloody field of Antietam, he added few mo-e words, the last of which were:
 "We are in for great battle. Cannon are booming on every side. pray God that we may be successful"
 And just there the pencil notes close for an hour later he lay dead on the field of victory, shot through the head as he was in the act of waving his sword and shouting to his men to "come on." afser death illustrate for what and why he died.
 And now should one say of myself, Che is proud of that letter. answer, "yes, that is true. And thank my God that there was not one drop of cowardly blood ! in his veins. Like man he died, in the ] unshrinkipg station where he fought" And yet he and that other soldier, whose ] story have read to you, were only two of l that great multitude among whom not i few loved the cause of right more than they | feared death.
 We have only to look back to 1860 and the four years that followed, that we may learn lesson never to be forgotten. One who ought to know says, "We expended in that awful war eight thousand millions of dollars, buried 1000 men in military
 graves; maimed and disabled for life more
 than ], ,O00, ,000 of the young men of the
 land" And yet, their faith did not falter,
 and their courage did not fail
 They had knowlege also. In the Union
 army were men not few "enhamed with
 hestudy of learning"- philosophers, exegetes, logicians, orators, rhetoricians, fessors and teachers, authors; these, having | left their places, were following the dear old flag where
 "God was marching on.'
 And while am not claiming any pre-
 eminence for a soldier because 8 scholar, l am claiming that in educated mind there | is a power. And I believe that every one of you is thankful to God to day that there was so much of this in the army of the l Union, men whose intellects had been trained by careful thought and careful
 study. Iris true that neither West Point
 nor the college, nor the university, had
 made them better than others, but in
 many cases these had proved conditions of
 higher usefulness. And glad, are we not,
 that 80 many had had opportunity to add
 to virtue, 1. G., to courage, knowledge9
 And now about temperance. By this l
 do not mean the letting alone of "A thing"
 or "B thing" or "C thing" but do mean
 self f-poise, self-control-the right handling
 of one's self. He that ruleth his spirit is
 better than he that taketh city. Now
 then, am told-and some of you know
 better than as to the truth of this telling
 that the Union soldiers, all through the
 war, were, as rule, orderly, manly. self
 respecting, not given to lawlessness nor
 cruelty, nor to anything that would reflect
 dishonor upon their cause. Though
 soldiers, they were still gentlemen, and
 would not soil the name with ignoble
 usage. And 'tis a matter of pleasing
 recollection that the great North land army made manifest to all the earth those
 manly virtues that adorn a nation and ! cause it to put on strength in ways oi righteousness. And to-day the Stars and Stripes are all brighter because of this. And now comes patience. This hai
 been defined to be 1.-the ballast of tht , from rolling and tumbling in the greates
 storms. That the Union army had neet of this we all know. Some of us remem 5 | Der the long. weary weeks and month when the wheels of war dragged heavily | when not few here at home were restles and dissatisfied because of what to then
 seemed unnecessary waiting. Wendell
 Phillips denounced MT. Lincoln in word , which read strangely in the light of tn ? present, and the fact cannot be ignores | that there was at times deep and genera discontent with what was felt to be tn . delays of the Lincoln administration . Even as late as August, 1864, after hi u second nomination, Mir. Greeley, Winte Il Davis and many other republicans de , mended his withdrawal as an unsatisfat ;. tory candidate. Mir. Sumner besought Nil e Liucoln to move more rapidly: and th . wise president replied, "Mr Sumner, am only six weeks behind you" And S ,, this man, "dear to God and famous to al U U ages" possessed his soul with patience :, And be it said to the everlasting praise c the Union army, it believed in Abraham Il Lincoln, and was patient as he was ps tient. It did not strive nor cry, but gay ]; full recognition to that eternal truth ( l4 the eternal God, that in timely quletnest 'S as in timely action, there is strength. An :" when that strength faced the foe, was $, not patient in doing, as it had been ,s waitinga Look back and call up the pas \. when there was sorrow on the land an ;. sorrow on the sea; when the night WI dark and the day was dark; whe > cannon "volleyed and thundered ' when blood touched blood; when some det r' one was wounded, or in prison, or in hosp a tai, sick and worn and weary; when u }. 5. ear was listening for the breaking of u as long agony of suspense. Then did O, D. soldiers say, "Call us home; don't allo !, us to suffer any more, for our cup is full ,,' Oh, no! They did not murmur; they d not complain. The die had been caet, ar 's they said in their hearts, "The Robico 10 must and shall be crossed" Jupiter is ;- great planet; Pike's peak is IA, 300 fe 'ss high; California has enormous trees, b' U the patience of the Union army throul T one period of the war was bigger tha U Jupiter, higher than Pike's peak, mo wonderful than California tree. It WI le the patience of faith; the patience ''n courage; the patience of knowledge. .n But Simon Peter, a servant and apost U :, of Jesus Christ. thought well of godlines :, that is, of right or good reverence towal u God. And so did many in the Unic u army. This lesson they had learned a their homes, in their Sunday schools, s' their public worship, in their reading : history Hence, when the nation scene 2 is in the midst of her; she shall not a. moved. God will help her, and that rigl 1T early" And so thoroughly had this spir p, permeated and penetrated the heart of o, E soldiers that it gave to our northern stee is not only mighty, but almighty strength. ;r We pass now to brotherly kindness. is is it to much to say that the Union soldier 14 It as rule, were kindly men? They struc U not to wound, but to heal; not to reveng 't but to bless; not to kill, but to make ali, ,,O again.
 Il But in our text there is one more lessor s'5 and that is charity.
 o On the 27th of April, 1864, the Hol
 John Sherman wrote a letter to Hon. E, n ward M. Stanton, the first part of whic U. m reads as follows
 "a "CLEvELAND, Ohio, April 9, 1865. o "My dear sir-I am distressed beyond measu
 at the terms granted Johnston by General She q man. They are inadmissibe. There should no be literally no terms granted. We should n le only brand the leading rebels with nfamy, b the whole rebellion should wear the badge of u ?, no man who has taken part in it would dare ju "a tify it or palliate it."
 r, General Sherman needs no eulogy. E "a was one of the three greatest generals re the civil war. He was the soul of homo Il and no one doubted his devotion and To, y alty; but his charity would now and the s get the mastery of his judgment, and | one knew this better than his brothe g Hence his letter of twenty six years ago MT. Stanton. General Sherman had i }. him large heart and it was full to th 5 i overflow with magnanimity. I know wh it was that said ''And now abideth faitl 's hope, charity-these three; but the grea est of these is charity" Still, neither th 7, example of Sherman nor the precept C
 Paul must blind our eyes to the dapge IT of an aftermath Gf I may use the word) C r what come call charity. For example, W n n are told that the southern soldier was hor U lss est and brave, and that by stsking his Tiff on his cause he manifested his sincerity This l freely admit; but that tn southern soldier was wrong, and that hi leader was wrong, and that they did wron