The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-30

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Nspossoa nevse msds : ssnsrk moro
fFsqpsntiy qsossd thsa his ansertion shst
Cd rs % TIE sfds thaE NJ shs largest
pnStsIioes, and yet no mon knsw bsstsr
thas hs spoke . most 1ippant falsshocd-
II his young days hs he'd sssn the tsoops
a. the 6rss Frsseh rspahits bess back al
Eszops: RAGGED. alarmed. cutnnnbsrs1.
thsir onIy isadss sas - Ge~sh 81 The
AArssflIaiss. snd thsy saliowsd Il 70 Vic
tory against tsensndc1s material Odds.
II the Franco German vae ~ tss0 France
fought Isss physical. but srsssss moral
odds. Tor While they he'd stsH ths Mar
ssIliaiss IT. sAs~eh did NOS isnd shsm-
Espolsoe the Third he'd educated FrAacs
TO - luxurious. monsy eetsing. cynical,
corrupt; enc - nch ax4osy o. yenssisn
merchantmen. vhiIe Germany uas .
msn-oE-mar with 'ports I'll up and battle
lanterns lie and her Isashsd thundws gath
srins for shsis Isap." God b not In the
long ran, on the side Of the naost cannon.
nor on the side Of the most doh
Lars, unless they are used for Just ends:
Tor outrage the moral forces long enough
and they viii turn on you - surely -
they at lass turned on Napoleon, and
whsn IL moral Ssecss havs ones turned
on you, the cannon and material forces
viii soon follow the foriorn hops Of
humanisy brought 70 bey.
Tho Pacific soass sav nothing Of the
horrors Of the evil vas. and felt but
lightly ito sacsi6css. - ~ military con-
tingsnt VS. kept On this Coast TO relieve
the s'rsgulars," who were sent East to
issvsn the dough q our vass mass Of un-
trained volunteer soldisfy. bus - the
osstss 81 Tie East ~ vax was . pathetic
story. Last ysas Company II. of the
One Hundred and Fi1teoash New York.
hsld reunion Il vss the color company Of
TT regiment and returned home without
single olncsf and bat twenty Of the
boys." o. the t60 oflcsrs and msn borne
on the company rolls. Who hsd marched
away from home and family and ffisnds,
only twenty came back, bringing With
them sstuo tattsrsd and batals-stainsd
iAgA"
This company was composed ef farmer
boys and mechanics. and iss pathetic story
n bat one OF hundreds Of just such stories
that the villages and small towns 81 the
North could furnish Of the var period.
Such storiss cannos b TOO often rstold,
for they teach . Isssos Of patriotism TO
the young. growing generation. The story
ct this company u . rebuks to those who
talk about the enormous cost 70 the coun-
Try Of providing for the surviving soldiers
Of the war and the widows and orphans a.
thoss who laid down thsir lives for the
Union. u = worth while rsmsmbssink
that to such men - thee Ne owe the ex-
istsnce Of the government; for but for them
Ne should not today have been nation.
.Ihsy loved tAsar eoaatsy. . = ealy thsy
who love mother Is = de tos may.
Al Emerson wrote TO Carlyle, ..what-
ever betids N In the inexorabis future.
what 10 better than to have awake In
many men the svsst Sense Of beauty, and
TO double the courage Of virtuef To die
of feeding the nrss Of others were sweet.
since Il were not death but multiplica-
tion." The brave Union soldiers fare dust;
their swords ere rust; their souls ere
with the saints We trust;" bnt the
homage paid today 70 their bones and
thousands like them are but the fulfill
ment Of the prophecy that Honor and
Freedom do annually repair - pilgrims to
bless the turf that wraps their clay. The
tenacity Of this reverence for the best
memories Of the great civil war u the
proof that We are stiil people Who would
fight with all our ancient ardor for the
life Of the nation. Men and women Who
refuse TO laugh or sheer at sacrifice for
others are In peace or In war the very life,
the salt. the stamina Of the state Ths
dead soldiers viii not Be forgotten for
they viii always Be- IN inspiration and an
example to our children. and the living
soldiers will not b forgotten until they
deserve to b. OF the dead soldiers who
died like men whether in battle, in hospi-
tai or In prison the poet Was right who
wrote:
The noble dead whose sootsteps dovn
The highways Of The century
Ring on and svss through the past.
And through tbs future dim and vast
With clouds postsntous overcast.
Drift over them. o SHOWS OF timei
With kinaiy ssmins wrap them round;
The nation watches at their shrins.
Their graves are c0nsecfated ground,
when Lipersy's reveillss wake.
Mhsrsvsr Freedoms tide-wavss break.
Their land shai bssss them for their sakoi
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