The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-06

labor OF preparation. If the veterans
shall be equally pleased with their recep-
tion. no more can be asked.
You should have seen those men march
twenty-eight years ago last May" said q
spectator &C ayoung friend whowas lookin z
on. "as did In the grand review at w ash
ington n the close of the war. from the
eastern portIco of the treasury. That was
marching: and pray God. may You mg boy,
never see the marching in your lifetime
as it comes only from the hard
ship OF campaigns, the discipline Of
war and the deadly peril of the
For mile the street was filled with lines
from curb TO curb. Twenty thousand
bayonets flashed 10 and fro in the sun-
shine. It seemed as if the cadence and
sway from left 10 right and from right To
left pervaded the whole army. The step
was the full regulation strides little
longer from the assurance OF victory. No
effort was made TO preserve the alignment.
yet il chalk line were snapped along the
front of one of these columns would have
marked"
They were the same men who pssssd
through the streets of indianapolis yes
tcrday. But they were not soldiers yester-
dsy. a. then. They were something better
not panorama of the war. for they are
not like the war any more. but a living his
tory of the war which accelerated the
worlds progress. preserved popular govern
ment and dealt human slavery o deadly
blow.
Did II occur 10 the reader that in the pass
ing columns of the veterans yesterday
four-fifths of the regiments and batteries
had n arspresentative-tbas there were men
there who could tell the post that single
regiments took IN all the great battles of
the warf
Next came IllinoIs-the State of Lincoln,
Grant and Logan. in Yesterdays passing
column were men who could tell what sort
of a colonel Ulysses :. Grant was. and how
hn fra ar al
There were men there who. In the
common language of the masses.
could tell how Fort Donelson
was captured. about the February cold
which smote them as did yesterday heat.
the carnage of the first charge and re-
pulse and the MAGNIFICENT recklessness of
the second assault which caused the words
unconditional surrender TO electrify the
North. They could tell you OF every bat
tie of Logan. md of all the campaigns of
the West. And then passed Ohio. We
miss one who marched &C the head OF Ohio's
column n year ago-Rutherford Is. Hayes
the model American citizen. All who knew
him viii say. as they recall him:
But O for the touch OF o vanished hand,
And the sound OF a voice that is still.
What great battle was there. what defeat
or victory that the survivors OF Ohio's gall
liant men could not tell the story as men IN
the ranks saw 10.
There Is Missouri. IL was fea. ful thing
10 toNo hhu crave 70 tue I ulOu IN hitoouIi
during the war. Others left home secure
when they vent 20 battle for the Union.
but when the 10Y al men of Missouri enlisted
IN the Union cause he left home and kin
dred 10 the tender mercies OF the
guerrilla ana bushwhssker. But for
the splendid uprising Of the Germans
Of -. Louis IN the first days OF the war. it
might have been lost 20 the Union cause
What tales OF cruelty cnuld these Missouri
ans tell Take no prisoners" said General
llsk when commanding among the cuarIl-
las.
And there is MASSACHUSETTS,. and there ar.
men there who could tell the story of trss
blood split IN The " ar n the streets OF BsltI-
more. Ia that column. tnoT- - va ancy.
Last year that eager patriot. General Butler
received the encomiums of thousands. He
has passed over to the silent ma lority with
Grant and Sherman and the illustrious
baud OF leaders.
Pepnsylvsnis and New York, which