Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-02

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CAPTAIN ]. p. ADAMS, COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
moro than one-thlrd OF the soldiers OF
the was-the states OF Pennsylvania,
New York and Ohio. But whether the
gathering Do large or small the event
Is great IN significance and in the sug'
| gestion for new ideas or the rearrange-
ment of former ones which IL brings
with H. The anniversary is held upon
soil peculiarly sacred 10 the cause rep
resented at this gathering. Pennsylvs-
MIA gave more sons according TO her
quota as sacrifice 10 the god OF battles
than ally other state In the Union. She
stood on the border In 1861. She sent
the first volunteer defenders 10 the I'm
perIled capital In the crisis following
| Sumpter. Her genius ruled In the "a.
| tonal camps and councils, aud within
her limits, fair set among the charming
hills OF the Cumberland, lies the battle
field OF Gettysburg. Cold must be the
heart that will not respond BETTING
the occasion and give the hour TO gratl-
tude and congratulation.
There remains little to be said OF the
sacrifices of the armies whose remnants
shall march along Fifth avenue on
September 10. Four hundred thou.
sand dead aud long procession OF the
stricken and malined is the story the
nation knows, alas, too we'll But
there Is another side, TO the patriotism
of the Union soldier that might DO re-
called to-day, less grewsome one to
dwell upon and more noble one be-
cause IL furnished tho inspiration for
| those deeds OF courage whose glory
brlghtens as the years roll on. IL would
be an easy task to prove that the
Grand Army, Itself body unique in
the worlds experience, is not due TO
military clanship nor TO the protective
union principle which is so active 10
this era. The genius OF the Grand
Army lived in the breasts OF the SOL
dery in the war days and the mind Is
almost startled TO come upon such
witnesses 20 the fact as this poem OF
Miles O'Reilly's, The Song Of the
Soldier" written In camp 10 1869:
Comrades known IN marches many,
Comrades tried Ia dangers many,
Comrades bound by memories many,
Brothers ever let US be.
Wounds or sickness may divide US,
Marching orders NAV divide US,
But whateS er fate betide US,
Brothers OF the heart are we.
Comrades known by faith the clearest,
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Bound VIC are by ties the dearest
Brothers evermore 10 be.
And II spared and growing older.
Shoulder still In line with shoulder,
Ard with hearts no thrill the colder.
Brothers ever we shall DC.
By communion OF the banner,
Crimson, white and starry banner,
By the baptism OF tho banner
Children Of one church are we.
Greed nor faction can divide us,
Race nor language can divide US,
Still, whatever fate betide US.
Children Of the flag are we.
There is nothing OF sotdid selfshness
nor OF caste or guild exclGsIveness
breathing through those lines. No
more were there TO be found In the
hearts Of Stephenson and his colleagues.
who In their bIvouac 10 tho southwest
ia 1864 dreamed GU, their magnificent
scheme for perpetua.inS ia peace the
spirit OF fraternity, charity and loyalty
which characterized the soldiers In the
field. The veterans estimates OF them
selves are far too modest when they
rest satisfied with eulogies upon their
battlefield proves and their heroic
bearing under ssyerest hardship, and II
proximity to scenes so rich In war
associations shall unloose the tongues
OF Commander la Chief Adams aud bis
stat OF orators at the encampmeDt
they may give TO the careless yet re-
spOusIve throngs OF outsiders new cause
70 doff their hats TO the Grand Army.
They viii tell ns how the soldier set
the pace for Union savers 10 1851 and
how, By the guiding and shaping amid
the storm aud stress Of civil war OF
these same men. the yeomanry, who
filled the ranks as volunteers 30 years
ago, this vast nation sDraug into ex-
istence from an aggregation OF states
whose watchword untll then both north
and south had been state supremacy.
They might give voice TO the claim
that the beardless boys. who. as far as
time and Confederate bullets have
spared them, will appear IN the march
Ing lines at Pittsburg, alone made the
war possible, alone made possible those
victories and resnltSwhlch the encsm2-
ment, standing out as the exponent OF
the military spirit OF he nation, cele-
brates with due civic and military eciat-
The war-that IS, the war now held In
memary, that which announces itself
By cannon peal and the clash OF re-
sounding arms"-would not have been
commenced nor maintained but for
their Spartan vim. their yirile, agrees
sIye. unsordld and unfslteriog attitude
when statesmen hesitsted and eFic
leaders trsmbled;that the war was right
and everlasting right and must g0ion
and that they would stand surety for
its success.
Had there been no volunteer army
with its blood up, no martyred El
wor,hs and Bakers aud Lyons aud VII
throps appealing from their crinsof
shrouds with "iltebIood warm and vet,
no Cushings al EIlsts and Worden =
and Morrises Earragnts 70 lrea e
the decks, and I'd ncocks. 90 WARE
NO u Dfons. no Cd Is and no She.ida1
With their ffd tttaiionsI