Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-01

naPpiness o. - much Of happiness - may
be enjoyed IN this vofldp
When We CONSIDER eiimsse and soil, bill
aaa dsie- rlfh The picfnfessue diversity
e s-Ansi forests where yet roam the game
o. the Indian hunter; the lakes, the riyers
OF iliimisahie power: the wonderfully beau.
nfHi ess4st and the grandeur of It's ocean
fretsed margin: when ve link Of ne ex.
enpuoa Of her people from epademies which
sometimes rAyage other sections ard from
tofnada<s that sueep them from the face o.
I'd. Earth: Of the fioods in the West that n
val the teiuge of Old and Of the social cor.
ruptson that would make 4 aeIuge
appropriate, Of the deoaths that psreh
vhois like q Sahara or tie
the insect plaques equally destructive Of
(, vegetation. " here better than here In Maine.
can Be found the conditions Of health and
happiness Of noble and confsnsed man
hood and wonxnhoods
We ase proud Of our cosntry. We love
New England for her stesdfzstness to
liberty and education and Loyalty 70 Truth
from the hour when on the bleak shore Of
Plymouth
The ssanssinz alsies Of the dim voods rang
Wffh anthems Of the free
but We sometimes forget that Mare which
may justly claim to be the earliest land in
which the cabin Of an English settler was
erected oE this continent, has continued
, one Of the freest. healthiest most purely
Anglo-Sax0n, prosperous, patriotic and best
governed section of this onion. Some
other states may justly boast q more fertile
soil and richer haryests; some other states
have their great centres of wealth and luxury
a of al
aGd corruption others have their mines of
gold and silver; bat wealth nor ease, nor
mines of gold are the test of peoples
worth nor the power Of state. Said Ma
poieon in bis direct and forcible style to the
government Of Hamburg: Courage and
virtue make state, eow2rdice and vice
destroy it, As for the courage of Names
people there is the record Of her 1900
volunteers and her roll Of 5000 slain for
Liberty and Union" As for their virtue
and intelligence, they are the peers of any,
and for all the essentials for comfort and
happiness such as falls to the lot of human
ity, our State may challenge any section of
the habitabIe globe We are beginning to
appreciate that the ruggedness of our State
is feature of its grandure; that beauty is
written everywhere upon her summer
and autumn landscapes and enchantment
upon the green islands of her glittering
seas. As our coast from Kittery TO sunrise
is becoming the summer haven of
people of less favored localities who seek
the ministrations of the grand and beautiful
and inrigoratiDg delights of Names forests
and shore. let US her sons and daughters,
with enthusiastic love for her rugged old
face and shores, appropriate for our own
State the lines written for our broader
country:
Land OF the forest and rock,
of dark blue lake and rapid river,
Df hills that rise aloft to mock
The lightning or the earthquakes shock
Our own dear State forever.
Veterans and fellow citizens The war
of 1861 was the most awful illustration in
history of the appalling consequences Of
tolerating great national wrong. May it
be the last lesson of that kind this nation
shall ever need. But II the North was slow
TO grasp the situation, 10 its eternal honor
when the crisis came, it was equal to the
emergency. A generation has grown up
since the war, which knows nothing of it
from personal recollection. Many of your
sons and daughters, veterans, who are now
organizing to perpetuate the heroic men,
cries of the period, were then unborn
But they, their children and the coming
generations, when they would know how
the country was purged of this monstrous
wrong, will point to your baptismal battle
of Manassas with its discipline of disaster
to the fields of Donnelson and Vicksburg
and Gettysburg; to Charlottesville and
Antietam, the bloodiest field the country
ever knew; to the seven days of carnage
in the Wilderness: to Shiloh and Nashville
and Chattanooga and Atlanta and the
March to the Sea; to the shining victories
of our extemporized navy; the Titanic
deeds of the Monitor and Kearsarge, to
the splendors of Mobile harbor and the
passage Of the Mississippi forts and to the
unparalleled greatness of the conditions of
peace made by the great hearted comman-
der of the armies at Appomattox-with
ever growing pride and admiration.
That story, veterans, cannot fail so long as
the hearts of Americans shall kindle at
anything great and worthy-to raise up
loyal hands to bear the annual tribute of
flowers which must soon fall from your
own. Sad will be the day for this land
when 1.-The feet of those you fought for,
shall fail to make their annual pilgrimage
with votive wreaths to the places ''where
sleep the brave"