The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-26

Chattanooga to Atlanta, from At
lanta TO the sea, and from the sea
northward. In every important en-
pagement Of the war, Indiana's sons
carried the flag on the front line OF
battle. In war and in peace, the
sons of Indiana have always ranked
/ with the foremost Of the Nation.
.The winds Of heaven never famed.
The clrciing sunlight never spanncd
The borders Of better land
Than our own Indiana
The men who saved the Union
the private soldiers-were thinking
men. They were taught to think
in our common schools. have no
respect for the man who does not
think and does not have his own
convictions. Ours is government
from the people up, not from an
aristocracy down. Our best army
is the school-house; our safest pro-
lection, the home; our most effect
i've cannon, the intelligence and In
. tegrity Of the masses. -.
1.-THE typical volunteer soldier
; has been aptly described as re-
. markable compound Of citizen, SOW
! ereign and subaltern. He brought
to the tented field freeman's will
and all the force and culture OF a
freeman's home, all the attainments,
, industries and art Of high civili-
cation; and to crown all, he brought
y to the cause a sublime faith that
. "thrice is he armed that hath his
y quarrel lust" He came from every
: vocation and profession, up from
= the hope, and home and heart OF
. all the people. He possessed the
u intuition, courage and self-sacrifice
that comes Of liberty regulated by
P law. He was Of a land whose
IS homes, pulpits and hastings taught
!, creed which set the love OF liberty
y. above the love Of life. His faith II
rs ultimate triumph was fixed as thu
e- stars. He did not battle to en-
IS throne king, but for the divine
n right to rule himself. He was will
y, ing to die and be forgotten IN
no cause that the cause itself nigh
OF live. The Union soldiers SHOULD
on never forget the place their sabre
y, and bayonets gave them in history
o., How many men in the days
ne come will reckon the date OF the
icy nobility back to Shiloh, to Getty'
vas s burg, or to Appommattox? DO
M the sons will say: My ancest'
ne stood with Thomas at Nashville
:, with Sherman at Atlanta, or wit
'he Grant in the Wilderness: and tn
is nv letters patent Of nobility.
IN 1t is the mission OF the GraI
'eis Army Of the Republic to see that
'ois man who helped to write upon q
; IS pages Of history-Malvern Hill al
,us' Antietam, Stone River, and fro
~, "Atlanta to the Seas a trar
,lvll or pauper; to see that no boy or g
iur- whose father gave the best years
as his life to his country, is uncared i
80, The Grand Army Of the Republ
ig2 as an organization, is unique
2O7 conception, illustrious in achie'
366 ment; the breath Of patriotism a
$50 the color guard Of liberty" II
500 the organized love Of the men "
ISL marched together and who foul
- together in the army Of the UNI
.679 You know that you used TO
down and sleep peacefully
soundly when you knew the enc
90 were not half a mile from you;
. out along the line between you
AGO the foe were comrades that
fur trusted-that YOU knew were trl
alton Won have lain on the battle-fit
boye bleeding; and comrades have col
ed Of in peril Of their lives, and DO
four YOU to the rear. There was Inv
up to convictions, an obedience
, will duty, among the men OF the al
with of the Union, such as was NJ
any seen before.
ring II is sometimes said that "
there we old soldiers get together,
with seem to live in the past; and u
from 4 n good deal of truth in 1t.
army feel that it was during the year
No of the war that we did our life VOL
battle not only our life work, but
par grandest work that was ever 9
to re- by any generation since the W
abled began. We carry in our hearts
N ev- in our memories volumes OF r.
u op- lections; and we can't help, {
,men, rades, but live in the past.
rage, why shouldn't we be proud OF D
I was record? And why shouldn't
me Of live in the past? Why shout
upon we say, 4 was at Gettysburg,
mem. tell the story Of comrade we
gh its die there? why snoulun ~
yer or down into your heart and brlnl
is in the story and tell it to your,
crican rades and to your children, IN
glory. NAV be handed down to col
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