The herald., 1894-05-27
RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION.
The Text of a G. A. r. Me-
mortal Address.
Mr.. G. Mulholland's Speech at Stan
ton Post Services.
The First Service of the Find This
Near-A Trlbuts to the Patriot
Dead and Reference to
Present Questions.


day night:
Thirty years ago great assembly of
people met to dedicate the sacred field
set apart as the last resting place of
those who had given their lives in de-
Tense of liberty. On that occasion
words were spoken that will endure as
long as the fame OF the glorious triumph
OF Gettysburg. In all time to come.
when patriots vet unborn shall meet to
do honor to the memory OF men who Of
fered their lives a willing sacrifice in de.
fense OF freedom, it will not bs posi- BILE
Tor genius. however brilliant. or feeling,
however intense. to utter anything more
worthy of the heroes OF freedom than
was said Ivy the great MARTYR OF freedom
at the dedication OF the Gettysburg
cemetery.
But Whist Lincoln said of the brave
who fell in that great battle, the men
whose once gallant hearts were then
Wondering in the silent dust of the
graves where his immortal words we're
spoken, applies with equal Justice. not
only to all who fell on that battle field,
but on all the other fields made sacred
by the blood of the martyrs of liberty.
Nor was it the dead alone who were
deserving of that matchless eulogy.
The patriot who csc iped death when
his comrade was stricken down bv his
side by bullet or shell; or who came out
unhurt from the desperate chargs OF OPP
posing columns or the wild clash OF rush.
ing cavalry. is not less deserving OF
fams-which ia but TOO often all the re-
ward the patriot soldier receives-but is
8 equally entitled to the veneration and
respectful gratitude OF succeeding gener-
atoms.
With the modesty that ever accom-
panies true greatness, Lincoln said at
Getty sburg that the world would little
mark nor long remember what was then
said there but it would never be forgot
ten what the heroes who occupied those
graves had done there. The words OF
Lincoln will no more be forgotten than
the deeds of the men over whose re-
mains thew we're uttered.
When the survivors OF those four years
OF battle on land and sea. of toilsome
march in GUNNER heat and exposure to
winter cold and storm. shall meat on oc-
casons like the present to render the
last tribute of respect to those comrades
who escaped death on the battle Geld
or the more lingering and painful death
of starvation aud disease in prison pens,
hut who in turn shall drop out of the
ranks OF the living, no more to answer
the roll call on earth. the admonition
will come with undiminiahed force that
it is the duty OF the living to devote
themselves with renewed fervor OF pa
triotic devotion to the cause of freedom.
And when the last survivor of that
awful, but glorious struggle for fresdom,
shall yield to the assault OF time, and be
laid with his comrades in the silent
duet there will still remain those who
will love liberty enough to throw a
flower on the graves of her defenders
and teach their children to follow the
glorious example of the men who took
up arms in her defense. The moth ere
who loved the defenders OF the union
have transmitted to their children the
love of freedom; and while there are
veins in which that free blood flows
there will not be wanting patriots TO
fight the battles of freedom, or purs
minded men to guide the counses OF
the nation.
When the fery-souled prophet la
mented in agony the Indifference or
apostasy of his coun trymen and thought
that the heroic spirit OF Israel had been
quenched forever, the heavenly messen
ger opened his eyes to the fact that
there were yet thousands who had not
bowed the knee to Bsal.
We see discomfort about us now; we
hear much wild talk; but these dsor-
derly mobs. who keep up the noiee and
clamor, are but az the trash swept down
on tine surface of the Mississippi. and
have no more power to arrest or divert
the great current of our national life
than the rubbish on the stream has to
stop or change the current OF the mighty
river.
But as a sanitary measure and in or
der to keep things unclean and UNI
wholesome out of the stream OF our ma
: tional life, it would surely be wise on
The part of the men we elect to make
our laws to improve the means of filter
ing the streams poured among us from
foreign nations.
Even as war measure, the great
proclamation freeing the slaves is &C.
counted the browning glory of our
martyr president. 1t would not be less
wise and patriotic to cut off forever the
streams OF slaves more degraded and
degrading than the negroes; slaves to
ignorance, la@lessnesa, vice and crime,
and whose increase among us has grown
to the proportions OF national curse.
The great armies OF freedom did not
devote themselves willing victims to
suffering, to toll, or death in order to
perpetuate government that might be
controlled through the agency OF crea-
lures too ignorant 10 ever understand It's
spirit, and go vile and venal that they
would sell even their own souls for but
small part of the price demanded by
Judas for 1stray ing his mastsr.
Respect for the memory Of the glori-
Gus dead. duty 90 the living and those
who may come after us, require that
while one defender of the union remains
alive fitting opportunity shall not be
neglected to urge the necessity of strict
obedience TO law, due regard to morals,
honor and good conduct in every relation
: of life. Without these the preservation
of liberty is impossible; the people who
are slaves to ignorance will be slaves to
brutal vices, and vice and ignorance are
foundations on which tyranny will be
speedily erected.
But the survivors of the great war for
freedom rest con DIDN'T in the faith that
their descendants will have the wisdom
to preserve those glorious institutions
the blood OF their fathers was shed to
p defend.
Throughout all forms OF life nature is
rrodigal OF the individual, tenacious OF
the preservation of the species. Man
AZ an individual shares the fate of all
things earthly, and death comes to him
fs surely, If not as speedily in the peace
ana security OF home, as amid the strife