The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-31

ice while beneath her dFuopsne sssh.
Oos starry seardrop hangs and trembssA
~TAcneh Heaven alone record the tear.
And fame sha4 nevef kncu her story.
Her heart hath dheo q drop - dear
G<T bscswed The eeids Of eiosy.
arhe wife rho 81 scs her husbands svord.
MID little ones Who weep o. wooder.
Then brAvesy epeake the cheering word.
What tho her heart b rent asunder.
@pooned nightly in her dreams 20 hear
1he bois OF death around him rata.
Her heart hath shed - sacred blood
Az eef Was poured upon the cetd of battla.
sSTse mother Who eoneeals her erief.
While 10 her breast hes tor she presses,
Jheu brcathes . few 6save words AID hs3eL
Kisses the patriot brow she hleseA
.syT ith no one bat her sacred God.
To know the sricf that wegxhs upon hes.
Sheds holy blood - Ger the sod.
Received on fseedon's neld Of honor"
At eaeh recurring annive1ary Of this day. We
should uu!ull the Old isg, rally round tt ard
feassegs the fundamental truths OF national
liberty, and pledge anew our lives. our. fortunes
ana our sacred honor 70 the cause fer which re
fought and for which our comrades 30 siosi-
ou,iy died Experiences has taught us that
danger menaces when treason 10 eicYincd and
disioyaisy dei6ed - patriotic virtua. The
future 10 not assured whea vorda designed to
keep alive in the hearts of the old and kindIs
in those of the young the fafa! doxmas which
made the Grand Army OF the Repaba,c possible,
and this is the day No should rebuke all such
sentiments and inpress upon those who are TO
follow rs the fact that 1hen seeds Of sedition
Of rebellion 10 very likely to be reaped-
Many Of the traitors who took Part In the late
stakeholder rebellion have since become
United States ~seoatora, governors Of states and
members OF congress. leaders of thought ana
opinion, and have lent their sympathy to all
species OF tressonablo utterances from tina to
time since the wal. IL il this that gives to Il
arch startling significance even as this late day.
However. let us be just and generous, let Us
distinguish lest ws condemn hasshly. Standing
in the presence of these, our dead, and feeling
the electric thrill Of those mystic ties that
stretch to every patriot grave and taat bind
with cords OF steel the hearts OF men who en-
cured hardships and brnved dangers indie
scribsb.e in the camp, on battle Geld and IN
prison pens. We can appreciate and sympathixs
with that kindly feeling that brings together
the boys who wore the gray. We
have no words OF condemnation for that truA
and nohic spirit that prompts tn COM
memorate in marble the courage, devotion
and heroIsm OF those who fell In de-
Tense Of the .Lost Cause" Let our Southern
brother chisel In imperiskabie marble the forms
and virtues OF those patient, gritty men, who
for four years locked into our eyes and faced
the thunder OF our guns with unquailing spirita
Let them treasure the old sword, the scared
musket, the cap, torn By shot and shell. the
battered, blood stained 1ag around which they
rallied on many . saugutuary field, ana hand
them down a. precious mementos to their
childreu. This IL human: Il 10 imaniy; il IL ad-
mi.sb.e. No true soldier but would stand with
bowed and uncovered head above the dust Of
ek~.> 49,. .-eA~~> f~lf>- T.
unhoiy and lost case.
And today. we, ~ . nation, can afford 70 Join
hands around . vast mound and revereutly
place q wreath OF immortelles from the gray
clouds oil the South and the blue heavens Of the
North, the former In respect for the dead, the
latter clasped In the unbrokcn chain OF q M
tons honor and In memory Of . nations veal,
when faith. the anchor Of the Christian. lifts
the coffin lid OF hope.
But, when they would reverse the verdict OF
the sword, aud Of history; when they would
blot out the distinctions between loyalty and
treason: when they would exslt and extoll their
leaders into heroes and patriots worthy 70 rank
with the tilustsi0us Washington, we enter our
emphatic dissent All the blood and treasure
spent. all the uncounted waste ana suffering of
four years of war was q sacrifice to the insatia-
be ambition and fslsity OF such men IS JEFF Da-
Wis. the leader OF the 'lost Cause" At tho
thought OF him oil the horrors OF Jacksonville
and Libby rise up before IA We zee again our
brave boys suffering. starving, dying in filthy
pens and stockade& " 80 them TALL, brutally
shot upon tho mythical ssdead line; Ne see
each morning their dad bodies thrown like
carrion into rude casts and jolted away to their
forgotten resting places In swamp and morass;
We see them com forth with skeleton forms
and shattered minds. victims OF . cruelty more
merciiess than the Inquisition. These horrors
unspeakable now rise up before US and almost
choke our u~tterance.
The fact remains that the slaveholdcrs' re.
bellion Of quarter OF Q century ago was the
most causeless that history records. 1t failed
because in tho providence of God oppression
and wrong cannot permanently triumph. The
fact remains that IL was . gigantic conspiracy
for the dismemberment of the Union OF the
fathers. and for tho rerpeiuation of human
slavery. While appealing to the principles OF
liberty It was the most arbitrary despotism ever
organized, enforcing q CONSUMPTION more merci-
less than the autocrat OF all the Russisa
The fact remains that those twin h~eres;es,
states rights and secession, are insidious, dam
gerous foes OF union and nationality. They
cast an ominous shadow over the future, aud
there can b. no peace, no safety and no perma-
nencc to republican institutions until they
shall have been forever and permanently des.
troyed.
The fact remains tina. the rebellion repre-
scnted the cruel dcspofism Of human slavery,
the degradation OF labor. the infamy of seces.
zion. the atrocities OF Aadersonville sud Libby.
Tho fact remains that tho Union never
wronged the SOUTH; that IL was then. a now. an
unmixed blessing to every section. 70 every
state aud to every man OF every color in
Americs.
There 10 an eternal difference between right
and wrong: an impossible gulf between LOYALTY
and treason. We must eve. remember q be
ready to assert and maintain that VIC were In the
right. We want that fact transmitted 70 and
engraved forever upon the memories OF the re-
hottest posterity. We know that VIC were
erandly In the right aud iha. they were terribly
In the wrong. II IL today the unaues,oned yer.
diet of history. That distinction shall pa<s
down through all time. il Iowa, lips and works
and words can give II eternal Significance. No
lspse o! time y ill change it. no ~juggicry of words
shaIi cn4cure IL: no spurious gospel of seutI-
mentalism snail confuse in our minds the old
loyal Landmarks. Keeping the distinctions be-
tween loyalty and treason clearly and sharply
defined ourselves, We shall bequeath to our
children the same sacred duty.
Who then shall Care impeach tina honor of the
boys in blac or the justice of the cause for
which they fought In the language of
another, 'tae soldiers of the republic were the
soldiers OF liberty and the right They tonight
TO preserve the blessings OF liberty ana tha,
their children might have peace. They were
the defenders OF humanity, the destyovers of
prejudice. the breakers of chains, and in the
name OF the future they slew the monster
wrong Of their time. They finished what the
soldiers OF the Revolution commenced. They
reiighted the torch that fell from their august
hands and filled the world again with light.
They ho,,ed from toe statute books laws tia.
had been psssci BY hyrocri,es a. the ias,igatioa
o. robbers and tore with indignant hands from
f1A aar.tfspssna that trfsrxc.. -- 49,.
made men the caschers OF their fellow men.
They made II possible for Judges to be lust ana